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Toast Museum posted:You all get that the question was about the television props and not the in-story technology, right? Yeah but for a hot second I thought Iron Man existed in The Expanse universe. 
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I'm starting to wonder where this season is going to end book-wise. Are they going to cut Prax's Go-fund-me campaign storyline and go straight to Io? I kind of hope so. The Kickstarter storyline was pretty dumb.
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Snuffman posted:Are they going to cut Prax's Go-fund-me campaign storyline and go straight to Io? I kind of hope so. The Kickstarter storyline was pretty dumb. Yeah it was stupid but it set up the Prax/Amos heart-to-heart after his ex wife accused him of abusing Mei. I haven't seen the most recent episodes but it seems like that's getting cut which is a shame because I love that scene 
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Snuffman posted:I'm starting to wonder where this season is going to end book-wise. I think the episode titles give away the Ganymede-area events, they're going to close that out. Avasarala on Mao's ship is going to have some unrealistically abbreviated travel time or the plot changes. Venus either punts to next season with a cliffhanger or advances suddenly. It's still possible for them to finish all the big action beats of the second book.
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Snuffman posted:I'm starting to wonder where this season is going to end book-wise. The cliffhanger is going to be BOOK SPOILER HOLY poo poo, IT'S ON THE SHIP.
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AlternateAccount posted:The cliffhanger is going to be BOOK SPOILER HOLY poo poo, IT'S ON THE SHIP. To me at least the episode title "The Monster and the Rocket" is the obvious place for that to happen, and that's only the second-to-last episode. Still hoping against hope that the season cliffhanger is gonna be that line I mentioned earlier.
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Crazycryodude posted:To me at least the episode title "The Monster and the Rocket" is the obvious place for that to happen, and that's only the second-to-last episode. Still hoping against hope that the season cliffhanger is gonna be that line I mentioned earlier. I dunno, might be right, but here are some pretty vague descriptions that could point either way: 12 Apr 12, 2017 The Monster and the Rocket A discovery pushes Naomi and Holden apart and sets the Roci crew against each other. 13 Apr 19, 2017 Caliban's War The Roci crew must fight to save the ship. A picture from:  Not sure, that could be the station on IO just as easily as the Roci cargo bay. Not sure what the DISCOVERY would be or what would lead to internal fighting.
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The discovery will be Mei is alive on Io, along with many protomonsters. Holden will want to nuke it from orbit anyway, its the only way to be sure. Actually, (TV only speculation): Holden could instead discover Naomi didn't destroy that bit of protomolecule. Not sure why it would come up now, except that scientist dude has been floating around since his escape from Tyco with some ability to sense it. Dawes is due for an appearance. Number Ten Cocks fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Apr 10, 2017 |
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[spoler]Maybe we should finally tell them the big secret. That all the chimps we sent into the protomolecule came back super intelligent.[/spoiler]
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Number Ten Cocks posted:Actually, (TV only speculation): Holden could instead discover Naomi didn't destroy that bit of protomolecule.
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Lord Hydronium posted:I'm assuming this is it, hence the rocket of the episode title. That would be a hilarious fake out to book people.
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Elentor posted:That grenade scene was fantastic. The only problem I have with the scene is the grenade being a square with blinking red lights. It looks like a restaurant buzzer.
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Bubbacub posted:The only problem I have with the scene is the grenade being a square with blinking red lights. It looks like a restaurant buzzer. Believe it or not, there is a good reason for that.
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Platystemon posted:Believe it or not, there is a good reason for that. Care to explain?
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INTJ Mastermind posted:Care to explain? BOOK SPOILER I think they’re using one of the grenades designed to be implanted in the monster for self‐destruct purposes. They want those grenades and their imminent explosion to be obvious.
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If I wanted to make a grenade that just sort of plops in the next room or maybe it's magnetic for use in zero-g it would probably look like that.
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Mine would look like a dick.
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I'd make grenades that looked like donuts, or cupcakes or something that you want. It's starting to look like a Nixon white house transcript all in here.
