Given Rickman's performance in "Die Hard" and Branagh's in "Wild Wild West", Malfoy's not even in the same time zone.

Nah, you're one of the good ones… Ever notice how all lawyers are dicks except for the ones you know personally?

Especially since they hired a ringer for the job.

The thing that bothers me about this shit is, once you've spent enough money preparing for the apocalypse, you've got a vested interest in making sure it happens so you don't come out looking like a gullible idiot.

Sir, I respect where you're coming from, but Dennis Lee recently ate a whole chicken fetus cold straight from the egg.

Well, Bryson didn't do the whole thing either. If I remember the book right, he futzed around in the southern Appalachians for a month and then took a plane to Maine.

I dunno, when I say I was a kid, I mean I was 19. Of course, I also liked airline food.

I've always loved Taste Test and Dave Chang, but I've recently converted to the cult of Dennis Lee. Anybody can eat horrible things, but Dannis *cooks* with them. Like yeah, the f*cking play-doh empanadas. But it was the Chicago-style hot dog terrine that had me screaming "No! Augh, please don't do this!" at my…

Yeah, but it's what the rabbits do with it afterward that's the problem.

When a hurricane hit the island I grew up on in the early '90s, I ate quite a few MREs. I thought they weren't bad at the time: I'm not sure why people say they're so hideous. Maybe because they're buying old ones from surplus stores, maybe because I wasn't a picky eater as a kid, maybe because I didn't have to eat…

I was far too into my G&S at one point, but apparently I've forgotten a ton of it. I was going to suggest "Hail Poetry!" even though the lyrics are completely inappropriate, or the Heavy Dragoon's song from Patience with updated lyrics. But you're right: "When Britain Really Ruled the Waves" is perfect.

Ladies and gentlemen, there it is: the ultimate highbrow dick joke.

Geoff Landis (physicist and SF author) has spent a lot of time digging up info on this. Useful consciousness in vacuum is probably about 10 seconds — 5 if you're under stress. It's not the same as holding your breath at ground level because in vacuum, the oxygen in your blood diffuses out through your lungs,…

I'd definitely recommend the books for a Mass Effect fan.

Not sure, honestly. Planning to look into them. Amos does tell the broad outline of his story in one of the books, though.

You're right that exposure to vacuum isn't instantly lethal as it's often seen on TV, and the show is trying to make that point. But I think the show goes a bit too far: sudden exposure to vacuum would be damned painful for your ears and sinuses, and if you're not super quick you'll lose consciousness and then you're…

Shred of decency sure, but I think it's also that when Octavia gives him the doe eyes, all he can think of is Julie.

Agree, but that's the general direction we've been headed in for the past two thousand years. Scary, eh?

Space is big. Unless he deliberately aimed at Earth or Mars, it'll probably be billions of years before it hits anything. Seriously, there are probably tens of thousands if not millions of natural rocks that size that cross Earth's orbit.

Also there was a text caption at the start of the scene. (In that teensy hard-to-read Expanse font…)