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Local Authors => Howard Tayler => Topic started by: mbarker on September 11, 2009, 11:00:28 AM
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How do you evacuate 30 million people?
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Very quickly, I would hope.
(Lota rapid-teraporting, perhaps)
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Hah! That's Kevyn's problem. Oh, good.
Incidentally, for comparative purposes, New York City population is estimated at about 8 million, so this is 3.75 New York's to evacuate. Tokyo is estimated at about 12 million, so call it 2.5 Tokyo's. Buncha people to move, anyway.
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Hah! That's Kevyn's problem. Oh, good.
Incidentally, for comparative purposes, New York City population is estimated at about 8 million, so this is 3.75 New York's to evacuate. Tokyo is estimated at about 12 million, so call it 2.5 Tokyo's. Buncha people to move, anyway.
This is all true. There are some differences, however, that actually change the scale:
1) Earth cities are surrounded by lots of empty land that people can drive or walk onto with no preparation. Despite complaints about the Earth being overpopulated, that has more to do with the land needed to be farmed to support them, not the actual acreage needed to hold them. Credomar, for energy-balance reasons, has the exact opposite problem. This makes evacuating extraordinarily more difficult for Credomar.
2) Actually fully evacuating a city on Earth has never really happened.
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Sure. In fact, if you break a city around these parts, air, water, gravity, etc. are still around. Break Credomar, though, and all bets are off. Wonder how many lifeboats they have on that Titanic and just what got Lota worried about evacuation? I was just trying to get a notion of the scale. Big. And who's going to convince them to jump into those emergency ports?
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...just what got Lota worried about evacuation?
Hah. You seem to have forgotten how he came to power.
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Aha. Forget about individual evacuations, Lota wants everything evacuated. Which will be interesting, do you unroll the city?
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Hah. You seem to have forgotten how he came to power.
Possibly. But I'm wondering if there is something more specific that has Lota thinking in these terms. Someone or something threatening?