Good points!

I second that motion, true-true.

It was really impressive, especially on watching repeatedly, how perfectly understated Miller's big moment is. Diogo goes "We dead", and he simply responds "We?". And picks up the bomb.
It's like the decision was made long ago, and now he just acts on it. No fuss, no glory, just the way things were supposed to go.…

Why, you guessed correclty!

(miraculous, last-minute escape, due to massive violation of the laws of physics)

The plan seems to be for the HMS to get pulverised on hitting Eros.
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The engines were kept running up to the last minute, judging by what Miller sees.
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And Eros seems to jump at the last minute, going by the display on the Rocinante.
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Kinda…

Hah! Nice to see all us Nauvoo truthers coming out of the woodwork. How hard can it be to get a forlorn hope/volunteer crew to simply make sure that Huge Object A hits Huge Object B? There were enough people volunteering to be thrown at a space station in a cardboard box a little while ago.
I can sort of understand it…

It's funny, I'm OK with The Expanse's effects precisely because of B5. That show kind of taught me to look at the general feel, form, movement and composition and not at the level of detail or photo-realistic representation. So as long as the effects support the story visually, I'm good. In fact, more than good. And…

(puts on spacesuit)

(forgets face mask)

Actually, chess games can end in a draw.

"Good news, that radiation leak's fixed!"

Hmm, I should have phrased that more clearly. I was not refering to thrusters on Eros, rather I expected the Tycho crew to give some maneuvering capability to the Nauvoo.
As you say, balistics is fairly doable in a simple launch (even with a few slingshots along the way, as we saw with Rosetta) but my impression was…

We're all physics guys here, only some of us are too lazy to do the math.
Actually @eloisepasteur:disqus has it right, Eros didn't move 10km, it just lurched a bit, so a rather different scenario to what you calculated. And let's not forget that this takes place in orbit, so there is both a trade-off between kinetic…

"Tune in next week!"
Not sure if we'll get answers -the show is not too rushed with its reveals, so far- but we'll probably get a better handle on what the precise questions should be.

Depends on the nudge, I guess.

But you're right, unless someone sits down with pen and paper and calculates it, it's probably reasonable to assume that it may be on the unfeasible side, after all.
It's just that this is such a single bullet mission, I'd expect them to at least make some attempt to compensate for…

I think she's straddling a very fine line between "we're a futuristic multi-cultural society with many accents" and "the lines are learned phonetically". It does work, mostly because the character is generally played as an intelligent schemer who wears whatever mask is appropriate for the situation and is careful not…

Given Avasarala's main concern is the safety of Earth, she could be Mao's next choice. He probably got Errinwright on board with the "protection of mankind from the unknown" talk, maybe he'll try cutting the same deal with her. She does not appear to be the type who would balk at his methods in the general sense.

@dynamixro:disqus , thanks! That was…erm…a little worrying, to be honest.

Yeah, initially I misheard it as "Erasmus", and when the name on the spacesuit came on screen it was "who would give that horrible, unlucky name to a ship?".

Well, it's got realistic physics, at some point gravity was bound to kick in!

(I cannot apologize enough for how bad that was)