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If you can you should check out the TV series Avenue 5. It’s a sci-fi comedy and whoever they hired to do their science is really knocking it out the park. Some
by yardie 7y ago
If you can you should check out the TV series Avenue 5. It’s a sci-fi comedy and whoever they hired to do their science is really knocking it out the park. Some of the true science I’ve seen in the shown: the ship is massive enough to have its own gravity. Objects that get lost in space don’t float away. They orbit the ship. They use passenger effluent as a cosmic radiation shield. And due to an anomaly they don’t get flung off into space. Their orbit gets wider so instead of a year trip it’s now 5.
Oh and the real engineers work in the basement of the ship. The bridge crew are actors.
- rc_mob 7y agoYou basically spoiled the entire show now :)
- SteveSmith16384 7y agoI watched the first 3-4 episodes. It was a polished show and the realistic take on science was a breath of fresh air, but it seemed like the story stopped going anywhere.
- stevenwoo 7y agoI’m a masochist - after eight episodes this is the most disappointing TV show ever based on creators previous work. It’s like an improv or stand up gone bad for five hours.
- carapace 7y agoI gotta disagree. The physics in the show is disappointingly cartoonish in my opinion. The ship is not massive enough for it's gravity to capture the, uh, various items in the orbit shown. Even the orbital mechanics of the delay are just a plot device.
- stevenwoo 7y agoThe latest episode has people freezing solid after leaving through an airlock almost instantaneously- someone on earth survived a longer exposure to vacuum but at closer to room temperature in a suit failure.
- carapace 7y ago(ノ°Д°）ノ︵ ┻━┻ Thanks for the heads up. (Space is cold but it's also empty. You'd boil first from the lack of pressure then freeze, eh?)
- carapace 7y agoOh gawd, it's even worse than that: they don't even leave the airlock, they lit. freeze solid the very instant the outer doors open (with no rush of air!?!) Damn it. I really really like Hugh Laurie (one of the great and simple pleasures in life is introducing someone who only knows him from "House, M.D." to his OG work like "Black Adder" or "Jeeves & Wooster") but it's hard to watch around the problems in this show. Like it's fucking dark. The bad physics wasn't the worst part of that scene. The show is supposed to be a comedy but that was like a nightmare.