Quote (AlexL @ 17 Apr 2014 16:14)
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I don't get something in this show
Shouldnt they have enough dropships and pods to send most people down since I think the purpose of staying in space was to wait for it to be safe to return to Earth and they talk about dropships
So instead of choosing to do what they did why didn't they just send more people down
I mean you might make the argument that it's too inhumane because most of the leaders in space think it will probably just lead to a slower death
but 1. they sent their juvenile youth down and they killed off people so it's not like they aren't opposed to making questionable/"necessary" decisions
2. they could have had actual volunteers this time
3. based on the fact that they didn't have the expertise or resources to fix their oxygen/environment/grid machine I think it would be reasonable to state that, unless they were capable of developing new technology with the resources they had, they now had an upper limit on their population and didn't need reserve dropships and pods for future population growth
Yea I feel the same.
Between dying immediately and having a chance to survive on Earth, I'd take option #2.
Obviously they can't really do that on a case by case basis, they'd have to send groups at a time. But for that mass murder episode, it would've made so much more sense to just send them down.