Lol love how Mars has an undocumented immigrant problem from people stowing away in 'pressurized cargo modules'

3/8/2026 10:23:06 PM

It's the modern-day version of people mailing themselves somewhere in boxes to save on transportation costs.

3/9/2026 12:46:10 AM

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/for-all-mankind-ending-season-6-apple-tv-1236545403/

6th season will be the last.

We thinking Ed makes it or no?

3/24/2026 7:11:35 PM

He could make it to 2027 and be in his mid-90's.

Glad they are getting to conclude the show the way they claim to have planned.

3/24/2026 8:39:46 PM

Need a spin-off now. Ed Baldwin goes to Europa

3/24/2026 9:51:03 PM

We're already getting one spinoff

3/24/2026 9:55:09 PM

I saw an interview where the actor claimed Ed was specifically 82 years old in Season 5.

3/25/2026 6:19:21 AM

Quote :

"We thinking Ed makes it or no?"

Either he dies doing something heroic in the season 5 finale or sometime early in season 6.

3/25/2026 8:19:28 AM

3/25/2026 6:47:29 PM

Solid start

3/27/2026 11:37:29 PM

Ed is to angry to let cancer beat him

3/28/2026 1:49:08 PM

Quote :

"TO ANGRY TO"

3/28/2026 3:47:24 PM

Sorry, due to NASA budget cuts, we can no longer afford the second 'o' in too.

3/28/2026 6:02:58 PM

Now I’m dying to know how well the Expos played in Portland.

3/29/2026 6:58:37 PM

Ed doesn't get cancer. Cancer gets Ed.

3/30/2026 9:44:36 AM

Ed Baldwin is the new Chuck Norris. Only much tougher.

3/30/2026 7:58:27 PM

Ed Baldwin doesn't fly to Mars. He stays in the same position while the solar system moves around him.

3/31/2026 8:29:37 AM

Oh no.

4/3/2026 4:46:22 PM

???

4/3/2026 9:31:22 PM

~

4/3/2026 9:57:59 PM

If you have to ask, you didn't watch the episode

4/4/2026 9:08:49 AM

Well duh, because you won't share your login with me

4/4/2026 12:17:31 PM

What do you think is Ed Baldwin's favorite format of eggs? Cracked raw into a glass like Rocky Balboa?

4/4/2026 3:54:06 PM

Ed Baldwin eats soft boiled ostrich eggs like Teddy Perkins

4/7/2026 10:02:00 AM

He just puts the entire raw egg in his mouth and breaks it with his teeth.

4/7/2026 2:27:52 PM

They should create a new Mount Rushmore on Mars and carve out four busts of Ed Baldwin.

4/8/2026 1:59:21 PM

^
Mount MoreEdHead

4/8/2026 3:30:47 PM

Each Baldwin head could represent a different stage of his life.

4/9/2026 12:26:02 PM

I'm not crying, you're crying

4/10/2026 3:12:27 PM

I'm going to catch up this weekend so that I can discuss this with you, bbehe.

4/10/2026 4:40:09 PM

YOU BETTER. THIS IS THE ONLY REASON I CAME BACK

4/10/2026 4:48:49 PM

It's those darn work and family commitments! But I got it this weekend!

4/10/2026 6:29:55 PM

GNSP

4/11/2026 5:16:57 AM

Pretty good!

Got to see the youngest and the oldest Ed in one episode.

Proposal to rename Olympus Mons to Mount Baldwin!

Let's start an official White House Petition. This group of idiots is dumb enough to do it. Especially if it could alap own the libs somehow. Facts are not important, so nothing wrong with renaming something after an alternate historical figure in our reality.

I'm also amused that Newtons really caught on in this timeline.

4/11/2026 5:27:48 PM

I can't wait for Wraith to chime in about the feasibility of taking Sojourner to Titan

4/11/2026 6:13:38 PM

^^
alap = also

WTF with autocorrect or lack thereof sometimes. . .

Yes, let's hear from Wraith (preferably on the local news). . .

4/11/2026 6:30:30 PM

"Look, we're all excited about Artemis II splashing down after a successful mission, but what I really think we should be talking about..."

4/11/2026 6:49:49 PM

Episode 3 really drew heavily on the conclusion to Big Fish.

NTTAWWT!

Wish Gene Kranz would have been there with a double-decker cheeseburger.

4/11/2026 7:34:43 PM

man big fish...thats a movie i haven't seen in a while but seem to remember it being pretty good

4/11/2026 9:47:51 PM

It's good if you ask me.

Especially if you don't absolutely hate your dad.

