EARLY ACCESS Dr Stone Season 1 Episode 16 Reaction
Added 2020-05-10 16:43:40 +0000 UTCREACTION LINK HERE: https://vimeo.com/416924640/2e04e24d08
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So there's actually no clear boundary between "space" and "not space". The Earth's atmosphere just gradually gets thinner and thinner. One definition is the Karman line which is somewhat arbitrarily set at 100km above sea level, but even at that altitude there's still a fairly substantial atmosphere. The ISS orbits at about 409km but even there the atmosphere is thick enough to induce enough drag to slow it down and gradually lowers its orbit. Thus the ISS requires periodic boosts to maintain its orbit. It's capable of doing this itself, but nowadays they just use the motors on the spacecraft docked with it to do the boost. Depending on the exact conditions, without periodic boosts, the ISS would fall out of orbit in 6-15 months (https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9482/) Definitely not long enough to be preserved for thousands of years. For that to happen it would have to be at a substantially higher altitude. Also, as someone else mentioned. There are always enough spacecraft docked with the ISS at any given moment so that all the occupants could return to Earth in an emergency.
zengei
2020-05-11 18:52:12 +0000 UTCI think the standard operating procedure of the ISS is to have enough space on docked shuttles to evacuate everyone on the ISS, just in case something goes wrong and they need to abandon the ISS. Also, on the topic of the viability of the population, normally, you would need 160 normal people to safely keep up the biodiversity. However, they are not trying to restart the race with 6 normal people, they are astronauts, the best of the best and healthiest humans. It is much less likely they have genetic defects, so you wouldn't need as much. Still more than 6 to be guaranteed a healthy population, but, they have brought species back from the brink of extinction with only a single breeding pair of the species, so, it is not impossible for it to work. Also, they have two medical doctors, and if one of those doctors has a degree in an applicable area, they may be able to do stuff like implant embryos from a fertility clinic if they can find one before the power runs out.
Ryan Pearce
2020-05-11 02:33:43 +0000 UTCYeah I would be surprised if they didn't. Next episode is a gut punch
Paradox
2020-05-11 01:59:56 +0000 UTCIf they don't cry or tear up a little bit next episode I don't know what to say. Knowing these two they will most likely cry.
L
2020-05-11 00:21:07 +0000 UTCDamn the next episodes 😭😭😭😭 Byakuya best dad!!!
cassherms
2020-05-10 20:25:22 +0000 UTCI just realized Lillian's album there is called "One Small Step"..... fitting. :)
JsnSkg
2020-05-10 19:15:17 +0000 UTCI still refuse to accept that you can keep humanity going for thousands of years just by using the descendants of three couples.
John FD Lobrano
2020-05-10 19:06:35 +0000 UTCThey probably wouldn't want to go to a metropolitan area, since after a few 100 years all of the skyscrapers and huge building will eventually fall apart and crumble crushing any homes they would have made.
Barre Bonds
2020-05-10 18:48:17 +0000 UTCthis is an anime guys, yes a lot is scientifically correct but not everything, which includes the population issue.
Clare
2020-05-10 18:17:20 +0000 UTCIf only they watched Space Brothers......
Buster
2020-05-10 17:59:33 +0000 UTCi love that they picked a perfect moment where you'd not expect the stonification reveal to happen, when someone could plausibly be making a shocked face for a normal reason. I also really love the analysis of how the light propogated in the coming episodes, this arc kinda made me feel confident in there being an interesting answer as to why this happened eventually.
Jermaine Tito
2020-05-10 17:47:10 +0000 UTCThough there are some inconsistencies (probably due to rounding errors and or just that the height is not exactly constant but is more like an ellipse, which is the most common type of orbits), the height in which the International Space Station occupies is around 400 kilometres. The radius of the Earth is about 6400 kilometres, hence your assumption is correct.
Alethea
2020-05-10 17:39:00 +0000 UTCWhen you think about it Astronauts are literally the perfect pick for this kinda scenario. They're trained for survival, they're trained for isolation from human society. They're knowledgeable, mostly all scientist to one degree or another, doctors even. In terms of repopulation considering it's the international space station, and they're all people for different countries, gene wise it's the ideal situation for "inbreeding".
Zaj
2020-05-10 17:33:13 +0000 UTC
