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From: eaton@cfa.harvard.edu (Commander X-2)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Falcon gif
Date: 17 Apr 92 13:33:36 GMT
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA

From article <1992Apr17.003043.15224@news.iastate.edu>, by arakins@iastate.edu (Andrew R Akins):
> 
>   My computer does not know where
> 
>      vab20.larc.nasa.gov
> 
>   is. Is this the correct address? And if it do you 
> also know the internet number for this ftp site? I
> would really like to see some of the star wars gifs
> they have there.

  I had the same problem so i tried ftp-ing to larc.nasa.gov and was
  connected, but 'anonymous' was not accepted as a user.  however, vab20
  was accepted as a user as was my login name(didn't have a clue what
  to give for a password though).  is there really an anonymous ftp
  at this site?  I wanna see those images too.
  -nancy
>
Organization: Youngstown State University
Date: Friday, 17 Apr 1992 12:01:12 EDT
From: Black Eagle <00063164@ysub.ysu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Harrison Ford
 <1992Apr16.120145.11632@cs.uow.edu.au>
 <SFD.92Apr16120210@bezier.bezier.berkeley.edu>
 <1992Apr17.031355.19074@athena.mit.edu>

Harrison Ford was working as a carpenter at the time.  He had become
rather disenchanted with acting.  He was working for Lucas.  While
Lucas was looking for a Leia, he needed someone to read opposite
as Han.  Ford was around and did it.  Lucas (who actually had Nick
Nolte in mind) was impressed and decided Ford would make a wonderful
Han.  (An excellent choice, IMHO)

I read this somewhere in Bantha Tracks, which I probably still have
floating around my attic.  (Nothing like being a pack rat).

             Colourful dreams...
                    Black Eagle (00063164@YSUB)
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: SWRPG: Funny adventures?
Summary: Huh?
Keywords: shur, whatever
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:17:09 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

> What I mean is, what has been the funniest thing to happen to your
> characters playing SW:RPG?

> Blah, blah, blah...
> When the minor Jedi woke up, he was in a bacta tank the rest of the group
> had to buy for him to recover.  And his lightsaber was gone...

BWWAAHAAHAAHAA!!!  This KILlED ME!  A Bacta tank!!!  OH, stop, no...please!
This is SOOOOOO funny!!!  His lightsaber was gone?  Tee-hee-hee-hee-hee!

Oh...ah...boy...what a laugh.

Anyway, back to our normal discussion of the Star Wars trilogy...

Greg Bole                           Indiana Jones - "Professor of Archeology,
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu        expert on the occult, and how does one 
                                    say it?  Obtainer of rare antiquities."
                                         _Raiders of the Lost Ark_
From: cc433336@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Constantinos A. Caroutas)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: 9 Volumes of STAR WARS?
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:28:54 GMT
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College

In article <1992Apr15.162133@IASTATE.EDU>, picard@IASTATE.EDU
(David B Roy) writes:
>
>So, it's always been #4, and I think it also shows that George has always
>planned to make 1-3.

According to a recent report on Headline News, Lucas has decided to make
1-3 but he might way 5 years before start filming the first.

Constantinos A. Caroutas
From: simmonsb@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Dazed and Confused)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Help on DeathStar Issue
Keywords: My friend is a moron.
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:58:58 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Me and my friend have a little dispute going, We watched 'return' the other
night for about the hundrendth in my life and we came up with this argument:
He says: The Deathstar the is being worked on in 'return' was from the first
movie b/c the whole thing was not destroyed in Star Wars!!!
I say: No way, the first deathstar was completely blown to pieces and 'return's
deathstar was a completely new one.

