Subj : Re: Nova Earth Colony Episode Spoiler Qs
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,rec.arts.startrek.current,rec.arts.sf.tv,mn.humor
From : Ken from Chicago
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 09:34:13

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise


"Tim Bruening" <tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote in message 
news:432C9C4A.EC1B398D@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us...
> Nova Earth Colony Episode Spoiler Qs:

<snip>

> Radiation from an asteroid strike killed every colonist over 4 and drove
> the rest underground.  70 years later, the colonists have guns.  How in
> the world were 4 year olds able to maintain the knowledge of how to make
> and maintain guns?

Computers

Manuals

Trial and Error (you didn't say EVERYONE under 4 survived to adulthood).

> I'm told that radiation usually affects children more than adults.  How
> is it that only the children survived?

It was SPACE radiation?

OR

Kids were placed in the most shielded location on the base precisely because 
they are more vulnerable.

-- Ken from Chicago

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