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Cojawfee posted:I think the hillbillies were mad because the helium 3 from the moon killed oil on Earth. Then they had that space marine who had done his own research about how NASA was lying about the nuclear reactor on the moon because it had a backup cooling loop, but he didn't know about the secret reactor that wasn't on the backup loop. No more oil jobs + Wackadoo conspiracies + dead parents + I assume some weird christian poo poo as well = Blow up NASA to bring are jobs back. Seems like a solid plan, if you yell it at people without taking a breath.
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CeeJee posted:Not that endless, the asteroid is apparently 70 thousand metric tons of iridium. That's a lot but not really enough for the hundreds of millions of cars in the world and all other possible applications. A little can go a long way. If you assume ten grams is enough for a high quality battery (and would probably be less than that if it's used for plating electric components and stuff) then that's enough for 7 billion of them.
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On reflection (and just realised this in a goon discord), I don't think of Ed Baldwin as utterly irredeemable and I kind of like how they have the character very realistically teetering on the fence between shithead and decent person. The point in season 2 where he steps back and engages honestly despite being wound up, would not and could not have happened if he was pure 1950s dad archetype. While it's prompted by Kelly, sure, he's still trying to do better than he did with Shane. Like theres enough self-realisation there to save him, but he keeps blundering into being a piece of poo poo by reflex. Like he got the first bit of self-correction/therapy down (introspection) but still cant do the second bit (stopping yourself in the moment). Also I just realised that they're moving the plot to get Kelly on Mars because he is going to die there.
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I have to be careful with what I read to avoid spoilers, but was there a season 1 thread somewhere? I got into this show only recently, and just finished season 1 last night and want to go over what people were talking about for that season.
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CornHolio posted:I have to be careful with what I read to avoid spoilers, but was there a season 1 thread somewhere? I got into this show only recently, and just finished season 1 last night and want to go over what people were talking about for that season. Doesn't seem like it had its own thread, but was in the Apple TV+ thread. Season 2 Season 3
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I remember reading through a season 1 thread but maybe I'm mistaken hm
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Had to rewind the end of 01x09 after doing a spit take when Harrison bought it. Great episode, one left on the season and I'm really into it.
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bawfuls posted:The later is for the end of this season when they gently caress up the asteroid capture and chunks of it hit earth odds it'll be because ed has a shaky hand and his russian gf isn't there to take over for him?
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they should do the plot of the video game ixion: not-elon fucks up so bad the earth is rendered uninhabitable and the mars colonists are the only survivors of the human race
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CubanMissile posted:I hope Molly Cobb’s husband is doing ok, that guy was alright. He supplied the seed for the first  on Mars.So that's something.
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So other than the possibility of Ed going Robert Duvall in Deep Impact being cool, wouldn’t putting it in a lunar orbit make more sense?
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Flux Wildly posted:We don’t know that Best Korea haven’t got their own grow op though That's what Juche is in the 21st century.
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Really regretting my decision to watch the first five minutes of season two before leaving the house for the weekend. That opening timeline stuff was too interesting and now I'm here thinking of all the implications.
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Starbucks posted:So other than the possibility of Ed going Robert Duvall in Deep Impact being cool, wouldn’t putting it in a lunar orbit make more sense? Lunar orbit is inherently unstable and would require constant adjustment. https://www.nasa.gov/general/does-a...o%20the%20Moon.
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There are some stable moon orbits. There is (or was recently) an object orbiting the moon that is suspected to be one of the discarded lunar modules.
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Kingtheninja posted:Really regretting my decision to watch the first five minutes of season two before leaving the house for the weekend. That opening timeline stuff was too interesting and now I'm here thinking of all the implications. I think season two was the high point, easily. I still love it but I need to go back and rewatch 2
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demostars posted:straight up laughing at the music choice for the final scene, dev gonna give it to ya Ending with that final line and immediately into the song had me busting out laughing too
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This scene with Irina is really good, you can tell she's a bit charmed by Margo and thinks she's giving her a bit of a reward for a job well done and then Margo fucks up yet again by her ignoring direct orders and there's a flicker of frustration and then she's back to being slightly more formal. This actress, Svetlana Efremova, is crushing this role. Wondering if Danni is gonna try and break up Ed's group by dropping a Danny bomb on them.
