That weekend I flew through all 6 seasons of The Expanse

Last month I had a nasty cold and couldn't move from the couch for a whole Saturday and Sunday. My buddy kept telling me to watch The Expanse for like a year and I finally caved. I started on a Saturday morning and by Sunday night I had finished season 2 and started season 3. The world building is just INSANE with all the politics between Earth, Mars, and the Belt. I loved how they handle space physics like gravity and air, it felt so real compared to other sci-fi. By Tuesday I had called in sick to finish seasons 4 through 6 because I couldn't stop. Has anyone else gotten completely wrecked by a show like this where you just lose a whole week of your life?

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fiona_young2mo ago

Did you catch that bit about how the Epstein Drive was based on real science?

the_hayden2mo agoMost Upvoted

Wait, wait, @fiona_young are you serious? I completely missed that and now I'm kinda freaking out, that's wild.

lane.cameron1mo ago

Whoa, hold up, I think there's actually something even crazier that @fiona_young might have meant! The Epstein Drive works on the same principle as a real-world project called Project Orion from the 1960s, where they planned to use nuclear bombs for spaceship propulsion. So yeah, the author took that old classified idea and made it sound super futuristic in The Expanse. It blew my mind when I found out because it's not just made-up sci-fi magic, it's based on something people were literally building back then. You gotta look up Project Orion, it'll freak you out just as much as the Epstein Drive did!