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Tech and food issue problems: Maybe someone read the book.

posted 8 years ago by trentcus
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1) Energy.

Where are they getting all that power?

2) Food

Come on now. Unless the food was freeze dried, it would have all spoiled/decomposed in 2000 years.

Why no cryochambers for young chickens, cattle, dairy cows, turkey, pigs , etc.?
The cattle could have been eating all that grass available since they could grow food.

3)Technology.
Unused equipment would stay perfectly preserved.

Batteries!
The chemicals in all the batteries would have broken down in less than 100 years to the point they would not be able to hold a charge!
Display units on the pods! LCD...about 100,000 hour life span!
That is 4166 days = 11 years!

All of them on the pods should have all failed.

Computers running the pods. While I still have a computer I bought 10 years ago, and works great, it is not left on 24 hours a day. I would give even the best built computer 20 years before complete failure.

4) Medical.

Nothing much to be said there except medicines have a very short shelf life.

[–] bluekrush 8 years ago

I'm guessing solar?

The food supposedly they were growing but these was some problem with the soil leading them to have to plant outside. That didn't make sense to me because why not transport the soil inside. Then you only have to go out once.

Not sure about how they preserved medicine and I'm not a scientist so I won't even try to guess.

[–] trentcus 8 years ago

The problem Solar is you need a LOT of panels, and you have to store energy during the night, which means batteries. Those would have failed withing 5-10 years.. They were creating enough power for the whole town. They were obviously trying to stay concealed until civilization had died off.

They were not growing food, for a while, instead depending on what was stored.

Pay attention.

[–] jeaton-01751 8 years ago

Of all the science fiction shows and movies maybe 5% are believable and that's being generous. If you watch shows like this you can't worry about these flaws in the story. If these things bother you read Asimov and Arther C. Clark and avoid Sci Fy tv shows.

[–] DowntownAbby 8 years ago

In the books:

They had some crops inside the fence but the winters had become colder and longer over the years and the growing season was much too short for many of the seeds, etc. They couldn't move further south because we (abbies) were much more numerous and ferocious than on tv ("talons as long as Ethan's fingers")

They had cattle, which were from embryos cryoed in artificial wombs, but we wiped out the herd when Davie killed the power and opened the gate.

I know this just covers a couple of your points, but I can't reprint all three books in this forum. You should read them. Much better than the tv series. (I found all three of them in the ruins of the Boise Library and read them while my sister, Margaret, was gone to Telepathy School.)

[–] carrion-667-473333 8 years ago

He's not taljing about why they needed to grow outside the fence. Before they ever grew a single thing (which takes months) they had to eat something. The very first week after they woke up what did they eat? Even freeze dried foods expire in 30ish years. Eventually they simply decompose like all organic matter and that time frame is less than 2000 years. It's a good point. Didn't ruin the show for me or anything but I'm genuinely interested if the book had an explaination or if it's one of those things you're just expected to accept in sci fi.