Visiting Outer Space

      I'm in the middle of another catch-as-can rewatch of The Expanse, and it annoys me that I've somehow gotten stuck in the ignorant nitwit future with the flat-Earthers and antivaxers.  This timeline isn't looking good for a glorious future in space.

     On the other hand, a recent episode pointed out what timeline The Expanse might be in: Amos Burton is in transit from Ilus/Medina Station/The Ring/The Belt to Earth, and he has a short stopover on the Moon.  While there, he walks past a poster advertising tours of "Jamestown Base" in an old-fashioned-looking font -- and Jamestown Base is the name of the 1970s U. S. Moon Base in the Apple TV alternate-history series For All Mankind.  I've commented before that they line up pretty nicely, with Mars in the early days of being settled in For All Mankind, and a Lunar establishment well underway.

     I'm glad they cleared that up, I guess, but yeah, not our timeline.  We get to visit outer space on TV but the odds keep looking worse for an affordable tourist ticket.