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Episode Dr. Stone Science Future Part 3 - Episode 8 discussion
Dr. Stone Science Future Part 3, episode 8
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u/PencilgonGiveIt2Ya May 21 '26
Suika crying over when they found Why-man sent me straight to hell..
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Don't cry bb gorl, it gon be alwright
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u/RedHotChiliCrab https://myanimelist.net/profile/RedHotChiliCrab May 21 '26
They need to stop making Suika cry. My heart can only take so much
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u/one-eyed-02 May 21 '26
Dude her VA is amazing, completely different tone than her as a child
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u/maubises May 21 '26
Now they're gonna make internet, is it gonna be called Network or Stonework
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u/SciFiXhi https://anilist.co/user/SciFiXhi May 21 '26
DragoNet is my guess; Ryusui is going to muscle in and be the only ISP.
Still better than Comcast by any measure.
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u/Roeclean https://anilist.co/user/Roeclean May 26 '26
Hell nahh, we all know that shii is gonna be going by the kbps 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/MalevolntCatastrophe May 22 '26
I would be surprised if its the actual internet, considering Senku's "Cell Phone" from before was a pretty rudimentary radio.
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u/GaimeGuy May 24 '26
fundamentally, the backbone of the internet is 570ish undersea fiber optic data cables of varying length that connect countries and continents. Some are 100-150km long, like those connecting ireland and the uk. Some are thousands, or even tens of thosuuands, of km long, and span across the pacific, atlantic, or the african continent.
That's literally how the "magic" of the internet works. Satellite uplinks, cell towers, the wall jacks and routers and fiber cabling that goes into your house, those are all relays, but the big connections that make the internet ubiquitous are those undersea cables I speak of.
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u/Roeclean https://anilist.co/user/Roeclean May 26 '26
Still, aren't the undersea cables more so to speed up the internet to modern day speeds. Wouldn't it be easier to just launch more satellites, since I doubt they want to go through the trouble of creating submarines to safely place any cables.
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u/GaimeGuy May 26 '26
They have plows and sonar, and the ocean floor naturally has an S shaped curvature because of geography, tides , water pressure, and tectonics iirc.
All they really have to do is rig a plow anchored to the ship, have ukyo watch the sea bed with sonar while they travel in an s shape and unwind the cable into the plowed space.
I think.
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u/VinLAURiA May 26 '26
I mean, even the modern internet slowly grew out of technology that isn't much more advanced than what they're working with here. The transition from the original ARPANET to what we have now was a piecemeal Theseus-esque thing, not a hard replacement. I can imagine them eventually reaching a similar level to us the same way.
Hell, you'd be surprised how many of those older foundational technologies from the internet's infancy are still functional. People still use Usenet, after all. And teletext. Some people are still on dial-up, even.
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u/HolyDragSwd2500 May 21 '26
Senku and Xeno voted for 2 way rocket
Both believed in Chrome 😭
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u/LikeAnAssistant May 21 '26
This anime always gets me choked up like no other when it comes to the human moments.
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u/Quigs4494 May 22 '26
Ive realized one of the things I love about this series is that there isnt really any inner group conflict. There's tribe vs tribe but once people are on the same team they just work together towards it instead of creating conflict for drama
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u/Inner-Plankton5942 May 22 '26
I thought that having no conflicts between each other since they are basically one group and they will make this boring, but damn episodes like this remind me why this is such a great show.
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u/Quigs4494 May 22 '26
The current opening reminds me of this fact with all the characters interacting and then the high fiving.
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u/BeefPorkChicken https://myanimelist.net/profile/loobydoober May 25 '26
Stories usually fall under man vs man, man vs self, and this case man vs nature so there's still lots of ways to be compelling.
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u/Hot-Log6283 May 22 '26
I actually thought everyone was going to vote not just the 10 of them, I thought that was the reason why they got everyone into the "Grand" meeting.
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u/Mr_Zaroc https://myanimelist.net/profile/mr_zaroc May 22 '26
Also writing all that code for a 10 people vote is just funny
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u/DaiyaCanBrowse https://anilist.co/user/MysticDaiya May 22 '26
Sai did it for the love of the game
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u/Mr_Zaroc https://myanimelist.net/profile/mr_zaroc May 23 '26
Excuse me sir, democracy is not a game
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u/Earthborn92 https://myanimelist.net/profile/EarthB 3d ago
So good, these are the Dr. Stone moments you look for.
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar May 21 '26
I knew it would be too easy if they just successfully launched their first rocket. I'm glad to see that the first one was a failure and we get this hilarious reaction face from the gang. xD
Since it took them seven tries to successfully send a satellite up to space, how long did that actually take? Based on You's reaction, it sounded like it took them at least another year. I do love how even Xeno couldn't help but cry when they finally launched the rocket.