4/11/2026 10:31:12 PM

Happy to see the return of Gordo at the end there! Also, a little backstory there about Ed naming his son after the guy that saved his life in Korea.

Anyway so in this alternate reality, Sojourner is the spacecraft that they used to get from Earth to Mars in the early missions. They did list some technobabble that doesn't actually mean anything, but ultimately I'm assuming this spacecraft was already in space and they just did an in-space burn to get there. I think chronologically that was about 20 years ago, in-universe. So its been just hanging out for that long without any maintenance, and they mentioned that it had largely been stripped for parts. The issue there is that at that point, it would probably be easier to just build a new one with the existing design rather than refit the old one. The amount of time it would take to inspect/test every wire, every component, etc. would take longer than building a new one. Its the equivalent of taking a junk car that has been on cinderblocks in someone's overgrown field and taking it on a road trip after scrounging parts together to get the engine working. Except in this road trip, you die if it breaks down. The only parts that would make sense to keep/refit would be the engines, as those would be hard to build with the stuff they have on hand.

Now even if they did get it working, timeframe is a whole different story. I can't remember how long it took them to get to Mars from Earth originally, but I could feasibly see them doing it in four months given their technological advancements (the craters got there in a shipping container in one month lol, but that was after the Mars habitat had been established). Now Titan -- that is on the order of YEARS to get to, even if launching from Mars. They would also need a launch vehicle to get them to Martian orbit. The spacecraft was designed to do an injection burn from Earth to Mars. Saturn is about 8x further from Mars than Mars is from Earth, so the fuel tanks are likely not even big enough for that. Then consider life support stuff (especially radiation protection for that long in space) -- it makes it a poopy idea that Margot should know better than to suggest.

4/13/2026 12:12:55 PM

Quote :

" They would also need a launch vehicle to get them to Martian orbit"

No sir, remember Sojourner was made to be launched from the moon, transfer to Mars, land on Mars, and then take back off. All in one single stage!

This baby runs on magic.

4/13/2026 1:25:48 PM

Ooof okay so that actually makes it worse. Moon has significantly lower escape velocity than Mars. It also has zero atmosphere. So Sojourner would be designed for aeroheating only during descent into Mars. NOT ascent. And other mechanical environments would be designed for the primary load path in the opposite direction.

But then lets look at Titan. I actually know quite a bit about Titan because one of the projects I am supporting is gonna operate there (Dragonfly -- its some real fun stuff if anyone wants to go down a wikipedia rabbit hole). Titan's atmosphere is about 5x more dense than EARTH's atmosphere, with pressure being significantly higher too. So that means any retro thrusters or other propulsion that they'd use wouldn't have nearly as much of an expansion ratio. I can't remember what they said about aerobraking, but the heat shield (even if the tiles were still in good shape) would likely not be able to handle that much energy (see what I put in the A2 discussion in the lounge). And any of you aero majors likely remember the dynamic pressure equation -- q = 0.5*rho*v^2. Multiplying that rho from close to zero at Mars to Titan means aero forces are gonna crush that bad boy.

So ultimately, when Margot suggested using Sojourner to land on Titan, Aleida should have just replied with:


[Edited on April 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM. Reason : ]

4/13/2026 1:37:53 PM

Quote :

" I can't remember what they said about aerobraking"

That it would be at least 4x the gs that Sojourner was designed to handle for the Martian one.

Pretty much all the spacecraft have operated on magic since the Mars missions, which is fine....but the show was billed as hard scifi initially.

I did love when they showed Buran in lunar orbit, you know, despite not having engines.

4/13/2026 2:28:32 PM

Quote :

"That it would be at least 4x the gs that Sojourner was designed to handle for the Martian one."

So that part is actually pretty accurate. In all actuality, it would probably be much higher than that, but it is a reasonable lower end to the estimate.

4/13/2026 3:03:38 PM

I'm glad that bbehe was able to set the record straight in my absence, because indeed, Sojourner launched from the moon with its NERVA engines while Black Hole Sun played.

4/13/2026 8:26:55 PM

https://youtu.be/pcW7OGvFQkM?si=ji-Rfd9tfLLu3alf

8 rocket engines, a pair of solar sails, and fueled by the ashes of ed baldwin

4/13/2026 8:47:37 PM

Lol I forgot the Russian marshot was also a SSTO from Earth too.

Wraith, where's NASA's single stage magic rocket?

4/13/2026 8:55:06 PM

Russia's Mars94 Rocket had Penis Power. Until it didn't.

4/13/2026 9:09:45 PM

Regarding the time for getting to Titan, it sounds like Wraith conveniently forgot about the [Jeffrey] Epstein [Sex] Drive.

4/15/2026 6:11:37 AM