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EPCOT


Exactly. Google it and you'll see Disney's genius. In concentric rings.

(We're talking about the planned community that was never built - not the theme park.)

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Maybe they're based on crop circles?




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Look at Sun City, AZ.


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The Rule of Cool. Nerds try and find meaning in all sorts of their fantasies. Why does this look like that? Why do they do this? And the nerdier they are, the deeper they go.

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Yeah, I'm a nerd, and I notice this a lot. My favorite is the explanation of how Han Solo 'made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.' I think they just got the terminology wrong (implying time, whereas parsec is a measure of distance; not time). Then, the nerds came out with this explanation:

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The Kessel Run was a hyperspace route used by smugglers and unscrupulous freighter captains to move spice from the spice mines of Kessel at the behest of the Pyke Syndicate, who relied on the foolhardy Kessel Runs to deliver the illicit substance to their customers. The route involves several extreme changes in velocity in order to jump to, and drop out of, light speed with the minimum time spent out of hyperspace while making drops, pick ups or tight turns. It was therefore the source of much bragging between smugglers. The time to perform the run proved too difficult to arbitrate (due to the highly relativistic distances involved) but a fierce competition developed nonetheless, for the pilot and ship able to make the run while covering the shortest overall distance demonstrating the most adept maneuverability and pilotage. Han Solo, captain of the Millennium Falcon, made the infamous run in less than 12 parsecs, breaking a long-held record.


TrekNerds (I am more of a Trek guy than SW; but I like both) get into this a LOT. They went to RIDICULOUS extremes to explain why the Klingons in The Original Series looked different than they do from The Motion Picture forward. OF COURSE, the answer is "they had better make-up and a bigger budget," but they even made a Star Trek: Enterprise episode to explain that there was some stupid virus (or some other *ss-pull) that physically changed their appearance. It's one of the more stupid 'explanations' that never NEEDED to be explained. What makes it worse, is they dedicated an entire show plot to it, when it was never necessary in the first place.



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I wonder if they will incorporate the Kessel Run and the above rationale into the Han Solo movie to make the explanation canon and all.
 
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I wonder if they will incorporate the Kessel Run and the above rationale into the Han Solo movie to make the explanation canon and all.


Bank on it.




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I wonder if they will incorporate the Kessel Run and the above rationale into the Han Solo movie to make the explanation canon and all.


I wouldn't count on such a complicated explanation.

It could be as simple as, the kessel run is 12 parsecs long because it has to go around some nebula cloud of dense asteroid field. He did it in less than 12 by going through than around.
 
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Originally posted by iron chef:
I wonder if they will incorporate the Kessel Run and the above rationale into the Han Solo movie to make the explanation canon and all.


I wouldn't count on such a complicated explanation.

It could be as simple as, the kessel run is 12 parsecs long because it has to go around some nebula cloud of dense asteroid field. He did it in less than 12 by going through than around.

But what does that have to do with speed? Han was citing that incident as an example of the Millenium Falcon's speed, not it's navigational adroitness.



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The retcon seems to be about making it a distance record than a time record, so his claim could be shown the way Scurvy described it.

Then again, this is a discussion for someone else's thread.



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"Because it looks cool."


I think that is the easiest, and most likely answer.


Sometimes we just gotta turn our brains off and enjoy the show.


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Originally posted by iron chef:
I wonder if they will incorporate the Kessel Run and the above rationale into the Han Solo movie to make the explanation canon and all.


I wouldn't count on such a complicated explanation.

It could be as simple as, the kessel run is 12 parsecs long because it has to go around some nebula cloud of dense asteroid field. He did it in less than 12 by going through than around.

But what does that have to do with speed? Han was citing that incident as an example of the Millenium Falcon's speed, not it's navigational adroitness.


In a commentary track on the Star Wars Blu-ray release, George Lucas stated that ships in the Star Wars universe can't travel in straight lines while in hyperspace due to collisions with celestial objects. Thus, distance is an important factor in how quickly a ship can get from point A to point B. The Millennium Falcon's superior navigation computer allowed it to travel shorter distances between points and arrive faster.
 
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If you imagine the core production activity of any community whatever it may be, the logical layout of people and resources to support that activity would be structured as circles around that activity prioritized by whatever or whoever needs to be close to the activity.

A circle encompasses the most area per linear feet of boundary, so that maximizes the are given to the production activity.

Then concentric circles around it gives equal distance of travel to everyone per given circle. As populations increase, there comes a break even point where it's more economical to go establish a new geographic locus of activity than to be on the last layers of concentric circles around a hub.



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The retcon seems to be about making it a distance record than a time record, so his claim could be shown the way Scurvy described it.

Then again, this is a discussion for someone else's thread.

Sorry, Chief, didn't mean to hijack the thread.



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