I did run the numbers on a throw away 1g for 40 hours remark and it works for the distance involved, but it rather ignores relative orbital velocities and the like. Likewise, he ignores the speed of light at one point so they so the explosion from 'almost 2AU away', which is fine, less fine that they apparently see it seconds after it happened and not about 15 minutes later.
I almost threw my iPad at the wall with the scene with the generic pipe smoking scientist explaining the physics... not least of which because Larry Niven used that one 40 years ago in the Man Kzin wars stuff...
I think I've mentioned elsewhere MilSF isn't really my thing, unless it's very dressed up, and this was all very TLAs and YES SIR and other throw away military lines that made it basically read to me like a piece of Aliens fanfic about the colonial marines.
I suppose they're not very into boring stuff like World Building and Internal Rationalization, which is what I actually like.
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I almost threw my iPad at the wall with the scene with the generic pipe smoking scientist explaining the physics... not least of which because Larry Niven used that one 40 years ago in the Man Kzin wars stuff...
I think I've mentioned elsewhere MilSF isn't really my thing, unless it's very dressed up, and this was all very TLAs and YES SIR and other throw away military lines that made it basically read to me like a piece of Aliens fanfic about the colonial marines.
I suppose they're not very into boring stuff like World Building and Internal Rationalization, which is what I actually like.