If you have ever wondered who would win in a race between the Millenium Falcon and other famous space ships—Enterprise, Tardis, Galactica, etc.—Slate has built a graphical simulator that attempts to get to the bottom of this burning question. The reading on how they made their calculations is pretty interesting, if you’re into such things.
It’s a little odd that a genre about science, the field of precision, can be so imprecise. The truth is that spaceships almost always fly at the speed of the plot. But, for those who refuse to accept that, this is a definitive guide to ship speeds, based on highly scientific computer simulations and highly unscientific speculation.
