All gonna die
Sep. 12th, 2012 12:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunsen_hI'm about half way through John Scalzi's Redshirts (one of my recurring filk themes!) and it has just occurred to me that
given the constraints of time travel as described — in six days all atoms brought through time will de-rezz, and they don't have a lot of cargo capacity — a sure way of taking the show off the air would be a virulent infection such as the one they've already dealt with. If the original virus's atoms disappear, that won't affect all of the copies. Merely killing a couple of the show's actors might be written around.
given the constraints of time travel as described — in six days all atoms brought through time will de-rezz, and they don't have a lot of cargo capacity — a sure way of taking the show off the air would be a virulent infection such as the one they've already dealt with. If the original virus's atoms disappear, that won't affect all of the copies. Merely killing a couple of the show's actors might be written around.
