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Only seen the first season 1 episode so far, I don't yet know what to expect but I will try and stick with it.

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use superglue if you have to because it is amazing

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Agreed!

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I never did use super glue too much other stuff I found to watch.

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Nowhere near as good though. Halo got me thinking last week about the extreme contrast in current tv series atm; they are either superb or completely ****. This is one of the superb ones which i cant wait for every week and become completely immersed in it.

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Get your tissues ready:

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Does this have something to do with your realism factor? :erm:

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it sends it into overdrive

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Well it shouldn’t … for all it’s a very well made show, the premise is nuts. The N-1 could never have landed humans on the moon. The required level of complex engineering was simply beyond the USSR. They made great strides where they were able to steal secrets from the West (such as the Tupolev Tu-144, aka Concordeski, or Buran-Energia, their space shuttle) but where they couldn’t, their own scientists just weren’t up to it.

Even if we allow the idea that they might have somehow managed it (without blowing up on the pad and causing what was possibly the largest man-made, non-nuclear explosion in all history) the economic fundamentals that drove the USSR to its demise in the early 1990s could not possibly have changed as a result of that, which means even if they got to the lunar surface, they couldn’t have sustained a moon programme. The Apollo programme pushed America to the limits of affordability and it was in far better economic health throughout the Cold War.

Don’t get me wrong, I follow the show and I enjoy it, but the idea that the Cold War has somehow lasted right to the end of the 20th century with the Soviets funding not only vast conventional and nuclear armed forces, but also an enormous interplanetary space programme, is completely bonkers.

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:confused:

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If I need to explain then you don't appreciate the series ;)

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How about not trying to be some kind of snob (or muppet) and just explain WTF you are talking about. :dozey:

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Hate me if you will but the first people to arrive on Mars (realism) will be be delivered by SpaceX. It is the only company/Government agency concentrating on it. It is the whole reason for the existence of SpaceX.

Even he says it may not be in his lifetime, but that is SpaceX's goal.

Now that's realism.

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Well its been pretty good so far, and Season 4 appears to be confirmed.