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My Geek Credentials
I was perusing, and enjoying, The Week In Pictures at Power Line when I encountered the image below. It produced the only audible chuckle of the entire post. I’m a geek. Case closed.
If you don’t understand the humor, you’re normal. Lucky you.
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I think it’s fun, but Mrs. R thinks I should just keep quiet and enjoy the movie. That’s not possible, so I solve the problem by not watching.
The Millennium Falcon did the Kessel run in 12 parsecs.
The recent, terrible, Star Wars movie finally explains that comment; the ship took a shortcut, but that’s navigation, not a feat of speed. Good try though.
Oh, it’s nowhere near as bad as watching medical shows with yours truly, a nurse
Lol. So it only took them 40 years to figure a way out of that mistake.
You’re telling me that a word with sec in it is a unit of length and not time?
Parsec – parallax second
Second is used here as an angle, 1/360 of a degree , 1 / 129600 of a circle
That’s the trouble with text based communication. I understand a parsec, but was trying to channel George Lucas or whoever wrote that bit of dialog.
As I recall that whole bit of dialog was Hans Solo blowing smoke.
Yeah; that and you’re putting the joke into a thread which has already devolved entirely into nit-pickery.
Since the car is moving at relativistic speeds length contraction would imply that it’d appear compressed to the stationary observer in both frames. On the other hand I’m trying to work out in my head whether or not the red shift would also mess with the dimensions we’d see on an object like that, and it isn’t coming.