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My first instinct in that situation would have been to search the sealed module to see if there was already a clock in there that had the time on it. *shrug*
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My first instinct would have been to see if there's any way to contact mission control and just go "Hey, what time is it where you are?" because you're setting your clock to their time anyway.
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The Black Stones posted:My first instinct would have been to see if there's any way to contact mission control and just go "Hey, what time is it where you are?" because you're setting your clock to their time anyway. That is painfully obvious and makes me feel pretty dumb. It's pretty reasonable to assume they would be in contact with mission control, as there's no other explanation for the magical voice talking to them in that case. Actually, since Mutta is going to go for his "I saw the clock" explanation, I wonder if "Why don't we just ask Mission Control?" is going to be Kenji's response to the puzzle
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Jun 12, 2012 19:46
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Could be they're worried about how astronauts would handle being out of contact. Lots of poo poo could go wrong on a mission like that, and you can't exactly just turn the spaceship around if it does.
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Jun 13, 2012 04:41
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Oh god, Serika is just too adorable.
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Jun 17, 2012 11:42
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My litmus test for a good show, I think I'm only five minutes into an episode when it ends. Happened with the last with the last few of Space Bros.
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Jun 17, 2012 16:12
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Popehoist posted:Oh god, Serika is just too adorable. Being hungry has never been so  Serika seems to have finally noticed Mutta beyond "That guy whose brother to that awesome guy." At first I thought Mutta actually did figure out the time through his air calculus until this "Uuuugh" moment; guys were right, he did see the clock on the dash board. Air calculus > Air guitar  Rubix cube kid disappoints me, I saw Neil deGrasse Tyson solve that rubix cube in like under a minute flat He's not space cadet material until he can match him.
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Jun 17, 2012 16:58
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There are guys who can do it in like half a minute blindfolded. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCyYPimImyM
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I thought Serika's dad would make up something about her name not having a meaning so she could do whatever she liked. I also thought Mutta would tell the truth about how he knew the time, but I guess his reasoning behind lying makes sense. On a sidenote, that little pissant kid in Mutta's group is annoying as hell. I hope he doesn't make it much further. Waiting a week between episodes is killing me.
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Valsu posted:I thought Serika's dad would make up something about her name not having a meaning so she could do whatever she liked. I also thought Mutta would tell the truth about how he knew the time, but I guess his reasoning behind lying makes sense. I thought it was fairly well established that the kid is just a plant. The director and the others kinda mentioned "oh now that he's openly expressing doubt etc we'll be able to get more honest reactions out of team A. I guess the way it was all spoken it seemed to me like he was just there to shake things up, not actually a real candidate at all.
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Breaky posted:I thought it was fairly well established that the kid is just a plant. The director and the others kinda mentioned "oh now that he's openly expressing doubt etc we'll be able to get more honest reactions out of team A. I guess the way it was all spoken it seemed to me like he was just there to shake things up, not actually a real candidate at all. I suppose that's possible. I didn't really have him pegged as a plant. I just figured that was how his character's personality was designed.
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Breaky posted:I thought it was fairly well established that the kid is just a plant. The director and the others kinda mentioned "oh now that he's openly expressing doubt etc we'll be able to get more honest reactions out of team A. I guess the way it was all spoken it seemed to me like he was just there to shake things up, not actually a real candidate at all. Pretty sure they were just making a general observation. Also, as mentioned before, we've heard his internal monologue and it's inconsistent with him being a plant.
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Sakurazuka posted:Pretty sure they were just making a general observation. Also, as mentioned before, we've heard his internal monologue and it's inconsistent with him being a plant. That's what you'd think...until you've played (PS3-Game) Heavy Rain. I'm still angry about that "twist".
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I really like the dynamic of Mutta's team. Serika's got humble expertise, the old guy has got sheer enthusiasm, the Also, rubix cube kid kind of blew my mind 
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 Hey Serika, you look kind of cool. good episode, but that animation slipup really stuck out for me. o_o
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Well, we can hope it'd get fixed in the DVD/Blu-Ray release.
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This show is so good. That treadmill sounds really cool, too. Do astronauts-in-training actually use something similar to that?
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It's ok, Nitta, you can "relax" in the toilet from time to time, it's only natural.
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I think that the director guy with the weird voice is actually an alien.
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Chas McGill posted:I think that the director guy with the weird voice is actually an alien. Did anyone felt a bit of foreshadowing when he said "We've run out of time" at the the end? The director didn't sound like that was for the reply letter but for something larger in the background.
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Morgenthau posted:Did anyone felt a bit of foreshadowing when he said "We've run out of time" at the the end? The director didn't sound like that was for the reply letter but for something larger in the background.
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Morgenthau posted:Did anyone felt a bit of foreshadowing when he said "We've run out of time" at the the end? The director didn't sound like that was for the reply letter but for something larger in the background. That seemed like a strange choice of translation. What the director actually said equated to something more like "we're too busy for that", which is pretty normal and reasonable.
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Popehoist posted:That seemed like a strange choice of translation. What the director actually said equated to something more like "we're too busy for that", which is pretty normal and reasonable. That makes a lot more sense, and it echos Mutta's sentiment nicely.
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I like this episode, it really synergizes well with some of the Concern Troll Space "discussions" that happen over in D&D from time to time. Repeatedly people will state "But what about starving african orphans?", and this episode helps me find a good answer to that that isn't just linking the Isaac Asimov video on the benefits of space travel for solving Earth's problems.
