The Off Topic Topic

[jimmy olsen]

Just over a million people, on a station with a volume of 7.2 million cubic kilometres?  That strains credulity.

A lot of that space is made up of the reactor core and assorted bottomless shafts.

Even looking at just the surface area, that's only 26 people per square kilometre, which is roughly equal to Kyrgyzstan.  Even a fairly difuse city like Los Angeles, which has an area four and a half times smaller, has a population density 55 times that of the Death Star.

How many droids were on the Death Star though?

There didn't seem to be that many.  We only saw 3:  The torture droid, the little mouse droid and the protocol-looking droid near the elevators.

Isn't that more due to the budget constraints on Lucas, rather than what must be necessary to operate the station? Are there more in the updated CGI versions?

[Neil]

Just over a million people, on a station with a volume of 7.2 million cubic kilometres?  That strains credulity.

A lot of that space is made up of the reactor core and assorted bottomless shafts.

Even looking at just the surface area, that's only 26 people per square kilometre, which is roughly equal to Kyrgyzstan.  Even a fairly difuse city like Los Angeles, which has an area four and a half times smaller, has a population density 55 times that of the Death Star.

How many droids were on the Death Star though?

There didn't seem to be that many.  We only saw 3:  The torture droid, the little mouse droid and the protocol-looking droid near the elevators.

Isn't that more due to the budget constraints on Lucas, rather than what must be necessary to operate the station? Are there more in the updated CGI versions?

I would rather imagine that there are far more than a million people on the station, probably several orders of magnitude more.

[Neil]

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[Malthus]

Is there anything cooler than an ape knife fight?

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Travel/Knife+wielding+gorilla+shocks+visitors/1704496/story.html

[jimmy olsen]

Is there anything cooler than an ape knife fight?

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Travel/Knife+wielding+gorilla+shocks+visitors/1704496/story.html

Doesn't look like a small knife to me.

[Habbaku]

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[sbr]

Is there anything cooler than an ape knife fight?

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Travel/Knife+wielding+gorilla+shocks+visitors/1704496/story.html

None of the gorillas was hurt in the incident, but it startled the 20 or so visitors -- including children --who watched the scene unfold around 10:30 a. m. local time in the outdoor gorilla exhibit.

Really!?  There were children at the zoo on a Thursday!!!

Fuck I hate when writers insist on including phrases like this in their articles.  I have two teen-aged daughters myself but I would love to see the next person who cries "For the children" to be ass-raped by that gorilla with said knife.

[Barrister]

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Get a Photobucket account, already.

He's doing it for my benefit - almost all photo sharing sites are blocked by the Federal Government firewall. 

[Zanza]

Was Hanover part of the British Empire?

[Syt]

Was Hanover part of the British Empire?

The territories that were at one time or another part of the British Empire. The British Overseas Territories are underlined in red.

[Barrister]

Was Hanover part of the British Empire?

Not considered as such, but it was ruled by British monarchs at one pointl

[Tamas]

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[Jaron]

Yes or No would have sufficed, Syt

[Josquius]

The territories that were at one time or another part of the British Empire. The British Overseas Territories are underlined in red.

No New Albion?

[Neil]

Was Hanover part of the British Empire?

No.  The Electorate of Hannover was in a personal union with the United Kingdom, but it was never under British rule.  That's why when Victoria became Queen, she couldn't assume the Electorate:  A woman couldn't inherit under Hannoverian law.