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Other nitpicky things: - Lights inside helmets to light up a person's face is a pretty dumb thing when you think about it, but it makes complete sense in a tv
by yuters 6y ago
Other nitpicky things:
- Lights inside helmets to light up a person's face is a pretty dumb thing when you think about it, but it makes complete sense in a tv series, as you definitely want to see the actor's face.
- Transparent/Glass tablets & phones is still a complete mystery to me how this could be useful in any way... other than it "looks cool".
- musingsole 6y agoAre lights in a helmet dumb? Being able to see companion's facial expressions while not critical would be absolutely useful in day-to-day life in space - TV production reasons aside. On the transparent glass phones: "looks cool" is reason enough for most any consumer product. I haven't read the series, so I don't know if there is some lore explanation somewhere -- but --- if the technology is lying around as some component of a space habitat AND it looks cool, yeah, that tech is definitely going in a phone.
- leetcrew 6y agoif you have lights on one side of a piece of glass and the black void of space on the other, it turns the visor into a mirror for the wearer. not very practical.
- jon-wood 6y agoThe actual mechanics of phones aren’t really explored in the books, which I kind of like. Going into the physical design of them would be like a novel set in 2021 going into detail about the design of an iPhone. They’re also always referred to as hand terminals, which is so much of a better name for the devices we carry around and very rarely use as phones.
- bserge 6y agoThe phones, yeah... Everyone can see what you're doing, how is that a good thing? I guess privacy has taken a nosedive in the future :D
- tastyfreeze 6y agoSee through devices don't make much sense. But, the Expanse has omnipresent person tracking through their profile and camera systems. The computers of a ship or station can be queried to find a person. There seems to be a system wide registry of people and ships. Each ship and station has a copy of both. The whole system makes me think of tests of blockchain based vessel registries.
- jon-wood 6y agoThere’s a few nice touches like that. Fairly frequently there’s references to many different “feeds”, which every time makes me think of the entire solar system clustering around subreddits.
- outworlder 6y ago> Lights inside helmets to light up a person's face is a pretty dumb thing when you think about it Only if you are doing EVA astronomy and need pitch black darkness to see stuff outside. Because you can light up someone's face enough and still not interfere with their activities. Otherwise – it would be important to be able to see the other person's face, both to interact with them, and to gauge their well-being. Their phones are not exactly transparent, they are "holographic". They can project images larger than their own size. Same as many screens depicted in the show.
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- dreamcompiler 6y agoIt's not just about looking cool. It's tough to make a film where characters are interacting with a screen or drawing on a whiteboard because the director usually wants to show the actor's face along with the screen so we can see their reactions. Which is why so often you see shows where actors draw on clear glass whiteboards even though no real office would ever have them. Likewise transparent phones: It's an unrealistic moviemaking concession that audiences mostly tolerate.