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To: T.B. Yoits

I still can’t quite understand why, of the millions of words out there, they decided to use “parsecs?”

A parsec is a unit of distance.

So they could have said “It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 miles.”


32 posted on 04/09/2026 9:14:01 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: Clay Moore

you think they would understand “parallax angle of one second?” they think the ”sec” part must have something to do with time.


58 posted on 04/10/2026 4:58:54 AM PDT by Strident (/null)
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