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 * If such a large portion of the population died from using a chemical or drug, how is said drug no longer available unless people know about the danger, implying that they also know the fate of those dead?
-:: It's implied that the virus existed only in the Uppercity - Bliss was never on sale below because the Undercity was inhabited by poor people, otherwise the Undercity and the motorway wouldn't be sealed safely. The poor and the rich seem to have been separated completely.
+::It's implied that the virus existed only in the Uppercity - Bliss was never on sale below because the Undercity was inhabited by poor people, otherwise the Undercity and the motorway wouldn't be sealed safely. The poor and the rich seem to have been separated completely.
 * Before entering the motorway, pedestrians outside already imply they know that the motorway is so clogged that people spend their entire lives stuck there without reaching their destination. Since nobody has ever made it to their destination (instead being killed or dying naturally while waiting) or received communications for that section of the city, why would anybody in their right mind get onto the motorway?
-::The Bliss killed everyone above about 24 years before the events of the episode, the gridlock began after that, so the maximum of how long anyone could spend stuck there is 24 years, which is not exactly a lifetime. Plus they thought it was all because of some repairing and kept hoping all that would end soon. Also they had no idea of people being killed there - you only get killed if you go to the fast lane, which is Macra's territory - and i guess not that many people would die naturally in 24 years, so there was no obvious danger. As for the communications - they could also think those were the glitches because of the assumed repair.
+::The Bliss killed everyone above about 24 years before the events of the episode, the gridlock began after that, so the maximum of how long anyone could spend stuck there is 24 years, which is not exactly a lifetime. Plus they thought it was all because of some repairing and kept hoping all that would end soon. Also they had no idea of people being killed there - you only get killed if you go to the fast lane, which is Macra's territory - and I guess not that many people would die naturally in 24 years, so there was no obvious danger. As for the communications - they could also think those were the glitches because of the assumed repair.
 * Early in the show hover cars are shown freely flying about through the air. Why would a motorway be designed specifically to negate the effectiveness of real flying cares by cramming them into an underground tunnel?
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 * Wouldn't any of the later entries to the motorway have noticed that nobody ever came out, or even try to get out through the entrance shafts?
 ::As far as later entries knew, those who had gone before were on their way to get out, not join a continuous loop. They did not know that they would never get out.
 ::People from the under city were aware no one came back after going to the motor way. But how could they possibly "know" that no one ever reached the upper city?
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 * In New Earth, the Doctor said that New Earth is in the galaxy M87, which is a real galaxy in the Virgo cluster. It is half a million light years across and 60 million light years away. Yet here the Doctor says that New Earth is 50,000 light years from Earth. In 5 billion years the Milky Way and M87 ought to be millions of light years further apart, not closer together.
 ::Perhaps the people of the year 5 billion have the ability to move solar systems and galaxies around.
 ::It is possible that M87 had been renamed or reclassified since now.
 ::The Milky Way galaxy and Andromeda have already collided in 5 billion years and by forming a new galaxy probably renamed.
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 :::How would the cars land?
 ::::There would be a system to cause it to become relative to gravity.
+::::The anti-gravity system could be part of the motorway, and the reason that the Face of Boe still needed to contribute his life force to sustain it.
-::::The anti-gravity system could be part of the motor-way, and the reason that the Face of Boe still needed to contribute his life force to sustain it.
 * If the undercity was sealed off, then why is there both sunlight and rain in the section that the Doctor and Martha arrive in?
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 * How was Boe sustaining the motorway?
 ::By giving up his life force using some technology we don't understand.
-::It is merely an alternate form of energy. All things need energy/a power source, usually electricity, but in the absence of enough of any other kind of power source, the face of boe was using his own life force as the energy source required.
+::It is merely an alternate form of energy. All things need energy/a power source, usually electricity, but in the absence of enough of any other kind of power source, the Face of Boe was using his own life force as the energy source required.
 * How could the people in the undercity not know something catastrophic had happened above? They suddenly can't access the upper city, and the motorway goes nowhere. They must have had communication with the upper city that stopped too. Why in the world would the motorists believe police were coming or that the government was still operational?
-:: They thought it was because of some repair and kept waiting for it to open. Also it's implied the rich and the poor were separated and the Undercity could function quite independently even before the virus.
+::They thought it was because of some repair and kept waiting for it to open. Also it's implied the rich and the poor were separated and the Undercity could function quite independently even before the virus.
 * Why didn't the Face of Boe and Novice Hame just do the same thing that Doctor did 24 years ago? He just plugged in the machine, turned it to highet power, got extra power from Boe and that was it. Hame could have done that herself.
+::Hame talked about how the Face of Boe would give his last secret to a traveller right before he died, Hame and Boe would probably know that trying to using Boe as extra power would result in his death, thus resulting in him being unable to reveal his final secret.
 * How does it take Brannigan 12 years to drive 5 miles, but Cheen and Milo can drive 10 miles in 6 years. Surely the years are the wrong way round?
-:: It is specifically stated that the roads in the part they are hoping to reach via the Fast lane are less crowded than the gridlocked part of the undercity.
+::It is specifically stated that the roads in the part they are hoping to reach via the Fast lane are less crowded than the gridlocked part of the undercity.
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