RE: Seven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1
February 23, 2017 at 6:11 pm
(February 23, 2017 at 11:40 am)Alex K Wrote:(February 23, 2017 at 10:17 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: It would have to be one enormous black hole for it to be possible to cut parsecs off of the slingshot distance around it. You would barely feel the gravity of any stellar massed black hole from even 1 parsecs away. Also, wouldn't relativistic effects mean the trip would actually take longer if the trajectory cuts too close to the event horizon?
I'll try to do the math for a supermassive black hole and get back to you... He'll have to do hyperspace as well to travel parsecs, so it's not clear what the physics of that would be though...
It's way, way simpler than any of that. Catch Kenobi's expression in response to the twelve parsecs thing; Han is trying to bullshit them about his skills and Ben ain't falling for it. The script confirms it - the direction for this line goes something like "Obi Wan reacts to this obvious misinformation". In other words, Lucas knew exactly what a parsec is and assumed that the audience does too. But trust the True Fans to come along and rationalise every little thing. I bet any money there's dozens of volumes about the cloak that disappears in the jumpcut when Luke activates his saber that first time; how it was a Sith changeling that popped into a wormhole to warn the Emperor or something.
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