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