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.
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1 year ago
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One of my favorite SCIFI series. Getting the physics of space flight and fight right not to mention kinetic strikes. 3 dimensional characterization of people, politics, war, aliens, and civilization expanding into the solar system was so well crafted in the books and the filmed episodes. I know I'm gushing a bit, but I have waited a long time since seeing Forbidden Planet for another equal.
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