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Watching TV shows or movies that display Russia as a military superpower is almost surreal nowadays. (lemmy.world)

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Was just watching Jack Ryan Season 3 and seeing the display of force and their movements causes some interesting dissonance given what we know now.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, we've already surpassed The Expanse in some ways (at least the first couple books).

Something that struck me was in Caliban's War they were relying heavily on mirrors to focus sunlight for growing crops out at Jupiter. I guess the authors just didn't foresee LED technology advancing as rapidly as it did.

Leviathan Wakes was published in June 2011. Caliban's War was published in June 2012.

The L-prize "60W" category winner was announced in August 2011 (it was Philips). It didn't become commercially-available until April 2012, but even then, it was like $50 -- far from affordable for most people. Now you can get equivalent or better bulbs for less than 1/10th of that.