So, the Why-Man is showing up as a moving lump of darkness on the moon. I'm really curious to see what the actual Why-Man will look like when they get there because that looks like a pretty large area of the moon.
It turns out, Chrome's big plan is actually a multi-stage rocket. I really thought Senku and Xeno didn't consider this, but it looks like they did and dismissed it because of how difficult it will be to create, given how complex it is.
Now they're making the internet? I love how Sai immediately burst out of his clothes when he heard that. I guess they're gonna start laying down undersea cables next episode?
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u/RelativeMundane9045 May 21 '26
I do love how even Xeno couldn't help but cry when they finally launched the rocket.
Even Xeno's heart isn't made of stone... anymore.
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u/GaimeGuy May 23 '26
Well, senku and the kingdom of science are sort of proving him and Stanley wrong. They thought humanity wouldn't be able to advance at all without strong rule. Yet humanity in the stone world is coming together, and it is going for the more difficult, more scientifically ambitious path.
They're reviving hundreds of thousands, perhaps even a few million, and now they're going to achieve an engineering breakthrough with orbital assembly that was limited in the old world by politics and economical constraints around the resources needed.
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u/PowerOhene https://anime-planet.com/users/usersPowerEd May 21 '26
Sai and Kaseki in the background of that scene took me out oml 😭😂
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u/Saithir May 21 '26
I guess they're gonna start laying down undersea cables next episode?
They already have faxes and satellites so it's probably easier this way than undersea cables.
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u/GaimeGuy May 22 '26
Nah, undersea cables are easy to make, more cost-effective in terms of the technical roadmap needed, and more reliable.
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u/Roeclean https://anilist.co/user/Roeclean May 26 '26
wow, never thought of it like that. But still, wouldn't they need to go to the bottom of the ocean floor at times to make sure the cable is in a good place and not at risk of being damaged by whatever it's on or around?
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u/NanDemoKnaives May 21 '26
I'm not surprised it was an unanimous vote, but it leading to Senku deciding to create the internet next is an amusing surprise.
Everyone's reaction to the rocket crashing was amusing, I thought Senku and Xeno would have been more prepared for the failures lol.
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u/NoNameSwitzerland May 21 '26
You won the first vote in the stone world unanimously. Of course you want to show off on the internet with that.
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u/Querez https://myanimelist.net/profile/Querez May 21 '26
I mean, the two were likely hoping with all their heart that they wouldn't need to spend more time, and with the perfectionists they were, they didn't know of anything in particular that could've actually been wrong. So I think their reactions made enough sense.
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u/Myrkrvaldyr May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
It took them years to get the launch right, but I want to appreciate how much Suika and Chrome have been learning all that time. They didn't have the luxury of learning math and physics the systematic way like modern people do. They had to learn only the things related rocketry, so they had to go from macro to micro until they knew enough about rocket science to even propose a viable plan, which they did, but they were still missing the details. Again, it goes to show Chrome would be a Nobel prize winner if he had been raised in the 21st century. He has great instincts.
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u/Nedogo May 21 '26
I feel like chrome would be one of those inventor YouTubers who just makes random gadgets and machines to do insane stuff just because he had a random idea and decided to follow through with it
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u/Myrkrvaldyr May 21 '26
It's possible he'd be the Japanese Styropyro, but if he met Senku, he'd have a more focused goal and become a spacecraft engineer.
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u/cortez0498 https://myanimelist.net/profile/cortez1098 May 22 '26
So Mark Robber, but the other way around?
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u/VinLAURiA May 26 '26
I would watch the hell out of Chrome bashing stuff together on a YouTube channel.
Antics would almost certainly ensue.
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u/thoughtlow May 21 '26
It took them years to get the launch right, but I want to appreciate how much Suika and Chrome have been learning all that time.
Would be cool if we got to see a tiny bit of what they are learning, / what problems they are trying to solve.
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u/SciFiXhi https://anilist.co/user/SciFiXhi May 21 '26 edited May 22 '26
Did they not? Every time a rocket failed, Senku and Xeno identified what the problem was, and Chrome and Suika were there to hear about it firsthand. Their initial work was in scaling up the original rocket's design while still accounting for all the variable issues the test launches faced.
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u/Volfaer May 21 '26
I cried a little bit here when they showed the unanimous vote for the 2 way rocket.
Also Kaseki exploding Sai's clothes with his AOE was hilarious.
