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Old 10-06-2019, 01:06 PM   #16
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Default Re: Why can’t these things be done in Star Wars?

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
Remember the classic example of Trantor, capital of Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire. We are told that it had an enormous population, maybe up around a trillion, that it was all one huge city, and that food was shipped in from many surrounding solar systems in vast fleets. Of course this was all a reference to ancient Rome importing wheat from the Nile Valley and Sicily! But Rome was in the same atmosphere as the rest of the Earth and benefited from gaseous diffusion to make up its oxygen deficit. I remember reading one satiric short piece that envisioned the huge air fleets carrying oxygen to Trantor. . . .
David Morgan-Mar has a number of comics about the improbability of Coruscant, which is based on Trantor. Thermodynamics predict that the planet would turn into a fireball very quickly.
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