Originally posted by Lazerlike42Gah!! Age is relative to species and cannot be compared equally!! A Tortugas turtle lives longer than a human, but an Ant is 10,000 times stronger based on his size, weight, and load bearing capability, and is lucky to live ayear!!
In ROTS, Yoda is around 880 years old. From his aged appearence, we can infer that he is certainly getting on in years. This fact allows us to speculate that his death in ROTJ at approximately 900 is, in fact, relatively in line with his natural life span and not the result of unexpected illness or some other cause. Therefore, when Yoda fights Dooku and Sidious, he has completed 880/900, or 97.8% of his life. Let us, for the sake of arguement, and because we are not completely certain of Yoda's lifespan, drop this to 90%, thus giving a handicap to our calculations.We then look at Sidious. George Lucas stated during the making of TPM that he and Palpatine were approximately the same age. Lucas was 53 at the time. Given that, he is approximately 65-70 during AOTC and ROTS. 20 years later, he would be approximately 90. According to the Official Site, Palpatine is human, and therefore would have a lifespan of 100 years or so (given modern lifespans coupled with the advanced medical technology availible in the Star Wars universe). If he is 90, then he has used 90/100 or 90% of his natural life span by ROTJ. Further, this does not even take into account the fact that as a person who uses the force, and who as stated by Palpatine himself in ROTS learned many secrets of life from his master.
If Yoda is able to, at 90% old, do what he did in AOTC and ROTS, then Palpatine has NO EXCUSES.