Re:Starlink satellite-train visible with the naked eye
by sharcerer on Saturday May 25, 2019 @01:02PM
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that novel was amazing. I loved the 5000 year jump too. Although I found it difficult to visualize some of the futuristic parts. I think a movie is being made based on the novel.
Re:Starlink satellite-train visible with the naked eye
by eightysixfour on Saturday May 25, 2019 @02:12PM
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Interesting, I loved the book until the jump, after that I found it to be too ridiculous. The submarine storyline was absurd.
Re:Starlink satellite-train visible with the naked eye
by sharcerer on Monday May 27, 2019 @09:44AM
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I mainly loved the various cultural aspects, differences after the jump. The Red vs the rest. The Red had a Soviet/Chinese vibe.
Re:Starlink satellite-train visible with the naked eye
by thanatos_dem on Saturday May 25, 2019 @01:19PM
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I’m a bit nervous about the movie, unless they pull a Deathly Hallows and split it into two films. The audio book is 32 hours long. That’s a lot to pack into a ~2 hour movie.
But that’s a pretty big risk to do with a single novel. Harry Potter had a massive and loyal fan base by the time the 7th and 8th movies came out.
The long of the short of it is that moon goes boom, kills life on earth, humanity survives onboard the ISS and a flurry of small habitation pods which are splayed out into a string so they share an orbit, but isolated in case they get hit by space debris.
The book came out in 2015, and despite having a fictional plot, nearly all of the science checks out.