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Originally Posted by Unleash_the_Phury

I wonder if anyone's gonna bother to let Coach Mitchell know that the light-year is a unit of distance, not time... unless he means it like 'he's miles away from playing'. But that's just silly, as that implies he's not even at the facility; it's like he's stuck in traffic, and he gets there when he gets there.

It's kinda like when George Lucas wrote the line 'You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs!' Parsecs are units of distance. And I know Lucas tried to explain it away, but **** off, just admit you were talking out your ass when you wrote the script, that's one of the few things people aren't pissed at you about. It's not like Star Wars is legit sci-fi anyway. It's more fantasy.

On that note, considering the ships in Star Wars are only operating with engines that can reach the speed of light or a little better, it would be almost impossible for them to get anywhere and have it matter. If the closest star to Earth is 4.8 or so light years away, you're looking at a little less time than that at the speed of light to get there in the first place, because time slows down as you approach the speed of light, or something to that extent.


ANYWAY. Tangent over; flame away if you like.

I wholeheartedly agree. This kind of shit bothers me all the time. Maybe the coach was just referring to the fact that Ziggy doesn't actually live where the D-Lineman practice? He could be saying that he lives 5.10334285 × 10^-13 light years (3 miles) from the practice facility!