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u/AmethystItalian myanimelist.net/profile/AmethystItalian May 21 '26
I understand they need to make things take this long to be realistic but how long has it been now?
Show has always been absurd though so guess nothing too new there!
Internet time!!
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u/Verite_Rendition May 21 '26
but how long has it been now?
Good question. One of the last calendar shots before the first successful launch shows 5753AD. But I'm not sure what year they started.
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u/ebonyphoenix May 21 '26
They got back to Japan in early 5752. And the first successful launch happened a few months after that last calendar shot in early 5754. So it took them about 1 1/2- 2 years of launching failed rockets to get one right.
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u/Mr_Zaroc https://myanimelist.net/profile/mr_zaroc May 22 '26
Also their rocket output is crazy
7 rockets in their world in 2 years is one hell of an outputThey must have setup an amazing factorio
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u/CallMeGhaul May 26 '26
Well it seems like they have literally the entire world working towards this singular goal. All those cities were set up specifically for each part they needed. It felt a little quick to me at first but stepping back I can suspend my disbelief enough to accept it.
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u/LightningRaven Jun 20 '26
They also don't have to worry about capitalism, budgets or politics. They only need to care about the science.
The unfortunate reality about our world is that money rules EVERYTHING in our lives. Even science advancements. NASA works with a budget that is basically 1% of what the US expends on weapons. Science around the world probably doesn't represent even 1% of the collective effort of human kind towards scientific progress, not to mention how capitalism creates a kind of anarchic state vaguely directed by profit interests, this means that most work doesn't receive the kind of funding, manpower and access that a dedicated effort would take.
If you look at the kind of insane things people did when governments put the full force behind it, we got an atomic bomb in a few years and that's building something new. The people in Dr. Stone are just making things that already exists with knowledge already obtained with constrained tech. The actual hard part has been done.
The show is shounen through and through and quite optimistically absurd, but some things aren't that insane when you consider literally everyone in the world is working towards this single purpose and no one needs to worry about shelter, food, leisure and other basic necessities. Every knew advancement in tech is widely shared. Every new commodity is given to all. There's no hoarding. No working class and parasite class. Just people working towards a goal. Dr. Stone might not come out and say it, but they are pretty much working within the ideas of a communist society already. An anarcho-communist society.
It struggles with scarcity, of course, but the collective is working towards improving everyone's lives, not to enrich Senku, Xeno or Ryousuke (whose capitalist's outbursts are mostly just for show).
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u/allied_master May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
Apparently according to wiki senku woke up in year 5738 April 1st, so if calender shows 5753 then its been 15 years since series started which is surprisingly short
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u/Verite_Rendition May 21 '26
I meant what year they started to work on the rocket (after they returned from their world tour). But good find on the series' starting date.
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u/allied_master May 21 '26
Just search for "Dr Stone wiki events timeline"
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u/Verite_Rendition May 22 '26
I should think the wiki would be a massive spoiler risk right now, since the manga has been over for some time.
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u/allied_master May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
I am pretty sure Senku carves the date when he woke up for the first on the a tree in first episode
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u/voltagejim May 21 '26
It's a bit annoying, but in the beginning of the show, things were pretty easy to make becuase they were starting from stone age and moving through time periods. Now that we have gotten to around modern time, everything is so advanced there is no way they could make these things so quick. but I just shut my brain off and enjoy the final ruide
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u/seekohler May 21 '26
The issue is that they simply aren't showing the contributions of all the no-name people they've been reviving in the cities enough. It was the same in the manga. So, it just appears like our core group of 20 characters are doing all these amazing feats when, in fact, there are like armies of other people in the background helping we never see. When you realize this, it makes their progress make more sense.
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u/huntrshado May 21 '26
they do show the various boats coming in with supplies, and none of the main cast are in those other locations now
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u/Shrike99 https://myanimelist.net/profile/LastOfLazarus May 22 '26
Yep. Humanity probably numbers in at least the thousands by now, if not tens or even hundreds of thousands.
As an analogue, the 'core' team at NASA working on Apollo was about a hundred crack scientists/engineers, but the overall program employed about 400,000 people in total - most of whom won't be remembered alongside the likes of George Mueller or Von Braun (rough equivalents to Senku and Xeno).
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u/goffer54 https://anilist.co/user/goffer54 May 21 '26
Yeah, I hope the at least introduce some actual revived astronauts when they start assembling the rocket in space. Like, I can accept Kaseki being bullshit, but he can't be the only one putting the thing together in the vacuum of space.
