



Serious question here. How are none of the characters pregnant or have STDs? Did they find condoms that were still good after a hundred years and being soaked in radiation? Did the Ark give all the women IUDs or something (and if so how did Octavia happen)? Has Clarke secretly been treating people's STDs in her spare time?

insanityclings asked:Serious question here. How are none of the characters pregnant or have STDs? Did they find condoms that were still good after a hundred years and being soaked in radiation? Did the Ark give all the women IUDs or something (and if so how did Octavia happen)? Has Clarke secretly been treating people's STDs in her spare time?

We joke about this in the room sometimes, but the fact is, that a highly isolated population like the Ark is very likely able to eradicate most communicable diseases and keep them at bay. And as we’ve previously answered, all women on the Ark were required to have birth control implanted at puberty to control population. Those IUDs are likely good for 5-10 years (or more). This is the future after all…

We also speculate that residents of the Ark have received treatments to prevent allergies, which allows them the ability to adapt on the ground without suffering any allergy attacks.

Also, even though you didn’t ask, others have, and all of the Ark residents are the same blood type, Type O (the universal donor blood type). This is fairly easy for them to engineer genetically (and many technologies are being developed today to make blood typing irrelevant for blood donation / transfusion).

This would be why Jasper could easily filter Maya’s blood through his system without any issues…