Talk:Acid Fog/@comment-138.237.112.209-20141103145131/@comment-73.17.92.138-20150210173811

IIRC, Raven was the one that told them the kids were taking them off. The wristbands were only there to make sure that they would know if the planet was still too radiated for them to survive on. Which is why they made a big deal when the kids started dropping like flies on the radar. Because the radio was broken, they couldn't call in and ask the kids "hey are you kids dead yet?" which is why the kids tried to create a new radio using Clarke's wristband. It failed, short-circuiting the rest of the active wristbands (though how is never explained since I'm sure each wristband has its own power supply, yay plot hole).

Again, the bands were never a primary info source. They were literally just there to monitor if the kids were in danger/dying. If the radio was working, the kids would have called in the acid fog phenomenon.