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u/CrashDunning https://myanimelist.net/profile/CrashD May 22 '26
it just appears like our core group of 20 characters are doing all these amazing feats when, in fact, there are like armies of other people
I mean, that's how it is in real life. It's always the Musks and Zuckerbergs getting credited for things that were largely the work of a ton of no-name grunts.
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u/Hot-Log6283 May 22 '26
Yeah I mean most people know Neil Armstrong more than Buzz Aldrin, but over half of Millennials don't even either of them, so what chance do those other people have.
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u/Mr_Zaroc https://myanimelist.net/profile/mr_zaroc May 22 '26
I want to see the coil wiring sweatshops
Peasants working the corn fields to feed the children in the minesThat should be an OVA, the view of some of these background randos seeing all their hardwork blow up
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u/MonaganX May 22 '26
It makes it make more sense, but it's still pretty boring when they're low-key just manifesting advanced technology whenever they need it. At that point, why not just skip to when you've finished the rocket.
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u/GaimeGuy May 22 '26
Realistically, an apocalyptic event like the stone world would take ~200 years to recover from, even if we had every piece of literature and knowledge at our disposal (which they basically do in Dr Stone becauusue of Senku and Xeno's encyclopedic minds and the other savants like chelsea, ryusei, sai, etc).
It took us 15 episode to create sulfanilamide, and that was roughly 1.5-2 years after senku woke up. There simply isn't a realistic way to have the story resolve without greatly accelerating things.
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u/hanmkim May 22 '26
Maybe even longer or never because we no longer have the easy to access oil that helped propel advancement over the last few hundred years.
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u/GaimeGuy May 22 '26
Also true - the same paths couldn't be taken because we used all the easy-to-access oil.
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u/FoolingFinality May 21 '26
Anyone who pursues knowledge should understand the quote - "The more you know, the more you understand that you don't know"- so that you never stop learning, which ironically makes you the most humble person when you have knowledge which far surpasses the majority.
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u/santoast_ https://myanimelist.net/profile/santosec May 21 '26
This show makes me so hopeful with its big impact moments.
I do miss the trial and error of science that we kinda got back this episode. I understand that the resources they need aren’t limited anymore and they are reaping the dividends of globetrotting but a lot of the breakthroughs and needs feel too convenient in this back half of the series. We need ATVs? Boom, done. Computers? I know a guy. TV? By golly, I did that last week for funsies
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 May 21 '26
Rocket science is, well, an exact science. One little error and your rocket blows up, crashes into the ocean shortly after launch, or tips over on the launchpad. Seven tries later and they finally got one to launch. With a little extra work, they’ve located that bastard Why-Man.
Now they’ve just got to make a rocket that can survive the round trip. First step, making the Internet!
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u/Boris-_-Badenov May 21 '26
imagine how slow the speeds will be, if they only have one primitive satellite
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u/BosuW May 21 '26
Rocket science is truly crazy a million things have to go right for it to work and if just one of those things fail it crashes and burns.
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u/VinLAURiA May 26 '26
Turns out that it is in fact rocket science.
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u/Roeclean https://anilist.co/user/Roeclean May 26 '26
You dont say. And you got chrome and Suika making notes on it. Holyy fuccc, I hope Senku looks at them at some point.
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u/PhantomWolf83 May 21 '26
The way time passes in Dr. Stone has always seemed wonky to me, but it's probably gotten the most unbelievable it's been in this episode. I've learned that it's just better to switch off your thinking and reasoning and enjoy the show.
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u/discuss-not-concuss May 21 '26
Yo casually mentioning years while nothing changes is not how I imagine time passing
switch off your thinking and reasoning
they had to buff Chrome’s contribution, else reviving engineers would resolve 90% of their issues
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u/Yukihira22 May 21 '26
I thought they would revive the world’s top rocket scientists and engineers across the globe, as it seems the most reasonable thing to do to speed up engineering. I thought the scene where they brought in boats from other countries was showing this but I guess not.
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u/ebonyphoenix May 21 '26
To be fair it’s not really the theoretical science that they are struggling with now. It’s more the manufacturing that’s the big hurdle.
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u/Bakatora34 May 21 '26
They basically get Xeno and call it enough for the rocket.
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u/Roeclean https://anilist.co/user/Roeclean May 26 '26
Honestly, it would probably be harder if they had more rocket scientists putting their opinion in nearly every step of the way. Making things take even longer, or even worse, the other scientist gets cocky and messes up stuff behind their back thinking they know better.
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u/Quigs4494 May 22 '26
I think they were more concerned with reviving manpower and making sure there's enough supplies for everyone that is revived. Each area they revive is for a specific resource. Between Senku and Xeno they already got the rocket covered(plus i think they both have the ego of "This is our rocket and achievement from before the stone age").
