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Toast Museum posted:Also, I think you're underestimating the travel times a bit. Earth to Luna might be hours, but pretty much anything else is days to weeks, and the moons of Saturn and beyond take months to each. Still beats the years it would take with the methods we have now, of course, and the show hasn't exactly played up travel times so far. That's more of a book thing. In the show, it's pretty obvious that only like a week or two at most have passed since the beginning, despite the massive travel distances. I can't really fault them for it though, having a bunch of "several months later" cards between each scene wouldn't make for good TV.
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Barreft posted:It's only been a page and this thread is already oh no people are having a mild discussion about something somebody call the mods!!!
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Y'all are missing the real controversy: the terrible sfx sequence when Alex did ~2 months worth of slingshots in 20 minutes and then somehow negated all of that delta-v with maneuvering thrusters. Yeah this was really dumb, but they acknowledged that it was dumb, and like I said earlier, one dude alone on a spaceship doing minor orbital changes over the course of several weeks doesn't make for good TV.
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Yeah that would have been really good, but then you run into the problem of having to explain what the rest of the gang was doing down on Ganymede for over a month.
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Kazinsal posted:Can we just make bookchat a probatable offense? Take it to TBB. Here's a better idea: don't get upset about properly tagged spoilers. Or just read the dang books.
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If someone accidentally mouses over a spoiler tag and stays on it long enough to actually read anything of substance, that's entirely on them. I can understand not wanting to be spoiled, but this is ridiculously hypersensitive.
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I'm totally fine with not talking about the books. I just think it's extremely stupid that people can't even handle spoiler tags.
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counterfeitsaint posted:It's just a matter of time until some rear end in a top hat quotes a giant black bar post and makes a It happens sometimes, but it only spoils things when a dozen people quote it and yell OMG THATS A SPOILER!!!
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Proteus Jones posted:Yeah, sustained G load is big deal and can be quite damaging if you don’t take precautions and aren’t built like a brick shithouse. Yeah, one thing that is really lost in the show is the time scale. In the books it's not "we're going to be hitting 6G for a minute or two, hold on to something", it's "we're going to be sustaining 6G for several hours, you're gonna need a ton of drugs to keep from passing out and also you'll have major organ damage".
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Apr 14, 2018 16:18
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"Are you a good pilot?" "No, I'm a marine." I wasn't expecting to see Anna yet, but that's not a huge surprise considering Avasarala has been on the show the entire time. I also wasn't expecting to see Mei's friend Katoa either, but for the opposite reason - he was introduced much earlier in Caliban's War, so I thought he was just going to be written out.
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Also there's the fact that they could just move her again. They have to get to Io quickly while there's still a reasonable chance of her actually being there.
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Proteus Jones posted:Mao is his partner in crime, not a political rival. whynotboth.gif
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NTRabbit posted:I too am annoyed that we didn't get to see the Secretary, Undersecretary, and the defense staff jawing about the sportsball results for 30 minutes while the railgun shells reached their targets, and another 30 minutes while the missile made the return flight. How dare the writers compress time from the perspective of the viewer for dramatic effect. After they refused to hire all of the active centres in the NBA and WNBA to play the parts of belters, this is the last straw. Alternatively they could have done something else to show that the SG is an easily swayed bobblehead, Errinwright is ruthless, etc. This whole sequence wasn't in the book at all, so it's not something that they had to make watchable.
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But they could have done it in so many other ways. Like others said, they could have broken up the scene to imply the passage of time, rather than literally watching the projectiles cross the inner solar system in 15 seconds. Or they could have said that the Mars ships had managed to sneak inside of Luna's orbit. Breaking the laws of physics doesn't add anything to the story either, so why do it?
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Phi230 posted:Deimos' remains formed a feint ring, orbits don't work like that Stable orbits don't. A massive explosion imparts new velocity vectors, and all it takes is a little nudge to degrade an orbit and set it on a reentry trajectory. If it was in Earth orbit, I'd say they'd probably burn up in the atmosphere, but Mars doesn't really have much of that.
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404notfound posted:Don't go to any fan wikis This is just good advice in general.
