You’re goddamn right.

I read “tooth-removing drug” and was kinda surprised by the enthusiasm in this thread.

*Puts on tinfoil hat.*

Obligatory HHGTTG quote:

In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioural research laboratories running around inside wheels and conducting frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man. The fact that once again man completely misinterpreted this relationship was entirely according to these creatures’ plans.

My understanding is that’s exactly the point. To make clocks on the Moon be synchronized with UTC and not drift over time. You can only do that by making the clocks physically tick at different rate. This is because of relativity - time itself on the Moon passes at slightly different rate than on Earth, so if your clock is precise enough, you need to compensate for it. Just like GPS satellites need to compensate for being in slightly lower gravity and going fast relative to stationary clocks on Earth’s surface. This isn’t any kind of illusion, this is how the universe really works. If you’ve seen the movie Interstellar, it’s basically the same effect they experienced on the planet orbiting a black hole, just a much less extreme case.

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Yeah, that’s no moon.

As a list with links to IMDB, sorted by date:

I.S.S. (US 19 January, UK TBA)

Distant (19 January)

Roswell Delirium (March)

Dune: Part Two (1 March)

Mickey 17 (29 March)

Rebel Moon: Part Two - The Scargiver (19 April)

Breathe (May)

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (24 May)

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (24 May)

A Quiet Place: Day One (28 June)

Alien: Romulus (16 August)

Arcadian (TBA)

The Electric State (TBA)

Spaceman (TBA)

Ok, after a great finale, I can say that season 2 was definitely a step-up from season 1. Basically the Empire thread continued to be great and the Foundation thread finally became much more interesting and more interweaved with the Empire story line. I even stopped caring that it barely follows the books.

Hober Mallow / Bel Riose death scene was masterfully done.

That can't be said about Salvor's death however. I replayed the scene about 5 times and I can't wrap my head around it, am I the only one? Shouldn't have Gaal be the one who got blasted? I think they must have broken the 180-degree rule or something because I was sure the whole time Salvor was opposite to Gaal with Josiah being between them but that can't logically be true. Such a badly filmed/edited scene, though a complete outlier compared to the rest of the show.

And so much for my theory that Josiah would become the Mule, with the neck scar being the distinguishing mark, lol.

What? They are doing /r/place now? Is that some last ditch effort to make peace with the userbase or even to lure back those who left, lol?

Anyway, I admit I had a quick glance at the canvas, saw the huge text /U/SPEZ IST EIN HURENSOHN, chuckled and left.