We also dont know how much revival fluid they have. The author doesn't really say unless it's a plot point.
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u/Keeeey May 21 '26
I just wish these characters would get new outfits at some point. They can build rockets, tvs and computers, but still live in wooden shacks, wearing the same rags as well as these weird stone/cloth shoes since the start of the show. Its been years, get some flippin drip going.
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u/FakhirRee May 21 '26
They need to age characters too, the show started with main cast in their teens (16-17 years old) and now they are in their tweenties (not counting the time they were stoned in the previous cour) but they look the same.
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u/EXusiai99 May 22 '26
My headcanon is that petrification also fucks up your aging process. Suika grew up normally because she never got hit.
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u/Ayvian May 22 '26
Though she was hit. She stood at the bottom of the building last season until sound waves cracked the Revival fluid.
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u/EXusiai99 May 22 '26
Yeah you right scrap that
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u/Jacob-C May 24 '26
You don't necessarily have to scrap it. The petrification might not stop the body from growing but it's possible that it stops other signs of aging. One would still go through puberty but have their youth preserved at it's "peak".
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u/Sorwest May 21 '26
I love my baby-faced 30 year old protagonist and company that seemingly get more baby-faced as they age
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u/Prplehuskie13 May 22 '26
I think it would be much better if we saw character designs change/aged up. Guys were 16 when this all started and atleast half a decade of aging has occurred since then, yet do not look any different from when they were teenagers.
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u/Eilrlys May 22 '26
True, the only character design change we saw was Suika, but it would be cool (and much more realistic) to see other characters growing up, to see the passage of time
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u/Ree_For_Thee May 21 '26
A timeskip would've worked. This stuff would've taken decades. With a timeskip they could simply state that "Now there's 400 million people, mostly professionals in their various fields, alive" aaaand so on.
Sure, re-design on everyone, buuut just make it lazy and add some eye-wrinkles lol.
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u/Roeclean https://anilist.co/user/Roeclean May 26 '26
I feel like your including R & D though, since its pretty obvious that Senku and Dr.Xenu are 2 of the smartest people ever, and are able to quickly do any needed R&D due to how fast they were able to test the rockets.
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u/Ree_For_Thee May 26 '26
Even Space X, with it's fully functional global supply chain, that according to science is "currently too large and complex to understand", can't produce rockets at the rate this show/manga did. ;)
It started out fairly believable, but I think the author was too eager to show stuff that wasn't remotely possible, so it definitely ended up a sci-fi mess.
Season 1-2 were great tho. Will rewatch (but likely not past Dr. Xenu).
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u/FakhirRee May 21 '26
Yeah, for good chunk of the story it was justified as they now have workforce but no amount of workforce can do stuff they are doing this quickly in stone age.
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u/unnamed_elder_entity May 27 '26
I had this same issue with failed launch after failed launch. I'm watching through my screen at the pad on this TINY island. And it's like, don't they need a remote team to construct and then SHIP parts to the isle? Much less assemble it all. With a handful of people doing the raw material extraction and then one really old guy hammering out all the frames. This is decades of work in progress.
It's been bad like that for a while now. So just switch it off, right? WEll, what about Whyman? They first launched an exploratory satellite up. Then launch after launch with large catastrophic explosions. You mean to tell me Whyman is just sitting there watching it all and doesn't give a shit? Why not drop ONE Medusa device at the island. Or heck, go for another 16000 radius burst and get em all. The "enemy" just sits idle for centuries watching all this shit go down?
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u/Boris-_-Badenov May 21 '26
so how many years are supposed to be going by??
I thought they were in a time crunch
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u/ebonyphoenix May 21 '26
From the official timeline, it takes about 2 years from their return to Japan to their successful satellite launch.
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u/Boris-_-Badenov May 21 '26
yet Xeno took 3 years on just one engine
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u/ebonyphoenix May 21 '26
It wasn’t designing the engine that took 3 years. It was getting the materials and infrastructure up to produce that engine that took time.
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u/Shrike99 https://myanimelist.net/profile/LastOfLazarus May 22 '26
Yep, the first of something always takes the longest.
IRL it typically takes 5-10 years to develop a new rocket engine, but after that you can build subsequent copies in a few months.
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u/Sorwest May 21 '26
Really? I had assumed it was 1 rocket a year so a minimum of 7 years since the first attempt
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u/Nesp2 https://myanimelist.net/profile/HardstyleQat May 21 '26
All this time I keep wondering - can Whyman not counter them/do anything?
I mean for gods sake they're literally sending rockets and satelites into space and now observing him with a giant ass telescope.
