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shut up wrote
actually, you're all pretty wrong, it is later explained that he made the kessel run in under twelve parsecs by flying dangerously close to a black hole which warps time/space, and made it in less than twelve because of it.
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Smart Guy wrote
@Nick: But in space, length (distance), is measured in time. Usually regarding the amount of time it takes light to travel from one location to another, i.e. light-years or light-days. The next nearest star to our solar system "Proxima Centauri" is about 4.24 light-years away.
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Asar wrote
I heard that when Han Solo was saying this to Obi Wan this was suppose to raise his eye brow, showing that he knew Han was full of shit. The phrase was just suppose to indicate something about Han's character.
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dan t wrote
i just recieved this shirt as a mystery shirt today, no clue how you guys at 6 dollar shirts knew i was a star wars fanatic lol
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Skip wrote
What if the Kessel Run involves intense navigation skills and therefore is really hard to do in 12 parsecs? Ever thought of that Nick B?
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Derek wrote
The shirt makes sense. The kessel run is normally 18 parsecs but others have been able to shorten the trip to under 12 parsecs by taking a different route.
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Helen wrote
GabeReal (fun name, by the way) is right- that is the official expanded universe's word on it- but that explanation was invented long after the movie came out. The way George Lucas explains it, the line was supposed to be ironic- Han guesses these two are rubes and feeds them a bit of bull to make his offer look more attractive. He knows perfectly well that parsecs are unit of distance, not time. It was a defect in Harrison Ford's acting, not a script error.
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GabeReal wrote
A parsec was a unit of distance, not time. Solo was not referring directly to his ship's speed when he made this claim. Instead, he was referring to the shorter route he was able to travel by skirting the nearby Maw black hole cluster, thus making the run in under the standard distance. By moving closer to the black holes, Solo managed to cut the distance down to about 11.5 parsecs
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SoImTold wrote
I mentioned the parsec=distance before to one of my star wars loving friends.Apparently the Navigation systems of the millennium Falcon are what make it noteworthy.
Thus allowing it to maneuver through planets and what not while in ?hyperspace?(is that whats its called in star wars) extremely efficiently and and more quickly than less effective star-ships. The more you know...
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AnonyMouse wrote
DUde, it could make sense. . . maybe he was just bragging that he made it in 12 parsecs, because the normal length for a particular trip is a longer length!
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annihlist wrote
That's the joke, kids. Han Solo says his ship made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs in A New Hope. The shirt's accurate to the Star Wars dialogue.
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n wrote
shut up nick
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Capneo_Crowley@GMAIL.com wrote
Yeah, Nick..,WHO KNOWS, THAT.
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Kat wrote
Nick B is right. That shirt is flawed
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Nick B wrote
But.. a parsec is unit of length not a unit of time. This makes no sense at all.
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