Rumors are that Alcom's rights to "The Expanse" may have reverted to the Creators' new production company.

https://youtu.be/CwMc-uos6yw&t=84s

With the show being one of my favorites, I'm happy to say that I'm really enjoying the novels as well. That said, it keeps bugging me when the term "thrust gravity" is always used to describe something that's explicitly Newton's 3rd law - ie, not gravity. I'm probably not understanding something, but it bugs me to see a series that makes a point to be at least reasonably scientific to use a term that seems so wrong.

Side note: How come the third law missed out on natural feeling shorthand? 1st - inertia. 2nd - f=ma. 3rd - ???. Feels like something got overlooked there.

Can't tell if this bugs me or is genius. A lot of names get pronounced very differently depending on the character. I'm used to shows having consistent pronunciation of character names, places, etc like in Star Trek, Game of Thrones, etc. In the show, though, it's all over the place sometimes.

e.g.

• Admiral Souther: Sowther / Suther (The character himself pronounced it "Suther" so I assume that is the correct pronunciation)
• Klaes Ashford: Klaus / Klace
• Marco Inaros: In-are-ohs / Inner-ohs

Does anyone know if that variation was intentional or just accidental? I could see it either way. If intentional, it does lend some realism since this is common IRL and may also help highlight the differences in dialects between the Earthers, Martians, and Belters.

The only instance that actually, flat-out bugged me was how the same lieutenant on the Agatha King pronounced the admiral's name as "Suther" in one episode and "Sowther" in another. This is despite working closely with the admiral himself and should know how to pronounce his name correctly.

Edit: It's also kind of genius how Avasarala mispronounces his name. She always talks and tells stories about him like they're long-time best friends but admits later they barely ever spoke and that he didn't really like her.

S2E09: The Weeping Somnambulist.

2x05: Home

Yeah, I know it's just Drummer being awesome like that. I just liked that little callback at the end.

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a traditional street style egg noodle topped with bean sprouts, carrots, snow peas and crushed peanuts in a spicy peanut butter sauce. mix well before eating

For those wondering that the heck Prax ordered for himself and Djuna

It goes right over the Earther's head.

Jupiter-sized, lots of carbon... Sounds like a match to me.

By The Associated Press

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 • 1:34 AM EDT

RIO DE JANEIRO — About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting 81 suspects and sparking shootouts that left at least 60 suspects and four police officers dead, officials said.

The operation included officers in helicopters and armored vehicles and targeted the notorious Red Command in the sprawling low-income favelas of Complexo de Alemao and Penha, police said.

Do you think Brazillian Burton made it out alive? How about Brazillian Timmy?

“I looked her up,” Fayez said. “I didn’t tell Elvi. Back in the day, this was Francisca Torrez. She worked in the Science Directorate as a technician. I assume Cortázar knew her, at least in passing. She was going through something. Maybe her love life sucked. Maybe she always wanted to be a dancer and realized it wasn’t happening for her. Anyway, she started drinking and showed up to work intoxicated and belligerent. She didn’t even go home that day. Ochida had a streamlined disciplinary hearing with Cortázar and the head of security, and they put her in the Pen before she even sobered up.” - Leviathan Falls

Tanaka in the same book had it available in her bedsite table:

“First I’ve heard of it,” she said, reaching for the side table and her sobriety meds. “Can you tell me the agenda?” - Leviathan Falls

We know that sobriety meds were wildly available at least by Babylon's Ashes

Alex held it up. He’d gotten the packet from a dispenser in the men’s room. The foil had a dragon’s head embossed on it and some nonsense kanji that didn’t mean anything.

Holden’s brow furrowed. “Sobriety meds?”

Alex felt himself blushing and tried to hide it by smiling. “Well, I’m thinking I may be in a situation here pretty soon where everybody needs to be able to agree to whatever they’re agreeing to.” - Babylon's Ashes

So how did a scientist assigned to a high level research facility not have access to the sobriety drugs? Does Laconia not make them wildly available in the hopes that they can recruit more people into the pens? For a high security building like the pens I'd assume it would be in dispensing machines in the bathrooms for when you clock into work.

At the beginning of Persepolis Rising Cortazar explains that the human stem cells injected into Duarte were altered by the proto molecule. I'm guessing they then removed the proto-molecule from the stem cells before injecting them into Duarte. This was to mimic the drone repairs on Laconia.

My question is: How did the proto molecule defeat this big constraint and mind control Duarte? Cortazar was explicitly removing it from the stem cells. The molecule could only "perfect" the stem cells in regard to efficiencies the ring builders knew of. But by Leviathan falls they definitely have full control of Duarte anyways.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32718381

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer

Someone in the area picked a really good name for their boat.

I have marginal service out here. So here's the link just in case.

https://imgur.com/a/POnYBBa