Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26153610-20150305125025/@comment-74.104.117.44-20150314172005

This entire plot line is bogus and there is no way to rationalize it. Radiation is energy, it can not be metabolized or filtered from the body because it isnt an infection or even matter. Radiation is dangerous becuase it destroys cells and damages DNA this isnt something that can be fixed with blood transfusions. Clearly the writers never passed high school physics or they would know radiation doesnt stay in the body it passed through damaging or destroying everything in its path.

On the other hand it is plausable that over the generations populations exposed to higher levels of radiation be it from living in space or in the fallout of nuclear winter would gain resistance to it but this would not be helpful to anyone who did not evolve this genetic resistance naturally. It may be possible to increase resistance to radiation by manipulation of the DNA which is responsible for crafting your tissue cells but unless you can replace all your tissue cells getting resistant blood cells or bone marrow is only helpful to replacing the damaged cells.

This was my biggest disappointment from season 2 since it completely ignores the basic definition of radiation. I would have been happy to let them stretch the basic science as they have many times particularly in relation to the re-entry and orbital mechanics, plus what kind of missile needs parachutes? However its disappointing to hear completely rediculous notions passed off as plausable.