Asteroid Stopped Spinning - Huh?
Why even mention this or go there? Why? It's a rock, the gravity is next to nothing. If it was spinning to create 1g, then people on the outside ports would have to hang on to avoid being flung off. Are they trying to say the inside was hollowed out and the spinning helps like some kind of cylindrical space colony?
Then the whole thing impacts Earth anyway. Again, what's the point in even mentioning this?
Yeah I didn't really get this mention at all. We saw Eros' external view a few times in Season 1 and I do not recall seeing it spinning at all, and there was still gravity inside... Why not just state you have gravity generating floorplate technology or something, Eros spinning around didn't really make sense.
shareOkay - I guess I was wrong, and Eros hit Venus instead of Earth. WTF? This show fiddles with ships and speeds every episode with no continuity at all. It takes a ship months to get to the construction base near Saturn, but when they need to bump an asteroid, it's an afternoon trip with no need to pack a lunch. In the space of one episode Eros goes from leaping a few hundred meters to leaping at the very least 30 million miles. Well, heck, if you can leap that far, why bother hitting a planet at all? Why not just angle out of the elliptic and be gone from our solar system altogether? R.I.P. in your cold blue sleep.
shareMy thoughts exactly. It would take months for Eros to reach Venus. So I figure the last scene wasn't shown in real time and much more happened in between. I guess that in the next episode we'll find out what. Also, are we supposed to believe that Miller and Julie held a finger on the nuke for months? I don't think so. The ending of the last episode skipped a lot of what's been going on. Curious to find out what.
shareGot the feeling watching the last minutes of scenes that it was with considerable amount of time between that and the scenes from Eros. But also the asteroid was shown to travel incredibly fast (they could barely hang on in the spaceship).
shareThe reason it took months to travel was the massive amounts of gs the human body would not be able to whitstand in order to accelerate at higher speeds.
Probably Julie could negate those effects and achieve way higher accelerations than a normal ship, as we could see.
Even the missiles could travel way faster ...
My biggest issue is not how fast the aliens can make the asteroid travel. Already it came from beyond Mars orbit to Earth proximity in mere hours. It's ludicrous to think that ships from Ganymede could catch up and nudge it out of orbit in a breezy afternoon. Saturn is 80 light-minutes away from the sun. Since WHEN do these human ships move at even a quarter the speed of light? THAT IS WHAT BOTHERS ME.
Every ship action in this series seems to be determined by plot convenience over series consistency.