What do you guys think?

later,
Brian

PS What was everyone's favorite sw toy? Mine was definitely the Falcon.
   What was the cheesiest sw toy?   W/O a doubt the Imperial Destroyer.
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From: philb@cats.ucsc.edu (Philip Brown)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Harrison Ford
Date: 17 Apr 92 21:13:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: darkstar.33195


00063164@ysub.ysu.edu (Black Eagle) writes:

>Harrison Ford was working as a carpenter at the time.  He had become
>rather disenchanted with acting.  He was working for Lucas.  While
>Lucas was looking for a Leia, he needed someone to read opposite
>as Han.  Ford was around and did it.  Lucas (who actually had Nick
>Nolte in mind)

Thank GOD Ford was around!!!
-- 
"If you're going to get uptight, you may |philb@cats.ucsc.edu
as well go do Karate!"                   |philb@soda.berkeley.edu
Anonymous T'ai Chi instructor            |
From: johnsos@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (johnson scott andrew)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Anyone for Fiction?
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:53:42 GMT
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept.

In article <1992Apr15.230323.20538@acsu.buffalo.edu> v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey) writes:
>
>     How would everyone feel about fiction on the newsgroup?
>     I'm not talking necessarily about me writing some, just
>     in general.

I know that there is some pretty good Star Wars/Star Trek crossover fiction
over in alt.startrek.creative (most of involves the Empire attacking the 
Federation, and getting the sh*t kicked out of itself by said Federation).

I know that the authors chose to ignore "A long time ago in a galaxy far far 
away" (Startrek should be "a short time hence, in a galaxy very very, well, 
THIS galaxy dammit"), but the fiction is fun.

A lot of it is available for anonymous ftp at procyon.cis.ksu.edu (I HOPE I
spelled that right!)

/sj/
REAL men don't use .sigs
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From: cleggp@aix.rpi.edu (Paul Jason Clegg)
Subject: Re: TRIVIA
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 02:39:54 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.055433.25085@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> BACS Data Communications Group <commgrp@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
>Michael Y Fan writes:
>
>>>OBTrivia:  How many parsecs did the Falcon make the Kessel run in?
>
>>The Falcon made the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs.
>>
>>                                           Mike Fan
>
>That's a technical flaw!  A parsec is a (very large) unit of 
>distance, not time. It's 3.08572 x 10^13 kilometers (aprox. 4 
>light years).  Saying that the Falcon made the Kessel run in 
>under 12 parsecs is like saying you ran the 50-yard dash in less 
>than 40 feet.  On the other hand, who knows what weird geometry 
>warp/hyper/sub space might have!
>

Not necessarily.  You don't know what the context of the question was.  "The
Kessel Run" is most likely a shipping route, one which may be relatively
clouded with debris.  Thus, the quality of the pilot may be rated by how
short a distance he makes it in (the shorter the distance, the more direct
the route, the more dangerous it is through the debris/obstacles).

...Paul

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From: moore7004@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Cheesy Toys
Date: 17 Apr 92 09:07:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: iscsvax.1992Apr17.140757.3947
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <1992Apr16.224020.10049@athena.mit.edu>, dgaxiola@athena.mit.edu (David G Gaxiola) writes:
> As far as cheesiest goes, I have this cheap Sears/Kenner thing which was
> basically supposed to be a mock up of the Rebels' Hoth Base, but was nothing
> more than white plastic and two swivel stands with a cardboard picture backing. 
> It was good as a setting for "real" toys, but not much else.


It did come with three figures though, or maybe only two...one of them, for
some silly odd reason, being an Imperial (I believe) in this wonderful gray
suit, and one of them being some kind of rebel....I don't know.  All I remember
was the day after I bought em I took em to school and my teacher took em away
cuz I played with em in class.  

I had to shoot her for that.  Later.  Years later.  Another story...

Scotto the Insane
From: vaughnl@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU (Luke Vaughn)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: TRIVIA
Date: 16 Apr 92 07:52:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: CS Dept. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

In article <1992Apr16.055433.25085@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> commgrp@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (BACS Data Communications Group) writes:
>Michael Y Fan writes:
>
>>>OBTrivia:  How many parsecs did the Falcon make the Kessel run in?
>
>>The Falcon made the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs.
>>
>>                                           Mike Fan
>
>That's a technical flaw!  A parsec is a (very large) unit of 
>distance, not time. It's 3.08572 x 10^13 kilometers (aprox. 4 
>light years).  Saying that the Falcon made the Kessel run in 
>under 12 parsecs is like saying you ran the 50-yard dash in less 
>than 40 feet.  On the other hand, who knows what weird geometry 
>warp/hyper/sub space might have!

