Out of Pod Experience

I resently found this "anime" Planetes. It's a story that takes place in like 2050 when humans in space is becoming more common. The technology is Combustion Rockets, Space elevator, and capsule space stations. BAsiclly at this point there is a lot of left over space debris, just stuff, and at some point when those SpaceX passenger planes gets hit by a screw left over from something in space, and it kills everyone. Since that's a real possibility for the future of Space X and sending planes into to space to get around the Earth faster.

So basically corporations and governments have to start cleaning up that space debris. Because all of the debris in space can hit other satellites and create more debris, and so on. So people work in 15$ an hour jobs cleaning up space junk. And the show is just about someone who cleans up space junk. That's it's it's a boring long show full of talking and slow space shots.

It's a hard Sci Fi. Anyone else out there a fan of this stuff? Or am I crazy? :P

Another good hard SciFi to give an example of what this is like. Would be the movie Moon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuScTcDP_Q :Moon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heESAW2addo: Planetes I've been watching it dubbed though, sorry hardcore anime fans.

yeah, another really good one from them is called footfall. same pair of writers that did mote in gods eye.
too bad more TV shows, movies, and games (cough eve cough) didn't make space more realistic. most I've seen of hard scifi in popular media is 2001 a space oddesy where they have realistic spaceship mechanics for the most part, and some of the dogfighting in battlestar galactica where they actually acknowledge that things in motions stay in motion in space and that you don't fly like a jet in space. then there's the comment from mass effect 2 about a railgun that is going to ruin someones day even if you miss.

oh yeah, and if you're going to real any of larry nivens stuff, you have to keep in mind that most of the stuff he wrote was written before computers existed/were very previlant and this is a very notable fact in the books.

Hmmm, well I liked moon, I remember at the time there was something that pissed me off, think I mighta had the ending figured out after like 20min or something like that. Still a good movie nonetheless


Apollo 18 is also a decent watch. Might not be as hard as some, but it's entertaining enough

I liked Planetes a *LOT*. I was really awesome. I think I was planning on watching one or two per day, but I liked it so much I did it over a weekend, almost non stop.

I can't remember any other anime I liked as much... Geass was good, Hellsing, kinda... but nothing compared to Planetes.

Nowdays that movie-like SCI-FI is so scarce (expensive to make I think), anime shows are a blessing.

Hard Sci fi.... Lexx?

See what I did there?

...called Roger Wilco by any chance ?

I has them all

Canadian show (meaning it's weird) from way back (early 2000s) with totally nerd-centered sexual overtones

triple like, ima check that movie out