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a4techkeyboard t1_jal89ic wrote

Reply to comment by kingdazy in The Ark is embarrassing! by opiate_lifer

The worst thing is they pepper in attempts to show they pay attention to science like it's a hard science show only to completely disregard that point specifically.

"Oh what about solar sails to push us away from its path? What, we're too far from any suns!"

then later

"Oh, wait, the asteroid is a comet, you can tel by its tail!"

Comets only have tails if they're near a sun.

And nevermind all their inconsistent stuff about gravity.

Establishing the spinning is required for gravity and then... they have gravity on the bits that don't spin. And on the bit that spins, they walk where the ceiling should be and have domes implying they'd be bowl shaped if the gravity was working correctly.

Plus, they're under thrust! They're ignoring thrust gravity, too.

Also, where do they get their seemingly infinite supply of oxygen anyway? They have a leak and suddenly, the air gets refilled just by being to locate the leak, not by actually plugging the leak.

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a4techkeyboard t1_jal88sc wrote

Reply to comment by kingdazy in The Ark is embarrassing! by opiate_lifer

The worst thing is they pepper in attempts to show they pay attention to science like it's a hard science show only to completely disregard that point specifically.

"Oh what about solar sails to push us away from its path? What, we're too far from any suns!"

then later

"Oh, wait, the asteroid is a comet, you can tel by its tail!"

Comets only have tails if they're near a sun.

And nevermind all their inconsistent stuff about gravity.

Establishing the spinning is required for gravity and then... they have gravity on the bits that don't spin. And on the bit that spins, they walk where the ceiling should be and have domes implying they'd be bowl shaped if the gravity was working correctly.

Plus, they're under thrust! They're ignoring thrust gravity, too.

Also, where do they get their seemingly infinite supply of oxygen anyway? They have a leak and suddenly, the air gets refilled just by being to locate the leak, not by actually plugging the leak.

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kingdazy t1_jal6m35 wrote

I fucking died laughing at episode... 2? 3? Where "oh no! we're going to hit an asteroid!" was the premise of the episode? Fucking hilarious. How completely fucking idiotic and unrealistic, even for a bad scifi show.

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opiate_lifer OP t1_jal69xt wrote

Reply to comment by kingdazy in The Ark is embarrassing! by opiate_lifer

You're right about that 2 decade old throwback thing!

Its like a cheap attempt to cash in on the 00s BSG that somehow got shelved and forgotten about.

A ship full of earth's best and brightest who will set up a colony don't know what a comet is("it has a tail!")

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kingdazy t1_jal5pez wrote

I'm absolutely watching it, because it's unintentionally funny as fuck

It also seems like it's a 2 decade old throwback. This show would seem totally normal as a 90s era scifi show, and probably would do ok in the ratings.

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