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sitkack
on Aug 3, 2022
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GlobalFoundries joins Google’s open source silicon...
I blame George Lucas for this.
mkl
on Aug 4, 2022
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Star Wars confused
parsecs
with a unit of time, not light years.
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FYI there's apparently some retcon stuff about that, e.g. maybe the Kessel run is around a particularly dangerous area of space (black holes or w/e), so accomplishing it in LESS parsecs is something to brag about ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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an earlier retcon was "that was Lucas's subtle way of showing that han solo talked a lot without necessarily knowing what he was taking about"
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1 parsec ~= 3.26 light years
sitkack
on Aug 4, 2022
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> you've got your units mixed up; minute is a unit of time, and light-year is a unit of distance.
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