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Professor Shark posted:I read the spoilers and I'm sort of disappointed now
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Bert Roberge posted:The real BSG stuff doesn't start until later books when you get to see 1 character having mysterious hallucinations
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Baloogan posted:_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ Well, it ain't hard, but hardish enough. But better than magic. The zombies and planet into spaceship is nanotech stuff, tho. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Nov 25, 2015 |
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GigaPeon posted:It seems like nanotech is the current way to explain magic in "hard" sci-fi. I remember reading an old Iron Man comic from the 60's and every time the suit did something crazy, he'd explain it with
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I'm still reading Cibola Burn (on a very slow burn for unrelated reasons), did I miss this or is it coming up?
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GigaPeon posted:You can't tell me that moving corpses filled with an infectious proto-virus that spreads it through contact and are labeled zombies by the characters aren't a kind of zombie. That's like textbook definition.
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Nov 25, 2015 20:37
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The lighting looked like it was filmed underwater in places.
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Nov 26, 2015 16:14
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At least they had the courtesy of showing thrusters doing stuff during that sequence.
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Nov 26, 2015 17:10
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Just rewatching the episode. The HUD in the shuttle days delta-v of 0.02-0.06km/h in the various cuts to it, but the distance counts down faster than a meter per second. Hard scifi my rear end! 
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Nov 26, 2015 18:26
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Should they ever get to turning Cibola Burns into a season, I hope they cut the first half of the book down. Hard. Like don't even think about making an episode.
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GigaPeon posted:Nuts to you. I want an entire season dedicated to interplantary real estate law. Way more interesting than poison worms a green eye goo.
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Hyperion is being worked on. What about Rama? I thought that's still stuck in development hell?
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With the Expanse, the book writers are on the TV writing team, so they can keep dumb ideas in check. Is that going to be the same with the Mars books?
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Well, I'm not sad they're going to handle it that way. Means more episodes to cover the story. If they renew, anyway.
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That's because space combat with ballistic missiles would actually be underwhelming. You think that if they go out of their way with accurate zero-G physics (as much as can be emulated on a TV budget), they'd do spectacular Michael Bay ship to ship combat?
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CowboyKid posted:Amos looks like Turtle. It sucks.
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Not sure about That-Dude playing Jules-Pierre Mao, tho. Whenever I see him, I keep expecting a cheap joke and a dumb smirk.
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Lord Hydronium posted:The Roci.
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BexGu posted:Most the ships that have been showed so far have been absolutely HUGE. That ship they got into is basically the smallest you can get and still have a Epstein Drive with a normal crew of around 10.
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Professor Shark posted:Expanse: No FTL (countdown until distance/time goes GoT and stops being consistent?), Gravity works "whenever"/ "however" The accepted mode of flight in the series universe is to continuously accelerate with 1G towards your destination, and spin the ship around 180° and decelerate with 1G. Whenever a ship is accelerating or decelerating, there's gravity. At any other point, there's not. It's pretty drat realistic, with the exception of the Epstein drive. The Revelation Space series handled it the same, and it is considered hard scifi.
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Woden posted:No kidding, the ice tankers are hilariously over engineered for their job and probably weigh more than the ice they haul.
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As long they skip that religious trek on the ice planet.
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gohmak posted:You tripping. Quaiche and the moving Cathedrals are the poo poo.
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I guess the big test will be how they're going to visualize Julie Mao in the bathtub on Eros. --edit: (Book/Season 1 spoiler.) --edit2: Then again, speculation on a spoiler kind of implies that. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Dec 25, 2015 |
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Rocksicles posted:Again with the book spoilers...
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emanresu tnuocca posted:Uhm, I assume you're kidding but in case you're not the common wisdom is that before the events actually air it's considered a spoiler. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Dec 25, 2015 |
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Is it the 5th yet?
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Like on cue.
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You dumb assholes just lost your right to complain about CowboyKid.
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Season 2 is scheduled to air in 2017. This'll be an excruciating wait.
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I think Holden looking weirded out, when the self-patching suit does its thing, sets the general idea of the unknown party's tech vs. what the rest has, and how unexpected it is.
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The first few episodes were aired over Christmas time, too. Maybe that contributes to the ratings. Then again, it's mostly nerds that tune into Syfy. On the other hand, who knows how their past content scheme hosed over the viewer demographic and drove away said nerds.
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Vodos posted:I'm not that far into the books yet, but I think they're screwing this up. I watched the first 4 episodes, liked the setting but some stuff didn't make sense to me, so I grabbed the first book to compare and I really don't understand what the hell the tv people are doing.
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Oh I was wondering about that. I like that they're trying to be as hard as they can on the science. On the same note, I can see plenty of folks frequently go "Hurrr durrr durrr that's silly!" and being put them off for no reason.
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Grand Fromage posted:And there are coatings to absorb radar/laser detection that are in the "just accept it" tech category like the Epstein drive.
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I think it was the Revelation Space series that tried to explain it away with a subsurface cooling system and central heat storage? Or was it in The Expanse, too? My memory's kinda flaky.
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Episode was sweet. Reading the book, I had more decomposition, fluids and tubey things in my mind. The episode was still grosser than anticipated, tho. Also, I was on the edge of my seat, because I expected a no-show cliffhanger.
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Zaphod42 posted:The stealth tech could have just been stolen from Mars, but that ship that blew up Donnager... at the very least somebody with a ton of money stole mars' designs and implemented them at even greater scale. But possibly independent development which means even more required infrastructure.
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If the season ends where everyone hints at, and the season 2 date is true, you'll be waiting a long time.  --edit: Actually, pisses me off already that it continues in 2017. What are the ratings like meanwhile, anyway? Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Jan 28, 2016 |
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