Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!mabgarstin From: mabgarstin@watcgl.UUCP (MAB Garstin) Newsgroups: net.movies.sw Subject: Air lock problem on Death Star Message-ID: <525@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Jun-83 01:44:07 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.525 Posted: Sat Jun 25 01:44:07 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jun-83 00:50:48 EDT Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 26 I'm surprised that so many people have wondered about how the ships could get in and out of the bays on the Death Stars with air in the bays and no doors out into space. Don't any of you remeber in ANH when the MF gets hauled into the Death Star you hear a voice over an intercom say, "Opening the outer magnetic field" and then when it's finally inside you hear the same voice say "We're closing the outer magnetic field". Obviously they have some sort of field (magnetic????) keeping the air in and they must employ some sort of double air locking system. If they are using fields of some sort then they should be able to move these fields in and out a bit so as to minimise the air loss whenever a craft enters and leaves. WAIT A MINUTE!!!!! I JUST REALIZED, all you turkeys, including myself, have missed it completely. Because of the mass of the Death Star it has its own gravity so the air naturally sticks to the Death Star, like an atmosphere. That would help emencely with the meteorite problems. MAB