tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 06 07:54:32 1999
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Re: The Klingon Year (was:Re: Qo'noS)
ja'lI' Tomas Oeste:
>How do we know how long the Klingon year is?
jIja'lI' quljIb:
>My estimate on the length of the Klingon year <DIS> cames from information
>provided by the Klingon Bird of Prey poster. Here's the relevent info:
[snip]
ja' ~mark:
> Why need it have to do with a <DIS>? We could go back to deriving Klingon
> angle measurements; after all, here on Earth we measure astronomical
> distances in parsecs, which are seconds of parallax, related to the
> angle-measure of one second. A parsec is about 3.26 light years, and IS
> actually used as a distance measurement. Now set that assumption churning
> and you can easily work out completely reliable figures for Klingon angle
> measures and the radius of its orbit. Amazing what you can get from a few
> sentences, isn't it?
SoH Sov law' jIH Sov puS, 'ej matlh Sov law'qu' maH Hoch Sov puSqu'.
quljIb