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For All Mankind, Season 4, Episode 1 (Patreon)

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2024-11-24 22:55:54
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Glasnost

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FAM4 1

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dys

I had only seen the first 3 seasons before, so now I'm watching this new along with you. How the heck did Ellen get better than single digits in a Republican primary in 1996 much less win... I'm thinking of The West Wing where Bartlett had a tough re-election fight because he hid a medical condition, getting outed as a Republican politician in the 90s would have way more of a backlash. I do like that they keep the old-age makeup relatively subtle, enough to suggest the passage of time without pancaking it on. Kuznetsov touching down on the asteroid by just grabbing loose regolith with his hand had me a bit worried, he wasn't moving that fast but that stuff could be really sharp (no air or water to weather it) and he could have easily torn his glove. Obviously small potatoes to what happens to him later. Recruiting oil drillers to work on the Moon makes a lot more sense than it did in Armageddon, since here they're going up somewhere with an established infrastructure with plenty of trained astronauts around. Took me a bit to place where I knew Dale's actor from, he was the lead in one of the best Black Mirror episodes ("The Entire History of You"). More space physics nitpicks: they said they were using ion drives to move the asteroid so the forces on it shouldn't have been very high. Ion drives are basically electric rockets, they use an electromagnetic field to shoot particles at very high velocities. Because of the high exhaust velocity, they're much more efficient than regular rockets for the same amount of fuel, but they also shoot out much less fuel per second so they accelerate much slower. Think Honda Civic vs. Ferrari Enzo, the Ferrari will smoke it 0-60 but the Honda will get much farther on the same tank of gas. So tl;dr the asteroid just shouldn't have been under that much stress. However this also reminds me of the real-life Rosetta mission where ESA tried to land a probe on an asteroid and guessed wrong about its surface composition, so the thing just bounced off and landed at a bad angle. So I guess here if the surface material was a lot looser than they expected even a small force could dislodge the cables etc. Right with you on thinking they should've cut the thing loose at the first sign of trouble. Last season they had what looked like a more advanced version of the Apple Newton (a real product from the 90s that failed but was ahead of its time in some ways) kicking off the smartphone era early, but now we're back to what looks like Motorola dumbphones from the real 2002.

dys

The episode title, "Glasnost", was the real term for the easing of Cold War tensions between the US and USSR in the 80s leading up to the fall of the USSR, happening about a decade late in this timeline.

Youtalkingtome
>>156313211

When Kuznetsov ran his hand over the asteroid, I thought about the dangers of tearing the glove, too. This definitely worked better than Armageddon for the reasons you mentioned, plus likely a more rigorous selection and training program (I struggled to enjoy Armageddon for a number of reasons, and they stretched credulity too far for me). And yeah, Ellen winning re-election without getting primaried as a Republicans is a big and surprising win.

Roland Cooke

Alexei's mum is played by the Dyatkovo actress, nailing a small but important part again. 🙂