SW:TPM questions

[Last Conformist]

I wasnt so much meaning how do they make contact, as how does a guy like Palpatine bear hanging out with a thuggish demon like Maul? I mean I can see Palpatine hanging with Darth Vader - their approaches are different, but an evil, subtle guy like Palp would still find Vader/anakin interesting. Maul is the kind of guy you send out on a mission, but you dont want to have much to do with, even if you ARE evil.

Maybe that's why Palpy sent him to his death.

[MrFun]

Re: Re: Re: SW:TPM questions

Originally posted by lord of the mark


Good point. Anakin seems valuable, though its not clear what Shmi does. OTOH, Watto doesnt seem like the kinda guy who'd be that generous, but maybe thats just me.

It's just you.

[reds4ever]

You guys *REALLY* need to get out more......

[Boris Godunov]

Actually, nowadays in Manhattan, the really tall highrises going up tend to be residential. The 4th-tallest building now is the Trump World Tower, which is a residential building.

But the future will see mega-skyscrapers that are multiuse, anyway. Hong Kong's planned Milennium Tower would house 52,000 people in a 2,750-foot building that was also commercial. In Japan, there are plans in the works for such a massively tall building that will be pretty much a city-within-a-city and be home to 100,000 people.

So I'm guessing the super-tall buildings on Coruscant would be more like these than NYC commercial-only skyscrapers (which are rather impratical in a city-only world...why live and work in different buildings, when it's all essentially going to be the same anyway?)

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by JohnT
What GePap is saying though is that Manhattan can be Manhattan because of the surrounding countryside. When there's no countryside (no trees, no animals, etc), something has to replace it in order to support all those people. For example, as already been mentioned you have a HUGE oxygen/carbon dioxide issue when you have no trees.

You could have much more efficient biological air scrubbers. The EU has hinted at this.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by GePap
In the Asimov series, Trantor was a global City with a population of 40 Billion.

And many people have noted that his math must be off.

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by Jaguar

He became Vader at roughly 22, and died at 45. Luke is ~19, Kenobi is ~57, and Vader is ~41 at the beginning of the original trilogy.

Kenobi aged quite a bit in the 19 years between the two trilogies, but not so much that it's a continuity problem. There are many continuity problems, even if you only accept the movies as canon, but the ages aren't one of them.

Thanks

[GePap]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


And many people have noted that his math must be off.

As those irregular web comic posted note, the heat pollution alone (I think brin was the first writer I saw comment on Heat pollution) from that many people adnd the energy to maintain them would destroy them all anyways.

Vast section of that planet would have to be industrial simply to accomodate the situation.

Thye better annalogy is this- Manhattan is simply part of a greater City. Parts of the planet might be just as dense, maybe even more, bnut as a whole the density must be smaller, simply to support that high density.

There was a point were the lower east side of Manhattan probably had a population density of over 100,000 a square mile by the early 20th century. In small spots densities can be immense-that does not mean over the whole it must be that high.

[DinoDoc]

Maul isn't as thuggish as you'd think. At least if you read the EU.

[Jon Miller]

in 1998 there were 5.9 billion people on this earth (according to the US)

there could easily be 8 times the population of what we have now (And the earth wouldn't be all city, and wouldn't have heat pollution issues...)

so unless that planet is really small

40 billion is rediculous...

as I said, you see SciFi authors do it all the time (if you read stuff written in the 50s, you will find that they thing that 5 billion is a really high number...)

'JM