Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

[tomBitonti]

Your calculations are correct, and those 3 molecules are enough that all geostationary satellites will eventually fall.

No, they are all low. So “low geostationary orbit” is always correct (if redundant).

I thought that Earth geostationary orbits were quite high. Something like 37000 miles.
Satellites in low orbits whip around every few hours or less, way too fast to be stationary.
TomB

 

[tomBitonti]

I have to say, trad SF fans absolutely doing pretty good this year I feel, for the combo of Strange New Worlds S3, Andor S2 and Alien: Earth, all of which are like, pretty much potential top 10 favourite shows material (for my money). Foundation as well for some people, I'm not following it (despite the hottest man in the world being in it), but my friends who were complaining about S1 a ton now quite like it. Murderbot as well, let's not forget Murderbot!

Very different to trad fantasy, just absolute death march there, cancelled WoT the very second it actually got genuinely good, Rings of Power S2 somehow way worse than S1, not House of the Dragon at all this year, etc. But who cares with how good SF is!

I really liked Murderbot and Andor. S1 Foundation was good, but I couldn’t get into season 2.

SNW is mostly great. I feel like S3 isn’t quite as good as S2, but still mostly good. S3E1 seemed very rushed.

I did not like the twist at the end of the latest episode. And don’t understand the remorse. Those 7000 people were willing to kill millions. And I didn’t buy Kirk’s reluctance to take command. I doubt a first officer gets that role without a good dose of command experience. The basic conflict was nicely done, so I gave the episode a pass.

TomB

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I have to say, trad SF fans absolutely doing pretty good this year I feel, for the combo of Strange New Worlds S3, Andor S2 and Alien: Earth, all of which are like, pretty much potential top 10 favourite shows material (for my money). Foundation as well for some people, I'm not following it (despite the hottest man in the world being in it), but my friends who were complaining about S1 a ton now quite like it. Murderbot as well, let's not forget Murderbot!

Of those, I would rate Andor highest, and it makes the interesting point that you don’t need to be hard SF to be serious SF. Perhaps fantasy could learn from that? GoT might be grimdark, but it doesn’t have anything helpful to say about the real world. I would rate Foundation 2nd, although series 3 has been less good, having a generic villain and less scenery chewing from Jared Harris and Lee Pace (some of that is down to the source material though). Murderbot comes in 3rd in a crowded field, pushing SNW into 4th.

 

[MarkB]

No, they are all low. So “low geostationary orbit” is always correct (if redundant).

Low compared to what? Geostationary orbit is at a distance of nearly three times the Earth's diameter. We send out communication satellites to that distance because they need the geostationary part to operate, but most satellites operate at far lower distances.

 

[Morrus]

I have to say, trad SF fans absolutely doing pretty good this year I feel, for the combo of Strange New Worlds S3, Andor S2 and Alien: Earth, all of which are like, pretty much potential top 10 favourite shows material (for my money). Foundation as well for some people, I'm not following it (despite the hottest man in the world being in it), but my friends who were complaining about S1 a ton now quite like it. Murderbot as well, let's not forget Murderbot!

I love all of those (except haven't seen Murderbot). Foundation I struggled a little with in s2 for some reason, but I'm way back on track with it now. Andor and Alien, I love them both.

Very different to trad fantasy, just absolute death march there, cancelled WoT the very second it actually got genuinely good, Rings of Power S2 somehow way worse than S1, not House of the Dragon at all this year, etc. But who cares with how good SF is!

I'm the opposite way round there. I couldn't watch WoT. I tried, several times, but no go. Rings of Power, on the other hand, I really like. It isn't perfect by any means, but I still find myself looking forward to each episode when it's on. House of the Dragon... it's fine, but it's no Game of Thrones! I'll still watch it all though.

 

[Donald]

Finally caught up.

Ep 4 was good. Not as silly as I feared or the previews made it look. Looks like I was wrong to worry about them leaning into the comedy too heavily even thought the previews made it look like a sitcom. I am surprised no one mentioned Kirk trying to do the Riker Maneuver on the command chair in the show snippets at the end and wrecking the chair.

EP 5 - The Gorn recognizing the aliens possessing Gambel made me theorize the Gorn are possessed by a rival bunch of aliens of the same species, which explains them being different than the ones in 'The Arena'. The Gorn using the binary stars to disappear could be them hopping back to their own dimension.

EP 6 - More good space 'splodie fun. Paul Wesley noticably stepped up his....Shatner pau....ses. Again hooking phones up in the ship came off less silly than the previews implied.

I guess Ortegas overcame her Gorn PSTD off screen and with no trouble?

 

[Mallus]

I did not like the twist at the end of the latest episode. And don’t understand the remorse.

I don’t think Kirk was feeling remorse, exactly. Or not just remorse. More like identification. They started out as explorers, the best and the brightest. Kirk was contemplating how many hard command decisions like the one he just made turned them into the scavengers.

 

[Umbran]

Your calculations are correct, and those 3 molecules are enough that all geostationary satellites will eventually fall.

I seem to have to repeat myself.
The solar wind will take the thing down before the atmosphere at those densities.

No, they are all low. So “low geostationary orbit” is always correct (if redundant).

With respect, Paul, that seems like your idiosyncratic usage.

To NASA:
Low Earth Orbit = orbital period of 128 minutes or less (and eccentricity under 0.25). This is basically anything under 1,200 miles or so.
Medium Earth Orbit = 1,200 miles out to about 22,000 miles (plus or minus a couple hundred miles)
High Earth Orbit = anything geosynchronous and farther out.

Geosynchronous orbit is either the highest MEO, or the lowest HEO, depending who you talk to.

 

[MarkB]

I guess Ortegas overcame her Gorn PSTD off screen and with no trouble?

And didn't even need to serve out her full suspension. Why do they have so much trouble following through on any development of this character?

 

[Necropolitan]

And didn't even need to serve out her full suspension. Why do they have so much trouble following through on any development of this character?

Continuity trouble?

Sounds like a job for the Department of Temporal Investigations!