Re: 1992 MX-5 Miata
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 9:42 am
"How far is it to [insert destination]?"Randy Chase wrote:If you know your Star Wars trivia, the reference to parsecs was because the ship could take a shorter route, that was how fast it was.
"Han Solo claimed that his Millennium Falcon "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs". 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."
So in this Miata, one could straightline slaloms and bypass chicago boxes and get away with it. Just saying...
"Oh, it's about 15 minutes."
We all tend to muddle distance and time, but it's understood!