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.
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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