Not sure if this has been posted but, surely they could have just stopped the upload to Destiny, searched through the database for Tj's cure , make that a priority for an upload. Then just continue upload the rest of the database after the cures has been uploaded?
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Originally posted by Dark lord me View PostWhat I want to know is why did they have to be there for it to upload when everything started to happen they could of gone back to the ship and kept the uplink open...All plot and no character makes for a dull story... All plot and no character makes for a dull story... All plot and no character makes for a dull story... All plot and no character makes for a dull story...
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by the time they realised they didn't have enough time to get everything, it was already too late. eli actually mentioned they'd have to stop the download, then the bunker started to fall apart. though that brings up an interesting question - how were the crew accessing diaries if the database was inaccessible because of the upload?
i don't know if they 'needed' to be there - but eli isn't the most active person, so he was better monitoring in case of problems. camile and chloe had a clear interest in the culture, and many of the boxes were likely very heavy - so it was better to leave the job to people better suited for heavy lifting. also, too many people working at the boxes wouldn't have helped anyway, so the spares brought down could hang around in the database room. and park was checking out all the features, so she could add to dramatic effect with her geographical survey panic
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A bigger question would be:
Why didn't they upload the important stuff FIRST? Medical, Technical, Scientific knowledge. I'm sure there was plenty of random personal logs of the "other Destiny" crew, as well as their descendants logs in the 1/3rd of the database that they got.
Would've been smarter to prioritize USEFUL information (as Rush surely would've suggested had he been in the archive-room).
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rush disregarded the entire database actually - he thought it more important to see what physically useful stuff existed, rather than what would advance earth if they ever got back. in his view, at the time - none of the information was strictly 'useful' because none of it would help the mission of getting to the source of the signal.
we don't actually know how they sorted the upload - since they were reading diaries while uploading, it's possible they didn't upload those at all - if they had, they could have done their reading later.
for the rest of the stuff... there's 2000 years of info there. you've suddenly a similar problem to atlantis when they were preparing for the siege at the end of S1 - how do you prioritise medical work, power supply developments, space programmes, whatever else they've got there? do you say that only work published in the last 200 years is useful? the amount that could easily be lost by prioritising one over everything else is immense - and, at the time, technical info was probably more interesting than medicine, considering they didn't know till near the end that medicine had come so far.
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Eli only said that in order to speed up the Transfer he needed to compress the files into one huge upload. It could be that there was not enough space for a compressed copy of the files and therefore the originals where deleted in the process.
Still, they could have easily made a Search all together to find the Data and save it on a module like they used to watch the kino footage and then reset the Upload, but that would have been way to easy and would have made the discovery pointless.
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Originally posted by Keeper View Postby the time they realised they didn't have enough time to get everything, it was already too late. eli actually mentioned they'd have to stop the download, then the bunker started to fall apart. though that brings up an interesting question - how were the crew accessing diaries if the database was inaccessible because of the upload?
Why didn't they upload the important stuff FIRST? Medical, Technical, Scientific knowledge. I'm sure there was plenty of random personal logs of the "other Destiny" crew, as well as their descendants logs in the 1/3rd of the database that they got.
Would've been smarter to prioritize USEFUL information (as Rush surely would've suggested had he been in the archive-room).
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Originally posted by Keeper View Postrush disregarded the entire database actually - he thought it more important to see what physically useful stuff existed, rather than what would advance earth if they ever got back. in his view, at the time - none of the information was strictly 'useful' because none of it would help the mission of getting to the source of the signal.
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It was better to get as much of the Database to Destiny as was possible that way they had the best chance to get what they need. There was no guarantee they would find it in a search.sigpic
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Originally posted by Keeper View Postby the time they realised they didn't have enough time to get everything, it was already too late. eli actually mentioned they'd have to stop the download, then the bunker started to fall apart. though that brings up an interesting question - how were the crew accessing diaries if the database was inaccessible because of the upload?sigpic
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