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From: mike@dolqci.UUCP (Mike Stalnaker)
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Subject: Re: Light-saber construction...
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 07:58:05 EDT
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>From: Rob Austein <SRA@MIT-XX.ARPA>

>The point about Sinclair monofilament and high temperatures is a good
>one.  We know for a fact that a large field of Tnuctipun Sunflowers
>will generate enough energy to burn/melt/whatever it through.  Shadow
>square wire may be a better choice since it is demonstrably more
>durable (it didn't even break when the Liar crashed into it, it just
>pulled loose from its mountings). Of course it may be that shadow
>square wire is really just superconducting monofilament and that it
>uses the shadow squares as heat sinks.  In that case, maybe the reason

	Rob, the sinclair chain is what held when it was used in the 
Ringworld Engineers. Wu used the Shadow square wire as a backup, and the
extreme heat from the Sunflowers broke/melted/something that.  The
Sinclair chain  was the superconductor. NOT the shadowsquare wire.

--Mike

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