Re: Background questions

"The end of the bottomeless pit is a body-length and a half down."
wrote:
> Actually, piping in here for a second, a parsec is more of an accepted
standard
> in measuring distances in the astronomical community. Now granted, it
doesn't
> translate into lightyears very easily (3.2615 ly to the parsec), but
then
> again, astronomical units (AUs), another standard of measure, don't
translate
> into miles/kilometers real easily, either. :-/

	Another advantage is that 1 parsec is close to the average
	distance between stars in our neck of the Galaxy.