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Re:Kessler Syndrome by projectramo on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:20AM (#18362786)
Oh wow, is that where the term "Kessler Run" comes from in Star Wars?

If I recall, the Kessler run involved having to go through an asteroid field in the recent Solo movie.

For fans, you may recall that in the original Star Wars Han says: "You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It's the ship that made the Kessler Run in less than twelve parsecs."

This got ridiculed because parsec is a unit of distance not time, but in the new movie they show that the run can be made longer or shorter.

Re:Kessler Syndrome by Uehreka on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:23AM (#18362799)
Nah, that was called the Kessel run, and the parsec thing was an actual mistake that they retconned in Solo.
Re:Kessler Syndrome by projectramo on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:25AM (#18362808)
Oh, Kessel run!

I know they retconned it. Now they need to retcon the name so that it is really Kessl run, short for Kessler.