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Re: First possible interstellar object detected in our solar system

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Post by Jemaclus » Fri, Oct 27, 2017, 4:32 PM UTC

mustacheemperor wrote: post #100

jboggan wrote: post #45

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I'm thinking more like The Expanse.

How have I never heard of this before? >Hundreds of years in the future, things are different than what we are used to after humans have colonized the solar system and Mars has become an independent military power. Rising tensions between Earth and Mars have put them on the brink of war. Against this backdrop, a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain come together to investigate the case of a missing young wom…

Read the books. They're some of the best space opera books out there. As good as the show is, the books are even more incredible.

Re: First possible interstellar object detected in our solar system

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Post by petraeus » Fri, Oct 27, 2017, 4:54 PM UTC

The is the best way to disguise a probe and the fact it came from above the elliptic might mean the aliens wanted to make sure it wouldnt collide with any natural bodies

Re: First possible interstellar object detected in our solar system

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Post by mustacheemperor » Fri, Oct 27, 2017, 7:01 PM UTC

thriftwy wrote: post #60

mcgarnagle wrote: post #49

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It's an amazing series. Highly recommend it.

The series is awful. Original Rama is awesome but then some co-author takes over and it becomes a mess. The dude definitely had problems.

I think the series is truly separate and worse than the original. Clarke even said he'd never intended the line about "Ramans do everything in threes" at the end of the book to actually lead to sequels, only to beg the question of what happens to our solar system next. The sequel books do a far worse job of answering that question than the readers' own imaginations, I think. I'd never made the connection to the co-author but it makes sense. I ripped through the first book so quickly, and then picked up the second and couldn't even finish it. I could feel it devaluing my enjoyment of the first it felt like such a different, inferior story.

Re: First possible interstellar object detected in our solar system

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Post by dTal » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #71

chairmanwow wrote: post #59

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I'm so glad that The Expanse has brought great space opera to the masses. Scifi books are several orders of magnitude better than the majority of "Scifi" Hollywood movies. The struggle of a fledgling technological species against the plight of interstellar space is a majestic backdrop for many of the best novels I've ever read. Especially with Clark, Niven, Pournelle etc. that have done some excellent mathematical in…

TBH, the masses know The Expanse mostly from TV show. But the show indeed is good, and while it has some differences from the books, it mostly stays true to science, even in very minor VFX details. This is an unpopular opinion, because I've seen here how people like to hate on Gravity and stuff, but I feel like we're seeing a new trend in sci-fi movies/shows - Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian and now The Expanse, d…

I wouldn't put Gravity on that list. It looks nice, but its "physics" is pure Hollywood fail. Not one single plot device makes sense from a physics perspective.