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I really liked season 1 and got through season 2. The race to Mars was okay, and I gave up in season 5.
My biggest nope was the guy smuggling Mars rocks to Earth.
The Mars base has US and USSR intelligence agents, plus private security. The stones are being sold openly on Earth, even advertised in newspapers. Somehow it's a secret???
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Well that's the thing.. It doesn't stay a secret..
But yeah same, S1 was fantastic but everything afterwards was not nearly as good and at some points genuinely bad. Hopefully Star city doesn't follow the same pattern.
I've heard good things about Star City, but I found it too Soviet.
Might retry it at some point.
too Soviet
I mean… that’s like… the entire point of the show.
You can launch a mission to the moon whenever you want. Launch windows are mostly just about doing it economically. If you've got unlimited budget and political will, you can - more or less - send up as many rockets as you want, whenever you want.
None of the things you're describing are actually impossible, just really, really difficult. That's an important distinction. The fact that they accomplished them speaks to how desperate they were.
It’s alternate history, the space race accelerated all the research and development related to the space race.
And you can launch once a month, not twice a year, you can launch more frequently. But the logistics and costs don’t make sense.
Large part is not being able to operate in the dark on the moon, that’s the limiting factor.
the space race accelerated all the research and development related to the space race
I'm pretty sure this is how it works in real life too lol. we just stopped veeery early into the space race
It does, but EVs and Solar crop up in the 80s far more in the show than real life too. It’s not just for space.
Operating in the dark is another case of "very difficult, not impossible." RTGs were invented in 1954, so portable nuclear power is absolutely an option they could and would have used.
Its the manned part, cant really build the ships that well or they’re too heavy to lift off or something along those lines.
My brother in Christ can you use a single punctuation ever once? Are you on meth?