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GABA ghoul: Oct 29, 2011

Evernoob posted:

Nope, those are also the ones I spotted.
Deeply disappointing we didn't get some real raw Garza in action though

Just started watching SE04, the whole reactors worldwide simultaneous meltdown after the "warranty" expires is ridiculous unfortunately.
Plenty of high tech systems have been functioning perfectly way beyond their designed life.
Also you'd think a nuclear power plant would rather shut down in a controlled fashion instead of melting down.

+ what have those plants been doing int he past 97 years? You can't just produce electricity if you have no users for it. Production needs to follow consumption very closely.

The way I understood it is that those reactors had some kind of futuristic passive/walk away safety mechanism that was designed to function for a very specific time only. Engineers and marketing would naturally pick a round and nice number for stuff like this and that's why it's exactly 100 years.

Like, for example, there are modern nuclear reactor designs that include tanks of water that can gravity feed coolant to the core in an emergency situation. But the water tanks are designed to only hold enough water for exactly 60 hours or so and if no human appears by then to put the pumps/power back on, the reactor will go through a meltdown.

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GABA ghoul: Oct 29, 2011

INH5 posted:

Not necessarily. Evolution can work very fast if the selection pressure is strong enough. The Black Death had a permanent impact on European immune system genes even though it came and went within a century.

Now, I agree the Arkers evolving that fast doesn't make sense, because this level of selection pressure generally leaves a lot of dead bodies, and while we know that there were a lot of dead bodies on the ground ("The Grounders who couldn't survive in the radiation didn't..."), there's no mention of any mass die offs on the Ark. If there had been, it's hard to see how the Ark could have survived.

Not that any of this matters in terms of realism, because nothing could survive prolonged exposure to levels of radiation that can kill a human in minutes, so even if the Grounders could survive on the surface because of magic nightblood or whatever, all of the plants and other animals would be dead and you'd basically end up with Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

They've said in season 2 that the original arkers were genetically engineered/modified to survive cosmic radiation in space and all their descendents have inherited these modifications. It's why the mountain vampires wanted their spinal fluids.

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