In the first bunker, it was said that a maximum of ten lives could be sustained. Any more and all would die of hypoxia. If the same rules applied in the second bunker, then the mandate to procreate would create new lives that could not be sustained if any children were born prior to the end of the year. And, even if the children were born after the characters exited the bunker, the pregnancies alone could cause too much extra drainage from the oxygen supply. Furthermore, if there were a greater oxygen supply in the second bunker, then there would have been no reason to limit the number of survivors to only ten in the game. So some viewers would argue that this situation is a goof.However, those arguments don't constitute a goof, as there are many possible ways to justify this scenario (which in the movie is only a *thought experiment* anyway).First possibility: the bunker in the second iteration may have enough oxygen to sustain eleven or more people, but new rules would still allow only ten adults into the bunker because a portion of the oxygen has to be reserved for the babies, in accordance with the mandate to procreate. Second possibility: the amount of available oxygen in the second iteration's bunker corresponds to 10.5 people for one year, which may mean that it's sufficient for ten adults and one baby that's born in the last half of the year, but not enough to sustain eleven adults during the whole year. Third possibility: when it turns out that pregnancies and baby births are causing too much extra drainage from the oxygen supply, then that would just be the next philosophical dilemma that the students will have to solve by making tough decisions. In other words: it could easily be all part of the challenge of the thought experiment.
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05/03/2025 alle ore 08:19