[ExI] The Expanse is science fiction like television has never seen

[Brent Allsop]

Hi Giulio,
Thanks. Yes, I do like altered carbon, but it has been a while.
I should get caught up.


On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 10:08 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
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> Easy to find on the torrent nets.
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> On 2020. Jan 12., Sun at 16:41, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
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>> Since I only watch golf and tennis on TV I was interested to learn that
>> the books I have been reading, Corey, are now TV shows.  So I went to my TV
>> and searched and it showed no episodes available.  So how to I watch it?
>> If I can, can I watch it from the beginning?   bill w
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 6:47 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
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>>> In the Expanse, do they have any uploading, computational binding neural
>>> ponytails, bodies and avatars that don't need spacesuits of any kind, and
>>> can be easily replaced and re-uploaded when destroyed....
>>> I hate it when they do lots of hard things, like faster than light
>>> travel, or any significant space travel into the "expanse", whole body
>>> teleportation,  and on and on, yet they can't yet do easy, higher priority
>>> things like overcoming plain old dumb animal bodies that age and die at the
>>> drop of a hat. Or nobody interested in recovering dead ancestors and
>>> memories I.e. history.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 12:47 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
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>>>> I LOVE The Expanse! I am watching the show and reading the books in
>>>> parallel. Of course the books are better than the show, but the show is
>>>> reasonably close (and much closer than usual) to the books. This is the
>>>> first science fiction show that I really like.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 2:59 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <
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>>>>> "What I love about this show is that it's “realistic” science fiction.
>>>>> There's no faster-than-light travel, no crazy artificial gravity or dopey
>>>>> aliens. It's just people like us, in an actually possible world. Honestly,
>>>>> it's great. So I was excited to get a chance to talk to the showrunner of *The
>>>>> Expanse*, Naren Shankar—who, I have to mention, has a PhD in applied
>>>>> physics."
>>>>>
>>>>> Any big Expanse fans on the list?  :  )
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.wired.com/story/the-expanse-is-sci-fi-like-tv-has-never-seen/
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