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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 2968721" data-attributes="member: 9410">One thing that was brought up in one of the trailers, that the arguers, here, have so far ignored, is that, if you see a nuke going off, and can't (for the time being, anyway) contact the outside world, then you have to assume that the US is under attack, either from an enemy country, or terrorists.  As one of the guys in Jericho points out, "We may not want whoever is out there to know that we're still here!"So, you can send out scouts, but any scouts captured by the mysterious "Enemy" can be tortured into leading them right back to you...  That would certainly cause some dissension among the folks debating whether or not to send out a search team.Eventually, someone would have to go.  Initially, however, they might prefer to try the radio, internet, and other means of information gathering.There are also the dead birds.  What killed them?  Concussion?  Radiation?  Jericho probably doesn't stock Potassium Iodide, so the explorers have no protection from radioactive particles in the air, falling on their food & into their water, etc.  They can rig some protective wraps out of materials on hand, but do you want to go out under those conditions?  Especially with all the stuff going on "at home"?I don't know.  I don't see going off into the probbly-radioactive wasteland as the best idea, as compared with sitting where we think we're safe, calming things down, and listening to the radio...  YMMV.  Again, eventually, they'll have to do that, but certainly not in the opening episode!</blockquote>

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