Talk:The Grounders (the Ark)/@comment-138.237.246.73-20141024151433/@comment-108.249.203.65-20150308163219

I agree and yet another weakly done aspect of the show, or maybe the books.

A simple reproductive time line.

1st gen=400 (200 couples)  assume 3 kids per. Total pop day 1 - 400

2nd gen=600(300 couples) assume 3 kids per. Total pop 20 years along - 1000

3rd gen=900(450 couples) assume 3 kids per. Total pop 40 years in - 1900

4th gen=900(450 couples) assume 2 kids per now. Total pop 60th year - 2800

If we assume they started the 1 child law at this point....

5th gen=450(225 couples) 1 child. Total pop 80th year - 3025

6th gen=225(112 couples and one loser) 1 child. Total pop 97th year - 3250

Now, assume all the 1st and 2nd gen folks have died. Maybe a few 2nd gen are still around, but they are 80+  years old now. That reduces the pop by 1400. Down to only 1850.

See the problem there? We are assuming a lot. Every person born on the Ark is reproducing at least 1 child and in most cases 3 children. No one is dying of anything except very old age. No accidents, no crimes to get them floated, only really old age.

Even if we assume there was a plan, get to this population, halt growth at that point until we can go back to Eartth, that justifies killing extra children and the parents? That would mean the people that came up with thse laws were just blissfully procreatiing like crazy then all of a sudden, oops we need to kill our kids if they do what we have been doing.

All in all, not impressed by this author or the shows writers. I really like my science fiction to have some scuence attached. Good show as long as you don't examine the details to closely.