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twistedmentat posted:I'd make grenades that looked like donuts, or cupcakes or something that you want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCeD2gF9jUo
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See, totally works.
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Baronjutter posted:If I wanted to make a grenade that just sort of plops in the next room or maybe it's magnetic for use in zero-g it would probably look like that. How come no one present or future has invented Halo-style sticky grenades? Would help prevent a lot of tactical oopsies.
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INTJ Mastermind posted:How come no one present or future has invented Halo-style sticky grenades? Would help prevent a lot of tactical oopsies. How do you make it sticky only after you throw it?
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Talorat posted:How do you make it sticky only after you throw it? Gyroscope-sensitive stickiness-secreting nozzles? We already have things like munitions that won't arm themselves until they've gone a certain distance, spiraled a certain number of times, and reached a certain velocity. The hard part is the making it sticky. Edit: vvv Oooh, poo poo, combine that with a fuse like above so the shell automatically drops away instead of needing to drop it and throw it by a handle.
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Talorat posted:How do you make it sticky only after you throw it? Electrostatics? Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bomb
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Platystemon posted:BOOK SPOILER I think they’re using one of the grenades designed to be implanted in the monster for self‐destruct purposes. They want those grenades and their imminent explosion to be obvious. iunno, that grenade seemed like more of a frag grenade than a super high temp thermal grenade to burn up every bit of protomolecule in range. amos' counter-throw didn't go that far, but it only takes a few fragments to damage the anesthetic gas dispenser on the monster to wake it up
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Talorat posted:How do you make it sticky only after you throw it? You put some fins or feathers on one end like a shuttlecock so that it always flies in the same orientation. Then you put the sticky stuff on the front end.
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Naomi is really starting to grind my gears. She's operating at like 33% Skylar and rising with every episode. Thank god Bobbie and Avasalara still own.
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Snowman Crossing posted:Naomi is really starting to grind my gears. She's operating at like 33% Skylar and rising with every episode. Thank god Bobbie and Avasalara still own. 
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bobfather posted:The books describe at length about how much of the food belters eat on the stations like Ceres are basically fungi-based. Like fungi-whiskey, fungi-noodles, and so on. God everything about the belt is awful from the south african accents, bad tattoos, and apparently fungus laden diets. 
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The only good thing about the belt is that they're not space libertarians.
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I'd get sick of not having green vegetables, but mushrooms are about the only thing I could completely replace meat with and be ok
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Blackchamber posted:When the show first came on my coworker and I were both really excited by the prospect of seeing the Ganymede fight, and I REALLY wanted to see the mech. my guess is (big Caliban's War spoiler)she will study the drone footage to prepare for her big showdown on IO. gohmak fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Apr 11, 2017 |
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This is more like "gently caress Saturn" really...
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AlternateAccount posted:The cliffhanger is going to be BOOK SPOILER HOLY poo poo, IT'S ON THE SHIP. I called it first from the season 2 trailer
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Pharmaskittle posted:I'd get sick of not having green vegetables, but mushrooms are about the only thing I could completely replace meat with and be ok A lot of it comes down to how much money you've got. There's aquaculture and vat-grown meat in the Belt that's supposed to be really good, but it's not cheap. Rice and legumes seem pretty widely available. Beer and spirits are almost always based on fungi. Traditional Belter food/poor folks' food is largely made with an eye toward not making a mess in null gravity with unexpected accelerations: dense, partially dehydrated food that won't make crumbs. It's eaten with a little spatula and is literally called kibble.
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Longbaugh01 posted:This is more like "gently caress Saturn" really... It was the first result on GIS and I liked that it was a planet that had a belt on it.
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unlawfulsoup posted:It was the first result on GIS and I liked that it was a planet that had a belt on it. To be fair, you'd need an infinitely sized image to properly communicate "gently caress Space!"
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unlawfulsoup posted:It was the first result on GIS and I liked that it was a planet that had a belt on it. Those are rings, not a belt. "Belters" refers to people who live in the asteroid belt.
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Cojawfee posted:Those are rings, not a belt. "Belters" refers to people who live in the asteroid belt. Rings, belt, all just debris floating in space.
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