Posted on 02/15/2019 6:55:14 AM PST by rktman
Excuse me...doesn’t Harrison Ford have a Plane, Car and Motorcycle collection?
Why yes. Yes he does.
https://www.hotcars.com/car-force-one-harrison-fords-car-and-aircraft-collection/
Effing hypocrite.
When I saw Star Wars back in 1976. I think my mind just substituted some other word for “parsec”. I like what SciFi shows like Blake’s 7 do - they make up their own units of measure. For example in Blake’s 7 something called a “spatial” is a distance measure.
‘77 I think. I was 10, and didn’t know what a parsec was, yet.
The in-universe explanation is that making the trip in 12 parsecs (or whatever) was a feat of navigation to reduce the trip to that distance. No, I don’t buy it either. We all know that George Lucas (or one of his writers/advisers) heard the term “parsec” and thought it sounded “spacey” and used it, either ignorant of its real meaning, or not caring.
It’s sort of like Doc Brown and his “Jiggawatts” in Back to the Future. Someone knew that a gigawatt was a large amount, they just didn’t have anyone around who knew the correct pronunciation. And to be fair, in 1985 nobody much had yet encountered anything that came in quantities of a billion, like a gigabyte, or gigahertz. The biggest computers may have had hard drives or tape drives that crept into the gigabyte range, but nothing that regular personal computer users had access to. No computers were yet running in the GHz range - that would take at least another 10-15 years.
Correct, the distance of about 3.26 light years as a matter of fact.
Yep!
I guess back then my brain just substituted in something that made sense.
I am not a huge Star Wars fan. I guess I’ve seen the first maybe twice. I found it boring after the novelty of the first two wore off.
That’s pretty funny IJ. I didn’t say I believed any part of that STORY.
It was in the extended version of SOLO with Ron Howard (opie)
I was attempting to say this is how they’re trying to explain it. I’m fully aware that it’s not a reality based movie neither is 10000 leagues under the sea.
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