Build this Lego Millennium Falcon in less than 12 parsecs

[MillCreek]

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/24/566370961/whats-800-and-already-sold-out-this-lego-star-wars-ship?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news

7,500 pieces for $ 800.  Hours of fun: priceless

[just Warren]

You need more than that. For a good diorama you need it to be chased by Cylon Raiders as they skim the massive sand drifts of Arrakis. 

[RoadKingLarry]

Need to add a couple of Borg cubes as well.

[Scout26]

Are there any Reavers on-board ??

(Shame on all of you for this not being the first reply....)

[Hawkmoon]

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/24/566370961/whats-800-and-already-sold-out-this-lego-star-wars-ship?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news

7,500 pieces for $ 800.  Hours of fun: priceless

But ... a parsec is a unit of distance, not time.

https://www.universetoday.com/32872/parsec/

[230RN]

Glad you mentioned that.

I thought it was maybe some kind of in-joke or modern argot I wasn't getting and I'd look stupid if I mentioned it.  Well, OK, even more stupid than usual.

Terry, 230RN

[Scout26]

Yes, but Han Solo and the Milennium Falcon can do the Kessel Run in under 12 Parsecs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F1d3QWsyk0

[Fly320s]

Yes, but Han Solo and the Milennium Falcon can do the Kessel Run in under 12 Parsecs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F1d3QWsyk0

That's because Han shot first.

[cordex]

But ... a parsec is a unit of distance, not time.

https://www.universetoday.com/32872/parsec/

I think the standard apologist response to that is that the Kessel Run typically required a long detour because of some danger. That he was able to shortcut the detour showed he was able to outrun or avoid the danger.

[Hawkmoon]

Yes, but Han Solo and the Milennium Falcon can do the Kessel Run in under 12 Parsecs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F1d3QWsyk0

His odometer needs recalibration.

[Fly320s]

His odometer needs recalibration.

Do spaceships have odometers or Hobbs (hour) meters?  H

[230RN]

I think the standard apologist response to that is that the Kessel Run typically required a long detour because of some danger. That he was able to shortcut the detour showed he was able to outrun or avoid the danger.

Whew !  It must have taken a Clinton-level spin master to come up with that kind of explanation.  :rolleyes:

But okay, if that's gonna be the "story" <ahem, koff-koff>, I guess I can go along with it.  Especially because it's been quite a few light years since the remark will occur.

Terry

[Devonai]

I think the standard apologist response to that is that the Kessel Run typically required a long detour because of some danger. That he was able to shortcut the detour showed he was able to outrun or avoid the danger.

"Retconning," or retroactive continuity, can be useful if it's simply information that the characters could have known, but wasn't relevant, until the timeline required it to be.  If it doesn't contradict the current narrative, you probably won't even notice.  That said, this example is clearly an excuse for a long-standing technical error.

[just Warren]

I finally went to the story to see the ship, she doesn't look like much.

[Big Hairy Bee]

Maybe so, but she’s got it where it counts!



Nice hanging curve over the plate!

[Scout26]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWRJeyRfb40

[230RN]

https://www.wired.com/2013/02/kessel-run-12-parsecs/

Aw, the heck with it.

Looks like a pretty complex project, but you'd better not have any cats around the house when you unpack the parts.



Looks like a horseshoe crab without the tail.

[Hawkmoon]

Slight thread veer: I know a lot of people from England, and I have watched a number of episodes of Britain's Got Talent, and I generally like the English accent and have no trouble understanding Brits. The young lady is an exception -- I doubt I understood more than about ten percent of what she said.

[mtnbkr]

Slight thread veer: I know a lot of people from England, and I have watched a number of episodes of Britain's Got Talent, and I generally like the English accent and have no trouble understanding Brits. The young lady is an exception -- I doubt I understood more than about ten percent of what she said.

I work for a British company, and work from home at that, so there are days where the only voices I hear outside my immediate family are Brits.  Ergo, I had no problem understanding her.  I'm getting pretty good recognizing different English accents, though I can't always put a name to them (ie Cockney, Geordie, etc).  FWIW, Ms Ridley was born and raised in London.

Chris

[230RN]

Sounds like the sound in the Ridley video was doctored in some ways.  Higher frequencies chopped, and I think they used some system to chop tiny portions out of the information stream.  Nice looking young lady, though.  No complaints about that information stream, nyuck nyuck nyuck.  :-)

Geriatrically speaking, I don't have any problem with normal sound streams.  But as soon as you start "processing" it or introduce background noise or distortion, I have a problem.

I also have a problem with the English propensity for glottal stops instead of fully pronouncing their "t"s.  

WRT high pitches, I can hardly understand a word of Bernadette's lines in Big Bang Theory.  I read somewhere that wasn't her normal voice, though.

I get along fine with my landlady, but she talks so loudly into her phone that it starts clipping and therefore introduces a lot of odd (as opposed to even) harmonics and sounds crackley.  I sometimes have to talk FTF with her later to verify my understanding of what she said.

So I'm not sure Hawkmoon's problem is with her accent as much as it is with the sound quality per se.

Terry, 230RN

REF:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop

"...the glottal stop is transcribed with an apostrophe, ⟨’⟩, which is the source of the IPA character ⟨ʔ⟩."

The glottal stop can be heard when many British speakers pronounce "glo’al stop."