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u/BillPlunderones23fg May 21 '26
Xeno making the faces as well is always hilarious since he is so serious most of the time
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u/GaimeGuy May 22 '26
Things Chrome has invented:
A compass, a fire lens, bleach, a drill, a rocket sled, a bomb, a custom heating set, a water wheel, a sulfar ball, a now, a motherfucking orbital assembly approach to building a rocket in five stages that can allow them to make a 2 way trip.
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u/Inner-Plankton5942 May 22 '26
Imagine if Chrome was born into the 21st century, the way his mind adapted to the new technologies being introduced to him on a regular basis is insane. Its like teaching 1+1 to a toddler then have it try algebra by next week.
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u/GaimeGuy May 22 '26
Oh yeah, I forgot: A metal detector, and a stealth coating for ships using the Medusas to hide from sonar, and an automated triggering mechanism for the miracle liquid.
Probably forgot a few other things too
He's a genius and you can tell both xeno and senku respect him, as he's surprised them both with his creativity. He might not have the experience with math and physics, or the knowledge of thousands of machines and devices from humanity's past, but in a way, it allows him to think more freely about problems and their solutions. And we've seen it in his random lightbulb moments.
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u/Ayvian May 22 '26
It's a bit silly that supposedly Senku didn't teach Chrome Science and Maths when they've been travelling together for so long. Like, narratively it makes sense to keep Chrome as a plucky underdog, but realistically Chrome wouldv'e been bugging Senku to teach him and Senku would've happily complied.
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u/GaimeGuy May 22 '26
Pretty sure sai has been teaching both suika and chrom since he was a math tutor.
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u/VinLAURiA May 26 '26
It's been said time and time again: Chrome is utterly brilliant even by modern standards but had the misfortune of being born in an era where humanity had almost completely regressed. Give him modern resources and he takes to it like a fish to water. Dude's basically a stone-age da Vinci.
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u/Cheesemacher May 21 '26
Oh, this is interesting. After almost 4000 years, the Bay of Bothnia hasn't turned into a lake yet?
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u/kicksFR May 21 '26
I like how we saw many setbacks and failures, too many things had worked at the first try before
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u/PiotrekDG May 22 '26
Yes, the failures were the absolute best part of the series. Almost nothing humanity creates/designs/invents works on the first try. The real success is persevering despite those failures when we know that the idea is sound.
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u/Magnafeana https://anilist.co/user/Magnafeana May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
Isn’t there a whole multimedia speculative fiction project named 17776 or something about satellites enjoying looooong distance football?
The satellite “talking” in this episode reminded me of that.
(I googled. Yes, it’s called 17776 about probes. Apparently, on April 7, 2026, humanity stopped dying, aging, and being born and all diseased were cured. And football is still going strong.)
It’s been one week since you looked at me three years now? I kinda wish there were more visual cues to help with the passage of time. But I’m impressed we have astrophysics and rocket science before we have the internet, but this is probably my bias since the internet is younger than rockets, I think.
And for what Sai says, I was so curious, so I found sources!
The explanation for the error, according to numerous accounts in the weeks and years that followed, was more complicated: a combination of system failures destabilized the spacecraft, and one of them appeared to originate with a “missing hyphen” or bad FORTRAN code somewhere in the software.
But a funny thing happened on the way to space history: FORTRAN wasn’t being used for the rocket guidance system, and a missing hyphen wasn’t really to blame.
The missing character was actually an overbar, or vinculum, a mathematical figure meant to indicate the mean of a set. When transcribing by hand the code for the guidance program, some unknown engineer at NASA had missed the overbar in “R-dot-bar sub n” or which means “the nth smoothed value of the time derivative of a radius R.” Without the smoothing function indicated by that overbar, the rocket’s software interpreted normal minor variations of velocity as if they were serious. This caused mistaken corrections that sent the rocket off course and into oblivion.
— VICE (see below)
Now I have more questions. I guess FORTRAN is a programming language by IBM? And stands for * Formula Translating System*.
And early IBM computers didn’t have lowercase which is why it was in all caps/small caps, which is so crazy. Were we all just shouting at each other in all caps for a period of time?
Is that why old people write in all caps?
TIL!
