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maybe.... they let the south america nuke get through to silence political enemies? open your eyes, sheeple
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Arcsquad12 posted:Protomolecule Alex as a god sized spaceman would be wonderful, yes. The protomolecule changes the rules of physics again and a titanic "YA'LL" is heard throughout the solar system.
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May 21, 2018 04:48
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pretty sure the missiles can only hit whichever part of the earth is facing them when they're about to... well, hit doubt they were ever meant to be pinpoint accurate.
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May 21, 2018 04:52
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I mean, we haven’t resolved exactly what stopped that last railgun shot as far as we know. #justaskingquestions #avasarala2320
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May 21, 2018 04:54
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Wasn't it "having to re-calibrate because we were going to shoot earlier but then didn't"?
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May 21, 2018 04:59
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logikv9 posted:maybe.... they let the south america nuke get through to silence political enemies? open your eyes, sheeple Doctor Reynolds posted:Wasn't it "having to re-calibrate because we were going to shoot earlier but then didn't"? cycling doesn't misfire railguns goias maior was an inside job!
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May 21, 2018 05:03
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Protomolecule can't mutate steel beams.
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May 21, 2018 05:07
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New statement from Alcon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7gd8LrLHWE&t=2271s In summary: no promises, lots of moving parts, currently working through multiple scenarios, keep making noise.
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May 21, 2018 06:04
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Joe Mantis posted:In summary: no promises, lots of moving parts, currently working through multiple scenarios, keep making noise. I'll be absolutely thrilled if another season is confirmed but all this meaningless noise doesn't seem actually hopeful to me at this point.
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May 21, 2018 06:16
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I would prefer if the show wasn't cancelled, but admittedly I did just start watching like a week ago so it's hard to feel the sting. My Farscape wound still hasn't healed all these years later!
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Doctor Reynolds posted:I would prefer if the show wasn't cancelled, but admittedly I did just start watching like a week ago so it's hard to feel the sting. My Farscape wound still hasn't healed all these years later! I'd be shocked if the cancellation hasn't been actively good for their viewership in the short term at least. I've known about the expanse for a couple of years, and even been interested in watching it after catching a scene on youtube at one point, but I doubt I'd have ever bothered to hunt it down if I hadn't seen all the talk about it as a result of the cancellation.
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logikv9 posted:maybe.... they let the south america nuke get through to silence political enemies? open your eyes, sheeple Taintrunner posted:I mean, we haven’t resolved exactly what stopped that last railgun shot as far as we know. #justaskingquestions #avasarala2320 Honestly when it first happened, the way Errinwright and Anna were acting, my first reaction was to think that Errinwright orchestrated the whole thing specifically to hit where Anna's family was, so she'd be so devastated and blame the secretary general and leave, getting out of his way. Later I realized he couldn't have possibly planned out that much, and she was just looking at the screen in horror because she's a good person, not because her family specifically was in the blast. I still think it's possible he organized the delay to make the SG look bad though, it made everything play into his hands. Probably not, but possible.
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I don't understand why they didn't have like 2+ cannons for every target. During the cold war you wouldn't just have 1 nuke for each target, you'd have a bunch because that first-strike really needed to cripple the enemy asap. Did they really only have one orbital cannon per martian missile base? For such a critical first-strike you'd think there would be some redundancy built into the plan.
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May 21, 2018 08:57
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The nuke was likely targeted at a military installation, perhaps a missile silo.
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May 21, 2018 09:15
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If Mars really wanted to kill earth they should have automated Epstein ships in the outer solar system that burn with their magic space engines to hit a large fraction of c as they dive towards earth and the moon.
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May 21, 2018 09:17
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Baloogan posted:If Mars really wanted to kill earth they should have automated Epstein ships in the outer solar system that burn with their magic space engines to hit a large fraction of c as they dive towards earth and the moon. Martians are the good guys
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May 21, 2018 09:21
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Milo and POTUS posted:Martians are the good guys martians are fascists
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Milo and POTUS posted:Martians are the good guys
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StashAugustine posted:martians are fascists The whole martian society is weird and appropriately (and surprisingly) alien. I knew a guy who was a merchant sailor and said that Singapore was basically a fascist utopia and I think that mars is as about that on a planetary scale as you can get. Really I sympathize with the belt for the most part.
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Baloogan posted:If Mars really wanted to kill earth they should have automated Epstein ships in the outer solar system that burn with their magic space engines to hit a large fraction of c as they dive towards earth and the moon. Then there is nothing stopping Earth from doing the same. I've always assumed those weapons were part of some mutually assured destruction they had going. I just pretended the stealth nuke ships are boomer subs for a real world analogy.
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There needs to be a version of the Bechdel test except it has a scene with two Martians talking to each other without mentioning earth or the UN.
