# Time on other planets **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 30, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-on-other-planets/84552 "2001-09-30T00:27:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-on-other-planets/84552/21 "2001-10-02T03:45:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by g8rguy \* > \*\*Hey, in God’s units, lengths and times are the same thing! It’s only all these silly conventions that we’ve built up over millenia that make them different. (Or at least, that’s the way physics people rationalize things.) \*\* This assumes that the speed of light is a constant. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-on-other-planets/84552/22 "2001-10-02T05:22:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MEBuckner \* > > Yeah, that was a joking reference to an (in)famous line in _Star Wars_ in which Han Solo brags that the _Millennium Falcon_ has made the run to Kessel in “less than 5 parsecs”. Of course, using parsecs as a measure of time makes about as much sense as using feet as a measure of time. away). IANAastrogator but if planet A and planet B are in motion, possibly away from each other depending on point in orbital period, chasing down a destination moving away from you in a short distance would be considered impressive. Its akin to saying my friend left for New York an hour before me and I caught up to him after 60 miles, pronunced I was going at least 60 mph faster than him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-on-other-planets/84552.md?page=1)