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A bunch of mutants living off about 59 000 humans in 900 years?? How?!!


Can they really survive that long with so few people to eat? I mean look at the math, 900 years, 59 000 human that means 65.5 humans a year!

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the mutants adapted to not eating much. they had small apatights. just a guess

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Didn't they also eat each other though? I remember them eating a wounded member of their group.

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Ya, one could assume the accelerator helped slowed their metabolism's to adequate levels. They were also shown to eat their own wounded/those to weak to defend themselves.

"His mother was a Sebacean. She was raped by a Scarran. Did the Luxan rape your mother to?" Natira

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they were also reproducing and becoming nice and inbred and lumpy.

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surely, the person who typed 'apatights' has to be on to something.

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Lmao did you seriously just spell that "apatights" ?

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Remember, there weren't always mutants since year 1.

Gallo probably spent many time toying around with the crew/tripulation, until he eventually went to sleep and people started to mutate.

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and their may have been massive food stores originally. 65 humans a year sounds like more than enough, the mutant population was probably fluctuating depending on how much food was available (feeding on the weak of their own kind during these periods). Youre presuming they live with human apetites, large reptiles can go years without food, and they were also shown to hibernate.

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Lol yeah we got it Legend.

Nice input though!

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Your statement reminded me of the book The Road. Just the women actually getting pregnant just so they had a food source when the baby was born.
Pretty gruesome.

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more details on this book?

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I haven't read The Road, and somebody with a greater knowledge of biology may be able to correct me, but that doesn't sound viable. Fetuses don't live on air -- the mothers have to nourish them, which means consuming food and resources. It's basic physics -- energy is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed or shifted. So a baby will provide little more nourishment than the amount of nourishment that went into growing it in the mother's womb. Cannibalism only makes sense if they're heavy into not wasting resources or if there's no other source of food available...which there obviously was if a mother could bring a fetus to term. So deliberately getting pregnant to gain a food source isn't logical. Yes, eating them makes sense in such a context, but not as part of a plan to *create* a food source.

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The Road is a crazy book/movie but doesn't have a lot of plot holes. The bad guys did cook and eat a newborn us but it was never implied that they got pregnant to create food. I'd think you are right, that it would take a lot more calories to create the baby than would be recovered by eating it, especially since you can't eat all of it. I think the pregnancy was just a byproduct of recreation..

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I read that book and saw the movie. There's no part about women getting pregnant to just eat it. It would take twice as many calories over 9 months just to have a baby only so you could eat what must only be enough food for about 5 days tops? That doesn't make any sense. People just captured others and ate them and the civilized farmed and what not.

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Remember when they emerged from a shipping container? There were THOUSANDS of other shipping containers....probably containing a lot of food.

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Your wrong, the mutants didn't exist in 900 years. Remember it was humans who SLOWLY mutated and evolved into those nasty creatures. That would have taken a LONG time, theoretically the mutants might only have existed for a 100 years. If that was the case they would have eaten 590 people a year. More then enough I'll say ;)

edit: just remembered all the other stuff from the movie, they most likely lived as mutants for at least 800 years.
I withdraw my previous comment :)

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There weren't that many mutants. Although there was that mutant mass, for all we know, they were eating them too.

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