10 thoughts on “The Expanse”

  1. Someday I am gonna end up binge watching this from start to finish. I will probably queue this up along with Babylon 5 and the remake of Battlestar Galactica. They’ll be sending out search parties looking for me….

  2. First series was gripping although Holden is a complete jerk and his girlfriend should be spaced without a suit. Loved the Detective Miller character, Belter argot and customs, the Martians, fusion powered ships etc. Could have been great.
    BIG problem – they spun up Ceres to produce 1/3 g at the surface.
    How does it hang together???
    Scientific realism???
    Also Avasarala and cronies seem to be too stupid to realise that 30 billion people on Earth are in poverty because of her and her kind. Earth descending into a poverty striken, bureaucrat ridden, crony capitalist society seems quite realistic. Just “bad luck” I guess.

    1. You understand that they’re living in the interior of Ceres, with ‘low rent’ districts close to the center of spin with high Coriolis, right?

      1. Yep I do. How do spin up a minor planet so there is 1/3 g at the surface (your head points to the center of Ceres) without it falling apart? Surface gravity of Ceres is roughly 1/30 g. Ceres would disintegrate, no question. Let’s face it the writers screwed up BIG TIME.
        Whole damn series was far too grim as the body and blown up spaceship count relentlessly keeps increasing, then it went “woke” and I lost interest.

      2. They actually paid to use CGI to show the detective’s beer bending as he poured it into his glass from the bottle. They didn’t have to do that, but they did anyway.

    2. Well, some nattering nabobs of negativism might note that Ceres has a surface gravity of only 0.03 G’s, so if you spun it even slightly all the rocks would fly away. But that’s why we add a surface wrap to it to make it the solar system’s largest ball of twine…

  4. Cool! Hadn’t thought it through that much. They’re flying around on fusion-powered spaceships that can maintain a chosen g-level for an entire trip, so some sort of support structure within a tunneled-out asteroid might be one of the smaller impossibilities to accept.

  5. Yeah, the support structure can be made of Scrith.
    Alternatively they could have gone with an O’Neill type habitat in the Belt, or multiples thereof.

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