Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25176701-20150119013621/@comment-25176701-20150701142158

Skyzy wrote:

The point is, the Ark needed 6 months to fix the air supply problem but only had 3 months of oxygen (before sending the 100 down which only gave them an extra month). The Culling wouldn't have happened if Finn and Raven hadn't wasted 3 months worth of oxygen on an illegal spacewalk because then the Ark would have had enough oxygen to fix the life support problem.

I'm not saying they're to blame. I'm just saying that if anyone besides Kane and Jaha can be blamed, it would be Finn and Raven at fault first before it would be Bellamy's fault.

If Finn and Raven didn't go on that space walk, then The 100 being sent down to Earth would have been post-poned. If The 100 were sent down at a later date then the 6 months of oxygen still wouldn't be enough (because they really would have around 5 months, since the Delinquents took up 1 month, based on your calculations and Clarke saying something like "maybe 4 now that we're gone" in response to the 3 months of life support left). They sent down The 100 in a desperate mission. They wouldn't have been desperate if they had more months of oxygen, so they wouldn't have sent The 100 down so quickly.

3 months + 3 months (spacewalk oxygen) = 6 months

6 months - 1 month (the amount the Delinquents took up) = 5 months

So, yeah. The Delinquents would have still been up on the Ark (due to more oxygen) and The 100 Project would have been post-poned. The Delinquents would have been using oxygen up on the Ark and there wouldn't be enough time to fix life support, anyway. Then, since there wasn't enough time, they'd end up being sent down to Earth later on. The same series of events would have still happened just at a later date. Finn and Raven didn't change the outcome of things, just the time of occurrence.