From:	Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: Life in space
Date:	Wed, 20 Oct 1993 20:12:14 +0930

>
> Hey what do you think of that?
>
> As far as there is a magician in space,
> there's life in that space
>
>Why then wouldn't be there any magic power?
>
>If there were much people in a colony on Mars,
>why would'nt be magic possible there ?
>
>That could explain Obiwan Kenoby's powers,
>that could deal with every life forms...
>
> I'm sure magic is possible anywhere , as long as there is more than
>1 man.
>
>I'd suggest then that there would be a range pro person:
>On the antartic there would be more drain than in NewYork City...

The trouble with this idea is that mana is created by LIFE, not by
intelligence. And the biosphere of the earth extends every where within the
atmosphere.
Sure, if you put a colony on Mars, there would be life there. But the amount of
life would be insignificant compared to the Earth, and would stay so for
hundreds of years, even if Mars was fully terraformed and colonized. And it
would never reach the levels of the Earth, due to Mars' smaller size.

As for Obiwan, the Star Wars series is set in a galaxy where there is
atmosphere between the stars. (Hence such things as Han and Leia getting out of
the Falcon in the asteriod wearing nothing more than clothes and respirators).
With atmosphere, life is possible.
(As a side note, life can exist without atmosphere. The Apollo astronauts found
bacteria on the Moon, brought by earlier missions and probes. And satellites
brought in for inspection via the Space Shuttle have been found to have large
bacteria colonies)

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Robert Watkins
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