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New episode up! Really great episode that focused on the old timer. We also got new OP and ED's, I was worried about FEEL SO MOON leaving us, but the new OP is worth it just for that loving dance.
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Not a big fan of the actual music in the new OP but I completely lost it at Mutta's 'fro eclipsing the sun.
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I love this show so much. I wish it was all out so I could binge through the entire thing in a day. With regards to the latest episode, wouldn't poor eyesight automatically disqualify someone trying to become an astronaut?
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It would depend on what job on the ship they were trying to do I think. You certainly wouldn't let them be the pilot. Love the new ED.
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Shakugan posted:With regards to the latest episode, wouldn't poor eyesight automatically disqualify someone trying to become an astronaut? Nope, quite a few people in the program who have glasses. Comes with being nerds. I don't think pilots are able to. The biggest restrictions are physical fitness, health, and height.
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Zorak posted:Nope, quite a few people in the program who have glasses. Comes with being nerds. I don't think pilots are able to. I see. I would have thought that there would be so many qualified applicants that they could afford to be very selective about eye sight, basically for the reasons demonstrated in this episode. If someone who needs glasses breaks them mid mission, they could essentially become dead weight. I wouldn't have thought any organisation would want to take that risk considering how expensive it is to send someone up. I guess they must send them up with an enormous number of spare pairs.
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Shakugan posted:I guess they must send them up with an enormous number of spare pairs. When I was in the Air Force, I flew as a crew member on flight test aircraft. I had glasses, but it had to be correctable to 20/20 and there was a limit to how bad the eyesight could be uncorrected. I would imagine the same or similar for non-pilot astronauts. Once you're a trained pilot, you can get glasses because why waste the million dollars it takes to train a pilot over a pair of glasses? For all military exercises, we were forced to wear Air Force issue glasses. The flyers (like I was) had cool wire frame things that looked half-way decent. Non-flyers got what we jokingly called BCG's (birth control glasses). The next generation of such beasts looked a lot better, but they were still sturdy as hell. I would imagine anyone with glasses would have more than one pair of BCG-style sturdy as hell glasses in their spare luggage. Also, the would not have broken as easily as the plair did in this episode. Plus, in outer space, there's a thing called microgravity which means you'd likely not "step" on anything, let alone glasses. Plus, we always wore a head-strap to keep glasses on our faces during exercises. We did not look cool, but we were able to see. I don't know how "real" astronauts manage their eyewear, but I'd imagine it's fairly well in-hand. Here is a link to a WSJ article about "new" SuperFocus glasses developed for NASA (a couple years old now):
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Good episode. I hope the trend continues and we get an episode for each of Team A. It'll be interesting to know the backstories of Nitta and Chimp boy.
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Fun to see that Mochizuki Tomomi storyboarded ep 14. If you're not familiar with the name, he's the guy who ran Twin Spica, and if you haven't heard that title before, you really should check it out asaply. 
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Does anyone else think Mutta's team, and the old guy specifically, have a golden chance to score points by demonstrating their crisis-management skills? I'm waiting for someone to point out that they would all score brownie points by coming together and helping the old guy out with the tasks rather than turn it into an advantage in the "competition". I would expect this whole team to make it past the exam, but I think the new OP maybe spoils the results. Or maybe there's no real significance to the different groupings in the OP.
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I think the whole, "You have to pick the two team members you consider to be best suited to be astronauts." thing is an obvious bullshit measure to sow distrust, and that they're going to step that up a notch with the broken clock next episode. JAXA has no reason to give a drat about their opinions. This is all just applying pressure in different ways. I'm still waiting for someone in the show to realize it.
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Shakugan posted:I guess they must send them up with an enormous number of spare pairs. Or make sure that there are spares when they launch. Surely a few extra pairs of glasses wouldn't effect the launch weight that much. But as someone who has been wearing glasses since childhood, what kind of person who wears glasses doesn't pack an extra pair when going on a long trip regardless what they're planning to do on that trip? Or better yet, why was he wearing glass lenses when it's 2025? Every pair of glasses I've been wearing since the mid-90's have been polycarbonate. Sure a step like that would have hosed up the frames but the lenses would still be in tact and a generous amount of scotch tape would be enough to make a serviceable repair for when the glasses we're necessary. For example, it wouldn't be advisable to wear them for the running math since it isn't necessary and all that running will probably cause the jury rigged frames to come apart. Also, 14 years ago from 2025 is 2011 and from what I've researched Japan isn't officially developing a manned spacecraft right now. There have been a number of proposed projects including small scale testing of a spaceplane but they've all been postponed well before 2010.
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I just started watching, now on episode 12. I can't stop. Someone help meeee 
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darkgray posted:Fun to see that Mochizuki Tomomi storyboarded ep 14. If you're not familiar with the name, he's the guy who ran Twin Spica, and if you haven't heard that title before, you really should check it out asaply. I read this long ago but the translations suddenly stopped a fair way through the story. Do you know if it's been finished and available or been published in the USA?
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Breaky posted:I read this long ago but the translations suddenly stopped a fair way through the story. Do you know if it's been finished and available or been published in the USA? No idea, I was talking about the anime version from 2003. The Twin Spica manga appears to be complete at 16 volumes in Japan, ending in 2009.
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