Ser Scot A Ellison

Yes. Hence my question. The Vault was there when the Foundation arrived on Terminus. How did Sheldon get the Vault there before the Foundation.

Polonium Tea will do that to folks…

And an object that was previously demonstrated doing exactly what it does.

How did the mathmatician build it and transport it from Trantor to Terminus before the Foundation arrived?

But what the fuck is it? A pocket dimension? Didn’t Foundation find it there when they got to Terminus? Seldon is a mathematician… Not an engineer. How was “the Vault” created in the first place? Baring weird plots holes I agree this season was several steps above last season. I’m really glad Tellem is done. I found Tellum really irritating for some reason.

The South Carolina Republican caucus is meeting in the hotel my office abutts. I just exchanged… loud… words with a SC State legislator with “Molon Labes” and “don’t you miss Trump” stickers all over the back of his SUV as I walked from the garage toward my office. Complete waste of time. Damn it I’m still angry.

Pot meet kettle with regard to your love for Jar Jar Binks.

When did this happen?

No.

Ringworld! The Black Mountain!

Listen to the interview. Ty and Daniel get into the diffence between UBI and Basic.

Ewwwwwwwww…

Perhaps people who have so much cash they don’t actually know how much cash they have?

That’s incredibly vague. Are you going to go with the “I know it when I see it” half assed answer? [Apologies in advance if I’m pissy. I’m in a really poor mood through no one’s fault]

I’d still like to have a actual definition of “wealthy”…

This is the full interview. She does talk about Basic and UBI… and the books… in depth.

I’m glad Ran changed the title.

Interesting way to drop a teaser trailer…

He’s pretty certianly a bastard. But I don’t know that anyone who is “wealthy” is a bastard. Further… I have no idea how you are defining “wealthy”…

Because it makes a Galactic scale story seem… small.

In a… Galaxy… he’s the only “non-complacent officer”? Really?

If you run into the same police officer in a big city like New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago over and over again… that seems weird and unbelievable unless the officer is following you for some reason. Galaxy’s are bigger that cities… by a lot… outer rims of galaxies are much bigger than galactic cores in terms of space covered. How the hell is Captain Carson… everywhere?

An hour long interview by Megan Chakribourti (she’s apparently about as geeky as we are about this series) of NPR’s “On Point” with Dan and Ty about the world of The Expanse books and TV series: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-expanse-authors-on-the-importance/id121534955?i=1000627556206

This is… interesting… T-55s being deployed. https://x.com/defmon3/status/1700996350429868067?s=46

HoI, Were you listening to pundits and experts in the lead up to the full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine? The vast majority of them, including people here, claimed the Russians were bluffing… right until the invasion started.