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May 21, 2018 12:11
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Eiba posted:Cynically, it feels like they're stringing fans along so they keep watching rather than get discouraged at following a dying show. Like they stopped the scheduled set striking when they realized the fans had latched on to that as proof of death, not because there's any real new hope for the show. Alternatively, it's nice to have this kind of open flow of communication with the producers of the show. Even if the pause in striking the set is pure optics it at least shows they are competent enough to manage public image. That paints them as a competent company, which is a good thing, especially since they are currently negotiating the show's future. I'd rather have this than absolute silence.
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May 21, 2018 12:51
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Baloogan posted:If Mars really wanted to kill earth they should have automated Epstein ships in the outer solar system that burn with their magic space engines to hit a large fraction of c as they dive towards earth and the moon. Ships actively burning around is the main way to track them, aside from the magic stealth tech, and even with that I have to think constantly burning to that speed would make you super detectable. Then it's just a matter of firing a nuke or other big time weapon at it from directly it's approach vector. It might work with real good stealth teach, full autmoation so you can accelerate past what a human can take, an starting from like, half of Mars' distance from Earth instead of way the hell out there, who knows. It seems like stealth nukes would be the best option, drop them relatively close to Earth and they have to be able to fully mask something missile sized by now, they already had those big ol' missile platforms floating around in stealth mode, and they only got picked up after Earth was looking at them for presumably several weeks and knowing what to look for based on their intelligence.
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Mu Zeta posted:There needs to be a version of the Bechdel test except it has a scene with two Martians talking to each other without mentioning earth or the UN. It's how they suss out spies. You ask if they want to go for a drink and if they don't mention the rivers of earth ooooh boy get your hitting sticks.
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Joe Mantis posted:New statement from Alcon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7gd8LrLHWE&t=2271s I don't know why celebrities come on this show. Most of their videos have under 1k views.
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May 21, 2018 13:20
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Milky Moor posted:Given that's there's supposed to be twenty missiles with twenty warheads each, the plan might be to just hit the target fairly indiscriminately (did we get a yield for that one warhead?) It didn't strike me as targeted to South America specifically, that was just where it happened to hit. Also, considering the population, an “indiscriminate strike” is almost guaranteed to cause mass casualties as long as it hits land.
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Mu Zeta posted:I don't know why celebrities come on this show. Most of their videos have under 1k views. I know they do podcasts too, there may be a significantly bigger audience there.
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May 21, 2018 13:29
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Well as a brazilian I kinda felt honored Mars chose my country to be nuked And Goiás, of all places
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May 21, 2018 13:32
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Elias_Maluco posted:Well as a brazilian I kinda felt honored Mars chose my country to be nuked I too feel special that we were chosen by Mars.
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NowonSA posted:Ships actively burning around is the main way to track them, aside from the magic stealth tech, and even with that I have to think constantly burning to that speed would make you super detectable. Then it's just a matter of firing a nuke or other big time weapon at it from directly it's approach vector. It might work with real good stealth teach, full autmoation so you can accelerate past what a human can take, an starting from like, half of Mars' distance from Earth instead of way the hell out there, who knows. Stealth tech is designed to work when the ship is not under thrust. There is nothing that can hide the giant plume coming out of your ship and anything approaching earth like that could easily get picked off.
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Considering engineers can spin asteroids big enough to house cities, compared to just lobbing rocks into gravity wells nukes seem almost quaint.
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I'm disappointed there still isn't news, but from everything I've read the lack of dismantling the sets is a good sign. I don't believe putting that on hold is worth it just to maybe keep viewership up and keep up false hope.
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I figure it there were no hope whatsoever, Alcon wouldn't be spending money on storing the sets. If they knew for a fact the show were cancelled, I doubt they would care about making sure people keep watching in a financial sense. They will still get whatever money is owed to them whether the ratings soar on cable or not.
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the Alcon news just sounds like a big nothing rip the expanse
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May 21, 2018 17:07
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It's coming, don't worry. There'll be at least three more seasons.
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May 21, 2018 19:04
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Cancelled scifi shows are well known for making a comeback if people make enough noise on the internet.
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 Someone got paid 30k finding a major google bug and used this as their example.
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lol some youtube copyright troll company called "entura international" that i'm pretty sure has absolutely nothing to do with The Expanse, just got one of the most viewed (and one of my favorite  ) expanse videos on youtube taken down (the battle of Thoth station). It had been up for a year and had almost 300k views and had tons of recent comments with new fans saying they just found the show and that the battle was awesome and whatnot. Seemed like a good thing for getting random youtube nerds interested in the showgreat timing assholes
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Baronjutter posted:
I think the guy might have started with "the-expanse" as his original app ID. By the time it came to report, the show was being canceled. edit: v dammit, i missed the highlighted red part crazysim fucked around with this message at 22:06 on May 21, 2018 |
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crazysim posted:I think the guy might have started with "the-expanse" as his original app ID. By the time it came to report, the show was being canceled. That's what it says.
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