Physicist Reacts to THE EXPANSE is the Most Scientifically Accurate TV Show 

not to mention that this second engine would be better used as additional thrust together with the original one, or not at all due to it being dead mass half of the time which slows acceleration. the halfway flip seems like the best solution.

Also, if flip and burn is good enough for NASA, it’s good enough for The Expanse.

Grav Boots the floor is where you dictate it

@@danii7584 Yeah having 2 engines like that would seem like a massive waste for anything other than maybe redudancy. Other than that it's just extra unnecesary mass.

@@TheArrowedKnee absolutely. even redundancy would be questionable, because you have to set that mass into motion and thereby need more "fuel", so the cost for this redundancy would be too high. all hail the flip and burn! :)

Yeah and also let's not forget that if you wanted to turn on the reverse thrusters then before you even reach the halfway point to your destination you would have to get all the way from the engine room at the back of the ship then run all the way to the engine rooms of the reverse thrusters and tell the engine crew at the back of the ship By Radio within the ship to turn off of the engine at the back of the ship so that they can turn on the reverse thrusters which is hardly ideal. 😅😅😅😂😂😂

Yeah, he's been on set and interview props people and so on. Adam Savage was in his natural habitat.

Of course! And that's not without taking into account the time you would need to run all the way from the engine room at the back of the ship to the reverse thrusters engine rooms, and using radio communication within the ship to let the crew at the engine room at the back of the ship know when to turn off the engine in the engine room at the back of the ship so adding this complication before you even reach the halfway point to your destination almost all the crew in the engine room at the back of the ship will need to run all the way to the engine rooms of the reverse thrusters then contact the crew that still in the engine room at the back of the ship to turn off their engine so that they can turn on the reverse thrusters so yeah also this would make the ship less aerodynamic meaning you would have to waste way more money on the ship's fuel then you would by just building the ship with one engine at the back of the ship making the ship even more expensive so yeah tons of complications! 😅😅😅😅😅😅

great react vid!

Designed by a group of obnoxious elitist "nerds" like Spacedock that can't stop jerking themselves off about how much better their ideas about sci-fi are (Dude has an entire video whining about alien ships looking alien and non-human). The ships look decent until you know the slightest bit about how warships like that would need to function. Covering your ship in volatile engines is idiotic, and a massive fragile rotating disk at the center of your warship is nonsensical at best. Reverse thrusters are a waste of space and weight in even slightly realistic settings, without even getting into the risks. Also his bait and switch of promising The Sojourn would be free and then changing it after he met his Kickstarter goals, and only updating people about the change in an obscure update post that only a literal handful of people saw. They actually made agreements with groups they partnered to release them on RU-vid alongside other but The Sojourn reneged on it without telling them and. One group was The Templin Institute. They desperately wanted to copy Battlestar and The Expanse and failed. Several of their ship designs are even blatant copies or ripoffs of other series.

Wtf man?

What the fuck

All he needs is a "nose ring" and a broken Gucci chain.

it doesn't just slow but stop things, and the only reason ships don't get torn into pieces is that structure and material prevents it. not sure how you came to your conclusion.

​@@danii7584 my conclusion still applies. It would stop everything, so nothing would get torn to pieces no matter how weak it is

Tthis is explained in more detailed in both show and book (minor spoiler): the ring slows the largest object passing through, like a ship, not what is contained in the object, like the pilot or any stray items. This means the ship stops dead in its tracks while the pilot retains his inertia and gets torn apart

@@vibaj16 how would it apply? everything gets stopped equally, but the ship is robust enough to handle to sudden stop, whereas the human body is not. and even the ship has damage now, probably. they even make it a point in the books that you can't escape a torpedo since it can accelerate faster than a ship because it isn't limited by the well being of living beings inside of it.

@@ill3260 is it? I read the series twice and can't remember something like that. and also it would be questionable considering that at some point projectiles are stopped inside. but feel free to post a reference. one might make the argument that the tip of the ship reached the zone and stopped. what exactly is the argument here? that the zone stopped the ship non-violently? and that the ship and its pilot act as one mass and should be stopped the same non-violent way?

@@Gabriel-br4qeso season 3 right after they opened the gates, then they decided to cancel it? What is it with these people canceling shows exactly when they get to the highest point? In this case they would've been probably right to do it, but we would've never known. lol That means I stopped in season 5 or so. @I was a fan of the show, and the show really is *very* good; till the glowing worms in cave turning point. And I gave them another chance the next season to redeem themselves... to no avail. It's like they switched writers after season 3.🤔

@@johnnyd1790 Syfy had a bad deal with it. Since they don't have streaming they were only getting paid for the views from people watching when they aired it on their network, but most people were obviously watching it on streaming later. They were losing a ton of money on it. "And I gave them another chance the next season to redeem themselves... to no avail. It's like they switched writers after season 3." Season 5 was great, and the writers never changed. It was the same people the entire time, including both book authors working as producers.

@@Gabriel-br4qe Nope. Amazon was just the distributor. They had nothing to do with production. Alcon Entertainment owns the rights and was the production company for the entire run of the show. "That's why the last season was shorter and felt so rushed, it's because they put pressure on the showrunners to just end it." That's not at all what happened. Ty Franck has talked about it extensively on Ty and That Guy. It was simply a budget decision. He said they could have either made 10 episodes, but not have the budget to go all out and do exactly what they want, or do less episodes and be able to do what they wanted. There's a lot of space battle scenes in the season and all the CGI work is expensive.

@@davebcf1231o.o' OK. But I was bored.😝

Season 4 was the weakest of the 6. They strayed a little too far from the book. Seasons 5 & 6 are great and books 7-9 are fantastic and if they don’t come back and finish it, well we’re missing out.