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Jennifer Mcpeak asked this question about Cloud Cuckoo Land:
Did we ever find out if all of the passengers on the Argos died from the mystery illness, or were they evacuated? Was the whole experiment just abandoned? What the heck happened once Konstance got out? I listened to this as an audiobook and wonder if I somehow missed that. If that part of the tale was just skipped over, it feels like a rather enormous hole in the story. If you know the answers, do tell!
Emily Clement Or maybe it was abandoned! We know Konstance somehow gets from the island to Qaanaaq. But it's a tiny village, and we know nothing about the rest of t…moreOr maybe it was abandoned! We know Konstance somehow gets from the island to Qaanaaq. But it's a tiny village, and we know nothing about the rest of the world, except that it had suffered severe drought. There's a lot to suppose. I suppose that civilization suffered something of an apocalyptic setback, given the climate conditions, and Ilium probably did too, if it remained at all, in any form.

Maybe people were living in clustered villages and tribes, without the "benefit" of the massively tangled interweb we have now.

Hence, yes...the Argos project was probably forgotten, there being no one to tend to it. There is a statement that it was sort of a prototype experiment, to see whether people would manage in an interstellar scenario. Kind of like those "biodome" experiments of the 70s and 80s.

There is a sort of Truman Show aspect to that, although Truman was monitored. (less)
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