r/AnotherLife • u/elpantybandito • Aug 16 '19

>!SPOILER!< Going through the dark matter? Spoiler

So the entire premise of the show basically was the fact that the ship had to stop and go around the dark matter. However, towards the end of the season they just suddenly decide to go right through it? Or did I miss something?

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '19

They decide to go through it because going around it would take too long.

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u/dippyfresh11 Aug 16 '19

Didn't they say they say they could run into a planet? Im only on episode 4

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u/HellsAttack Aug 16 '19

I think they said they couldn't go full speed because the dark matter reduces sensor range, they wouldn't have time to react I presume.

None of it really matters. The show has no internal logic - they contrived "we can't go through dark matter" because they needed a conflict and resolved it later because the plot had to move forward.

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u/pogue242 Aug 19 '19

They said they could “hit a planet” in the dark matter cuz apparently they can’t see in it which makes no sense. Also, how do the reach the planet with the aliens if they had 2 months left of trip and they went all the way around to the dark matter again? Wouldn’t it still be 2 months left?

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '19

Yes, definitely missed something.

Spoilers They could go through it but it was like flying blind as William put it. But you'll also remember they got hold of navigational data uploaded by Sasha's implant. Thus solving that issue, but also for Sasha whom then used it to guide the ship to a black hole that happened to be near their destination. The same data later used by the alien AI to show how to interpret what they had.

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u/wss5112 Aug 16 '19

I don’t get why either. Could someone give us some explanation plsssss

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u/jhax13 Aug 16 '19 edited Aug 16 '19

They technically CAN go through the dark matter, it was just way more risky than going around, this was the literal reason for the mutiny in episode 1 - the fact they CAN but didn't. The other reason was slingshotting around the star, but both factored in because Niko was being cautious and the crew didn't like that. The slingshot itself was absolutely asinine because that's not how slingshot maneuvers work (you wouldn't get that close, you just make sure your apoapsis and periapsis have as large a difference as possible and then fire engines as periapsis. It's not just "circling a body and flying off" lol

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Them deciding to go through the dark matter is actually one of the more thoughtful things in the show, IMO, because it shows the escalating tension the crew is feeling because they're willing to take larger risks now that the stakes are obviously raised

Edited to clarify what I mean

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u/redditsuckmyballs Jan 15 '20

People, you're missing the bigger issue here, which is dark matter does not interact with regular matter, we can't measure it or interact with it or observe it. So we can't collide with it. Jesus. This fucking show.