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counterfeitsaint posted:I think Mars would get incredibly tedious so they're choosing not to. Ever Martian we've met has been a jarhead with a hardon for murdering the poo poo out of Earth. Can you imagine a whole planet full of those three idiots from the last episode? I really hope you're not being serious here.
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We also got to see Alex's ex-wife and she's not exactly OORAH KILL THE EARTHIES
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Toast Museum posted:Kibble dishes are also pretty dry in the books. Not dehydrated, exactly, but it does sort of reconstitute in the mouth. Texturally, it's intended not to make a mess in low/no gravity. Since it's Belter food, I always pictured it as dog kibble, but for humans.
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This was one of the most exciting, tense episodes in the show so this news sure is a punch in the gut. Netflix would be crazy not to pick this up, but this is 2018 and hope is a lie.
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Baronjutter posted:I didn't know Cas was in Star Trek Continues. Hold yer Vulcan horses, that ain't logical y'all.
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Frustrated posted:Can any book reader tell me around when this season looks to end so I can skip right to that point in the books after this season ends? Read all the books.
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It's cool that people are so paranoid over spoilers that they can't even talk about things that already happened on the show.
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This season continues to own. I'm glad the show has some surprises for filthy bookreaders like me. PS mods please change the thread title to URINE - DO NOT DRINK
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crazypeltast52 posted:Wait, was the bag marked? I wasn’t looking closely and assumed whisky/whiskey. 
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Also I'm a fairly loving sedentary blob, but I can't imagine being cooped up in a space the size of a minivan for half a year.
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May 25, 2018 07:15
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Inya do it cause she mad at daddy. Belta do it for fat tiddies.
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Beltalowda gonna rise up and take back what is ours! Earth corps have no claim to da Belt! *looks directly into the camera* ...Except for our fine friends at Amazon Interplanetary, who's products and services are truly superb.
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I don't think anybody ITT is upset that Amazon is picking this show up. Just making some harmless jokes about it. Lighten up, thread.
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this thread: loving bookreaders, always spoiling things, go post in a different thread because we can't not read spoiler tags also this thread: here are some cool things i found on the wiki that will explain everything also also this thread: hey can someone tell me what happens in the later books?
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We can banish bookreaders to another thread and forbid spoiler tags all we want, and it still won't keep people from freaking out about potential spoilers, trailer spoilers, speculation spoilers, etc, because some goons are a bunch of paranoid neurotics about gleaning even the slightest glimmer of future information about their spaceship laser pew pew stories. Here's my idea: people can post spoilers inside of tags within reason. If people post blatant spoilers outside of tags, report them. If people are having a massive conversation inside of tags, ask them to take it to the other thread. If someone speculates and happens to be mostly correct, don't freak out and get a mod to edit their post (ironically spoiling it for them). Most of the rest of the forums seems to be fine with this, so I don't think this is too unreasonable. "Be cool about spoilers" goes both ways.
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AlternateAccount posted:You're not at all wrong, but goons are not remotely capable of acting in this very reasonable manner, as a whole. At some point you just have to let people occasionally gently caress up. If someone gets spoiled on something it's not the end of the world. This obsession with keeping the thread 100% airtight from spoilers does more harm than good.
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Maybe the real protomolecule was the friends it disassembled along the way.
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Snowman Crossing posted:cant believe charlie day is in the expanse 
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah when they're headed out to the ring it's been right about five years since the Canterbury. Just getting to the ring alone takes something like nine months. Even with magic 100% efficiency engines that let you fly in a straight line to your destination, getting places takes a long rear end time in space.
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Nothing Phi230 is talking about is information that is revealed past this point in the books. It's literally all show stuff.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:People are totally cool with speculation Yeah, no, that's not true at all. Like just two weeks ago someone posted their speculation, and they were right about a few things, so people freaked out about them being a secret book reader and got a mod to edit their post (thus ironically spoiling it for them). This whole thread is loving stupid, just keep it locked except on Wednesday.
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DaveKap posted:Half the time I watch this show I don't see Strait Put down the bottle.
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