The Science of The Expanse

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  @OrangeRiver · 3 years ago · pinned

  Wow, this is probably the most difficult video I&apos;ve ever had to edit for my channel! Huge shout out to the editors of The Expanse wiki, without whom I wouldn&apos;t have been able to write this script. And special thanks once again to everyone who donated--if you want to get your name in the credits, hit the &quot;Join&quot; button on my channel page or become a patron at <a href="http://patreon.com/orangeriver">patreon.com/orangeriver</a>!

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  @TwoWholeWorms · 3 years ago

  The fact they managed to keep Avasarala in that grey-area between hero and villain for the entirety of the TV series is a masterstroke, IMO. One of the best characters ever committed to film. Agdashloo is a phenomenal actor, and I can&apos;t wait to see what she does next. &lt;3 (I&apos;m also hoping for a return to voice-acting in the <i>Mass Effect</i> universe!)

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  @CaptainSovereign · 3 years ago

  From Mass Effect 2:<br>Gunnery Chief: <br>This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city-buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-b*tch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton&apos;s First Law? <br> <br>Serviceman Burnside: <br>Sir! An object in motion stays in motion, sir! <br> <br>Gunnery Chief: <br>No credit for partial answers, maggot! <br> <br>Serviceman Burnside: <br>Sir! Unless acted on by an outside force, sir! <br> <br>Gunnery Chief: <br>Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someone&apos;s day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not &quot;eyeball it!&quot; This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip! <br> <br>Serviceman Chung: <br>Sir, yes sir!

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  @stuartwelch6432 · 3 years ago

  What I liked most about The Expanse was that most of the tech mentioned, we &quot;almost&quot; have. There is no warp or impulse drive and artificial gravity, as such.<br>What we don&apos;t have is the manufacturing ability. I wouldn&apos;t place the &quot;start&quot; of the Expanse more than 100 years out.

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  @ethal1222 · 3 years ago

  One aspect of The Expanse I really like is how most of the spaceships are designed purely for functionality over aesthetics (especially the Belter ones). Aerodynamics aren&apos;t an issue and there&apos;s no need for them to look pretty. They&apos;re tools used to do a job and built in the most effective way to do that job.

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  @Matthew_BKG · 3 years ago

  Having watched the show and read the books, I love how they both work separate from each other, yet compliment each other at the same time. I really hope we get the last 3 books adapted though, cause the authors have said the first 6 books were just setup and worldbuilding for the story they really wanted to tell, which was the final trilogy of books 7-9. The epilogue was such an emotional read for me, and to see it adapted would be a dream come true.

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  @jeremyippolito7461 · 3 years ago

  That show was gold. One of the best Sci fi shows ever made. Its infuriating that amazon didn&apos;t let them finish the story properly.

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  @kartoflur145 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m pretty late to this video, but at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGyGmPCyDFk&amp;t=1323">22:03</a>, you say there&apos;s very little AI in the Expanse. AI in the Expanse is everywhere, just a lot more subtle than in other shows. Almost all targeting is done by AI, people use AI to access documents, AI plots ship routes, allows Miller to create a Julie voice when he&apos;s in her apartment, etc. Other than that, well made video!

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  @underscore8256 · 3 years ago

  The Expanse in season 1 and 2 was the most faithful book to screen translation I have ever seen. It was only when sci-fi canceled them that they were forced to squish book 3 into 5 episodes. Because of that, they had to deviate, combining some characters&apos; roles into one. Drummer in the show was an amalgamation of characters from the books. Even with that, they stuck faithfully to the spirit of the books, culminating in, if not The, one of the best hard science fiction works ever put to screen. <br><br>Thank you for The Expanse, and for the content. This video brought me to your channel, and the TNG stuff will keep me coming back :)

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  @intellectualredneck1813 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Bobby and her comapanion did NOT throw up/get disoriented when then stepped on earth because of the gravity!!!! They got disoriented due to the Horizon Effect of not being inside a dome/enclosed enviorment!!!! It had nothing to do with gravity at all. It&apos;s stated MANY times as well as her struggle, that everytime she looks up, the world seems to go on for intinity. Still, you did a great video! The Expanse is the greatest scifi show to ever hit the market!

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  @csmic8083 · 9 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGyGmPCyDFk&amp;t=144">2:24</a> what a name

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  @edgarvilar2128 · 3 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGyGmPCyDFk&amp;t=2290">38:10</a> the books mention that the spinning of Ceres was done by Tycho with drives that were then removed. I don&apos;t recall if it was Eppstein Drives or Torch drives though, it is also mentioned that it took several years, maybe decades (can&apos;t quite recall) but it is regarded as one of the greatest engineering projects of the Belt, allong with Tycho station itself and the Navoo/Bahemoth/Medina. I can&apos;t speak of the methods employed on the other asteroids though.

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