So what happens when the people on AC need their phones sanitized?
Netflix greenlights new "Lost in Space"
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What are they doing with their phones to need them sanitized? Forget that, I don't think I want to know. LOL.
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As long as they escape the Space Goat.
If Don has been around "making rounds," that means the Resolute crew aren't the first colonists to leave Earth. This just occurred to me after reading the stuff about Don smuggling alcohol. I initially thought these people were the first to colonize Alpha Centauri.
I think they are the 24th colonist group.
The plot is similar to the movie 2012, whereby only the few chosen rich, powerful, influential, and highly skilled individuals were allowed to board the arks when the mega-tsunamis swallowed the lands.
Some people are overthinking the black hole thing. Black holes aren't vacuum cleaners sucking stuff in. Black holes are only more dangerous that any other object if you fall far enough into its gravity well to start spiraling in, or end up in X-ray blast land. I mean, if our sun were suddenly a black hole of identical mass, nothing about the orbits of the planets would change. If you have the right orbit you'd sling by a black hole far enough away not to encounter any of its relativistic effects. The black hole's dance with the other star in LIS is what causes the planet's crazy elliptical orbit, that's all. So it gets close to the sun and bakes, then slings out and freezes, wash, rinse, repeat.
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It does make you wonder how life ever evolved on the planet? Constantly baking and then freezing over and over.
Funny- just like the planet in the first few eps of the original series. Extreme cold, then heat.
As for selecting which Humans get to escape a global cataclysm, there’s an example in Patrick S. Tomlinson’s Children of a Dead Earth series. Book 1 The Ark, Earth’s resources were used to built the eponymous escape craft. Through intense testing, only the best Humans were selected: intelligent, extraordinarily healthy, no criminal or adverse psychological tendencies in them or their family history. Due to that, violent tendencies only develop again after a few generations, and there’s no murder until late in the game.
I like that.
You don’t want a lottery. You want the best of the best to ensure the survival of the species and civilisation (under such extreme circumstances). So if your great aunt was a dealer, you’re out. If you suffer hay fever, you’re out.
In LIS, Earth is deteriorating but not dying. So there’s the crisis that requires selecting but it is not so dire that you can’t be lenient. Otherwise, what would be the odds of anyone being related to another selected?
I like that.
You don’t want a lottery. You want the best of the best to ensure the survival of the species and civilisation (under such extreme circumstances). So if your great aunt was a dealer, you’re out. If you suffer hay fever, you’re out.
In LIS, Earth is deteriorating but not dying. So there’s the crisis that requires selecting but it is not so dire that you can’t be lenient. Otherwise, what would be the odds of anyone being related to another selected?
The best hard sci-fi depiction of an "evacuate Earth" scenario that I've encountered is 'Seveneves' by Neal Stephenson.
The catalyst is a lot more urgent (the Moon inexplicably starts to break up) and the level of technology is more or less current for present day. But IIRC the selection process is something like one third "best of the best", one third "the people that actually know and can do shit that'll keep everyone alive" and one third "global lottery" with restrictions on age range, health, quotas for ethnic/genetic diversity and an absolute prohibition on any world leaders, government types or their families being eligible. Then on top of that they ship up several million frozen embryos for when population expansion can recommence.
That seems like the sensible way to do it because if you restrict the selection to just an exclusively hand picked group, you're going to end up with a certain bias, intentional or otherwise. Also, just from a pragmatic standpoint, good luck keeping all the world's governments working together to get that many people off the surface without at least *some* of their citizens being saved.
By contrast, the situation in LiS seems less like fleeing a dying world and more like the various European colonial pushes of the 16th-18th centuries where most settlers are just people of modest means looking for a better life.
The catalyst is a lot more urgent (the Moon inexplicably starts to break up) and the level of technology is more or less current for present day. But IIRC the selection process is something like one third "best of the best", one third "the people that actually know and can do shit that'll keep everyone alive" and one third "global lottery" with restrictions on age range, health, quotas for ethnic/genetic diversity and an absolute prohibition on any world leaders, government types or their families being eligible. Then on top of that they ship up several million frozen embryos for when population expansion can recommence.
That seems like the sensible way to do it because if you restrict the selection to just an exclusively hand picked group, you're going to end up with a certain bias, intentional or otherwise. Also, just from a pragmatic standpoint, good luck keeping all the world's governments working together to get that many people off the surface without at least *some* of their citizens being saved.
By contrast, the situation in LiS seems less like fleeing a dying world and more like the various European colonial pushes of the 16th-18th centuries where most settlers are just people of modest means looking for a better life.
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It is maybe telling that they don't entrust the colonists with the ability to create a handgun. You would think just for survival purposes a rifle at least could be handy.What's with the lack of guns? Aren't they mostly Americans?
Just finished episodes 6 and 7. On the edge of my seat, at this point. And I don't often feel, you know, actual emotions watching skiffy TV stuff. I choked up over Will and that maligned robot.
Really loving the Don and Judy show as well. And it's about time that someone like Don brought up the elitism of this whole colonial project.
Really loving the Don and Judy show as well. And it's about time that someone like Don brought up the elitism of this whole colonial project.
Maybe. It's "International Orange," the color of the Golden Gate Bridge. Shows up in lots of 50s so movies for some reason.I think the Lost In Space 2018 Jupiter 2 orange hull markings is an intentional nod to the original 1965-68 series Spacepod hull color.
Could that be because of its use in the aerospace industry (e.g. on the Bell X-1)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_orange
Oh OK.... I'll have to go find them. Wasn't Ark In Space with Sarah Jane Smith?
For those people that have seen everything episode 6 really is tragic in that Will must be feeling so conflicted that he orders the robot to do what he did but I felt more for the robot because you could see it was scared, and kudos to the guy in the suit because he only can emote by physical action but this really hit me when I watched the episode. The robot was scared at that point.
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