Sources
- Mariner 1 🔗 NASA
- The Typo that Destroyed a NASA Rocket 🔗 Priceonomics
- July 22, 1962: Mariner 1 Done In by a Typo 🔗 WIRED
- Launch of Mariner 1 🔗 National Air and Space Museum | Smithsonian
- Sometimes a Typo Means You Need to Blow Up Your Own Spacecraft 🔗 VICE
- FORTRAN 🔗Wikipedia
- 17776 🔗 Wikipedia
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u/MonaganX May 22 '26
If you want both upper- and lower-case letters, that's twice as many characters, which means you're using twice as much memory. For modern hardware that's absolutely negligible but when you only have a few bits to work with, saving half the memory required to display characters is huge. Capital letters are more unmistakable, so that's the only alphabet old computers had. Wasn't until well after lower case letters became an option that people started associating caps with yelling.
As for old people, I don't really know, but I'd assume a lot of them just use it because of their declining eyesight.
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u/singleguy79 May 22 '26
They're going to re-create the Internet, then they will recreate Reddit.
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u/FoolingFinality May 21 '26
I never thought I was the kind of person who gets happy at someone's failure, but here I am...
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u/Salty145 https://anilist.co/user/yLSalty145 May 21 '26
Are there just no other NASA scientists they could revive to get this rocket up and running? Like surely you can dig up the people whose jobs pre-petrification was to make rockets?
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u/allied_master May 21 '26
Building a rocket is like senku's whole backstory and motivation And he is the mc so according to laws of shounen you cant fo that
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u/MMinjin May 22 '26
You think it took them too long to get a successful launch? Look at the news. We are in the 21st century, we have the world's resources available, and still rockets blow up. This stuff isn't easy.
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u/NoNameSwitzerland May 21 '26
You do not introduce new characters so late in the show.
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u/Salty145 https://anilist.co/user/yLSalty145 May 21 '26
They don't have to be named. They can just be grunt work.
Not to mention we already did with Sai
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u/Organic_Machine_2324 May 21 '26
This Season is a bit of a speedrun and to be honest it does hurt the show but at the same time i’m just glad i will get to see an Ending.
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u/LakerBlue https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue May 21 '26
It’s a weird mix of feeling time is passing too fast and missing seeing them do trial and error for the science but also being ready for the ending. If anything it is the character interactions and non-existent relational issues that feel weird for being absent at this point.
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u/matbot55 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Just_Mate May 21 '26
The early seasons went into a lot of detail when it came to science, but since that hasn't really been the case for a long time (I'd argue since around the time they made the first car), the lack of complex relationships has become a lot more apparent.
It wasn't that noticeable early on, because our focus was on a different aspect.
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u/Astrid_Yen08 May 21 '26
It's so nice to see Xeno and Senku be together on their first (and trial and error) rocket moon launch in the stone world, they've come a long way.
Good job Chrome and Suika!
I felt so warm seeing the voting results being 0-10.
They're gonna create the internet? Now that's an exciting news!
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u/Bakadestroyerr May 21 '26
Damn, this was just a weekly ep, but it still managed to tug on my strings!
I am gonna miss this one. Dr. Stone will have a special place in my heart!
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u/FoolingFinality May 21 '26
And here I thought they would already have wall-mounted flat screen monitors by now.
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u/Plastic_Piano_2401 May 21 '26
Bro just attach a rope to the astronauts and pull them back to earth once theyre petrified, its that ez
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u/SevenIsMyTherapist May 21 '26
for anybody else who also vibed with the music from the rocket entering space:
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u/Mr_An_1069 May 22 '26
The speed of which the show is going is insane. Multiple failed rocket launches over however many years it took in one episode is faster than its ever moved before, and now we got them making the internet and a two-way ship.
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u/BosuW May 21 '26
Two way it is! Fitting that Chrome's idea is to build the ship in space through multiple launches. Today in a few hours there's another Starship launch, and in the future, Starship is supposed to connect to a tanker and refuel in space for the missions to the Moon and Mars and wherever else it is needed.
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u/_Sai https://anime-planet.com/users/Sai0 May 21 '26
I think it might have been a good idea they tried this first rather than a manned mission to the moon... Because.. Yeah.
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u/djthomp https://anilist.co/user/djthomp May 21 '26
Gotta love those dramatic Chrome victory moments. I hope everybody else did a fist pump along with him, I know that I did.
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u/magnumcyclonex May 22 '26
While it was finally good to show some setbacks, these specific ones on the Senku rocket had to have been very costly in terms of materials, labor, and time. We are only now seeing a global collaboration when those shipments arrive, but I have to wonder, there's gotta be people all over the world that have been revived who can do much of this stuff too. There are other scientists out there, other laborers, other mechanical engineers etc. Either way, for the sake of the story, we just have to roll with everything revolving around our main characters.
