They're doing a lot of this sort of foundation-laying, but I won't mention the other examples because spoilers.

Alex's over-the-top Texanness

I've been re-reading the books over the past few days, really curious about how they'll portray a lot of the stuff for TV. A lot of the backstory (history, politics) is explained in peoples' thoughts, and isn't something that characters would have a conversation about.

Just want to say: you're taking the science seriously enough that you might want to read the books at some point. There's a lot of numerical detail there that the show doesn't get into.

No, I just read this line in the book, it's rated for zero g too. Those Martians do not fuck around.

As others have said, Tycho Station is not on the Moon: it's in the asteroid belt. You'll get a better look at it next week, I suspect. As far as distances, most ships in the book cruise at around 0.3 g — 0.5 if they're in a bit of a hurry — so a 5 a.u. trip takes about a week and a half. Belters usually live in spin…

Wow. That is a) a hilarious performance by Gilbert Gottfried, b) a pretty fantastic set of celebrities for a shitty game show, and c) about the stupidest pair of contestants ever to appear on television.

Yeah, one of the things I love about this feature is how deep the interviewers' pop trivia knowledge is. "And then I worked on this commercial with my friend Bobby Noname…" "Oh, right, from Arcane '50s TV Show. You know he's doing the comedy circuit in Botswana these days, right?" "Really? Wow I should get back in…

Around seventh grade, usually.

Yeah, the Shannara series was where I realized that there's only one sure-fire way to make a truly shitty fantasy series even worse: by trying to turn it into science fiction.

This review was great enough that I checked the byline: is Genevieve Valentine new? Hmm, looks like she's newish, but mostly reviewing shows I don't watch. We need more of her, she's wasted on crap like Reign.

Even CBS demo Grandpa and Grandma have a 42 inch flat panel TV these days

It's not terrorism, it's sedition.

Wait, Ode du Teti or Eau du Teti? Are we making perfume or poetry here, I'm sincerely confused.

The Seven New Signs Of The Apocalypse:
#1: The History Channel

You narrowed it down to the best *seventy-nine*? Jesus H. I still think that prediction of "peak TV" is ridiculous — we're nowhere near the peak yet — but holy crap, we are up to our asses in pop culture these days.

You're off by a factor of 4 on the volume (radius vs diameter) and you forgot the 1/2 in the kinetic energy equation, so it's "only" an eighth of a ton of TNT, but it doesn't change the conclusion: you don't have to get hit by a railgun to have a very bad day.

Another good example of "great effort, but physics doesn't work that way" is the railgun hit that takes out Shed. It's a great scene, but in reality a hypersonic projectile would kill everyone in that room. If it's moving at a couple km/s, its kinetic energy is equal to its weight in high explosives; as it collides…

Agree that The Expanse faces some challenges in explaining the setting to the viewer, both in terms of science and technology and in solar system politics.

Just want to chime in to agree that Slingshot Club, like a lot of things on this show, is a great attempt to add real physics to sci-fi, that totally doesn't work in practice.