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Was the visitor plan really a long-term solution?


Assuming for a moment the population on their home planet was close to ours.....how could their plan really be a long-term fix as far as food goes? Even if they grabbed every last person on Earth, would even that amount of meat last? Lets say you get 100 lbs of edible food per human (sorry if I gross anyone out here)....if they eat primarily meat, they would easily go through that in less than a year. Maybe they intended humans a supplemental food source. (Martin called food a "shortage" on their world.)

Unless they intended to breed humans (like we do with cattle, chickens, etc.), I don't see how their effort is worth it (putting aside the water for a second).






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I remember Martin saying that:

1. They wanted ALL the water
2. Humans were for food but not all. Some were to be trained as soliders. They ate other creatures such as rodents, insects, birds, & even spiders.

By the time they'd finished Earth would be barren & like a desert.

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the human body is more than 60% water.

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In 1983, the population was - what - 4 billion? 100 pounds each, that's 400 billion pounds of grade A monkey meat. On life support so it won't spoil since the meat had to remain in living condition (the 85 show would throw out the continuity when demonstrating a new food processor machine.) Depending on how big their digestive systems are and frequency of need to eat, and on size of their planet and number of Visitors, that could potentially pose a situation, absolutely.


Considering how few habitable planets there are, and how the Visitors were also colonizing at the same time as kidnapping... would it be any different if humans went across the galaxy, found a planet teeming with life, but then found one species actually had cognizant and sentient ability? Would humans care? Flip a coin, it would be easy to hypothesize situations where humans would or where humans would not. I'd wager on "would", however.

Both miniseries could only say so much, much less the 85 weekly show. Assuming the latter's writers had thought of exploring these avenues along with keeping the cat/mouse trope going. Plus, viewers don't like facts and some even loathe it when shows aim for historical accuracy (some of the doctor who forums online are hilarious in people saying they don't want it to be accurate or think those who do are wrong) and this is a show that was originally intended to be educational due to its using time travel to visit the past)...

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They took what they needed and moved on or use us as stock to breed.

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considering how technically advanced they were, that's a pretty stupid plan. so they were able to figure out space travel to this extent, but weren't able to figure out how to produce a flesh replacement?

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The human-as-food trope is beyond stupid. Humans take too long growing up. We are not a convenient food source for a predator (not in a sustainable, planet-wide manner), which is why we use cows, pigs, fish, and chicken as food sources instead of primates (putting aside the fact that it would feel a bit cannibalistic to eat primates).

This said, I can suspend disbelief and enjoy a good show like V.

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