Talk:Forine (world)

There's a big problem with the portrayal of Forine as covered with buildings. I'll leave aside the fact that I've put a lot of the population in orbital habitats and in the asteroids, precisely because Forine is such a miserable world, since that is non-canonical. But even if everyone did live on Forine, you still wouldn't get that effect. A 3,000 miles diameter world has a lot of surface, especially when it doesn't waste any of it on oceans, agricultural areas, and wildernesses. Try working out how much acreage each Forininan would have if the entire surface was single-storied buildings. Add the extreme unlikelihood that buildings would be single-storied, and the picture simply doesn't make sense.

I'm very tempted to rewrite the description wholesale, but I don't want to do that without giving others the chance to show me that I'm wrong. Are my calculations incorrect? (I can't give you my exact figures, because I made them a long time ago and I don't have them here, but I think it worked out at several thousand square meters per inhabitant).

Rancke 12:52, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree that with a population of 6 billion, there would be loads of space per inhabitant; so a world wide arcology would most likely not be in use.

Given the inhospitable climate (Minus140+; doesn’t really matter what scale you use Celsius or Fahrenheit) the need for protection from just the temperature would be enormous; not even taking the atmospherics into account; a regional arcology might make more sense. Sstefan 13:24, 17 August 2007 (UTC)