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Phenotype posted:Yeah, it was just one of those things where I don't think the show would have improved by wasting a scene where Naomi types into a controller and someone says "Whatcha doing?" and she says "Oh, just shutting down the Roci by remote control, nbd." If it needed to be done I would've probably done the same tracking shot of the ships shutting down one-by-one, until it zooms in on the Roci. Cut to a monitor on the ship: "Remote Shutdown", cut back to the exterior with the ship powering off. I really enjoy the series for the political elements but the expositional dialogue is one of the weaker points.
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I don't know why they established that Miller's partner survived if we were just never going to see him again anyway, though.
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If you want a non-region-blocked video with Sutton's voice this is all I can think of: https://youtu.be/xw-jSymE76o
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NTRabbit posted:
Also, like many Shakespearean characters, a moon of Uranus
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twistedmentat posted:Video was this one There's no point in the show naming every single inhabited station, but the asteroid belt is about 95 quadrillion km^2 when seen from above and there are plenty of asteroid candidates that are many hundreds of times bigger than Eros was. To be honest, the most implausible part about the whole thing is spinning them up in the first place, as discussed by illectro/Mr. Manley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU9dCWY7G2M
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Honestly, if they're going to steal design cues from games, I'm glad HW is one of them.
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What was up with the sideplot where Amos and Naomi turn into lizards?
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If you can stomach the fact that it's rather dated and also an anime, Legend of Galactic Heroes has loads of political intrigue and colossal battles.
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Cojawfee posted:I'm pretty sure Data describes it as a dead language. Or maybe that was Futurama. It was both.
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jeeves posted:I am 100% convinced Amos was written as a love letter tribute Titus Pullo. Amos is Pullo if he was a psychopath
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Yeah, Ashford as an anti-villain rather than an actual villain was a good decision. Cool character, cool actor.
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I love that this show can make me excited to see a guy whose name is "Fred Johnson"
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MA-Horus posted:I'm having beers with Cara Gee tonight Ask her if she made whirring noises when walking with the robot legs.
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MA-Horus posted:Yes, she made the robot noises with the legs. 
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I just figured that it was like Badger and that he's in such a poor-as-poo poo environment that a hat is considered a luxury item. Hell, water is.
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Make that stretcher centrifuge but strap the people on facing outwards
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:The show turned Jon Snow into the main character, so theres that Given who he is I think that was always bound to happen What I like most about the Expanse is the political intrigue, which I think makes it slightly closer to Rome in that respect.
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Grand Fromage posted:At least it's low altitude and most of the debris will be down quickly, unlike the Chinese one. Here's hoping, because this kind of poo poo terrifies me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS1ibDImAYU
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Cojawfee posted:Wow. I'm all onboard for a casual "humanity is a cancer on the earth" every once in a while, but to actually believe that humans should totally go extinct. From an objective standpoint, it would probably be for the best, but I do have a vested interest in that not happening.
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Johnny Truant posted:Klingon has 0 utility I remember reading about a couple who raised their kid as a native Klingon speaker and even he stopped using it after a few years.
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Baronjutter posted:We;re watching through battle star galactica against my will and I got super excited when I saw Prax. Oh poo poo, yeah, Chuckles!
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This is the only poo poo I'm interested in: https://www.shapeways.com/product/3BE65HKE2/rocinante-full-colour?optionId=64727273&li=marketplace
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Mu Zeta posted:They don't have race anymore in the world of The Expanse. I don't think there's sexism either. It's pretty much between the rich and poor. And from Naomi's accent she's definitely poor. I would definitely call her Belter accent poor.
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Johnny Truant posted:How come we haven't started work on a space elevator? That seems the most feasible to escape our gravity well, yeah? I know nothing about physics and space so this is probably a dumb question. It's certainly a neat idea but there are a few logistical issues when it comes to maintaining a cable as long as the earth is round.
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The Belter accent for me sounds very similar to Multicultural London English, especially when it's coming from Dawes (makes sense, seeing as Jared Harris is from London)
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Wait, does the Roci have a railgun now?
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Unless something unplanned happens, the ships tend to be under constant acceleration for the entire journey aside from a brief period where they flip around. I think I remember reading they tend to go at 0.3g for the sake of the Belters and Martians
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Thom12255 posted:Can Belters stand Martian gravity? The Belters on the asteroid stations are in .3g, which is about the same as Mars.
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You'd reach the speed of light (assuming Newtonian physics right up to the end) after almost a year of travel at 1g, so only for journeys of about 2 years. So, to reach the same speeds at 0.3g you'd be heading somewhere about 7 years away for you. I did modules in Special Relativity at university, but I've forgotten all the numbers for Lorentz transformations apart from just knowing that they'd exist. If you want to fit a 10m ladder in your 5m garage, just carry it in running at close to the speed of light.
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Crazycryodude posted:If Epstein's yacht did 10g for a week before running out of gas he'd be going a solid chunk of c, like ~0.15-ish, so that makes sense. Although the Mormons could expect to be at Alpha Centauri within a few years, I'm honestly surprised nobody's bothered to put together an extrasolar mission before them tbh. You'd have to build a dedicated exploration ship with 15 years of fuel and provisions, of course, but that seems like the kind of thing that would be well within the capabilities of Mars or Earth if they felt like it. Actually, now it makes perfect sense. The Mormons wouldn't be able to burn for more than a few years before hitting light speed but they don't need to be burning the whole way at all. They got the drum.
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Or Mass Effect, where there is actually FTL, but nowhere near fast enough to get very far around the galaxy
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Groetgaffel posted:Ship FTL also has a second limiting factor in Mass Effect. Yeap, absolutely correct. That's one of the things I loved about the first game, that they'd created a universe and put a huge amount of thought in the how everything "worked"
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correctly, using the FTL drive builds up a static charge that has to be discharged after a while. For ships that can't land on planets, the only suitable places to do so is the atmosphere of a gas giant, and certain space stations with the correct infrastructure.
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BSG had a run of 1 and 2/3 of a season without a single bad episode but slowly turned into Lost: In Space no pun intended about midway through the third. Still recommended though, the earlier seasons had some of the best VFX art direction I've seen for a sci-fi show 
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ZorajitZorajit posted:Galactica is great until they get to New Caprica and then sort of shakes itself apart in pieces and chunks. The moment they crash Pegasus into a basestar is really a shift from "military sci-fi with magic realism" to "magic space realism." And that doesn't usually bother me, but it's the start of a slow decline that -- though it never completely craters. I've said it before in this thread but the thing I really lament after that point is how they stopped paying attention to the little details. From Season 2: every single little gun is animated and firing  They stopped doing that from Season 3 and all the ships started flying around like in Star Wars ---------------------------------- There's bound to be some overlapping interest here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_nj6wW6Gsc Captain Splendid fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Aug 20, 2019 |
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Grand Fromage posted:free the turds. Tuppence a bag.
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Do either of Miller's partners ever show up again? "Hey! The rookie you thought was dead is alive and recovering but oh well that's his last scene so it doesn't matter" v  v
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ashpanash posted:You STILL get people tossing out Tesla's name today like he was some kind of revolutionary maverick who tried to change the world, not an insane tinkerer who had no understanding of theory but happened to have the right idea at the right time. He picked the perfect brand name, thinking about it.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Not posting the tweet here, because it contains a casting spoiler, but Amazon France will be the first to premier! Not sure if I found the same tweet as you but they didn't explicitly say that he would be in *this* season
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I mean, technically The Expanse is a TV series with Jonathan Banks, but that's not the same as outright saying he's in season 4
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