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I love the little things in The Expanse that other space shows would typically not bother about. Like when Avasarala is pouring her liquor on the moon base and it floats away. Or when you sometimes have people simultaneously walking on both "floors" of a space station/ship using magboots.

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Agree completely. There's one episode in the 3rd season, I believe, where a lot of damage occurs on a ship full of people (being vague). I always loved how in that episode, they go a lot into the added difficulties of injuries in space. For example, the inability of the body to stop bleeding and clot if there's no artificial gravity, so even minor wounds become deadly. I also think the Expanse presents a more realistic picture of what humans of today would be like in space, not the usual more optimistic version of us...

Really wish they had the budget to pull off how deformed (from our perspective on Earth) Belters appear in the books. Astronauts have to do physical therapy after coming back from space, imagine living your life out there.

I comment on this elsewhere in this thread.

The first belter shown has clearly different proportions compared to Earth humans. Easier to do because that one was restrained and wasn't a main character. But they are aware of that.

> imagine living your life out there.

Worse than that, imagine multiple generations out there. We don't know what's the effect of zero-g on bone growth is.

> inability of the body to stop bleeding and clot if there's no artificial gravity

I doubt that. Citation needed.

The claim is plausible:

* https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/36411/healing-of-b...

Thankfully no one to date has been injured for a 'full test' to have been done. Blood flowing backwards has been observed:

* https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223705-low-gravity-in-...

My favorite is when a certain pilot spends an entire episode running hundreds of combat simulations to program his ship for about fifteen seconds of combat towards the end of the episode- since the fight happens so quickly a human can't react quickly enough.

In preparing for space combat they vent the ship and wear space suits, expecting the ship to be poked full of holes.

When ships travel through space, they can be seen traveling in "reverse" as they arrive, because they are burning their engines to decelerate.

Ships only have "gravity" when they are running their engines.

The scene in the first season when the Martian ship is attacked by projectiles that pierce it right through, and the characters struggle to plug the hole with a binder - that was awesome.

This is incidentally also done on real ships.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXC6U0NfJg8

Yes, and current Royal Navy warships may still have planks of wood strapped to bulkheads because they are an excellent way of shoring something up in an emergency.

Same with US Navy and US Merchant Marine ships.

That was from the rail guns on the Anubis-class ships owned by Jules-Pierre Mao.

I don't think they would've attempted to show people walking on multiple "floors" simultaneously in past seasons (pre-Amazon), due to budget constraints. If anything, I'm hopeful that we'll be seeing more interesting visual quirks in future episodes.

They also "fixed" the music in bar scenes. In the early series it was some dubstep / EDM vibe music which I think is highly improbably that in 320 years it will be any similar to what we listen to today. In the later series, ambient music got more weird.

Is that Moon base on the surface or in orbit - if its the former then I don't think things would "float away" as it has about a sixth of the gravity that we have on the surface of the Earth?

It's on the surface. And the whiskey doesn't float away so much as it looks less anchored to the bottom of the glass & a bit unsteady. I have no idea if they've 100% accurately portrayed the lower gravity, but it makes it clear that there's gravity, just weaker than on Earth.

The final episode has a bottle of whiskey fall from 10 stories at about 3mph. They do a really good job of portraying the weak gravity of the lunar base.

>Like when Avasarala is pouring her liquor on the moon base and it floats away

is this scene in the current season, or previous season?

Season 5.

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