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The excellent Emily VanDerWerff has picked the show as her one good thing for the week.

In retrospect, maybe they should’ve given Jamestown an ant colony with no queen. Is that an option?

I guess not? I go there a lot. I have family on the Big Island. You listen to people talk about it. You see the Hawaiian flag at native protests. In the TMT protests you see them flying it upside down, as a sign of distress. Meaning an embrace of the symbol as that of a people in distress...

Lol yeah, you could've picked a lot of other flags to compare it to! Like sometimes in Texas you'll see the Alamo flag flown by people who romanticize independence. Might even look at Quebec? I don't specifically know the history of the flag, but those are certainly symbols of the French...

One thing that's saved the flag is that it has back-handed anti-imperialist associations, which I admit is a really strange thing to say about the Union Jack. But the coalition for retention includes a consensus that the coup that overthrew the British/Native cooperative was not legitimate, and...

According to Google he performed in Hagerstown in 2016, so. He's practically a crabcake.

I can’t find much direct commentary. There’s this from 2001, which sounds very on track for the show. More military oversight of space. Also saw a reference from 1986 to his desire to use a new space treaty as part of negotiation with the Soviets, but it sounded minor next to an amended...

As long as Reagan kept him in 1980. (He probably did, we just haven't seen that confirmed.) I'm still not totally convinced about Hart. Yes, the show's broadcasted in the past who the nominees and winners will be, and that would indicate Hart. But there's so much we know about him IOTL. If...

Too busy, we're all in the Supreme Court :p

Anyone know how the space suit we see up close in this episode rate against OTL 1983 suits?

Wasn’t there a very incidental conversation two characters were having about Hinckley?

That’s true, forgot about Molly. We’ve seen her prejudge people in the past. Not the best baseline for this job.

I got the impression they were keeping the shuttles in orbit at the moon and using some kind of modified lander to get to and from the surface.

Yeah, I see that with Gordo, but I don’t think one incident makes a pattern, you could argue he shouldn’t be running Pathfinder. But then if he really did design the thing as they’ve said (color me skeptical that would be true) then he makes sense.

Agree with you on one thing: Gordo should not be going to space. At the very least, put him through some training first, and then give him an assignment. But narratively he needs a dricving motivation, so it’s clear why they did it this way. But yeah, the real Chief would not be advised in this...

Man, just a three-seater? I guess it makes sense if we’re talking about just being able to get to Mars ASAP. A nuclear engine should mean constant thrust, right? Think there’s a living space oriented 90 degrees to the engine? I’d love to see the interior.

I’m not sure TV gets more access to the war than newsreels and other documentarians did. Perception is still probably dominated by those cooperating with governments. Now that said, I think people were maybe more willing to tolerate at least a degree of inhumanity when it came to killing...

You could be right. Though even IOTL his entire attitude turned to contrition and he used his past behavior as the catalyst to find a new lifestyle devoted to reform and peace. Some of his previous partners have even stuck up for him, though it's entirely possible that's a result of his death...

Your French is impeccable:winkytongue:

Yeah they may have even mentioned a fourth pad in s2e1. But they’re still pushing capacity for launches because Vandenberg specifically is not taking any slack