Lou Pecora wrote: [parsecs] > Which is the Earth's orbit. So, long, long ago in a galaxy far, > far away did they know about the Earth and decide to use it as the > basis for length in the universe? Even before people on earth > defined it?
No, even simpler: In the Star Wars galaxy, parsec is a time unit. We on earth just accidentally defined a unit with exactly the same name -- which is a distance unit instead. :) Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #167: excessive collisions & not enough packet ambulances -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
