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ONE medical pod for 5000 + people?


Yeah, don't think so. THe logistics just don't work. If you had multiple serious injuries many of those hurt would die. A serious plot hole.

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To be fair, with how safe everything is supposed to be, I don't think they realistically expected any problems would arise with 5,000 people over just 4 months that would require multiple autodocs, especially when the autodoc is only meant to supplement trained living personnel.

Tommy... how's the peeping?

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Why is it puzzling????


The Titanic had 1800 people and only like 50 life boats.

It's perfect for this plot!

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The autodoc was not the sole medical stsff on board. Many of those asleep in the pods (the crew) were medical staff. Perhaps many of the 5000 passengers were doctors themselves.

One autodoc a few hundred years in the future (to start) and then 120 years later makes sense yo me.

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It was absolutely ridiculous. Also, I found it incredibly hard to believe that they would never have thought about a pod failing and someone having to go back into cryostasis. Why weren't there spare pods?

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This movie is basically Titanic... in space. I also found it incredibly hard to believe that they would never have thought about the hitting an ice rock and actually sinking. It's unsikable, they said.

This movie is a love story first and foremost, not unlike the James Cameron's Titanic movie. The sci-fi stuffs are just the setting.

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but you can only control them from outside the doc, right?

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I really wish they would have given a proper explanation for this in the movie.... Kinda put a large dent in it for me with that.

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But if there was more than one, the movie would have ended with them both waking up at Homestead II. Boring.

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