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Published: 2014-12-07 08:36:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 70673; Favourites: 1582; Downloads: 974
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Starting my own 'How fast is your spaceship?' week of scifi nerdiness. Today, Star Wars...What can I say, I love my scifi!
Pencil, ink on paper, Paint in photoshop.
EDIT: Fixed the spelling of 'Millennium' (d'oh!) and added the parsec disclaimer. If only George Lucas had put one in in his movie
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Always so much to see in your works Dave. I didn't even notice the Ford logo on his chest ha ha ha ha ha! !! 
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He picked up the jacket at a car rally onΒ Tatooine one year
Cheers!
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Flying Car probably!!
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This is absolutely awesome and you got Harrison's proboscis slant perfectly. Love it!!
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Thanks Jaime! Glad he's at least recognizable... young Harrison is surprisingly difficult hard to capture!
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To be just, STAR WARS is much more "space opera" than scifi, but we won't quibble!
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Quibbles. Aren't they from Star Trek?
And I will concede your point good sir... guess I should clarify it as loving anything 'space' - whether its scifi, opera, comedy or interdimensional time traveling blobs from Arcanus 9.
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I love all things Space, too...particularly Space Vixens!!
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HI Dave.
absolutely impressive !! I love it very much !! especially : Mikey mouse, the leaky faucet, basketball hoop, the robot of "Bad robot", the hanging phone,... of course the Wouki and the "Ford" stamp on jacket of yan solo !!
You make me smile for the week !
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A weeks worth of smiles? That is heady praise indeed! Cheers my friend!
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Great parody.Β
With regard to the Kessel run**
** Even less impressive than it sounds given that a 'parsec' is a measure of length and not a measure of time.
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Thanks. And you are telling me that Star Wars has been lying to me all this time! Noooooooooo!
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Mines fast enough for my zombie plan! XD
Awesome pic!
(lol! "Ford")
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That sounds like a good speed to me!
Cheers!
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Shouldn't his name badge read Solo instead?
OMG, this is epic. I thought the robot was Wall-e for a moment.
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He must have borrowed the shirt from that actor guy
Cheers!
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I'll do a marathon in less than ten kilometers.
Nice work!
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2km is long enough for a marathon if you ask me
Cheers!
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Awww, you've got a Bad Robot over there! Cuuute!
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Thanks! It seemed appropriate at the moment
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That's the most hilarious Chewbacca ever.Β You do such great work so quickly!
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Thanks! Just be careful not to let Chewie catch you laughing at him though
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I appreciate your fine metallic grading of my work!
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Lol. You're welcome.
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It's the little background joke items that I love about these...
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Haha, Chewie's face!
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Thanks! Posting a star trek one tomorrow
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And I see a Bad Robot back there...
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Ain't parsec unit of distance, not time?
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A parsec isn't just a unit of distance, it's a unit of distance that relies on the Earth-centric Astronomical Unit as a part of its definition. It's the "parallax of one arc-second" and is usually measured by comparing a star's position in the sky six months apart (and thus on opposite ends of the Earth's orbit around the sun, which is one AU).
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yes, it is distance, but they later retcon'ed it. I still think it was just sloppy writing. Now they've made up a reason why it makes senseΒ to avoid embarrassment.
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I always had that problem, but one of the books actually had a good answer for that. It stated that the faster a ship could go, the closer it could pass a gravity well, like a star, without being pulled into normal space. Therefore, the less powerful your hyperdrive, the longer your course had to be to avoid obstacles.
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Some more nerdiness:
In later books, the Kessel system was identified as a black hole nursery which held the planet the drugΒ 'spice' (no, not arakis) came from. The, "Kessel run," was the path a smuggler would take, through the dangerous black holes, to get to and from the spice planet while avoiding authorities. The path around the black holes could be quite lengthy. The faster your ship could travel, the shorter the path; where the increased speed allowed ships to travel closer to the black holes without being sucked in, thus cutting the corners so to speak.
If these descriptions are correct (i.e. still some form of canon), then measuring a, "kessel run," in distance is entirely plausible and would be an effectiveΒ indicator of the ship's speed.
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Indeed... Han Solo is just being lazy and wants you to do the math... distance to Kessel divided by the parsecs
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That makes it all the funnier
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For a six! Β Two thumbs up!
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Thanks Alonzo.... a six AND two thumbs. High praise indeed!
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