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Mars: Season Two
« on: 10/30/2018 08:44 pm »
It's Back 8)! Check your local listings...
« Last Edit: 10/30/2018 09:24 pm by Rocket Science »
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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #1 on: 10/31/2018 03:26 pm »
I checked the schedule on Comcast and there will be a behind the scenes look at SpaceX before episode 1.

Monday November 12
8:00 pm EST: Mars - Inside SpaceX
9:00 pm EST: Mars ep1 - We Are Not Alone

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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #2 on: 11/06/2018 07:03 pm »
Interview with Ron Howard about the new series and his views on the colonisation of Mars:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46101233
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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #3 on: 11/12/2018 09:24 pm »
Bump: Returns tonight!
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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #4 on: 11/12/2018 11:13 pm »
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Elon Musk and Mars take the spotlight in National Geographic TV doubleheader

By Alan Boyle on November 12, 2018 at 2:32 pm

Science fiction blends with fact in tonight’s double dose of Mars from National Geographic’s TV channel.

Truth to tell, there’s more fact than fiction: The first show in the double feature is “Mars: Inside SpaceX,” which wraps a tale of past and future space exploration around an inside look at SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy launch in February.

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/elon-musk-mars-take-spotlight-national-geographic-tv-doubleheader

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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #5 on: 11/13/2018 01:01 am »
Inside SpaceX part with FH was awesome! 8)
« Last Edit: 11/13/2018 01:13 pm by Rocket Science »
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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #6 on: 11/13/2018 02:34 am »
Only got to see the beginning of the SpaceX hour as was busy with family putting up Christmas tree and agree that it was very good.  Can't see another showing on Comcast.  Will they repeat that, as the first Mars episode should be available on demand tomorrow or in a few days?
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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #7 on: 11/13/2018 06:03 am »
Only got to see the beginning of the SpaceX hour as was busy with family putting up Christmas tree and agree that it was very good.  Can't see another showing on Comcast.  Will they repeat that, as the first Mars episode should be available on demand tomorrow or in a few days?

SpaceX segment:
https://www.fox.com/watch/12e413e68c538ba79a298f709efc1607/

Season 2 Episode 1
https://www.fox.com/watch/ac98123482f0f40d0e99f7e237832699/

They give you a free hour preview pass. Be sure to link your provider on that pass through the timer that comes up as I am not sure how to do it otherwise.

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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #8 on: 11/13/2018 06:36 am »
Check National Geographic website schedule at your location. It shows a repeat this afternoon for me on TV. Differs by country... You may be able to stream as well...
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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #9 on: 11/13/2018 10:11 am »

If you're a UK Sky customer they're both available on Sky Go.  Have to admit, I fast forwarded all the drama bits of the first series and just watched the talking heads parts.  :)

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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #10 on: 11/13/2018 11:31 am »
SpaceX programme also available to purchase on YouTube for $1.99 depending on country:


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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #11 on: 11/14/2018 05:09 am »
I haven't watched it yet but the trailers appear to be saying that Capitalism is the evil boogeyman yet again, despite it having given us almost everything that we currently take for granted in the world. We aren't living as serfs in medieval Europe. We're living in advanced world with information and technology whenever and almost wherever we want it. If this is the attitude that is taken then we'll never make it to Mars in the first place. It's scary that Mars TV series puts out these negative messaging.
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LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #12 on: 11/14/2018 05:05 pm »
I haven't watched it yet but the trailers appear to be saying that Capitalism is the evil boogeyman yet again, despite it having given us almost everything that we currently take for granted in the world. We aren't living as serfs in medieval Europe. We're living in advanced world with information and technology whenever and almost wherever we want it. If this is the attitude that is taken then we'll never make it to Mars in the first place. It's scary that Mars TV series puts out these negative messaging.

Monsanto as example of both good & bad. More on the bad ledger side overall IMO.

A bad Monsanto like entity on Mars is scary.

The NatGeo Mars series is really a disasters of the week show that need some sort of villain to offset the continuing series of bad storylines events. The writers of the series is too fond of Murphy and calamities.


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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #13 on: 11/18/2018 08:33 am »
I struggled through Season 1 with all the defeatism, sorrow, deppressiveness, stale human interaction and total lack of humour it had.

Not going to put myself through that again. Not even tempted to watch Season 2.

Such a chance wasted for a great series about going to Mars. I guess I'll have to wait for the real thing.

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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #14 on: 11/18/2018 11:01 am »
I haven't watched it yet but the trailers appear to be saying that Capitalism is the evil boogeyman yet again, despite it having given us almost everything that we currently take for granted in the world. We aren't living as serfs in medieval Europe. We're living in advanced world with information and technology whenever and almost wherever we want it. If this is the attitude that is taken then we'll never make it to Mars in the first place. It's scary that Mars TV series puts out these negative messaging.

Monsanto as example of both good & bad. More on the bad ledger side overall IMO.

A bad Monsanto like entity on Mars is scary.

The NatGeo Mars series is really a disasters of the week show that need some sort of villain to offset the continuing series of bad storylines events. The writers of the series is too fond of Murphy and calamities.

Monsanto largely is not different than any other company. It was also made into a boogeyman that despite doing legitimate pioneering technology instead has to divert all its profits to defending repeated frivolous lawsuits that claim impossible things. Including even losing one recently to a poor court ruling that blocked scientific evidence to be given as court evidence.

But this is off topic.
« Last Edit: 11/18/2018 11:02 am by mlindner »
LEO is the ocean, not an island (let alone a continent). We create cruise liners to ride the oceans, not artificial islands in the middle of them. We need a physical place, which has physical resources, to make our future out there.

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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #15 on: 11/18/2018 12:01 pm »
I've said this years ago and I'll say it again... "Mars is not Utopia and when we go there we will take all of humanity's ills with us..."
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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #16 on: 11/19/2018 07:46 pm »
Had hoped that the writers would have done a better job this time round.  But after reading Blackstar's review clearly they haven't.

Looks as if series two is as much drivel as the first.  Which is really sad as the idea has so much potential.

« Last Edit: 11/19/2018 07:47 pm by Dalhousie »
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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #17 on: 11/19/2018 08:44 pm »
I'll still watch it, at least for the visuals...
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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #18 on: 11/20/2018 04:50 am »
They'll probably pick up Prozac as the official Mars sponsor and requirement for all colonists...
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Re: Mars: Season Two
« Reply #19 on: 11/20/2018 09:47 pm »
Episode 2 had some better drama. But everybody's still pretty miserable and grim. Some characters are even more miserable than before.

But I can already detect the story arc: EvilCorp(tm) has found liquid water on Mars and they're going to drill for it. Then they're going to get sick, and it will probably turn out that they're ingesting some Martian microorganism. Mayhem ensues.

I have read that Greenpeace got interviewed for Er. 2.  Is this correct?
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