She's nice for sure. But give me Karen Baldwin.

When does season 4 start?!?

Charpie said:

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When does season 4 start?!?

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I think sometime in the fall - October?


Just finished watching the first three seasons back to back and really enjoyed it. The alt space history was such a great concept to create a show around. Being alt history I totally get their woke angle on everything (and thought it was actually pretty well done for the most part unlike most Hollywood hack jobs) - hell they almost had the perfect title for it even - kind of surprised they went with Mankind instead of Humankind lol.


Man I miss Gordo.

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So I was trying to run down the time line in my head leading into mid 90's. How old will all of the main characters be at this point? Will they pretty much be gone? Season 3 could be entertaining.

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Ed has to have been born in the 1938-1943 time frame since he had finished Annapolis and flew in Korea, making him 57-60.
Karen is the same age.
Molly is about the same age.
Ellen and Danielle are probably 10 years younger making her 47-50.
Margo was around 25 in 1969, making her around 50 as well.
Aleida was 7 in 1969? So making her around 32.

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The Korean War was fought from 1950 to 1953.
Ed would have to have been born in 1931 at the absolute latest and more likely 1929 or earlier.
They've done a terrible job aging these characters.

Just finished season 2. Looking forward to binging S3. Hope it's better than S2 was because there were some pretty ridiculous moments. Ed flipping his T-38 head over tail 3 or 4 times in the dogfight with Gordo being the worst.

$240 Worth of Pudding said:

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Rudyjax said:

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sburg2007 said:

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So I was trying to run down the time line in my head leading into mid 90's. How old will all of the main characters be at this point? Will they pretty much be gone? Season 3 could be entertaining.

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Ed has to have been born in the 1938-1943 time frame since he had finished Annapolis and flew in Korea, making him 57-60.
Karen is the same age.
Molly is about the same age.
Ellen and Danielle are probably 10 years younger making her 47-50.
Margo was around 25 in 1969, making her around 50 as well.
Aleida was 7 in 1969? So making her around 32.

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The Korean War was fought from 1950 to 1953.
Ed would have to have been born in 1931 at the absolute latest and more likely 1929 or earlier.
They've done a terrible job aging these characters.

Just finished season 2. Looking forward to binging S3. Hope it's better than S2 was because there were some pretty ridiculous moments. Ed flipping his T-38 head over tail 3 or 4 times in the dogfight with Gordo being the worst.

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Neil Armstrong was born in 1930 and flew 78 missions in Korea

I didn't know his age offhand but that's precisely the point I was making.

Seems like a lot of things happened during that 20 minute burn in the last episode

Weakest season so far. Missing the original show runner Moore. Way too much time spent on the smuggling ring.

Baldwin's make up and acting were soo soo bad.

I hope that's the end of Margo.
But I'm sure they'll have her consulting from Federal Prison.

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bigjag19 said:

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I'm loving this show every week.

Honestly my biggest complaint is shuttles orbiting the moon.

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That's my question too. You would need to refuel, but the shuttle expends its tank plus those big RS-25s are sea level engines. Seems like they would need Starship

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The SSMEs were perfectly capable of vacuum flight. Most of the Shuttle ascent is above the appreciable atmosphere. They were optimized as "upper stage" engines that could just tolerate sea level conditions. The ahistorical issue is that they were not capable of startup (or restart) without lots of ground support equipment, which is why NASA dropped the idea of using them as second-stage engines on the cancelled Ares vehicles.

Scott Manley did a cool video investigating whether you could use the Shuttle OMS engines to transit from Earth orbit to lunar orbit. It could conceptually be done if you staged a bunch of propellant in Earth orbit along with a bunch of other caveats.