History Headscratchers / Old

* Why is TimePassageBeard averted? Wouldn't they have overgrown their hair and nails, lose their baby teeth, et cetera if they kept aging?

* If they needed test subjects, why not go the [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP route]] and use condemned prisoners with medical conditions, or other people that wouldn't be missed? Every tourist they send to the beach is another person with family and connections that could come looking for them - why risk sending all these unrelated people there when they could just send a few people with the exact medical conditions they need to test with instructions to keep taking the medicine so they can test it properly? Even just telling prisoners "Take this, go stay on that beach for an hour, then swim back through the coral so we can evaluate you." would give them loads of helpful data they could use in their studies. No need to leave anyone there.

* How are Crystal's bones breaking, healing, and re-breaking in only a couple seconds? Broken bones take between six and ''twenty'' weeks to heal. Even accounting for RapidAging, it would still take a couple minutes for the bones to set in a given position, yet her flailing death is over in about thirty seconds.

* It's stated that hair doesn't grow on the island due to it being dead, but Trent grows armpit hair and a 5 o'clock shadow.

*** But if the government and it's officials aren't compliant in this, wouldn't this create another can of worms in that without the government to help them it would be much ore difficilty to cover up the tracks of the missing people, since these misterious disappearances would sooner or later reach the president and other powerful members of the government? Sure, they might be a powerful pharma company but i'm pretty sure even Nestle would struggle with deleting the tracks to an entire family suddenly going missing every week in a establishment if they just had their money, the hotel and possibly the local police working for them.

** It's never stated outright that he knows about either. He doesn't say that the coral is an escape route, only that his uncle doesn't like it.

*** except this is 2021. People tell others when they’re going on vacation and even put it on the Internet. No way could they remove all traces of the doomed guests from the resort.

* How does the six year old nephew not only know about the top secret beach tests, but know the only way to escape is thru the coral?

** Second best guess: Drones and remote controlled rovers are used to quickly clean the beach of as much large non-organic trash as possible. Obviously, they can't get everything which is why all the small stuff the kids found were in the back, but big stuff like the food containers. Probably one of Jeff Bezos' side projects.

** He had probably snuck into the lab a lot. The manager might be scolding him for being around tourists because he suspects this. The nephew must have overheard everything, especially of how wary the manager is when talking about the corals.

** He had probably snuck into the lab a lot. The manager might be scolding him for being around tourists because he suspects this. The nephew must have overheard everything, especially of how wary the manager is when talking about the corals.
* How did Charles manage to kill Mid-Sized Sedan in spite of the beach's HealingFactor (which protects Guy and Prisca when Charles later attacks them)?

** He had probably snuck into the lab a lot. The manager might be scolding him for being around tourists because he suspects this. The nephew must have overheard everything, especially of how wary the manager is when talking about the corals.

** He had probably snuck in the lab a lot. The manager, whether he knows it or not, might be scolding him for being around tourists because he's worried he will get close. He must have overheard everything.

* How does the six year old nephew not only know about the top secret beach tests, but know the only way to escape is thru the coral?

** For one it ruins the plot. Two the government probably isn't compliant in this. The group might be privately owned. Three they might be worried they'll lose all rights to it if the government found it.

* If they needed test subjects, why not go the [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP route]] and use condemned prisoners with medical conditions, or other people that wouldn't be missed? Every tourist they send to the beach is another person with family and connections that could come looking for them - why risk sending all these unrelated people there when they could just send a few people with the exact medical conditions they need to test with instructions to keep taking the medicine so they can test it properly? Even just telling prisoners "Take this, go stay on that beach for an hour, then swim back through the coral so we can evaluate you." would give them loads of helpful data they could use in their studies. No need to leave anyone there.

** Best guess: Someone swims through the coral to clean up after the last group as quickly as possible; the extra items are missed due to the limited time. Alternatively, the aging effects of the beach only "activate" when you pass through the canyon (or swim ashore from the ocean), so passing through the coral is safe going both ways.

* The scientists can't safely get to the beach which is why the "trial groups" are observed at a distance. Within a day or so, all the bodies have decomposed and disintegrated, which is why there are items left at the back of the beach from earlier victims. But where are the other stuff earlier groups brought? Even if we were to assume that blankets and clothes decompose, that does NOT hold true for plastic food containers which are NOT biodegradable. Are we supposed to believe "trial 73" was the first group to bring one?

* How exactly could [[spoiler: the company get away with all this?]] According to that one character, this is [[spoiler: "Trial 73" which means at the least, a hundred people have gone missing without a trace at this resort.]] Surely, so many people lost to this beach would have gotten some attention from the authorities with family members reporting their vanishing and the common thread of them all visiting this place so how [[spoiler: could the company keep so many deaths so secret for so long?]]
** [[spoiler: Even if there was suspicion, if the company could cover up their own existence and remove all proof of the people who have gone to the secluded beach, then most likely the amount of people going missing would just be deemed a mystery.]]
*** Except the timeline makes this impossible. [[spoiler: Most people die within a day or two and the company is clearly in a rush to develop their drugs. Meaning that at most there is a week or two between each test. Even if we assume each test only has 5 people in it that means in less than 2 years over 350 people all disappeared from the same resort; SOMEONE would have noticed]]
*** Speaking about the timeline... How are [[spoiler: the tests supposed to work if they can't study the inner effects on people's organs and stuff? The Scientists can't get to the beach, and organs disappear in less than a day. How can they tell if the medicine worked or was it what killed the patients? They have no control group, no way to measure the non-visible effects and no way of knowing if their test group develops OTHER illnesses in their time on the beach! The whole thing makes no sense at all.]]
*** [[spoiler:They could just be a group of sickos and it's all just a elaborate snuff show and all the helping humanity stuff is just something they tell themselves.]]

* If the group is aging so quickly, wouldn't they have died of hunger early on? The [[spoiler: infant dies in a minute]] without proper nutrition. Surely, if they're all aging years in hours, their bodies should have given out without proper food.

* The ending makes no sense. [[spoiler: The hotel has figured out how to accelerate aging and is engaged in a massive conspiracy to trick people into becoming their test subjects. There is a massive organization designed to make all this happen. And yet... they are taken down by a single cop? They never thought to have security? Back up plans? Failsafes?]]
** While much of the point is still right, it should be noted that [[spoiler: the scientists had nothing to do with the beach's effects and are simply using it]].

* [[spoiler: The pharmaceutical company]] goes to great lengths to make people disappear, but wouldn't Prisca's boyfriend have blown the whole deal? Like, it's implied she was texting with him during the trip; wouldn't he have been suspicious if she just up and disappeared?

*** They could just be a group of sickos and it's all just a elaborate snuff show and all the finding the cure stuff is just something they tell themselves.