I know the Jerlamarel guy left the simpler books on top, still how does a child link each letter and syllable to their phonemes just by looking at pictures?
Before I entered 1st grade, my mom did not know anything about phonetics. She learned to read by associating the word how it was pronounced.
If I was going to leave someone with books and leave it to them to figure out how to read I'd do the following:
I'd first copy the easy books, verbatim, in the string language. The kids could then learn what the abc type books said. I'd maybe even write (tie) phonetics lessons that teach what the letters sound like.
That is how children are taught how to pronounce letters or letter combos. Ph makes a f sound like in phone and etc.
I'm not saying it would be easy, but kids are good at learning new and difficult lessons that adults find difficult. Leave a 5 year old with an iPad and they will pretty much figure out how to use 90% of the features on their own.
Um, one sighted person could not build that bridge across that river. It would take many, working together on both sides.
It wouldn't neccesarily take many people. Jaramarel could have built all the slats and wove them together off site. Then when the winter was up, built the two end points and strung the bridge. He had six uninterrupted months to do this. If he planned this before the pregnancy, he would have had much longer than six months.
I will conceded one thing though, that bridge look pretty aged.
Apparently the blind with such heightened awareness of sound, couldn't hear anyone building that bridge that would have taken weeks, and then maintaining it, as bridges made of ropes and wood generally need to be replaced every year or 2 because the weather would ruin the ropes and destroy the wood.
Remember after the wall fell, they realized that the bulk of the army hid themselves by sticking to the noisy river? Now, combine the sound of the water fall going through the gourge, with the fact they the tribe was terrified to go any where near there because they thought it was certain death to go past the sound line they made.
... and then maintaining it, as bridges made of ropes and wood generally need to be replaced every year or 2 because the weather would ruin the ropes and destroy the wood.
Again, there is no reason to believe that the bridge was there any longer than six months.
Also, no way the blind could build a wall of boulders on a side of a cliff, that they could use to mow down their enemy.
10 generations, which is at least what we are talking about, is 400 years. It is not impossible that the blind couldn't construct a boulder wall. Sighted people built the pyramids. We all need to stop limiting ourselves based on what we think is possible.
Neccessity is the mother of invention. Not having defenses is an existential crisis; and again, they've had at least 400 years to build that thing.
They also weren't always making noises when they were fighting. Swinging weapons all over the place, they would be likely to kill their own people. How did the guy know that when he threw the rope up over the cliff that he would put it around the rope of his enemy and not over his own people?
If you train long enough, you learn to anticipate your teams actions. If you know that there is a person who is responsible for charging in, and that person knows that there is a person responsible for throwing a projectile weapons, they may have trained to give each other a certain amount of time before the weapon is thrown. The charging person would know they need to duck down after that time frame is allotted.
Of course though, there is always friendly fire. It happens even now a days and we have the most advanced weaponry in human history.
If blind humans over the past 200,000 years could not develop such abilities, they surely would not over a short amount of time. This show defies all logic, and if there is not even the slightest possibility of this occurring, then it's not even science fiction, it's a farce.
Natural selection says that being blind is a handicap to being sighted. So those who are born blind, must adapt to a sighted world. Ultimately, our world goes out of our way to give the blind a better quality of life by requiring business and governments to provide special services that allow them to compete on a somewhat level plane as their sighted competitors.
But when the whole world is blind, natural selection says that the blind who have better hearing and better olfactory and tactile abilities are going to do a much better job with passing on their progeny because they are more likely to survive until sexual maturity.
This show defies all logic, and if there is not even the slightest possibility of this occurring, then it's not even science fiction, it's a farce.
I think your are trying to make this show sound silly by using anecdotal examples to diss the show. Maybe I'm wrong, if so sorry.
No one who could see was left after the virus but shouldn’t those people’s progeny be able to see nevertheless? I mean, one can be infected by a virus or bacteria that leaves them blind, or become blind due to other illnesses such as glaucoma or diabetes yet that is not passed on to their children.
I think it is kinda following the same idea as the episode from Star Trek DS9 called
The Quickening.
The diesease is passed from mother to child. Eventually, there is a mutation in the fetus that gives them an immunity to the disease. Either the mutation is in the retina and it allows vision again, or the mutation is in the immune system and it allows them to become immune/inoculated from the virus/bacteria.
Or it could be that the virus is still around and the fetus loses its sight as it develops because the virus is passed from the environment to the mother to the fetus.
A world full of blind people would never exist. They would not survive. Period. It would be the extinction of humans. Humans almost became extinct 75,000 years ago when super volcano Toba erupted and caused most humans to die of starvation. It is estimated only about 10,000 humans survived in parts of Africa. We were that close to not existing and thus no future. Only the strongest and fittest survive, not blind people running around trying to figure out how to survive. The storyline of this show would never occur. Nature would never allow it. It consumes the weak, to make room for the fittest. It's called evolution.
The main threat to life was lack of food, not an illness that killed almost all human life.
It is true that survival of the fittest is in play; but if everyone is blind, the survival of the fittest would mean the people with the best genes to adapt to a blind world would create children.
And we aren't talking about 10,000 people we are talking about millions more than likely. Current population is at ~8 billion. Even if only 1% of people survive, we are left with 80 million survivors.
Also, there are plenty of animals that have poor eye sight, but better senses in other areas that have extraordinary abilities that we find amazing.
I'm not arguing that there is enough time for any type of evolution, but I am arguing that there has been enough time that people with better smell, sight, taste, and touch have begun to emerge; and that they would have the ability to compensate for the loss of sight.
