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Originally Posted by DudeImBetter
So theoretically when 2% got raptured, wouldn't there be millions of preggo women who'd be taken leaving behind a fetus? Someone lost a fetus in the show so I assume it can work both ways, right?
That's a good point.
According to this site, there were more than 130 Million new births in 2011, or 360k births per day. A pregnancy normally takes 40 weeks, so there are 40x7x360k = 100,800,000 ~ 100 million pregnant women on earth every day.
That means that on October 14th about 2 million pregnant women should have departed, as well as 2 million fetuses, where about 40000 women should have departed together with their fetuses.
Of course some fetuses will have departed without their mothers being already aware of their pregnancy. And some pregnant women would depart so early in their pregnancy that they would just leave small chunks of cells behind. And maybe separate departures were only possible after the first month or so.
Still there should be well over a million known cases of departed fetuses worldwide, and departed pregnant women leaving their fetuses behind, respectively. In the US alone the number should be more than 50k. Definitely big enough numbers that they would make a larger deal about it, but in the show we only learned about the departure of Laurie's fetus.
I think this is also relevant because if that happened according to the numbers it kinda debunks the radiation theory imo, especially if women departed without their fetuses.
Was this mentioned in the book?
edit: Just googled a bit and apparently a seminar on fetus departure was advertised on the conference Nora attended.
Last edited by Morphismus; 05-16-2017 at 04:10 PM.