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Efini92

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DaleCooper said:
The Orville?
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It wasn’t the Orville.

GRALISTAIR said:
Are you sure this question is correct? A parsec is a unit of distance not time.
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You’re correct, it was a mistake in the film. I’m not sure if it was deliberate or not.

Neo9320 said:
The millennium falcon!
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It was indeed the Millennium Falcon.
As @GRALISTAIR pointed out a parsec is a unit of distance, so quite what Han Solo’s claim was, nobody knows!

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Efini92 said:
It wasn’t the Orville.


You’re correct, it was a mistake in the film. I’m not sure if it was deliberate or not.


It was indeed the Millennium Falcon.
As @GRALISTAIR pointed out a parsec is a unit of distance, so quite what Han Solo’s claim was, nobody knows!

The floor is yours.
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Why thank you…the geek is strong in me.

By what name is Derrick Evans MBE better know?
 
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millemille

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Efini92 said:
You’re correct, it was a mistake in the film. I’m not sure if it was deliberate or not.
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It wasn't a mistake.

Han Solo was boasting about the capabilities of the Millenium Falcon and the fact its navigation computer could come up with the fastest route ever for the Kessel run, which is normally a 20 parsec journey.
 
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millemille said:
It wasn't a mistake.

Han Solo was boasting about the capabilities of the Millenium Falcon and the fact its navigation computer could come up with the fastest route ever for the Kessel run, which is normally a 20 parsec journey.
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That only makes sense if it found the shortest, rather than fastest, route.
 
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millemille said:
It wasn't a mistake.

Han Solo was boasting about the capabilities of the Millenium Falcon and the fact its navigation computer could come up with the fastest route ever for the Kessel run, which is normally a 20 parsec journey.
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I've read that the original script intended for Han to be boasting and inventing claims, and for Obi-Wan Kenobi to respond with an incredulous glance. Alec Guinness didn't quite manage to convey this in the final cut, so it made no sense to filmgoers either.

Novelisations and subsequent books rationalised the line with the above explanation that you give. Part of the story was that there were several black holes around Kessel, and finding a route as short as twenty parsecs (skirting so close to oblivion) was really quite something.
 
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krus_aragon said:
Novelisations and subsequent books rationalised the line with the above explanation that you give. Part of the story was that there were several black holes around Kessel, and finding a route as short as twenty parsecs (skirting so close to oblivion) was really quite something.
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What ship did the kessel run in 12 parsecs?

So 12 really would be crazy.

 
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Thanks.

What country -- essentially in the "far-flung" category -- first came under the influence of a European power, mostly through missionary activity; without any overt attempt at a political takeover -- then was, after a good many decades of continuing independence, annexed to the empire of another European power? In the interim, the country spent several decades under a reign of terror presided over by a psychotic (indigenous) ruler, who implemented savage persecution of a number of categories of folk, Christians included; in this period, the country's population was approximately halved over not many years. The country has been an independent republic for the past half-century-plus.
 
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Gloster said:
Madagascar?
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That didn't take long ! You're absolutely right. The evil tyrant mentioned, is Queen Ranavalona I -- reigned 1828 to 1861. She appears in one of George MacDonald Fraser's IMO splendid "Flashman" novels; in which, among other things, she is one of the very large number of ladies with whom Harry Flashman over his lifetime, experiences intimacy. (For obvious reasons, not the easiest or most pleasant of such episodes in his life.)

Yours to gather together your friendly lemurs, and set the next question.
 
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I remembered that you are a fan of Flashman and it half-confirmed something at the back of my mind.

What rather unusual feature would you find on Broom Bridge (also known as Broome or Brougham Bridge) over the Royal Canal in north-west Dublin?
 
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