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Published: 2014-12-07 08:36:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 70769; 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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I need a print of this. So many cool references inside this piece!
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Thanks man! I don't have it as a poster but I did put it in a 24 page comic book that collected all the "How fast is your spaceship"'s and a 12 page section on 'How to swear like your favourite Scifi"
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hehe...let's not have facts get in the way of a good story! It had never crossed my mind that parsecs was actually a word?! I'll have to look it up.
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I'm usually with you on not worrying too much about facts in a fantasy story... but that one did make me laugh!
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That parsec disclaimerΒ Β
This drawing is just FABULOUS!
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Dude, seriously, google "Thomas Gottschalk" (german entertainer) and look for caricatures, you'll laugh your ass off.
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Hahaha! I looked him up and yes, I did laugh! Can't look at this picture the same anymore
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It's always makes me laugh when i hear that phrase.
When i think about it, Star Wars are some of my fave funny movies. Β
(except the 5th, that one is really great)
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I didn't give the line much thought until I drew this... but now it amuses me too
Cheers!
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Yeah, it's like saying "i made the 100 meter run in 65 meters". I think GL just didn't give it thought as always, lol.
Regarding your images, i love those little details, like the laundry or the "ford" brand sign on Solos vest
Please do much more images like this, it's awesome!
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My chest hurts I'm laughing so hard!π
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You may need to get that checked by a doctor
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He's not bad... he was just programmed that way
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It's not my fault, it's genetic.
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"I can drive from Frisco to NY in 12 miles."Β Muhaha.Β
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Glad you approve... and thanks for the fave!
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I think that Han states the Falcon can do .5 past lightspeed. not very fast at all, but if it can out run a star destroyer, they must be slower.Β
besides star wars is science fantasy not science fiction.
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That indicates to me 1.5 times the speed of light. Which is pretty damn fast.Β
Unless you need to cross the galaxy, and then you're still looking at ~600 years...Β ;/
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Earth to Alpha Centauri at 1.5 times light speed would be about 2-3 years travel time. Archer's enterprise could do warp 5.2 max, which under the original warp speed tables is about 140 times the speed of light.Β
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even more so when in the First Contact movie the Enterprise-E makes it from the Romulan neutral zone, (say about 120 lightyears) to earth in time to help the fleet destroy a Borg cube. in terms of a fight star wars only has a couple of advantages, lots of ships and planet busting weaponry.
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.5 past lightspeed sounds pretty fast to me, but then I drive a tiny car with a .8lt engine
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Fast in local terms, not so much in Galactic terms. at .5 light speed it would take about 2-3 years to reach our closest galactic neighbor. Yet Star Wars expects us to believe that it can get from a outer rim planet to a core world within a couple of weeks/months at best. so unless the star wars galaxy is much smaller (unlikely) it's actually a science fantasy and should never be compared to the likes of star trek which is science fiction.
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I believe that is the "real space" physical speed.Β When hyperdrive is engaged, travel between stars is almost instantaneous.Β
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unless they really ignore the laws of physics. Given it is impossible to go beyond the speed of light in a given medium.
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Thanks Balloon Princess!
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Sigh, why don't people TAKE THE TIME to find out WHY SOLO used Parsec when he said "the Kessel run"?
The OBJECT of the Kessel Run is to get AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN to the event horizon of the Maw (aka a cluster of Black Holes) which is near Kessel itself so you can AVOID the orbital Imperial BATTLE STATIONS and capital ships that would chase you as soon as you took off from Kessel with your cargo hold FULL of ILLEGAL SPICE!
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That is a nice explanation, but it still doesn't explain, why he used a distance measurement. The only way that would be accurate would be, if he actually jumped through a wormhole of sorts; some kind of space-time-shortcut. If anything, time dilation near the event horizon of a black hole (or multiple black holes), would make it take even longer. (Allowing for the fact that in the 1970s we didn't know as much about black holes as we do now by a long shot).
So if you traversed around 40 lightyears (about 12 parsecs) in less than the required time, the only way would be to do some kind of impressive space-time-bending; alas, if you jumped through a wormhole and it took you a few billion miles to traverse the distance of 40 lightyears, then stating that "I made the distance in less than 12 parcecs" would be accurate. I'm willing to have my logic proven wrong though, so if I'm missing the point, please enlighten me. I do admit I'm more familiar with the Star Trek than the Star Wars universe in terms of location and physics (and/or technology).
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I figured out that doing the run in 12 parsecs means "I got as close as 12 parsecs to the mouth. No one ever came that close"
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Of course it doesn't make sense dude. This is Star Wars. It's science doesn't make sense. The event horizon of a black hole is measured in LIGHT YEARS! There's no way a small dinky planet like Kessel could survive in proximity of a cluster of black holes like the Maw.
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Science makes perfect sense. A black hole created from the collapse (i.e. it's getting much smaller than the size of the star it used to be) of a star does not suddenly increase in gravity. If our sun turned into a black hole it would have an effective event horizon of about 2-3 miles tops. We wouldn't be sucked in or affected by it, except we would suddenly be without heat and light. Anyway, there's not really any information on how huge The Maw cluster is, what the relative distance is, all that I could find is that it was apparently artificially constructed. So, Solo made the Kessel Run in "less time" due to taking a shortcut (hence his statement, even though it's still bad wording). Given the artificial nature of The Maw, who knows what the effects would be. Ultimately, for a black hole to have any effect to be measured in light years, it would have had to be an immense star, bigger than anything anyone's ever theorized about. And well, science-fiction/fantasy, whichever, all good and well. All the stories we tell are somewhere rooted in what we know, however fantastical. We cannot completely abandon the laws of physics, and based on what we have seen in the Star Wars movies, or read in the novels, similar laws of physics exist there (plus "The Force").
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Hmmm...I don't think the event horizon of Black Holes are that small dude. I'm gonna have to confirm that. Be back in a bit.
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Excellently explained there - clearly I need to be doing more illegal spice running
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Thanks WaffleMaker9000! 
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Your welcome and thanks!
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Thanks... and may the force be with you!
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