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From: eugene@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov.arpa (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle orbiter-naming competition
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Date: 27 Jul 88 17:10:05 GMT
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In article <2119@ssc-vax.UUCP> adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark C. Adolph) writes:
>In article <877@lakesys.UUCP>, tomk@lakesys.UUCP (Tom Kopp) writes:
>> 
>> > 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.

One more note: to paraphrase, Sagan said that Lucas should have hired some
out of work astronomer (any one of them) to get the interpretation
correct.

Another gross generalization from

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