"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > "A spaceman came travelling on his ship from afar. Twas light years of
> > time since his mission did start."
>
> > Like, WTF?
>
>   Not only is the term "parsec" used as a unit of time in the original
> Star Wars, but there's actually a second WTF related to the use of that
> unit: It's a unit related to the orbital diameter of the Earth, and Star
> Wars happens "in a galaxy far, far away". No Earth there.

No one ever said in starwars that the parsec was the same one we use (3.26
ly). It could be the parsec calculated from Coruscant's orbit for all we
know. A parsec can be calculated from any orbit.

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