Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris
by flashman on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:07PM
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didn't help Shed Garvey lol
My read is that it works mostly for battle shrapnel and space mining accidents and does nothing for kinetic weapons, hit or miss for micrometeoroids.
Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris
by kataklasm on Monday October 20, 2025 @08:42AM
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Shed was killed by a railgun round. These are kinetic projectiles, spall lining doesn't do anything against those.
If it somehow could then aiming for the reactor would spin the ship so hard you’d pulp some of the crew.
Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris
by lotrjohn on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:26PM
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Hey bossman thanks for pointing this out. Will have to look for it next time I watch. Yam seng.
It’s mentioned in the books, kopeng. I think it comes up in some of the repair scenes, but there’s such a jargon dump in many of them that it might slip by. Naomi is caressing some of it at one point, like she’s petting a cat. Which is not far off from how she sees the Roci.
Re:Airliner hit by possible space debris
by usefulcat on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:05AM
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*bosmang. I'm not sure it's mentioned in the show, but it is in the books.
I can think of two in the show, but one is right before Holden needs to tell Nagata something important, and the other is in the middle of a brain dump at Tycho station when the Roci is being diagnosed for repairs.
Might have been a mention on the Agatha King.
This was also adopted by The Expanse, where the interiors of ships (particularly war ships) are coated in antispalling coatings.