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Biologist Gets a Fake Star Trek Paper Accepted by 4 Dodgy Science Journals
Science Alert ^ | February 14, 2018 | Peter Dockrill

Posted on 02/15/2018 12:04:07 PM PST by C19fan

Obviously travelling at warp speed isn't a natural state of existence for most terrestrial organisms, but we never knew just how harmful the effects of maximum warp velocities could be on human beings – until now. A new study published – yes, published – in an 'American' science journal (and accepted by three others) details how an experimental attempt to cross the transwarp barrier and achieve Warp 10 can have devastating and unforeseen consequences on human physiology. Wait… what?

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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: academia; papers
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To: SpinnerWebb; Captain Peter Blood

A parsec is a measurement of distance. The impressive Kessel run is due to the fact that Kessel, the planet where spice is mined, is right on the edge of the Maw, a cluster of black holes. So a shorter run (fewer parsers) means a more dangerous run skirting closer to the black holes and risking death to make the flight shorter.


41 posted on 02/17/2018 3:25:20 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Svartalfiar; Captain Peter Blood

You must also believe Greedo fired first...


42 posted on 02/19/2018 6:20:19 AM PST by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: SpinnerWebb
You must also believe Greedo fired first...

What does Greedo have to do with the Kessel run? And if you mean the fight in Mos Eisley, Greedo never fired a shot. Han was the only one that did any shooting.
43 posted on 02/21/2018 7:56:16 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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