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- From: hot@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (henry.o.tirado)
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- Subject: Re: [9F07] Mr. Plow
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.181752.12715@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 18:17:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.233532.21257@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> jwlr@escher.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer) writes:
- >c8923075@frey.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird) writes:
- >>A hectare is a unit of area, not length.
- >Ah, a reference to _Star Wars_. ("She'll do the Kessel run in 3.2
- >parsecs." misquoted from memory)
- >
- >A parsec is a unit of distance, not time. I-)
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- I beg to differ, Captain Solo. ... "it's the ship that made the Kessel
- Run in less than 12 parsecs."
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- A parsec's a unit of time. It's even got "secs" for seconds in the word.
- Besides, a feat of that sort in time/space would have to mean either greater
- distance or less time for the Kessel Run. :-) QED
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