On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:51:36 -0400, Warp wrote:

> 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.

Could be a unit of time in that part of the universe for all we know. ;-)

Or it could be that he did the run by using a previously-unknown 
shortcut, thus making the trip *physically* shorter.

Jim

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