re: #44 BatGuano

Han Solo didn’t know that.

Star Wars fan boys try to explain that one away by saying the area around Kessel has a lot of black holes and that spacetime is bent such that the “Kessel Run” is measured in distance not time. He who finds the shortest path in warped spacetime comes out ahead.

I think its just that either Solo was supposed to sound like a know-nothing braggart or George Lucas was a moron. Signs point to option 2 based on the quality of the prequels.