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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sheldon McIntosh on January 23, 2009, 01:18:24 PM

Title: Darth Vader pays well
Post by: Sheldon McIntosh on January 23, 2009, 01:18:24 PM
http://jalopnik.com/5131301/storm-trooper-trades-in-speeder-bike-for-something-a-little-more-agile (http://jalopnik.com/5131301/storm-trooper-trades-in-speeder-bike-for-something-a-little-more-agile)
Title: Re: Darth Vader pays well
Post by: Brad M on January 23, 2009, 02:12:54 PM
That's very cool and my favorite response was ... It'll do the ring in less then 25 parsecs
Title: Re: Darth Vader pays well
Post by: Sheldon McIntosh on January 23, 2009, 02:38:00 PM
Quote from: Brad Marshall on January 23, 2009, 02:12:54 PM
That's very cool and my favorite response was ... It'll do the ring in less then 25 parsecs

Except wouldn't that be like saying "It'll do the ring in less than 5 kilometres" since a parsec is a unit of length ??
Title: Re: Darth Vader pays well
Post by: Stuart Thomson on January 23, 2009, 08:39:39 PM
Yes a parsec is a unit of length, the sec part does stand for second, but second of arc.

It is equal to 3.16 trillion kms, 3.26 light years, or about 145,000,000,000 laps of the Nurburgring.

Cheers
Stuart
Title: Re: Darth Vader pays well
Post by: 1750GT on January 23, 2009, 11:15:31 PM
Gees guys I can really see this thread going somewhere? If you enlarge the image to 500% you still can't see the color of his eyes, but you get nice detail on the wheels, amazing! and I note some similarity to the stig! oh my lord.


1750GT
Title: Re: Darth Vader pays well
Post by: Sheldon McIntosh on January 25, 2009, 12:34:03 PM
I suppose this makes sense if the Stormtroopers drive Elises.....
Title: Re: Darth Vader pays well
Post by: Barry Edmunds on January 25, 2009, 01:05:56 PM
Stuart
Is that 145,000,000,000 laps of the Nurburgring here on earth or the Nurburgring in the parallel universe that is supposed to exist out there somewhere, wherever that somewhere is.
Barry