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George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was
awful
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/06/george-lucas-reveals-his-plan-for-star-wars-7-through-9-and-it-was-awful/

When I first moved to San Jose, co-worker talked about being in the San
Jose Astronomy club and Lucas brought drafts/outlines for eight Star
Wars movies for the club to read. Later accounts were the first movie
made was the one that appealed most to investors.

topic drift, a few years later, I'm doing HSDT project (T1 & faster
links, terrestrial and satellite) ... was talking to NSF and Berkeley
(and others).  http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt

I then got talked into working with the Berkeley 10meter group that was
looking at putting observatory on top of mountain in Hawaii. They wanted
to do remote observing from the mainland ... and also transitioning from
film to digital. There was experiments with CCDs at Lick observatory. At
the time, they were 200x200 (40kpixel) ... but there was rumors about
gov. projects with 2Kx2K (4megapel) and that Spielburg was funding work
on 4Kx4K (16megapixel).

SJ Astronomy Club
https://www.meetup.com/SJ-Astronomy/
Lick Observatory
https://www.ucolick.org/public/bayarealinks.html
Keck observatory
https://www.ucolick.org/keckssc/
and more
http://www.keckobservatory.org/

They get a grant from the Keck Foundation to fund the observatory and it
becomes Keck Observatory. Posts from 2004 
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#7 CCD technology
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#8 CCD technology
with old email
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#email830422
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#email830804
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#email840830
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#email841121
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#email860519

2000 CCD technology
http://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/ccd-infrared.html
current Keck CCD
https://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/inst/esi/ccd.html

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