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hollylolly posted:What was the space race thing Miller walked in on a few episodes ago when he was trying to track down the data broker? It wasn't explained other than ...well it was a race or something and apparently super dangerous. It was something that appears in the 2nd or 3rd book. Not sure why they threw it in there.
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hollylolly posted:What was the space race thing Miller walked in on a few episodes ago when he was trying to track down the data broker? It wasn't explained other than ...well it was a race or something and apparently super dangerous. If I recall correctly, it's an underground Belter thing involving slapping together a tiny, minimally functional ship, doing one big thrust, and then flying on a ballistic trajectory through whatever impressively dangerous path the pilot has picked with nothing but maybe RCS thrusters for steering. withak posted:It was something that appears in the 2nd or 3rd book. Not sure why they threw it in there. Same reason other things are being brought forward: to establish them as part of the setting and flesh out the world in the process.
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Thanks for the explanation. Sorry if it was a dumb question. 
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withak posted:It was something that appears in the 2nd or 3rd book. Not sure why they threw it in there. Basically the opening scene of book 3
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Toast Museum posted:If I recall correctly, it's an underground Belter thing involving slapping together a tiny, minimally functional ship, doing one big thrust, and then flying on a ballistic trajectory through whatever impressively dangerous path the pilot has picked with nothing but maybe RCS thrusters for steering. It was using the gravity slingshot trick to try to break speed records.
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Feb 1, 2016 23:17
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promo for the expanse season finale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-RdwHgdUlU julie's definitely looking closer to how i imagined her in the books there 
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Feb 2, 2016 01:33
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I wish they wouldn't fall back so much on lighting/color correcting the whole scene in blue or purple.
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Well that there is something I didn't really see coming  e: someone said earlier your flat-footed reaction would be , well you were right
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Milky Moor posted:promo for the expanse season finale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-RdwHgdUlU Awesome darnon posted:I wish they wouldn't fall back so much on lighting/color correcting the whole scene in blue or purple. At least its not blue and orange like all of Hollywood.
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darnon posted:I wish they wouldn't fall back so much on lighting/color correcting the whole scene in blue or purple. It's not as bad as The Shannara Chronicles. Everything is over-saturated in this series. It's really bad.
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Feb 2, 2016 04:41
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Hakkesshu posted:It was pretty self-explanatory. It really wasn't.
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It's been a while since I read that book and I didn't remember that book scene at all but the screens full of people in ships, 3d map of space with courses plotted through it, obvious setting of a crime den with a bookie kingpin in it laid out pretty well what was going on even if it didnt delve into the specific rules of the contest (s)
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Yeah I knew they were betting on the outcome/survival of the pilots but I didn't know exactly where they were going or whatever. Flying as fast as they can through unsafe areas of space in rickety ships sums it up good enough I guess.
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No area of space is safe.
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Feb 2, 2016 10:19
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Not when people are flying around like that it isn't. Fuckin belter drivers 
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This is a safe space
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hollylolly posted:Yeah I knew they were betting on the outcome/survival of the pilots but I didn't know exactly where they were going or whatever. Flying as fast as they can through unsafe areas of space in rickety ships sums it up good enough I guess. The idea is that they do one giant burn at the beginning, and try to gravity slingshot through a pre-planned course. More glory for harder courses.
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Tiggum posted:It really wasn't. they outright said what was going on in the scene, I'm not seeing the issue
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xsf421 posted:The idea is that they do one giant burn at the beginning, and try to gravity slingshot through a pre-planned course. More glory for harder courses. But can they make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs?
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Hakkesshu posted:they outright said what was going on in the scene, I'm not seeing the issue Yeah this. I will say i wound up turning captioning on after about 5 minutes because sometimes the dialog is hard to follow, but they completely spell out what that guy was doing.
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If you're not familiar with what 'slingshot' means in reference to space travel I could see that scene being very confusing but the rest is pretty easy to pick out from context.
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Gravity slingshotting also got John Crichton into wacky alien adventures! 
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Tortolia posted:Gravity slingshotting also got John Crichton into wacky alien adventures! also sexy adventures
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Gravity Slingshots are awesome in Universe Sandbox 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz3iklObSzM&t=610s
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Rocksicles posted:Gravity Slingshots are awesome in Universe Sandbox 2. Also Kerbal Space Program
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For a comprehensive explanation of how gravity assists work you should watch the Martian, wherein Childish Gambino explains the concept to the Director of NASA.
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GODDAMMIT THE TELESCOPE IN THAT OFFICE WAS BACKWARDS
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I love how disgusting and dirty they're making Miller, and how he's just rolling with it. Miller is awesome.
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"I'm just gonna put this below." 
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Feb 3, 2016 05:42
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That was a very awkward place to end the season.
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Really don't understand why they left the cliffhanger there. I didn't even finish the book, but to not even really show what was happening to everyone was a huge mistake.
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I liked the show better than the book but they completely dropped the ball on the finale. Book readers are going to be okay but if I was just watching the show, I'd be pretty disappointed by what has been a pretty show. The commercials were also the worst and basically put me off the entire thing.
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Never read the books and I loved the finale Im really glad the show at least has introduced a somewhat fantastical element because as much as I love hard scifi I cant imagine the politics carrying this show alone.
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Yeah, I don't know whether it was a good decision or not to change vomit zombies to just people still semi-conscious and reaching for help. It had good points, lots of good independent points, but overall it felt like the weakest part of the season. I loved seeing Julie's POV, but the rest of the first half didn't feel like anything happened. Just didn't have the impact I was looking forward to as a cliffhanger ending. As usual, though, Miller killed it, it was great seeing Holden actually proactive about things, and when it comes to kids, Amos doesn't need to look to Naomi to know what the good thing to do is. Miller and Holden's chemistry was actually really good, so I can't wait to see how that continues next season.
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I haven't read the books so I gotta know, is this going to turn into Walking Dead in space?
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Mons Hubris posted:I haven't read the books so I gotta know, is this going to turn into Walking Dead in space? Nah.
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Ok cool thanks
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KatWithHands posted:Yeah, I don't know whether it was a good decision or not to change vomit zombies to just people still semi-conscious and reaching for help. It had good points, lots of good independent points, but overall it felt like the weakest part of the season. I heard that the authors don't like that they came across as 'vomit zombies' and wanted to make the change to them just being really sick people.
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Milky Moor posted:I heard that the authors don't like that they came across as 'vomit zombies' and wanted to make the change to them just being really sick people. Oh, well, there you go. That's fair enough!
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Milky Moor posted:I heard that the authors don't like that they came across as 'vomit zombies' and wanted to make the change to them just being really sick people. But that's literally the name the book gives them.
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