This argument was on one of the other sf newsgroups a while back.
The best explaination I saw was that it was not a set route but an obstacle
course of some kind(an area full of mines left over from the clone wars outside
of the system of the Spice Mines of Kesel[refered to in RTOJ i think]).
The thing was that the object was to find the shortest route through this area.
Which says more for Han's navigation skills than the speed of the Falcon though.




-I don't care if my name is Luke I ain't using the Force, so there.

-Sorry I got that Force stuff all the time after SW came out. Still drives me
nutty.
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From: h309@quads.uchicago.edu (Unknown Author)
Subject: Ewoks!!!
Reply-To: h309@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Mindcrime
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 15:39:15 GMT

  Does anybody remember "The Ewok Adventure" ?  It came out about two years
after RoftheJ on PBS. Also, the entire movie soundtrack was being played in
stereo on the radio, so you could listen to the sound in stereo, while you
watch the movie, etc.

  "The Ewok Adventure" was about this family that crash landed on Endor
and the boy (who kinda looked like Mark Hamill) was left to care for his sick
little sister. Wickett and his family befriend them and help them get back.

  The special effects were pretty cheezy (remember the spider Wickett fought?)
and the storyline was pretty weak. But hey! It was just another story in the
world of STAR WARS  *grin*

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From: lobaugh@a.chem.upenn.edu (John Lobaugh)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: "Leia", or "Carrie"?
Date: 17 Apr 92 00:22:26 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


OK here's another cheesy error/scene(?) in SW (no disrespect intended toward 
the film(s) but this is fun!). Does anybody remember a scene when
Obi,Luke & droids are coming down some stairs to get on the
MF just before Luke says "what a piece of junk.." The scene is just a
second or two in length and we see R2 coming down some stairs sort 
waddling(sp?) but looking suspiciously like he/it is suspended by wires or 
something.

-- 
John Lobaugh  lobaugh@a.chem.upenn.edu
From: v106lr4h@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric T Sasse)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: TV Specials
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:26:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


    Besides for that sappy childs' "Battle for Endor" (2 hours long too?), 
there was the special that they showed in 1979, I think, which began with a 
cartoon image of Boba Fett, 1st appearence, and was a mix of a whole buncha
stuff, like being on Chewie's home planet, and even an appearence of Julia
Child doing a cooking demonstration, eek!
   What was this special called and where can it be seen again! I was only 8 
years old and barely remember all the cool stuff there musta been on it, not
to mention some clues there mighta been. 

                                                 Oh well, 
                                                      -Eric
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: davies@owlnet.rice.edu (Stephen Clark Davies)
Subject: Re: trivia
Organization: Rice University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 17:42:56 GMT


	Actually, in the Jawa's language, I think it was: "Oo tee dee!"  It
is spoken twice in Star Wars; first, right after a Jawa blasts Artoo with his
funky electric-blaster-droid-stunner-thingy, and second, when Threepio and
Artoo are getting ready to be taken out of the Sandcrawler to be sold (right
when Threepio says, "We're doomed!  Do you think they'll melt us down?")  As
far as I can tell it means, "come here!" or some such.

	By the way, about the above quote...why in the world would anyone take
a fully functional droid, with mechanical abilities and enough memory to hold
over 6 million forms of communication, and melt it down for the copper?

