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From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark C. Adolph)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle orbiter-naming competition
Summary: Millenium Falcon, parsecs
Message-ID: <2119@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 88 00:58:31 GMT
References: <11378@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <44700004@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk> <877@lakesys.UUCP>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <877@lakesys.UUCP>, tomk@lakesys.UUCP (Tom Kopp) writes:
> 
> > Of course, if NASA is really keen
> > on getting popular approval, it could modify this to Millenium Falcon.
> > And we could do the Launch to LEO in under 12 parsecs!
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>       
> ....I hate to say it, but last time I looked, 'parsec' was a unit of length,
> specifically 3.26 light years. B-)

Tell that to George Lucas.  He used it this way first.

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