soop.spoon
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In addition to Mr. Crawford's question, I'm also very curious to know what other titles will accompany 20,000 Leagues in the next batch of Vault Disney titles.
Ultimately, whether the meaning is distance below the surface or distance travelled while below the surface, "20,000 leagues" is still a gross overexaggerationIn the movie, it may be an exageration, but I read the book many years ago and, IIRC, the main character did travel about 20,000 leagues on the Nautilus, so the title is actually correct.
I assume the League was a much more common unit back when the book was written, so there would probably have been no more confusion than if it were released today as "7,000 Miles Under the Sea." Everybody would immediately understand that you didn't mean "7,000 Miles Deep."
BTW, the reason you probably wouldn't use Leagues to measure depth is that a League is just too big to be practical. Even Miles would be too coarse a unit, which is why people use feet or meters.
almost right Justin, you don't go through the Maw on the Kessel Run, rather the gravity shadow cast by the huge conglommeration of black holes makes it difficult to jump near Kessel. The significance of Han's boast is that the Falcon was able to withstand the strain of cutting closer than was advisable to the black holes (shortening his distance). Going through the Maw lands you in the 'eye' where according to the EU novels the death Star and sun crusher were developed (now blown to pieces by Ep II), and such a journey (and knowledge about Kessel!) only takes place in the books. In actuality I think it was a flub on Lucas' part mistaking distance measure for time.That makes sense. I knew I was a bit fuzzy on some of the details. That Solo could cut closer to the black holes, making the route shorter, implies his ship was faster, because the faster you can travel, the closer you can get to a black hole because you wouldn't be within its grasp long enough for it to trap you. You would have too much "escape velocity", I think. So I guess in a way, he was indeed saying his ship was fast. But I do agree, though, that it probably was a mistake on Lucas's part. But one thing Lucas is very good at is finding plausible ways to "explain away" his mistakes!