DuracellEnergizer said:

miker71 said:

Personally I never knew what a parsec was, and still have not looked at a dictionary definition.

Parsec: a unit of distance used in astronomy, equal to about 3.25 light years.

=P

Defined by the distance an object would have to be from Earth if its parallax was one arcsecond.

Really I would prefer if no Earth units of measurement were mentioned in Star Wars. (Not only parsecs, but meters when describing the width of the DS exhaust port.) As a scientist, it really brings me out of universe. Now if this was hard sci-fi, different story.