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This explains the famous line from Star Wars about the Millennium Falcon "making the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs". George Lucas was obviously hip to the
by sevenless 10y ago
This explains the famous line from Star Wars about the Millennium Falcon "making the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs". George Lucas was obviously hip to the implications of special relativity.
- dec0dedab0de 10y agoI think the retconed explanation is that the kessel run involves going around a black hole. Bragging about parsecs is because the slower ships had to completely steer free of the blackhole, while faster ones could get closer and break free of it's gravity, thus shortening the overall distance traveled.
- mikeash 10y agoI prefer the explanation that Han Solo thought they were total rubes, and gave them some nonsense just to impress them. Indeed, the fourth draft of the script has this comment after the "twelve parsecs" line: "Ben reacts to Solo's stupid attempt to impress them with obvious misinformation." The final draft says he's "obviously lying." I feel like this ridiculous retcon involving black holes, rather than sticking to the simple human explanation of braggadocio, is a microcosm of everything that subsequently went wrong with the prequels.
- yoz-y 10y agoAfter seeing Interstellar and some Black Science Man explanations this would also mean that the fastest ships would get to the finish decades after the slow ones due to gravity shenanigans.