Mr. Perkins you are not the only person who fondly remembers "The Interesting Four."

Yeah, I noticed the fake punch.

I saw this a couple of nights ago. The weird thing is that in Part I where Michael Corleone is in Italy, there's these weird 1-second bits that in one version I can remember — it's been circulating so long I can't remember which one — that were edited out. Specifically, in the Italian cantina / restaurant, where…

Yeah I am not a fan of 'James Dean' either, it's ok, but not a go-to.

I just started watching this show (on Vudu) and I'm into the first eps of the first season so this caught my eye.

I'm going to say that Unlike a lot of people, I actually dug the Eagles. I first heard them as a grade schooler plating the Greatest Hits 1971-1975 album (and yes it was vinyl on a goddamned record player thank you).

Interestingly three of those are from the "On the Border" album, which I have to say is sort of a favorite of mine. I think I ran that tape into the ground in my car, on more than one cross country trip.

I think the idea of Targaryens as Normans works really well, actually. You have the language analogue (Valyrian as spoken by the Targaryens). As in England nobody really cottoned to speaking Norman (which is basically an old uncle of modern French). On the other hand the influence on English was huge; one of the…

Never saw Bowie. I did see Reed — twice, actually. Smith and Iggy, no. (I guess I was never quite cool enough as a teenager :-) )

A couple of years ago Lou Reed left us, and now David Bowie. I feel like there's a whole cultural moment passing away before our eyes.

This is a limitation of the sitcom format I think. Animated sitcoms have some more leeway in some respects, but the writers have to have the freedom to use it.

Thanks a lot - and yeah, I hadn't done the PVT math right. TO me a better motivator would simply be all the stuff I listed above — heavy metal poisoning , or even health issues with dust (which in a low g and no-liquid environment becomes much more abrasive than on Earth).

that's fine - I'm glad to have your input because you got me thinking about things in a way I hadn't for a long while.

Also thanks on the avg cruising speed — the numbers I ran assumed less than that, and I think the name threw me off.

yeah i do want to read the books now. My thing though is that the reason this show is great is it can take the points about the science and really use them well to create drama — the Martian did so also. This isn't an idea unique to science fiction by the way — there's a lot of drama in To Build a Fire and that's all…

When I say more I mean a greater percentage at higher partial
pressure. Doing a little math at 8,000 feet (2400m) you're breathing a
higher O2 percentage to maintain comfort - the pressure goes to 80 kPa or about 12 psi, so to keep the same amount of O2 going you'd have to move it from 20% or so to 24% or…

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!

0.3 g to a Belter would still be on the high side, but that would
depend on how much is maintained for Ceres. (Do the books say?) Ceres' natural gravity is only 0.02g.

It's the physics nerd again. :-)

Whatever you think of Avery, I can't fathom why anyone allowed Dassey's confession. He was fed leading questions, and the kid clearly from the tape has zero understanding of what's going on.