The Knight Life by Keith Knight for January 11, 2013
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How bout the idea for a new "Star Wars" film? Instead of a death star there's a "birth Star"!! And when it shot its laser beam at a planet, everyone & everything on the planet would be knocked up!! KK: Funny how that idea would garner a more adult rating than the "death" star would!
Trantor is one of the classic examples of “did not do the math.” Fitting the entire population of Earth into a single city would involve a city the size of South Carolina, increasing the population tenfold would still fit in Texas+Oklahoma and increasing the population a hundredfold would still fit in the Continental US.