A manned mission to Mars under strict radio silence, other than telemetry, is insane. But this is North Korea we're talking about. I think the show has done far worse things (ie, the debris hitting the orbiting hotel in the first episode).It's so sad that so much effort was spent on something so monumentally stupid. With a single stroke of their pen they have invalidated the premise of the entire season. It succeeds both in destroying any rewatch value Season 3 has but it also messes up with the characters and the wider world of the show as a whole. Every character's and every organisation's intelligence is immediately brought into question. Neither NASA nor Roskosmos tracked this vessel on any of its stages nor did they kept a close eye on it while they were out there, things that you would expect to be routine on a voyage to Mars, on which they were also embarking on. They just took North Korea at its word. No character, all of them trained astronauts and cosmonauts didn't think it odd that a North Korean thing was also on its way there, maybe take a second look, you know. Makes you wanna join the protesters outside JSC and "defund NASA".
In short, to paraphrase another great showrunner "Everybody kind of forgotten the DPRK and their probe"
I'm still giving the Season a chance and waiting to see if Episode 10 can justify why North Korea was able to win the race to Mars, that episode is going to be 80 minutes long so we will likely be seeing the journey and struggles of the North Korean astronaut.It's so sad that so much effort was spent on something so monumentally stupid. With a single stroke of their pen they have invalidated the premise of the entire season. It succeeds both in destroying any rewatch value Season 3 has but it also messes up with the characters and the wider world of the show as a whole. Every character's and every organisation's intelligence is immediately brought into question. Neither NASA nor Roskosmos tracked this vessel on any of its stages nor did they kept a close eye on it while they were out there, things that you would expect to be routine on a voyage to Mars, on which they were also embarking on. They just took North Korea at its word. No character, all of them trained astronauts and cosmonauts didn't think it odd that a North Korean thing was also on its way there, maybe take a second look, you know. Makes you wanna join the protesters outside JSC and "defund NASA".
In short, to paraphrase another great showrunner "Everybody kind of forgotten the DPRK and their probe"
They probably presumed the mission a failure and the astronaut dead. It would be a hit to national prestige to admit their failure.(by the way why has NKorea nothing say about this ?)
If north korea won the space race on mars and margo a spy is discovered it will tarnish the ellen presidency. Preventing the things she wanted to do, regarding lgbt rights.Any future president can easily undo Ellen's executive order.
But I guess it would depend on the possible backlash.
maybe it was something more unique to the ussr itself? none of the Soviet leaders were even lgbt tolerant.Well, those particular Soviets have been around the gay astronaut for months now, so that's bound to change their personal perceptions. Also, I don't know about the USSR, but within the communist bloc, East Germany decriminalized homosexuality before West Germany.
Hmm... I wonder if anti-Japanese sentiment came about like it did in our 1980s?North Korea landed a man on Mars.
Thomas Paine was going to South Korea.
China is said to have a Moon base.
India is said to have a space station.
but Japan does not get any mention at all (other than the above chart). In OTL, Japan was the first non-superpower country to launch a Moon probe (Hiten in 1990) and an attempted Mars probe (Nozomi in 1998, but it failed to achieve orbit).
that would be interesting. Instead of China being the factor that would dispute the world order. It is Japan that wants to transform this order. It has good relations with most non-Asian countries.Hmm... I wonder if anti-Japanese sentiment came about like it did in our 1980s?
So why not have Japan be the sleeping dragon?
Also then Moore can use cyberpunk references in the series more if he wishes.that would be interesting. Instead of China being the factor that would dispute the world order. It is Japan that wants to transform this order. It has good relations with most non-Asian countries.
Unlike China's absence, we can be reasonably sure it's not an AppleTV decision. After all, there's a major Japanese component to Invasion.North Korea landed a man on Mars.
Thomas Paine was going to South Korea.
China is said to have a Moon base.
India is said to have a space station.
There were ESA astronauts on Skylab and Jamestown Base.
But Japan does not get any mention at all (other than the above chart).
In OTL, Japan was the first non-superpower entity to launch a Moon probe (Hiten in 1990) and an attempted Mars probe (Nozomi in 1998, but it failed to achieve orbit).
Japanese astronauts were also part of the Space Shuttle program in the 1990s (along with a journalist who launched on Soyuz), and there was a mini-shuttle (HOPE) in development until it got cancelled.
So why does Japan barely get a role in this space-wank timeline?
Also there is this 1962 article from TimeUnlike China's absence, we can be reasonably sure it's not an AppleTV decision. After all, there's a major Japanese component to Invasion.
Though about Paine, it's reasonable to surmise that his trip to Seoul would've featured a huge Japanese presence, almost certainly greater than South Korea's.
Like an asteroid mining project that's a giant version of Hayabusa?This is how Japan could be in private space as they may go for a prize no one has dreamed of yet, meteors.
Exactly!Like an asteroid mining project that's a giant version of Hayabusa?