mabgarstin@watcgl.UUCP (MAB Garstin) (06/25/83)
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.
MABheliotis@rochester.UUCP (06/30/83)
Sorry, I doubt the Death Star has enough gravity to hold a sufficiently pressurized atmosphere in its bays, and it CERTAINLY does not have the ability to hold enough atmosphere to protect it from meteorites! (OOPS! Did I just fall for someone's ":-)" ?) Jim H
bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (07/03/83)
The death star doesn't have enough gravity to hold in an atmosphere? Get real! What do you think that stuff is that hold them down while they walk around in the death star or an other ship? It may not have enough mass, but it sure has artificial gravity. (Which makes one wonder why the thing would be shaped as a sphere when the artificial gravity seems to point at the south pole in most of the ship. -- Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304