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‘Entire ecosystem’ of fossils 8.7m years old found under Los Angeles high school
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2024
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Time to get a coffee, I think. As a metric person it took me too many tries trying to parse "8.7 meters years old"
They used to measure the Kessel Run in meter-years until the numbers got too big to convey in astromech code.
I love the convoluted explanation "serious" Star Wars fans have come up with. Like dudes, it was a fuckup. George didn't know what a parsec was. It's okay. Star Trek does it all the time too and the same sort of "serious" fans come up with silly explanations for why you can go faster than Warp 10, which is infinitely fast, and turn into a giant salamander. Just roll with it, guys. Stop caring.
I think MST3K had the right idea:
“If you're wondering how he eats and breathes
And other science facts
Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show
I should really just relax"
True. I remember some star wars geek on the defensive explaining the parsec screwup as the millennium falcon having a navigational computer capable of calculating a route shorter than any had managed to calculate before.
I for one really like both star trek and star wars, but I'm able to enjoy them for what they are instead of bending over backwards to defend every minutia of the writing as if it's some religious text.
Same. Just have fun with it. It doesn't matter. The only reason I care about those things is when I make fun of them on Ten Forward or Star Wars Memes.
Or maybe just the word "parsecs" means something else in tbe SW universe.
As far as I'm concerned, it means the Falcon can fly really, really fast.
Sort of funny that people argue over what 'parsec' could mean in Star Wars and now how falcons ended up being around a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.