There’s definitely room for making jokes around the topic- especially jokes about people glorifying it. The sketch did a piss-poor job of doing that, and I’m not convinced they tried. SNL is a terrible venue for that sort of thing.

It’s a bit funnier live, at midnight on a Saturday. It’s the show you put on and watch because you’re home and not tired enough to fall asleep, or home and not sober enough to fall asleep. Since you’ve already resigned yourself to watching SNL, the bits that are mildly funny are funnier and you just pray for only a…

This is like the ne plus ultra of “body horror.” Don’t Google it if you have a low tolerance obviously.

it is not possible for one observer, by making a measurement of a subsystem of the total state, to communicate information to another observer.

You cannot use quantum mechanics as we know them (both mathematically and experimentally) to build an ansible.

Quantum entanglement doesn’t help you build an ansible. Once you force one half of the entangled pair into a state, they’re no longer entangled. You can’t twiddle one and have the other one twaddle.

But it’s wrong. Quantum entanglement cannot be used to transmit information instantaneously, or faster than light, or without sending a physical signal from place to place. By changing one of the particles’ state, you destroy the entanglement.*

If I send the signal to change the state, it would change instantly on both, no matter if they were next to each other on a table, or across the galaxy from one another.

I personally was disappointed with the opening cliffhanger, it wasn’t as gross as the book imho. Maybe the later gross will be toned down in the show, too.

I took it as another attempt to show the reasons behind how vitriolic some of the Belters are against the planets. They hate the Martians as much as they hate the Earthers. If all you show is a bunch of pissed-off OPA members, it starts to look like they don’t have valid complaints.

I dunno, spacesuits in this universe almost definitely have beacons. You can design active beacons but also design things to go PING when they’re hit by active radar. It’s not far-fetched that you could pick up someone in a space suit if you’re looking.

Imagine space-time is a dartboard. Throw darts to generate civilizations that we would notice, if they were there. Throw one dart. The odds that that dart is only 60,000 light years away and fewer than 60,000 years ago is much, much smaller than the odds the dart is somewhere closer, or older.

The time-lag is irrelevant- it’s cancelled out by all the civilizations in stars 3.5 million light-years away that were broadcasting 3.5 million years ago, but went silent 500k years ago. Luckily, we have 3 million more years left of their equivalent of I Love Lucy reruns to watch.

From the CVE:

“An elegant garment, for a more civilized age.”

Wind-Up Girl somehow posits that the best way to get energy in the crapsack future is genetically modified elephants on treadmills. This... is not going to happen. It just won’t. Flywheels and springs are not good ways to store energy. They could be making biogas, or something.

Yeah, it’s pretty silly. There’s a metric shitton of ES lore, and... it being a far-future post-post-apocalyptic landscape is directly incompatible with all of it.

I think the CGI folks were just sad they had to nuke the Canterbury at the end of the episode, so they wanted to show it off beforehand.

The original notion was a pilotless aircraft with an autopilot.

There is probably some overhead required by sandboxing the tabs into separate processes (compared to a single process) no matter what you do. The upsides are hopefully better than the downsides.