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LMFO Kelly brings this parmasan from Earth and Ed just going ham on his first meal and she's looking at it wondering if she's even gonna get to have any. It's so funny but also man this is how Ed raised Shane, his very dead son, isn't it? Danni, why are you so absolutely poo poo. Delivering Bush era monologues about security when you could be dropping truth bombs about space cannibalism. That ending was very silly. Awesome.
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skooma512 posted:FWIW I didn't even know that Mexico was communist (and therefore cool) in this show until you mentioned it and assumed Mexico was the same as it always was. Mexico votes in a communist government in the 90s during season 3. Alieda came to America in the 70s and spent most of her life in the u.s. she was already a full fledged adult when Mexico went blue it wouldn’t really define her character that much.
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I didn't have asteroid pirates on my bingo card.
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They're going to de-orbit it and mine it on the ground, aren't they?
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1) where the hell was Miles during this whole strike? 2) wouldn’t the Soviet Union be on the side of the striking workers? If nothing else to use it as an example of the evils of capitalism? 3) this is the second time this season they mentioned what’s cookin’ in Saudi Arabia. Wonder if this will lead to a bigger story element
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They are going to find an even larger iridium deposit under saudi arabia.
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Hell yeah  Admiral Ed and Big Love, the two biggest, meanest assholes around, teaming up for space piracy and Free Mars? Season 3 was a rough ride, but I'm all in for this, folks.Also gently caress off CIA dude with the terrorist bull-poo poo, those yahoos blew themselves up, just like their pappies used to back on Earth  90sgamer posted:2) wouldn’t the Soviet Union be on the side of the striking workers? If nothing else to use it as an example of the evils of capitalism? You might be surprised how the Soviet state handled strikers. Particularly since 2003 CCCP is portrayed as having undergone a neo-Stalinist coup 
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Of course the CIA dude would say "it was terrorism" and start suggesting that they start loving poo poo up with the spies on the base.
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90sgamer posted:1) where the hell was Miles during this whole strike? Counting his money
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KGB agent has to be the guy running the bar right? That's my guess anyway. Miles is of course the secret CIA agent and his bumbling idiot routine is all an act.
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Cojawfee posted:Of course the CIA dude would say "it was terrorism" and start suggesting that they start loving poo poo up with the spies on the base. Sure, but I still say the guy frothing at the mouth for project Acoustic Milos should... Wait, hang on a minute 
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90sgamer posted:
The Saudis would have the same issue that Miles did, and the conspiracy theorist bombers from last season: the loss of the petroleum industry upending their livelihoods. So a 9/11 analogue attack is possible, driven by profit reasons instead of religious ones. Would they hit the Molly Cobb Space Center with a plane? Would Margot go out for real this time, leaving Aleida with even more trauma? Or vice-versa? Madurai may have the right of it. If they smacked it in to Mars, it would take a lot more time and trouble to extract the iridium… But it would require a lot more people going to Mars and make the planet an ongoing concern the way Dev would want, over decades. It would greatly inconvenience the M-7 and the whole Earth, but Dev did tell his mom community and fellowship were a bunch of BS….
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Pretty much the instant the strikers threw the spacesuits outside should have been ITS loving OVER time. They're still sitting in tin cans in near vacuum, so many things could go wrong that need that type of safety equipment. Loving that Dev ended the strike to get things back on track, while also using the line to identify who the true believers are that he really wants to ally with. Doubly funny when you realise that Helios is probably dead as a company after being sued into oblivion if his plan goes into action and the stock he promised them will be worthless.
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Why would any of them stay with the strike other than Ed? They're all contract workers who are up there for a couple of years or whatever, and nothing about how the strike started was ever about Mars as much as it was their compensation being poo poo and an unsafe work environment. Also the whole bit with the guy going "uh maybe you shouldn't skip the regulator" was hilarious. People in this timeline just love blowing themselves up.
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