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tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

Rime posted:

I lol'ing so hard at this series being considered "hard sci-fi" by the OP. So very hard.
It's not a binary thing. Although it does start slipping towards the softer end of the scale by the time you're done with the first novel, "fairly hard" is a reasonable description IMO.

And even hard sci fi is going to have some impossible things in it, just because if it didn't it wouldn't be sci fi.... It'd just be fi.

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tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

Arcsquad12 posted:

You'd think in the next two hundred years we'd be able to make better eva suits than what we have now, not worse ones.
The eva suits we use now are made bespoke for people who are considered the cream of the crop of their respective societies.

The eva suits the early belters used were mass produced pieces of garbage made to keep space indentured servants alive for long enough to dig enough poo poo out of an asteroid to make it worth shipping them up there.

tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

Mother. Fucker.

tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

Belter physiology isn't the result of genetic changes, it's from growing up in microgravity.

tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

There's a separate thread for dissing the show.

You're going to get spoilered to all hell in here!

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tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

The splat was the best bit.

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