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Subject: Re: New theory for speeders - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 19-Jun-83 03:22:54 EDT
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hp-pcd!john    Jun 18 12:58:00 1983

Any society that could build droids like R2-D2 and C3-PO would be able to come
up with something a little more elaborate than a steering wheel for their
vechicles. Those craft probably had enough sensors and intelligence to avoid
running into things and all the rider had to do was pick a general path to 
follow. The effect would be more like riding a horse than a motorcyle.
Crashing would only happen if you forced one into a path where there were no
solutions that the vechicle could find.

You have to admit, If an EWOK can fly one then they must not be to hard to
operate. I am curious as to how that one ewok left the cycle by grabbing onto
the vine and swinging up. Has anyone figured out how high he would of had to
swing to convert all that foward kinetic energy into potential energy? Once
he came back down then he should have been moving backwards at nearly the same
speed as when he left the cycle.



John Eaton !hplabs!hp-pcd!john

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