Trivia: Scientific Errors in ‘Star Wars’: A “Parsec” is a Unit of Distance, Not Time

Posted on Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta

Watch science comedian Brian Malow rant about the biggest scientific error in George Lucas’ Star Wars: A New Hope, Han Solo’s claim that the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in “less than twelve parsecs.”
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