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Old 04-07-2016, 07:01 AM   #23809
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I really enjoyed this series. What kind of thing was it that you felt lacked research?
Everything that involved space travel.

The description of the spaceship leaving a rotating dock. The idea that the US has a region of space it claims as its own and must 'patrol' to maintain sovereignty. The idea that a spaceship could hide optically by having a load of cameras and emitters. The idea that a spaceship could hide in the infra-red by careful management of heat (it's hard for a spaceship to not be warmer than background of 3K.) The idea that you can recover energy from waste heat. Innumerable bits of zero gravity and/or acceleration rubbish, e.g. the idea that there was no problem while getting 'gravity' from being on a ship attached to a rotating spacestation, but that being on a steadily accelerating ship under way might cause motion sickness.

So many, many things. It was just all too much.

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