Why bother? He’s got Barnes now. 
I foresee TJ getting frozen.
Eli’s sweet, being so sure that he can help find a cure
if it’s only the one school, why is it called “elementary”?
Wow, Camille has good genes!
I guess that just goes to show you: Lesbians will outlive everyone. 
I guess not having to put up with men increases lifespan. 
among other lovely attributes.
“our mission is and always will be, the journey itself” nice to know founding their own new civilization wasn’t seen as a failure in the end
Possibly.
Well, his confidence matches his abilities.
It’s made of elements, isn’t it? :rolleyes:
The ship looks like a mini-destiny!
This might have been an ok finale.
True. But he’s also a good guy. Think of Rush in a similar situation? Ew.
Camile was the last survivor? That doesn’t quite ring true to me.
Oh, and anyone else think of Mass Effect when the elevator music kicked in?
I did actually. d:
A few ideas on this that sort of percolated overnight.
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It probably took a few hundred of those years just to build their tech base to what we have now, since they started with pretty much nothing.
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How much nuclear physics did you learn in elementary school? The books Eli wrote probably had a lot of the fundamental stuff that we already know in them.
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Maybe the original versions of the textbooks were written by Eli, but were later revised by other people.
3B) Alternately, maybe they wanted to keep the original books to honor Eli, but have supplemental textbooks that contain things they’ve learned since then and students have both.