Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-02-10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> ? ? ? A Parsec is a fixed value (which, admittedly, presumes >>>>> the culture developed a 360degree circle broken into degrees >>>>> => minutes => seconds... or, at least, some units compatible >>>>> with the concept of an "arc second", like 400 grads of, say, >>>>> 100 "minutes", each of 100 "seconds") >>>> It also presumes a standard diamter of that circle. >>> 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? ? >>> >>> Or (ominous music builds here, switch to low voice) is it as >>> some now contend? ?We are the decendents of a long, lost >>> civilization who colonized Earth and used it as a base for >>> their operations to the point of adopting it as their own >>> home? >>> >>> ... ?You Betcha! >>> >>> :-) >> How come they spoke English? > > In some of the series, they sure didn't do it very well, but I > presume they were forced to read what was written. > > If you want to see a movie where the aliens -- at least for > part of the movie -- speak an alien language (with subtitles), > there's "Battlefield Earth". It's amazingly awful. And not in > a fun, campy, MST3K, way. It's awful in more of a dull, > aching, why-didn't-the-dentist-prescribe-better-painkillers > sort of way. Sure glad I didn't see that one in a theater...
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