 What actually is the Millennium Falcon? This is a question that I came up with maybe two weeks ago, and I'll tell you why It occurred to me in a minute. It's not gonna be what you think Obviously the short answer is it's a freighter All the stories all the books all the movies they say that it's a freighter. It's a converted freighter What kind of freighter would be built like that? If it was a freighter Where's the storage space if it was an actual freighter there would be the cockpit and the rest would be storage space. I Mean we see what's on the inside of the Millennium Falcon There's that huge community room in the center. It's big enough for Luke to practice with his lightsaber to swing his lightsaber around While everybody else watches and And another group plays monster chess and everybody has a chair That's nuts that's very inefficient for something that's supposed to be carrying freight But okay, it's a converted freighter Still wears the space I mean these circular corridors. We see people running around inside. They're gigantic Very inefficient nobody would build a spaceship that way these diagrams I find online show Some rooms that we've never seen Even some cabin space bunks for the crew And there's this one storage space here. It looks like it can't be much bigger than my living room Terrible design for a freighter this book that I just read Han Solo's revenge There's a character in there who inspects the ship and refers to it as a heavy lifter Just that phrase makes a little more sense to me like it's something that's designed for short runs a flattened saucer kind of thing this Design to lift things into orbit maybe and he also says it's the most overpowered Ship of its kind that he's ever seen like it's got military-grade engines and armaments so we've got Ridiculous living space inside the thing although it's still not exactly comfortable or opulent with more engine power Defensive and offensive power and maneuverability than it was built for or even needs. So yeah, we're talking about Something that a wealthy drug dealer would build. Yeah, and Han Solo didn't build it. He got it from Lando There you go But the thing that made me start Asking these questions, which I've never asked in all these years It's the name of the thing Millennium Falcon The word Millennium means a thousand years. It's Latin for a thousand years mill meaning a thousand Anom meaning year or it's derived from Latin whatever and the word Falcon Of course is a bird of prey that we're all familiar with and it sounds cool. And that's the thing the name Millennium Falcon It doesn't mean anything It sounds like something that a ten-year-old would come up with because it sounds badass like flaming unicorn or Smash panther But here's the thing the word Falcon Like I was saying the other day the Star Wars universe is created from the ground up from scratch It's in a galaxy far far away. There are no dogs and cats. There are no cows and chickens There are no mice and frogs or any of that stuff, but somehow in this galaxy far far away They have Falcons You can support 30 second sci-fi and my other projects by becoming a patron There is a link in the description below and visit the 30 second sci-fi tumblr That's my headquarters in addition to my videos. I publish links and updates there every day