[–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Most people don't follow the whole legal machinations of how shows are financed and only care about the show.

Personally I don't care what they do. I just hope they have good stories and continue with the hard sci-fi fidelity (aka no pew-pew)

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    [Book Spoilers]

    It's great that the series so far ended right before the time jump in the books. It's not a thirty year gap (hopefully), but they'll be able to keep what cast members are able to return without having to explain the aging between seasons (or just ignoring it like Stranger Things).

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Alcom's rights were always going to expire, and no one had ever hinted that there was going to be a renewal, AFAIK. This is a necessary step, but not a surprising one.

    I do wonder if it is something where the off-camera creatives could come back to spin the final three seasons of The Expanse up and then segue into The Captive's War. Not that they're the same setting (we assume), but we at least know there are people who can do a well-liked adaptation of JSAC books.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    So you didn't read that?

    More than five years after The Expanse aired its series finale, the acclaimed sci-fi show is officially returning with a huge new release (literally) celebrating its complete television run. Titan Books has announced The Expanse: The Complete Visual History, a massive 320-page hardcover retrospective scheduled to release in the US/UK on August 17, 2027. Written by Mike Avila, the book is being billed as a "comprehensive behind-the-scenes look" at all six seasons of the television series.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yea, but language is about communication, not absolutely precision.

    This isn't a scientific paper, this characters and naritive trying to express ideas, and there clarity of intent and idea is more important than scientific rigour.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago

    Force is the effect, gravity is the cause. Gravity, thrust, and spin accelerate us or other objects and it's our interaction other objects that we feel. So "thrust gravity" is taking two concepts that work similarly and mashing them together. Like, if someone called an electric stove "electric gas", that is just the two things used to create heat, but nothing about the heat itself. It's a misuse of the terms.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, but the whole point is that the effect felt is the 3rd law in action - one thing pushes against another thing, and that thing pushes back. While gravity can cause that, it's not gravity itself, right? If I catch a ball that's in motion, it's the force I apply to it that stops it, not gravity. Same thing for ships in thrust, or spinning stations. It's all 3rd law in action, not just different versions of gravity.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    It isn't different. Thrust gravity and t-grav are both made up names for a concept that was accurately described in the book. So they are both equally accurate since there is nothing scientific about a made up name.

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