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From: archiel@teklds.UUCP (Archie Lachner)
Newsgroups: net.movies.sw
Subject: Re: It *is NOT* Endor! - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 14:49:36 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  8 14:49:36 1984
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A "moon orbiting empty space" would tend to violate some rather fundamental
laws of physics.  Perhaps more is being read into the "moon of Endor" line
than is really there.  It sounds reasonable, as others have suggested, to
interpret the phrase in the same vein as one would "the city of New York"
or "the state of Ohio."  Perhaps some light could be shed on any reason
for doing otherwise, at least within the limits of the logical analysis of
something in a work of science fiction (after all how serious should we
get about this, anyway?).
-- 

				Archie Lachner

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