Post by alpha128 on May 1, 2019 11:22:39 GMT
Yes, it was established that after millennia of breeding the survivors became mutants. However Kolp and those of his generation were born before the bombs fell, and can be realistically expected to experience the same radiation health effects as anyone else:
There have been studies that kept track of large numbers of people who were exposed to radiation, including atomic bomb survivors and radiation industry workers. These studies show that radiation exposure increases the chance of getting cancer, and the risk increases as the dose increases: the higher the dose, the greater the risk.
How high was Kolp's dose? In Battle there is this dialogue:
VIRGIL: We are at best brave and at worst mad to be here. This background radiation alone will give us three hundred roentgens an hour.
CAESAR: Meaning?
VIRGIL: That if we're not out of here within two hours, we shall become... inmates.
pota.goatley.com/scripts/pota_battlerev.pdf
CAESAR: Meaning?
VIRGIL: That if we're not out of here within two hours, we shall become... inmates.
pota.goatley.com/scripts/pota_battlerev.pdf
300 roentgens = 263,100 millirems per hour.
In 1957, the occupational limit was lowered to a maximum of 5,000 millirems per year.
According to studies made after the atomic bomb explosions in 1945 at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, half of the people died whose entire bodies were exposed to 450,000 millirems of radiation from the atomic bomb. All persons died whose bodies were exposed to 600,000 millirems of radiation.
news.mit.edu/1994/safe-0105
According to studies made after the atomic bomb explosions in 1945 at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, half of the people died whose entire bodies were exposed to 450,000 millirems of radiation from the atomic bomb. All persons died whose bodies were exposed to 600,000 millirems of radiation.
news.mit.edu/1994/safe-0105
If Battle takes place in the early 2000s, then Kolp was lucky to alive. But I think it's safe to say he would have died from cancer before he lived another twenty or so years.
FYI, the novelization for Battle states the Ape City was founded nine years prior to the events of the film. I think nine years is plenty of time to construct the city we see in the movie. So I find the Goatley timeline, which sets Battle in 2001, a more plausible scenario.
Thank you for sharing!