Explain this to me

Not sure about the avalanches, I guess we simply have to assume the snow is stable enough to not avalanche?

Re Settling underground however, you clearly haven't listened to - well - all of the movie. It's explained that the earth cooled down very quickly and people didn't have time to build shelters.

The train existed before the global cooling. Wilford is a train freak and had built it to travel around the world including through arctic regions and to be fully self contained. This is why people could use it as shelter, not because anyone (except Wilford) thought it would be a great idea.

Of course this is only the version we're sold, there is no way of knowing if there aren't people who survived underground.

It was getting colder, so the snow wasn't unsettling until recently.

They didn't choose the train; it was just something that was already being built and just happened to work out.

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Listen to Iced Earth and play Doom

It doesn't make any sense, just like the rest of this crappy movie.





Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.

Avalanches were triggered, just not ones bad enough to derail the train and kill everyone in 18 years.

Well if the world was so frozen as to not allow humans to live anywhere but on that train then there would not be snow. You need a range of temperatures to allow the moisture to enter the atmosphere and then come down as snow. If the entire planet is frozen then there would not be enough moisture in the air for snow to happen.

Now if Minsoo is right the world is warming up and with that there could be places where it is hot enough to get water and get it evaporate and then get snow. And with that you could start to get accumulation in areas and thus make avalanches possible. So if he was right then the train would start to experience them more often. In which case the people on the train would realize the warming of the planet and would see that leaving the train would be possible. So the revolt did nothing more than force humanity into extinction since the only survivors of the train wreck would die shortly afterward due to it still being too cold. Of course they had no way of knowing this.

Settling underground was useless (like in the Colony movie)

The Kinetic energy was the logic to use the train as Wilford created the sacred engine, once in motion it will never stop, of course there is some minor problems, like the parts needed. The train will stop when the snow melt.

The train allowed to keep a ecosystem; the front make water, the train make food (for poor and rich) all around Wilford logic and equations.

And, the shoe goes in the foot.