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Lukeje

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Hexenwolf said:
Lullabye said:
RatRace123 said:
A parsec is a unit of distance and time, how did the Millennium Falcon make the Kessel run in less than 12?
Thats how.
Is that so?

And just how long is a parsec (in time)?
It depends how fast you're going, obviously. It's similar to how a light-year can be a unit of distance.
 

Hexenwolf

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Lukeje said:
Hexenwolf said:
Lullabye said:
RatRace123 said:
A parsec is a unit of distance and time, how did the Millennium Falcon make the Kessel run in less than 12?
Thats how.
Is that so?

And just how long is a parsec (in time)?
It depends how fast you're going, obviously. It's similar to how a light-year can be a unit of distance.

...

You know that a light-year is always a unit of distance right? It's the distance that light travels through a vacuum, (AKA 9,460,730,472,580.8 km).

So how long is a parsec if you're going at the speed of light then?
 

Georgie_Leech

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Impossible and VERY nerdy question:
If Obi-Wan became "more powerful than [Darth Vader] could ever imagine" (and remember, this is the guy who claimed to be stronger than the Death Star, so he can imagine quite a bit), why does he only use it to give vague advice and pass the buck on to Yoda?

Also, Han. The original had Han, and, more importantly, it fits his character better.
 

Lukeje

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Hexenwolf said:
Lukeje said:
Hexenwolf said:
Lullabye said:
RatRace123 said:
A parsec is a unit of distance and time, how did the Millennium Falcon make the Kessel run in less than 12?
Thats how.
Is that so?

And just how long is a parsec (in time)?
It depends how fast you're going, obviously. It's similar to how a light-year can be a unit of distance.

...

You know that a light-year is always a unit of distance right? It's the distance that light travels through a vacuum, (AKA 9,460,730,472,580.8 km).

So how long is a parsec if you're going at the speed of light then?
3.08568025 x 10[sup]16[/sup]m
________________ = 102927214.06s.
299792458ms[sup]-1[/sup]

It's not exactly hard to work out... (time=distance/velocity)
 

gamefreakbsp

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THEMILKMAN said:
pimppeter2 said:
What game did Mario first appear in? And what was his name?

Not that hard for gamers, but tough for everyone else
Donkey Kong

Jumpman

Nice avatar, Connery=best Bond ever

EDIT: Ninja'd!!!
Yes. Sean Connery is to date, still the best James Bond.

OT. Han shot first.
 

Xette

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I don't know if anyone mentioned this... But in the original outtake Han DID shoot first. However it was edited to make Greedo shoot first. They thought it would've put a bad light on Han's character to make him shoot first. Supposedly it didn't fit the PG criteria.

It is a fact Han shot first in the original outtake.
 

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ThePostalGamer said:
If it took you fifty years to invent a time machine which traveled with you, and you went back forty-nine years to speed up the invention process, would you still have to take forty-nine more years to invent the machine so your future self could use it, go back that forty-nine years to show it to yourself, or would it already be there ready for use anytime?

I thought about this one some time ago before I thought it would either be an endless loop or a time paradox and gave up.
Make a big one and a little one, take the little one back 49 years with you through the big one, leave the big one 49 years in the future and use the little one! DUH.
 

Reverend_Randy

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A parsec is a unit of distance=3.26 light years.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Stellarparallax_parsec1.svg
This is the diagram of how it is derived.
Like a light year, it is NEVER, and has never been, a unit of time.

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Xette said:
I don't know if anyone mentioned this... But in the original outtake Han DID shoot first. However it was edited to make Greedo shoot first. They thought it would've put a bad light on Han's character to make him shoot first. Supposedly it didn't fit the PG criteria.

It is a fact Han shot first in the original outtake.
Yes, that was mentioned in the thread a number of times.

Seriously you guys- read the thread before you just respond all willy nilly.
 

Captain Blackout

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LockeDown said:
If a lightsaber amounts to projecting monochromatic light into a focused beam, then why don't the blades extend to infinity?
The beam isn't photonic light. It's some kind of plasma or other energy that arcs back on itself. The lightsaber jewels focus the energy and set the harmonics for it, which is part of what determines length.

No, I'm not really a nerd, why do you ask?
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I just read that somewhere, don't remember where.
 

Captain Blackout

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Deadeye350 said:
Video of Han shooting first (from the Original version, as near as I can figure out in the 5 mintues I've spent looking)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1YbFnkZwZk

Video of Greedo shooting first (From the remastered version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qUjsCODGnE


Hope this helps.
So let's see...Han shot first, by about 20 years, Greedo tried to get a return shot in 20 years later, and Han buried him for good. Ok, that helps a lot, thanx...
 

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la-le-lu-li-lo said:
Make a big one and a little one, take the little one back 49 years with you through the big one, leave the big one 49 years in the future and use the little one! DUH.
Minor problem: You only have one time machine. DUH?
 

KitsunetheFox

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Han used his superpowers to see into the future, where Greedo would try to shoot him. So Han then shot Greedo before he could do anything.

Also: If Gandalf had connections with the big eagles, then why didn't he do the big eagle thing in the first place and drop the ring in the volcano from the sky?
 

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Kuchinawa212 said:
atalanta said:
Kuchinawa212 said:
Han...Duh

Now here's one. Does Boba ever crawl his way out of the Sarlacc pit? In Canon?
Do you consider the Extended Universe canon? Because if so, yes he did. Because he is one bad-ass ************.
LockeDown said:
Kuchinawa212 said:
Han...Duh

Now here's one. Does Boba ever crawl his way out of the Sarlacc pit? In Canon?
No. Boba Fett dies. Period.
stabnex said:
LockeDown said:
Kuchinawa212 said:
Han...Duh

Now here's one. Does Boba ever crawl his way out of the Sarlacc pit? In Canon?
No. Boba Fett dies. Period.


No. Boba Fett sets off a thermal grenade, is blown free, rescued by one of Jabaa's slave girls and another bounty hunter named Dengar.
I thought something like this was going to happen. Yeah I think he get's away, but you just never know XD
Boba spent a couple of weeks in one of the sarlacs bellys where it telephathically talks with him and all its previous meals he eventually managed to ge it to squeeze his jetpack in a way that it activated and he escaped. By the time of the battle of Endor Boba had somehow fallen back into the sarlac which then regurgitated him, however he was then trapped again when a sandcrawler he was on fell into the Sarlac he later escaped once again.
 

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KillerH said:
Han.

What came first: the chicken or the egg?

Trick question, the rooster had to come first...(I feel bad if you miss the joke)
*pauses for a few minuetes*
....hehe, dirty jokes make me giggle.
 

Allan53

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RatRace123 said:
A parsec is a unit of distance not time, how did the Millennium Falcon make the Kessel run in less than 12?
From what I understand, the area is full of black holes. The faster your ship, the less you need to duck and weave, leading to a shorter total distance travelled. Source: One of the expanded universe books, but don't ask which one.