Durn it, just found out Defying Gravity

I may not have seen, it's also a bit of what's the point?

I mean, what's the difference if I see 10 shows or 13 shows if it's still cancelled with everything hanging.

We were beginning to get hooked on it. Too bad for us it didn't make the cut I guess.

Roger

From what I've heard dust storms on Mars are no laughing matter.

I note that the show has been described as "Gray's Anatomy in sopace". Since I can't hardly stand Gray's Anatomy (my wife watches it) that doesn't recommend it to me.

the Mars atmosphere is so weak it barely exists. It's poisonous anyway of course, but even if an astronaut did take his helmet off there and hold his breath, his blood would boil from the almost vacuum like lack of air. An atmosphere that weak can't support large grains, even with Mars' low gravity, (1/3 gravity compared to Earth's), because the air is not strong enough to move anything larger than dust.

But I'm prepared to be wrong.

However.....

So an expedition goes to Mars, fully equipped to survive there apparently for, (a few months) at least. They either, don't make their spacecraft strong enough to withstand the dust storms, or they have no weather stations, (Mars Orbiter, Mars Reconnaissance, etc), that can tell when a dust storm is building, or both, and so just before they have to lift off, they send an expedition out into the (wherever) which cannot then get back in time. I think we could do better, even now.

By the way Ed, have you been following the building of the ISS? I'm really looking forward to one of the last Shuttle expeditions to the station. It delivers the seven-windowed Cupola module, which should be fantastic. It will allow the astronauts 360 degree views of Earth.

Mark

TV almost always gets the science wrong.

I didn't hear that description of the show till I was following links on it's cancellation and an interview or two with the writer.

Part of the problem possibly was very poor promotion by ABC. Or then, maybe it was just the show and it just struck a resonance with me and my wife.

some of the aspects bothered me, but somehow it got me caught up in wanting to know.

Flashbacks mixed in normally bug me, but I'll admit to getting hooked on this one, wanting to know what was next in both timeline plots.

As far as magic gravity and lack of time delay, shrug, I'm an old Star Trek Fan and other such, so my ability to suspend disbelieve had overdeveloped perhaps. Although I find some things still occasionally push my logic button.

But hey, no show is for everyone.