February 12, 2013
How the Star Wars Kessel Run Turns Han Solo Into a Time-Traveler

How the Star Wars Kessel Run Turns Han Solo Into a Time-Traveler.

You’ll hear any reputable Star Wars fan point it out eventually: Han Solo’s famous boast that the Millennium Falcon “made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs” may have sounded impressive, but from an astronomical perspective, it made no sense. A parsec is a unit of distance, not time, so why would Solo use it to explain how quickly his ship could travel?

Just read it.





Posted by Arcterex at February 12, 2013 01:05 PM