[ The show is just okay. I like stuff with dinosaurs, but the whole premise about how mankind ruined the earth is typical liberal gibberish. If you listen to their description of how the camp runs, it also sounds like they’ve tried to create a socialist utopia. ]
They still use money in the colony, and referenced getting a job to earn some money.
though I am worried that they assume it is a alternate timeline because the probe “failed to report back”. How do they know that 300 years from now in the colony someone doesn’t dismantle the probe for parts due to some unforseen crisis?
85 million years is a LONG time. If thery wanted a good probe, they would have sent a probe to the moon, they would not have worried about it breaking down and degrading inthe weathering factors on earth. All they would have to send through would be a rocket that could launch ir through their portal, if they can send vehicles, they can send a rocket and moon probe through.
Dumb Idiots, a plot hole so big you could drive a fleet of semis through it.
I wouldn’t be quite so hard on them. Any fiction requires the willing suspension of disbelief at some level. It’s not that the probe didn’t report back, but that it never showed up 85 million years later. A reasonable test of the wormhole, actually. You just have to believe that they devised a probe that was somehow likely to survive that long. A tall order, to be sure, but some clever folk might figure it out. Sending through a rocket capable of getting to the moon would be a monumental project, and not really feasible.
I’m pretty sure, though, like others have said that the “alternate time line” will turn out not to be.
I too am getting pretty tired of the whole “mankind ruined the earth” meme. I’ve decided to ignore once again, like with FireFly which turned out to be awesome, and just sit back and enjoy it.
I think a rocket and moon probe is a bit much to be sticking through a blind wormhole, have you looked at a NASA launch platform lately? Not to mention the timing problem, if you don’t know how far back the wormhole leads you don’t know how far away the moon is, so working out the thrust from orbit to make the slingshot is basically not possible. They might have a plothole there for your solution is much worse.
I’m not sure the probe really did much of anything, except count time. Also there’s indications that it really isn’t an alternate universe, but that it was just the line sold to people.