u/KwehTheGreh

I don’t mean “where is the space stuff”. I mean the writing seems to have divorced itself almost entirely from physics and the like. I’ve been fine with hand-waving the alternate-timeline tech, ignoring Mars gravity, etc. Some things need a little bending for dramatic effect or the practicalities of filming. But in a single episode (massive spoilers for S05E07):

• >!Kosmos-1, presumably traveling around 40,000kph (Sojourner-T’s speed), skips off Titan’s atmosphere and heads for the gravity well of Saturn, whose surface is 1.2 million km away… and everybody onboard dies in minutes.!<
• >!Sojourner-T is at an inflection point where they can burn for Mars (by way of Saturn) OR Titan. They burn for Titan… and start entering its atmosphere immediately.!<
• >!A massive hole opens in a massive dome, exposing it to the relative vacuum of Mars’ atmosphere, and of the dozen-ish people a good hundred yards or more from the only entrance (who would have to run against the air rapidly getting sucked out the aforementioned massive hole, breathing thin atmosphere and dust, and somehow get back into the pressurized base without exposing said pressurized base to the aforementioned relative vacuum)… one dies and two are in bad shape. EDIT for the “you don’t understand pressure” crowd: Mars’ atmospheric pressure is less than a tenth of the Armstrong limit, a point after which hypoxia knocks you out in about 10 seconds, and you‘re dead in a minute. Moments after that hole became big, and the depressurization became rapid, everyone still in the dome was doomed. !<

I don’t need the show to be SO accurate. I’m here for the Baldwins and Stevenses being nuts, Margo smirking, Danielle being a brilliant, witty sage, and moments of pure hope and wonder. But I need SOME grounding in reality.

What happened? Did the writers lose their only science advisor or something?