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Old 02-24-2006, 06:41 PM   #17
MaggieL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Elspode
...astronomical concepts, like the speed of light. I was going to work it out in parsecs, but I'm lazy and at work.
Parsecs being a measure of *distance*, of course, ("the distance necessary to PARallax of one arcSECond when view shifts by the diameter of the Earth's orbit").

So the Millenium Falcon didn't make the Kessel Run in *any* parsecs.

Frink, for all your unit-based calculation needs:
Quote:
Originally Posted by frink
From: c
To: parsecs/year
Result:
0.30659484523556688742
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