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Probably Unanswerable Questions

Smell; captaincy; Roy’s deference and qualifications; sanitation; later diet

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  • Questions about breath, gangrene and the fuselage's smell lead to dark jokes about isolating the dying patient; these are reactions to the film, not survival advice.
  • Questions revisit cigarettes and cooking, ask whether Nando should always have been captain, and question Roy's deferential relationship to Antonio; possible crash-related impairment is speculation.
  • A proposed snow-rugby diversion runs into the reported use of rugby balls as urine containers; sanitation, outdoor defecation and the fuselage smell remain unresolved.
  • Roy being trusted with aircraft radio repair because he installed a stereo seems tenuous, though complex older audio wiring supplies a partial defense.
  • Questions ask how survivors' diets changed afterward, including possible aversion to red meat; vegetarianism, cereals and other choices remain imagined.