The Kessel Run (A.K.A. Happydalek can justify anything)

Jan 27, 2010 16:53

Everybody remembers the first Star Wars movie, right?  Remember that line of Han Solo's about how the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs?  Everybody always picks on that line, because as every proper geek knows, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time, so "it doesn't make any sense," they insist.

I beg to differ, for two possible ( Read more... )

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happydalek January 31 2010, 16:11:47 UTC
Haha, thanks! I took a few minutes to work out the numbers for my Kessel Run calculation at work, and my boss found my scratch paper the next day and asked me about it. I was a bit embarrassed!

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curuchamion February 1 2010, 12:32:51 UTC
*friends you*

(I was poking round eponymous_rose's friends page, if you're wondering where the heck I came from...)

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