Hallöchen! Reedick, Andrew writes:
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Torsten Bronger >> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:32 PM >> To: python-list@python.org >> Subject: Re: Why not a Python compiler? >> >>> I wonder if George Lucas intended it as a joke or if he thought >>> a parsec was a unit of time. >> >> The latter because it was corrected in the novelization. > > Errr... didn't one of the novels explain it away by describing the > kessel run as a region of space warped by black holes or other > objects? Bragging rights for crossing such a field thus centered > on shortest distance instead of time. Well, in the link that Grant provided, it says In the A New Hope novelization, Han says "standard time units" rather than "parsecs". Therefore, the reduced distance of Solo's Kessel Run is most likely a retcon to explain George Lucas's confusion of time and distance units. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (See http://ime.webhop.org for further contact info.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
