Population of Alderaan
Graph By: Kevin T.
Star Wars
But what if Alderaan had some 50 Cent-level bling?
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I don’t believe that should be anything but a straight drop, not a sloped line.
Way to overthink things, morons. I pluarize “moron” since there are a few other idiots that are all “HURR DURR THE LINE SHOULD GO STRAIGHT DOWN Ah-DURRRRRRRRRRRR!”
Agreed. It took a few milliseconds for Alderaan to explode, not a year, as the graph suggests. Please use the force to fix.
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Well, in a line graph, that would mean that one year had multiple values.
Second: Straight Drop.
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hahahaha. i don’t even understand that youtube. like yeah, i know starwars, and i know that song…. but yeah.
i cannot stop laughing
What is BBY?
BBY = Before the Battle of Yavin IV. I’m a little rusty on my Star Wars lore, but I want to say it was the last battle in the first (or fourth) film, pretty much the destruction of the first Death Star. Events in the universe are labeled either BBY or ABY (After the Battle of Yavin IV), kinda like how we use BC/AD in our timeline.
It’s not saying that it took a year to die. It’s like a census. Censusus (Cenci?) aren’t taken every second of every day. They’re taken once every 10 years. For this, it looks like it’s sort of like a census taken every year. On one day in 1 BBY, there was a population of a little over 2 billion (a little low for a peak population of a planet colonized for centuries, but hey, they did seem like the crazy environmentalist sort). On one day in O BBY, there was a population of 0.
So this graph is completely accurate, assuming there’s no supercomputer that knows exactly when someone is born or dies (and even if there is, the graph only checks on the values once a year).
So if the world is gone, who carries out the census?
The Galactic Census Committee you non-Starwars watching nerf-herder.
The interplanetary census bureau offcourse !!
“What planet is next?”
“Alderaan”
“Ok, let’s go there…”
Having arrived:
“Alderaan sems to be gone…”
“Well, saves us a load of work !” Census guy marks a zero…
Sir or Madam, I like your style!
Disregard that, I suck.
As the original submitter, I’d have to say the sloped line is the result of Excel’s sloppy graph-making and my own laziness. I admit I was displeased with the result, but didn’t want tp take the time to correct it.
I’m a little disturbed at the comments of “other” Kevin T.’s and curious if this sort of thing happens on every submission. Hmmm.
Just a quick side note: In the EU (Extended Universe) there are Alderaanean survivors (Princess Leia, Tycho Celchu, Winter) and they set up a new planet for them so truthfully the graph should not reach zero until that generation dies off.
OK, now my wife wants to know why it smells like nerd in here, gotta go!
Um, the graph is Population of Alderaan, if you aren’t a resident you would not be counted in that years census. If you were to don a space suit and hang out in the asteroid field while those aforementioned census-aseirs came by, then you could lie to them… but that would just be silly.
Yeah, but those few survivors would make for such a small population that they wouldn’t show up on that scale.
Besides which, they wouldn’t be residents of Alderaan anymore.
HAA HAA. More like “What’s left of Alderaan”.
Also, i just have to point out that Alderaan was destroyed before the battle of Yavin so the population would not reach zero after 0bby but before. Also agree with the sloped line bit, but as was explained farther up by laziness and excell it is a little bit more acceptable.
Wow.
Star Wars.
Why don’t you spend your time arguing about why the dialogue in all of the movies is horrible instead of picking on a graph that is on a web site about silly graphs.
wow, a graph that’s actually funny. Too bad it’s not a straight drop but either way, very clever!
You would have to at least leave the graph at a final value of one because Princess Leia Organa did not die when Alderaan was destroyed. She, being a resident of the planet at the time of its destruction, was on board the Death Star – the very thing that decimated her home planet, and was alive for a while there after.
However, as has already been mentioned, she wasn’t a resident of Alderaan after it was destroyed… Because you can’t be a resident of somewhere that doesn’t exist. lol