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: The "Force"---- an inconsistency?
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 23:36:57 GMT

jasjit@cc.gatech.edu (Jasjit Singh) writes:

>There seems to be a logical consistency in the concept of "force".
>Remember, when Luke has his ship sunk in the mud(?) when he goes to meet
>Yoda?  After using the "force" to recover the ship, Yoda tells Luke that
>nothing is big or small for the "force". In other words, he seems to indicate
>that anything of any size can be moved about using the "force" with equal
>ease. If so, why doesn't Luke use the force to destroy the death star, and
>the power generator ?? Perhaps the "dark side" that the emperor and Darth Vader
>used to derive their powers from would prevent that. But then, once the
>emperor and Vader were taken care of, could Luke use the force to say throw
>the death star  intro the sun, and hence destry it without risking the lives
>of the rebel fleet that attacked the death star?

Perhaps, but as the story was told, by the time the Emperor was dead, Luke's
main concern was in saving his father. The Death Star was at that very
moment being destroyed from within, so he had no need to destroy what was
already being destroyed.  With the manner in which it was being destroyed,
he had to get out fast, or he, the last Jedi, would also be destroyed.

It must also be remembered that he was not a master of the force yet.

-- 
Craig E. Smith                                       csmith@onetouch.COM
Columbus, OH                                       orson@bluemoon.rn.com
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From: forbes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andrew H. Forbes)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: 9 Volumes of STAR WARS?  (1st post?)
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:42:51 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I'll add my little bit to the ongoing fact/fiction discussion on how
many Star Wars there was/were/supposed . . . (you get the idea)

I remember reading off the back of an old Star Wars Trading Card
something about the 9 movies that were intended.  I forget which movie
the card was from, though.

I also remember hearing something, either on a tv show (like the
making of star wars) or something like that that the original Star
Wars that Lucas wrote was way too long for one movie, so he chopped it
up into a bunch of pieces, and Star Wars was piece 4.  I dunno, that's
what I remember hearing YEARS ago.

Now a couple of questions.. is the first Zahn book out on paperback
yet?

And, I remember hearing something about the original star wars stories
being published in hard back form, and then being taken off the market
quickly.  Does this sound vaguely familiar to anyone??

"Don't get cocky!"  Han Solo


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From: vaughnl@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU (Luke Vaughn)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: trivia
Date: 17 Apr 92 02:00:23 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: CS Dept. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

In article <1992Apr16.085554.12525@leland.Stanford.EDU> elizaga@leland.Stanford.EDU (Patrick Martin Laic Elizaga) writes:
>
>From elizaga Thu Apr 16 01:54:52 1992
>To: /s12/A/elizaga/.article
>Subject: trivia
>
>
>
>
>     If you were a jawa or were speaking jawa, when would you say,
>     "Ooteenie!" :)      [u ti ni]?
When refering to the size of... No thats not it, err next question ;)
>     Who's heard about how Darth Vader got his burns?
He fell in a tar or oil pit of some sort.
>     Before Uncle Owen told Luke to clean up C3-PO and R2, what was Luke
>   going to do?
He was going to run in to Anchorhead. (A city)
>     How does R2-D2's name relate to mixing audio tracks in a studio?
(Sassy retort unavalible due to lack of ideas anyone...anyone...Bueller...
Bueller...Bueller)
>     Who from Star Wars were guests on THe Muppet Show?
About half the cast at on time or an other.
>     How is Fozzie Bear related to Yoda?
Both were created, run and I think voiced by the Late GREAT Jim Henson.
>
>Rick.

-Luke
From: vaughnl@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU (Luke Vaughn)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Keeping up with the Lars'
Date: 16 Apr 92 08:02:08 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: CS Dept. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

In article <1992Apr16.050515.6512@athena.mit.edu> bike@athena.mit.edu (Michael Y Fan) writes:
>In article <1992Apr16.041847.23213@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ahawks@isis.cs.du.edu (ronald reagan) writes:
>>Before this newsgroup began there was some debate on rec.arts.sf.movies as to
>>how "Uncle" Owen and "Aunt" Beru were related to Luke...I don't know if this
>>was suggested or not, but, it seems entirely likely that Beru could've been
>>Annakin's sister...So, then she gets married to this Owen Lars loser and
>>changes her surname (remember, this IS a long time ago!)...
>>
>
>It seems more likely to me that Luke isn't really related to them.  That's
>why Obi-Wan hid Luke with them.  If hw had given Luke to a real aunt or
>uncle, don't you think Darth Vader would have found him pretty easily?
>It does eem strange that Obi-Wan never changed Luke's name from "Skywalker",
>however. Oh Well.
>
>					Mike Fan

