And to @Thisisnotaninternetmeme — the issue of sunlight getting less intense (yeah, that 1/r^2 is pretty unforgiving) was used as a plot point in Silent Running. And the idea of using a lens/ mirrors to intensify sunlight dates back to the 50s, Kim Stanley Robinson used it but other writers have touched on it too.

You bring up something interesting too. Let's say Eros could basically instantaneously move w/out any inertia. That is FTL, because the only way to remove inertia I can think of is to create bubbles of spacetime where you aren't really accelerating — the Alcubierre Drive, or a version of it.

There is a really interesting question Humans brings up. When you simulate consciousness, when is it really consciousness?

I gotta say I felt differently, but I first saw Sleeper as a kid (I must have been like 8) and no I didn't get most of the jokes then, I just liked the physical comedy). That said, I get where you are coming from here. And I too find the court docs pretty damning. I am more into Allen's early stuff anyway, where I…

If humans ever get to Alpha Centauri they can say hello to Epstein then! (I figure about 100 years in he'd be a good chunk of the way there).

speaking as a writer, I would add that Abraham and Franck are more economical by far with the prose. Martin is in some ways very 19th/early 20th century, which isn't always terrible, but he also has a tendency to lose control of the narrative.

Then I take they reverse-engineered from his records?

Something more careful book readers than I might know: how many gs was Epstein pulling?

FYI unless he signed a deal that would have been very unusual for the period, the money you spend on any movie adds nothing to the income of Polanski. Same goes for actors, writers - the only entity who gets more money is the production company.

Could some of this be generational?

I read the books, but clearly didn't remember a damned thing. I'd forgotten the physics bending part. (For some reason I just remembered that Eros moved, but I couldn't for the life of me tell you how, per the books). I guess I was also just taking the show at face value.

And Fred Johnson says as much. "You were supposed to see other suns."

True I wasn't getting into the effects that Eros would have on the Roci that way — and you just made me realize that if the Roci was still in orbit (or anywhere near Eros, frankly) Eros jumping would be noticeable. (It would mess up the Roci's acceleration, anyway, there'd be a "bump").

Yeah but you' still need a LOT Of thrust to move Eros (or any other asteroid that size) to the sun in anything less than years.

Huh, that's weird, I didn't catch that — I thought they were doing some editing of the perspective? That is he was seeing it near head on
(at the distances involved it would look just like that) and you
wouldn't notice something was amiss for a bit because unless you were
standing right at the aiming point of the…

As a physics guy… let's throw out some possibilities.

I agree, communities can happen in any workplace. Though that in mind one of the reasons that the jobs like Wal-Mart and such don't quite replace it. There's a lot of reasons for that, some of it is gendered expectations of work, on top of lower pay.

Some moments I noted:

I'd a agree with a lot of folks here that the DC movies have multiple problems. B v S in particular (and I think I've said this elsewhere) is actually three different movies mashed together.

"After extolling the virtues of watching the Super Bowl as an escape from
politics, Che confesses he’s hoping to “watch the blackest city in
America beat the most racist city I’ve ever been to.” So that’s a “Go,
Falcons” from Michael Che and some predictable outrage fodder for Boston
sports talk radio."