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From: AMSLER@SRI-AI.ARPA
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Subject: JEDI, Emperor's death?
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Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 22:38:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  9 22:38:12 1983
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From:  Robert Amsler 

We should be most cautious about writing the Emperor off. After all,
Darth supposedly fell into a VOLCANO and survived. However, if he
DOES come back it will be in the future--and since the next films
will likely be in the past, dealing with Luke's adventures, when the
emperor is alive anyway, it's a moot point.

I wonder how close to the planet the 2nd Deathstar actually was. If
it were close enough it might be in the planet's atmosphere---also
note that a ground-based forcefield would be easier to project
(assuming inverse-square laws hold for force-fields) CLOSER to the
planet rather than further away. Ah... an interesting problem:
What is the interaction between the gravitational pull of the planet
and the force-field. You have to offset the weight of the Deathstar II
if you are very close to the planet vs. far away; yet far away you
have to project the force-field a greater distance and that weakens
it? Is there anything known about projecting plasma fields or is
everything we understand concerned with containing them?
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