Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!AMSLER@SRI-AI.ARPA From: AMSLER@SRI-AI.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: JEDI, Emperor's death? Message-ID: <1982@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 22:38:12 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1982 Posted: Thu Jun 9 22:38:12 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jun-83 08:25:53 EDT Lines: 20 From: Robert AmslerWe 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? -------