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Gray_Area:
No no no, Thing. I mean....anyways. The Kessel run was a type of run, so Han did it in less distance, meaning his ship was faster and more maneuverable.

Metric is great. Why not just use it, instead of PC'ing into an american version of it?  No answer is needed.

Lastly....given the thread title.....as inches seem to be a more definitive benchmark, how do those over yonder characterize shaft length?

Le Chuck:

--- Quote from: Gray_Area on April 02, 2012, 07:59:25 pm ---No no no, Thing. I mean....anyways. The Kessel run was a type of run, so Han did it in less distance, meaning his ship was faster and more maneuverable.

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Yeah, Wookieepedia is the tits


--- Quote ---The Kessel Run was one of the most heavily used smuggling routes in the Galactic Empire[3] Han Solo claimed that his Millennium Falcon "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs". A parsec was a unit of distance, not time. Solo was not referring directly to his ship's speed when he made this claim. Instead, he was referring to the shorter route he was able to travel by skirting the nearby Maw black hole cluster, thus making the run in under the standard distance. By moving closer to the black holes, Solo managed to cut the distance down to about 11.5 parsecs.[source?] The smuggler, BoShek, actually beat Solo's record in his ship, Infinity, but without cargo to weigh him down. A few months later, Han Solo beat both his own and BoShek's records in a run he made with Luke Skywalker.[2]
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Too bad that it's an excuse that was made up to cover a gaff in script writing.  Han was bragging the speed of his vessel not the wit of his nav computers.  This is further evidenced by the fact the error was repaired in the 1976 novelization of the film which uses "standard time units" rather than parsecs.   

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