Totally hate watching right now... I hate that don't have enough time in my life to watch all your stuff!
Love your work man, thank you so much. You bring amazing and quality reactions to the stuff I love and I enjoy watching you unravel the episodes as they come.
About the star buying thing... I won't spoil anything, but in the episode it is related to us that the donation goes towards the planetary defence efforts, so there is that.
Also, about Auggy not being broken to pieces, I think that, same as with other characters, she is defined by mostly things unsaid and undone... And I personally think it's been done awesomely.
Matt (Man of War) Rubin
2024-04-24 21:55:48 +0000 UTC
buying stars is just fancy donations
like you're basically just donating to the effort of catching up and getting some nice paperwork in return, just like when you buy property on the moon right now except iwth more moeny and for a cause
HAL
2024-04-24 21:23:56 +0000 UTC
1:09:30
any random pebble in space is going to come at them at about half the relative speed the probe is
and any random pebble hitting you at that speed is going to do a LOT of damage
if you have a fleet goign that fast oyu will have some form of automated defence system
HAL
2024-04-24 21:16:41 +0000 UTC
Like you, I don't think the earth would unite to face a common enemy. There will always be an element that wants to exploit the situation for personal gain or not believe there is a threat.
Augie is my least favorite character. I think what bothers me is her immaturity. Augie isn't in the books, per se. They split characters in the book into multiple characters for the show.
Craig Shifflett
2024-04-24 20:09:14 +0000 UTC
41:00
there's plenty things most people hate and different people hating them still disagree among each other about other questions
HAL
2024-04-24 19:58:09 +0000 UTC
32:00
well gravity and orbtial mechancis do
but at the kinds of speeds they're going to the suns or earths gravity are almost isnignificant so they're like relevant to take into accoutn for precision aiming but can be neglected for a rough mission layout - accelerate somethign at earth-sun distance to 1% the speed of light nad the suns gravity will slow it down to about 0.999888% the speed of light by the time you leave the solar system behind
HAL
2024-04-24 19:46:42 +0000 UTC
the sophons are kindof currenty beyond our knowledge but at the speeds they're traveling the santi probably don't have any overly advanced fusion reactors, the fact taht they left some of them behind implies they can't just upload their minds or anything, the fact they have to leave in the firs tplace means they can't build controllable large scale space colonies to live in, all things that we're currently also incapable of but have sortof plausible assumptions of when/how we might get there, the sophons are probably hte kind of freak discovery they wanna stop our particle accelerators from making
HAL
2024-04-24 19:24:16 +0000 UTC
22:00
the data you have is a great basis for new theoreis wit ha wider envelope though
just like how relativity and qunatum mechancis both line up very closely with newtonian physics in everyday settings any new universal or wider/more complex theory will have to match up with quantum field hteory iwthin the envelope tested by cern to even be worth considering
HAL
2024-04-24 19:15:45 +0000 UTC
20:40
any scientist seeing a countdown knows they're on the exact right track
HAL
2024-04-24 19:11:58 +0000 UTC
18:10
thats kinda a common argument for why alien invasions are strategically unwise
if you find another civilisation that statsitically implies that htere's probably more out there which means its fairly likely a bunch of other civilisaitosn are evnetually goign to learn what you did and osme of them are probably goign to be a lot more powerful than you and having wiped out someone defenceless because you thought you could get away with it puts you in a really poor diplomatic position because everyone knows thats what you do if they let you
HAL
2024-04-24 19:09:06 +0000 UTC
lying is to intelligence what evil is to conciousness
lying requires intelligence and hte understanding that other beings also have it which opens up the possibility to intentionally dceive that intelligence
evil requires conciousness and hte understanding that other beigns also ahve that level of conciousness which means that harming them happens with the knowledge that you are harming a concious being
HAL
2024-04-24 19:05:53 +0000 UTC
after the eye in the sky, NOT releasing information about the san ti might just lead to even more mass panic, this way there's a dim hope at fighting back agaisnt a distant threat in the future, keep it secret and people are left to interpret the absolute unknown telling htem tehy are bugs themselves