> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 10:03 AM
> Oddly enough, and still off topic, there is a reason that Han > Solo said > that. > > Strictly star wars speaking, the kessel run was a smugglers > run from the > planet Kessel to a point out in space. Now, the problem with > this run > was that there was a place in the vicinity of the system that > Kessel is > in called the Maw, which is basically an area that contained numerous > black holes that created gravitic anomolies that made it > impossible to > jump to light speed (as it were in that universe). > > Until the point at which Han and Chewie, in the Millineum > Falcon broke > the record on the Kessel run, ships went a certain path (read arc) > around the maw. and the length of that arc varied depending oh how > close a ship came to the maw.... so, the closer you flew to the event > horizon, the shorter your distance from one point on the arc > to another. > Hence the parsec quantifier. basically, the trip from Kessel to the > safe point normally took something like 15 parsecs worth of > distance as > the ships had to travel a pretty good arc around the area of black > holes. Han did it in under 12 parsecs, meaning that he had > cut it that > much closer to the maw than anyone else had ever done. > > by the way... whats wrong with using parsecs as distance? > that is what > they are... > > 1 parsec = 3.09E13 km = 3.26 lightyears. > > Of course, picturing a 12pc arc and a 15pc arc with the same > start and > stop points would make a good example to look at, but in astronomical > terms, that would mean that hte typical (and 15 is just a > guess) parsec > trip would be roughly 9.27e13 km longer than the record > setting run that > Han did... > > or in other words... > > the normal trip is about 463,500,000,000,000km and Han's trip was > roughly 370,800,000,000,000km long, saving roughly > 92,700,000,000,000km > > roughly of course... my astronomical math is a little > rusty... I havent > really used it in ages.. <grin> And, since he didn't "jump to lightspeed", it then took him and Chewie 3.26 lightyears/Parsec*12 Parsecs/1 lightyear/year= >39 years to "make the Kessel run in 12 Parsecs". I don't think anyone is going to be making the Kessel run AT ALL (49 years is even worse, by the way, which is what you are implying). Even taking in Relativistic effects (which isn't appropriate at the kinds of speeds you would do sublight at), it's still a heck of a long trip.... I'm sorry, it's still a very stupid line in the movie that shows no knowledge of what a Parsec is. Can we please get back to Redhat Linux now? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
