How come they didn't have kids? I read in a thread that the kids would be related to everyone else... but say they had kids at age 30/40 or so the children would be 60/50 when the ship arrives. That's well young enough for them to live a decent life on the new planet especially considering the advanced medical technology they clearly have. The kids could then pass along a first hand account of everything that has happened.
shareBecause their children would have to *beep* their siblings, like Adam and Eve kids did. And that's not fair...
shareJim was firing blanks.
shareThey did have kids but when they got to be teenagers Jim and aurora agreed it would be more civil to eject them into space
shareMy first thought when they were having sex was whether they had considered the repercussions of their actions in that moment.
Say they have a couple of kids, and after a few years both parents get deathly ill. Now what? You going to leave a couple of toddlers on their own?
The radiation from the reactor rendered Jim sterile.
shareIt would also be damning their children to a somewhat lonely life and who would their children copulate with? *beep* each other?
By the time they reach their children will also be older people and if they wanted kids on their own they would have to *beep* each other, brother and sister and even if they did that, that is now food for at least 6 people over 90 years, even though there was food for 4 months for 5200+ people, it would still be close to call and if they have 2 children why not 4?
Why not make it even more interesting? But considering their children would be around 50 they would surely by that time have children of their own who would be in their 20's, do those incest children now *beep* each other again?
One generation of incest may not produce diseased offspring, but two usually does.
It would also be damning their children to a somewhat lonely life and who would their children copulate with? *beep* each other?This is something I won't miss when the message board closes -- people who can't be bothered to show enough respect to other readers to read a thread thoroughly before posting their own comments. Sheesh.
I do concur, as the author/script SHOULD HAVE had them bring children into their world. To the say the very least, it would have made it even more exciting & fodder for a better ending- otherwise a great movie...
shareAdding children to the movie would not have made it more exciting. Some people are not interested in having children. Or perhaps one or the other of them was infertile.
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