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#11
Close - it’s actually the distance between the center of the earth to the center of the sun. One thing I remember from astronomy class .
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A parallax arcsecond, or parsec, is indeed a measure of distance, not time, but a certain pilot in a galaxy far, far away claims to have “made the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs”. How can this be correct?
Possibly we all misunderstood his brag. The smuggling pilot might not have been referencing time, but in fact distance, as his ship was claimed to have the best Sat-Nav database in the galaxy. Able to plot a shorter path through hyperspace, without celestial collisions, using black hole-adjacent paths and exploiting what WE call “Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.”
Soooo, the unit of distance reference might, in fact, have been appropriate.
Possibly we all misunderstood his brag. The smuggling pilot might not have been referencing time, but in fact distance, as his ship was claimed to have the best Sat-Nav database in the galaxy. Able to plot a shorter path through hyperspace, without celestial collisions, using black hole-adjacent paths and exploiting what WE call “Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.”
Soooo, the unit of distance reference might, in fact, have been appropriate.
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A parallax arcsecond, or parsec, is indeed a measure of distance, not time, but a certain pilot in a galaxy far, far away claims to have “made the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs”. How can this be correct?
Possibly we all misunderstood his brag. The smuggling pilot might not have been referencing time, but in fact distance, as his ship was claimed to have the best Sat-Nav database in the galaxy. Able to plot a shorter path through hyperspace, without celestial collisions, using black hole-adjacent paths and exploiting what WE call “Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.”
Soooo, the unit of distance reference might, in fact, have been appropriate.
Possibly we all misunderstood his brag. The smuggling pilot might not have been referencing time, but in fact distance, as his ship was claimed to have the best Sat-Nav database in the galaxy. Able to plot a shorter path through hyperspace, without celestial collisions, using black hole-adjacent paths and exploiting what WE call “Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.”
Soooo, the unit of distance reference might, in fact, have been appropriate.
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plug in DEN is a 2010 hire for SWA CA. Should come down quite a bit, hopefully, as the base doubles in size next year with the new gate expansion.
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