Comments on: Population of Alderaan

By: eblustain

eblustain — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:30:36 +0000

Well, what would be needed is an asymptote. In order for the explosion not to have multiple values, there can be no line connecting ~2 billion and 0. Instead the line will break off at the time of the explosion, and then reappear instantly at 0.

By: Kaz

Kaz — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:46:56 +0000

1. Straight drop
2. Zero population at dropoff.

(Workings out: as mentioned above: nationality =/= residency, population = charts residency and :. expats don’t count.)

By: That was dumb.

That was dumb. — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:42:18 +0000

Name says it all. About the video I mean.

By: huh

huh — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:48:11 +0000

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!”

By: SomeIrk

SomeIrk — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:52:12 +0000

The Galactic Census Committee you non-Starwars watching nerf-herder.

By: beeurd

beeurd — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:51:21 +0000

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

By: F.

F. — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:05:14 +0000

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.

By: Ariel

Ariel — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:48:20 +0000

Sir or Madam, I like your style!

By: JustSomeGuy

JustSomeGuy — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:37:48 +0000

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.

By: scotty

scotty — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:29:43 +0000

wow, a graph that’s actually funny. Too bad it’s not a straight drop but either way, very clever!

By: mickey

mickey — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:49:34 +0000

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.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:52:56 +0000

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.

By: Aubzilla13

Aubzilla13 — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:11:13 +0000

HAA HAA. More like “What’s left of Alderaan”.

By: Nik

Nik — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:15:10 +0000

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.

By: KG Foxx

KG Foxx — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:28:40 +0000

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!

By: Kevin T.

Kevin T. — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:29:39 +0000

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.

By: Kevin T.

Kevin T. — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:07:56 +0000

Disregard that, I suck.

By: joost

joost — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:10:20 +0000

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…

By: Doomsday Forte

Doomsday Forte — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:58:37 +0000

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.

By: Leeps

Leeps — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:14:48 +0000

So if the world is gone, who carries out the census?

By: Kevin T.

Kevin T. — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:10:02 +0000

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).

By: tsedusu

tsedusu — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:16:14 +0000

What is BBY?

By: traci

traci — Sun, 18 May 2008 02:44:40 +0000

hahahaha. i don’t even understand that youtube. like yeah, i know starwars, and i know that song…. but yeah.

i cannot stop laughing

By: Kyler

Kyler — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:25:34 +0000

We gonna party like it’s your – KAPOW!

By: Squee

Squee — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:33:26 +0000

Second: Straight Drop.

By: Socks

Socks — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:25:46 +0000

Well, in a line graph, that would mean that one year had multiple values.

By: Jawa Fiend

Jawa Fiend — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:30:28 +0000

Agreed. It took a few milliseconds for Alderaan to explode, not a year, as the graph suggests. Please use the force to fix.

kthxbye

By: Daniel Lackey

Daniel Lackey — Sat, 17 May 2008 18:17:27 +0000

I don’t believe that should be anything but a straight drop, not a sloped line.