Netflix greenlights new "Lost in Space"
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So, I have a question regarding the gun.
The impression I get is that the "3D Printer" works akin to how they do today, it's a "printer" that's able to mold the requested object out of an available material. Today's printers are usually limited to one type of material, though machines exist for plastics, metals, wood, etc. so let's just extrapolate that the 3D Printer on the Jupiter is able to work with a variety of materials and even combine them if it needs to. It's able to make complicated and intricate machinery too, so things like the socket/torque wrench and the gun which have loose, moving, internal components, gears, etc. It's all conceivably "possible." I don't get the impression that this "printer" was working like the replicators in Star Trek, building things out of store of energy or atoms.
So, was the gun John put into the machine via the thumb-drive, that the robot later "printed" and was later used by (Angela?) a "real" gun in the way we think of them today? That's to ask did the gun fire a bullet through igniting accelerants and explosives or was it purely mechanical maybe at-most augmented by air-pressure.
Because if it worked like a "conventional" gun it begs to ask where and how it made gun powder and the primer for the bullets. I suspect that whatever materials it's able to "print" with that doesn't include explosive materials that'd be needed to make the primer and gun powder.
So the gun had to be purely mechanical aided, maybe, by air pressure right?
The impression I get is that the "3D Printer" works akin to how they do today, it's a "printer" that's able to mold the requested object out of an available material. Today's printers are usually limited to one type of material, though machines exist for plastics, metals, wood, etc. so let's just extrapolate that the 3D Printer on the Jupiter is able to work with a variety of materials and even combine them if it needs to. It's able to make complicated and intricate machinery too, so things like the socket/torque wrench and the gun which have loose, moving, internal components, gears, etc. It's all conceivably "possible." I don't get the impression that this "printer" was working like the replicators in Star Trek, building things out of store of energy or atoms.
So, was the gun John put into the machine via the thumb-drive, that the robot later "printed" and was later used by (Angela?) a "real" gun in the way we think of them today? That's to ask did the gun fire a bullet through igniting accelerants and explosives or was it purely mechanical maybe at-most augmented by air-pressure.
Because if it worked like a "conventional" gun it begs to ask where and how it made gun powder and the primer for the bullets. I suspect that whatever materials it's able to "print" with that doesn't include explosive materials that'd be needed to make the primer and gun powder.
So the gun had to be purely mechanical aided, maybe, by air pressure right?
I think so. Air powered firing some kind of pellet. That would have to be the only logical way for it to work and be fully 3D printed. This show is supposed to take place in 2048 or 49 as the producers said it was set 30 years in the future.
But that also brings up a huge headscratcher (for me anyway) with the timing of all this. If it's 2048 the Resolute has so far made 23 trips to Alpha Centauri with Jupiter ships onboard and no mishaps, that we know of. Now if that's the case these trips happened before the show started, and the big point for me is how long did it take to build the mothership and all the Jupiter ships if so many trips had been done?
When did they start building? To me I'm thinking 2025 or even 2030 to be a little conservative so there's a huge lot of backstory I think behind events in the series. I hope it all gets fleshed out.
I think Monday we find out if they get renewed or not.
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I'd naturally assumed it was 30-years in the future as well, similar to how the original show took place in the 1990s.
True but given the events we have seen over the series I wonder how much earlier all this stuff had begun or was being planned? And when that alien engine was stolen?
I don't - occasional, brief references perhaps but no long expositions or flashbacks to non-main characters. I'd rather see the stories move forward.
It seems like a very expensive series, both in production and advertising, so I guess they have some target audience viewing figures in mind for the various markets - not just the US. In the UK, Netflix hasn't been as successful as Amazon in gaining subscribers but then Amazon Prime offers quite a few more benefits for less money.
I hope it gets picked up but I feat the amount spent on production might be pared back so much that it makes it less attractive to viewers. Their external locations on a new world should also look different from first season British Columbia lookalike world, if possible, but I guess it'd be too expensive to move production elsewhere so Stargate syndrome might well set in.
Yay.................
Only it's a long wait. I wish it could be sooner, how will they explain the kids sudden growth spurts? Time dilation?
Glad to see a Season 2!
Has anyone seen this?
Finished watching it today (been grabbing sections of episodes across lunch breaks while prepping/writing comps exams).
Very much enjoyed it (liked the original as a kid). The actor playing Will is eerily reminiscent of my son (looks, bits of personality) and moments that are difficult for the character resonate with me more viscerally than I’d have expected.
Looking forward to more.
Very much enjoyed it (liked the original as a kid). The actor playing Will is eerily reminiscent of my son (looks, bits of personality) and moments that are difficult for the character resonate with me more viscerally than I’d have expected.
Looking forward to more.
Here's an older article, from before the renewal, about what to expect in season two. I post it both because it teases what's ahead and because I love how the showrunners talk about LiS. They really seem to get the property. I particularly like the part at the end about whether the Robinsons should ever reach their destination.
http://www.indiewire.com/2018/04/lost-in-space-season-2-netflix-interviews-1201952695/amp/
http://www.indiewire.com/2018/04/lost-in-space-season-2-netflix-interviews-1201952695/amp/
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