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okenobi
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But is it the fastest hunk of cardboard in the galaxy?
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| Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:28 pm |
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Fogmeister
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LOL! I was wondering about the whole parsec thing. Surely the people making the film knew parsec is a measure of distance not time. So I found this... http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kessel_RunNow, which came first, this bit of trivia about the Kessel Run or the quote?
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l3v1ck
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At least this is more plausable than that full size uss enterprise that was linked to the other month.
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leeds_manc
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By trivia i assume you mean spew of unmitigated bollocks.
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Fogmeister
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Yes, I was trying to think of the word but went with "trivia" instead. 
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paulzolo
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It's quite obvious from the line of dialogue delivered in the film that the intent was to brag about the speed the ship could travel at, not anything about distance. The film was not "hard" science fiction where the devil would be in the detail. Star Wars is candy floss science fiction, with children very much in mind. The line quite definitely means "my space ship is faster than yours" and any attempt to retro-fit some kind of explanation from stuff which is clearly not in canon.
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okenobi
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How the frack writes that utter [LIFTED]?!
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jonbwfc
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Star Wars fanatics. An odd breed, at best.
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rustybucket
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An idiot 1 AU = the mean distance of the Earth from the Sun ~= 150,000 km Your ordinary intermediate-mass black hole with a mass of 10^3 solar masses would (I think) have a radius about the same as that of the Earth A very exotic super-massive black hole with mass of 10^9 solar masses would have an event horizon radius of somewhere in the region of 10 AU. You'd be gravitationally safe at not many multiples of that but definitely by 1000 AU. A Parsec is about 203,000 AU. The main reason for staying clear of The Maw (the black hole cluster in question) would be radiation. However, given that there is supposed to be a spacestation in the middle of it, it can't be that bad. _________________Jim
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okenobi
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Jim, no need.
She's the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy. That's all I need to know.
Astronomical units are superfluous!
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