If I remeber correctly Ben said that either Owen or Beru was a sibling(can't
remember which).  Would make sense, as to why they would take him in and 
why Owen thought "Ben Kenobi was a damned fool" or some such.



-"Time and tide melts the snowman" --The Seventh Doctor(first episode with him)
	((He is right too))

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From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Harrison Ford
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:17:02 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

>>Let's see...Star Wars...hmmmmmmmm...well let me say that Harrison Ford is 
>>my favorite adventure actor of all time, and _Star Wars_ is what really
>>launched his career (I mean how many people *really* saw _The Frisco Kid_ 
>>and _Force Ten From Navarrone_ in the theater?)  That's all for now...

> Harrison Ford's career got "launched" by "American Grafitti", several years
> before "Star Wars" came out.

I knew that.  And it was a George Lucas movie.  But did it make him a 
house-hold name?  OK, OK, _AG_ "launched" his career, but _Star Wars_
is what really established it!  Happy now?

Let's have some theorizing on what happened between Han and Leia (and make
it original, not what happened in a comic or another story) after the events
in _RotJ_.  Did he really settle down?  Or did he feel the urge to soar the 
galaxy again?

What do *YOU* think?

Greg Bole                           Indiana Jones - "Professor of Archeology,
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu        expert on the occult, and how does one 
                                    say it?  Obtainer of rare antiquities."
                                         _Raiders of the Lost Ark_
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From: ggg9y@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Garth G. Groff)
Subject: Re: Harrison Ford
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 12:20:21 GMT

RE:  Harrison Ford's Carpentry

Harrison Ford really is a fine cabinet and furniture maker in his spare
time.  (He figures he could make a living at it if he ever gets washed
up as an actor!).  Anyway, maybe this is where the carpentry story got
started.  I understood that he was a stunt man before he began to get 
real parts.  Is this true?

--Haridas
From: MAC139@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: "Leia", or "Carrie"?
Date: 17 Apr 92 04:31:25 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

In article <92107.144956EMW107@psuvm.psu.edu>, BIG ED <EMW107@psuvm.psu.edu>
says:
>       Ok, here we go. In RotJ, when Solo, Leia, and the Rebels are captured
>on Endor, they all have their hands behind their heads. Well look closely,
>there is a Stormtrooper standing there with his hands on his head too. Cool,
>eh
That was done purposely. When Han first distracted the guards and took them
out, some Rebels put on the troopers' uniforms. You can just see them putting
on the helmets when Han and Leia go inside the bunker. That's why a trooper has
his hands on his head: because he was a Rebel in Imperial clothing.

      Brian                                     /|     |\
      Penn State                               (_|_/:\_|_)
      mac139@psuvm.psu.edu                       /_|-|_\
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From: jkd2886@usl.edu (Davis Jason K)
Subject: Re: Come on Down to Crazy Jawa's Used Droids
Keywords: ...where our prices are insaaaaaaaaannnnneeee!
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 06:05:48 GMT

	One thing I did notice about the languages, the throne room scene
in Return of the Jedi (Leia's bounty hunter
character) was not believable in my mind.  She said "Yato, Yato" over and 
over to mean different things, unless there were some very slight 
intonations that I missed.
	An interesting side note I heard of and found out by observation,
(no I don't look for such things, but just noticed)  the young dancer in
the throne room had a very sheer top on.  At one point, when she was 
fighting Jabba, her right breast became totally exposed for a flash of film.
Pornography?  IN A RATED PG??  HMMMMMMM.....
(sorry, just had to throw that one in)
							Isenguard

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