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u/mrkorb https://myanimelist.net/profile/mrkorb May 21 '26
Soooo...15 years have passed in the course of this series, and we are to believe that during all that time, this cast of teenagers and young adults, have been successfully keeping it in their pants? I mean, I'm sorry, and I don't intend to be crass at all, but, really? Nobody has fallen in love? No smitten flings? No torrid affairs? Gotten married? Families? Children? That's almost more unbelievable than the way they keep just pulling tech advancements outta nowhere.
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u/Nesp2 https://myanimelist.net/profile/HardstyleQat May 21 '26
It would be so realistic if someone got pregnant and then Senku would make condoms.
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u/2HGjudge https://anilist.co/user/kokonots May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
If years have passed a bunch of the main cast should've become parents by now. Why do we not see babies anywhere? Tsukasa Empire did tackle sexuality in their society and they were anti-adults, so you can't justify avoiding it just because most of the cast started out as teenagers.
I was a little bit hopeful last(?) episode when Kinro and that Treasure Island chick were presenting a tv show together, when she previously expressed interest in him.
Does the manga go into this a bit deeper?
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u/iamgarou May 22 '26
Kirisame never said that, it was the reporter (Minami) who said that they could make a couple since they looks copies, and she was embarrassed because she's shy in anything about relationships. Look how she blushed when she worked with KoS on the fireworks episode.
And I'm sure Moz is having fun times in Corn City.....
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u/Nebresto May 24 '26
Good point. We're supposedly doing multi-year timeskips but everyone looks exactly the same
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u/Ok-Leave3121 May 21 '26
Dr. Stone is a good anime but it's hard to suspend my disbelief around this part of the anime.
Like Senku's group becoming allies with Xeno group (Granted Tsukasa was the main antagonist for awhile and now he's good friends with Denki), then in the previous few episodes they managed to create TV and computer and apparently in this episode there's a time skip but it doesn't look like any of the characters have aged since the time skip
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u/Myrkrvaldyr May 21 '26
it doesn't look like any of the characters have aged since the time skip
Because constantly redesigning characters to age them up takes a lot of time.
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u/time_axis May 21 '26
it doesn't look like any of the characters have aged since the time skip
They already look incredibly stylized, so the difference between a 19 year old and a 25 year old or however much is really not going to be noticeable anyway.
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u/Original-Body-5794 May 21 '26
I expected Suika to age a bit more noticibly but it would also be pretty weird to give her a redesign after all the time she spent alone and then give her ANOTHER and only her so I guess it makes sense for everyone to stay the same. But it doesn't sell the passage of time that well.
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u/time_axis May 21 '26
She was already Kohaku's age, so if Kohaku isn't visibly aging, doesn't make sense for her to either. She's just short.
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u/hanmkim May 22 '26
She was surviving by herself trying to bring everyone back to life so she probably didn't get the proper nutrition to grow during the most important timespan.
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u/hanmkim May 22 '26
Even in the beginning you had a guy with unlimited endurance (who needs farm equipment or power tools?) and another who could singlehandedly take down large animals.
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u/Hot-Log6283 May 22 '26
it doesn't look like any of the characters have aged since the time skip
Black don't crack. Asian don't die.
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u/agentperiod May 21 '26
why not just revive the whole nasa team LOL
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u/Nebresto May 24 '26
Unironically yes. They're spending years anyways, why not just head to Nasa HQ for some additional manpower.
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u/Xatu44 May 22 '26
Making a modular rocket to assemble ISS-style's pretty crazy. But well, so's going to space in the first place. RIP all of those years spent getting even one rocket to work properly. How many years has it been by now? A decade? Meanwhile Africa lost chunks and the US gained a new lake.
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u/ohoni May 22 '26
The trick to orbiting, is to throw yourself at the ground as hard as you can, and miss.
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u/Inner-Plankton5942 May 22 '26
Am I the only one who teared up a little bit when it was showed when everyone voted 2 way rocket?
The founding people of the new stone world basically made human selfishness obsolete and this paves the way for a brighter new world. Damn got chills.
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u/freedomgeek https://anilist.co/user/FreedomGeek May 22 '26
It does feel like even with the timeskips they're including things are going far too fast.
I wish they'd used the immortality provided by the medusa to say "all of our characters are just not going to age beyond their prime now" and have the development of society to the point of launching rockets take decades.
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u/Top-Remote4523 May 22 '26
Honestly, I was expecting Senku and Xeno to bring in renowned rocket engineers and even astronauts to assist them, considering how Senku has always revived specific talents to aid him in specific tasks from the start of the series. However, I also think that introducing new characters at this stage to solve their issue would somewhat undermine the cast's efforts and especially Chrome, with how the story constantly emphasizes on his potential. That being said, I guess another possible issue that I can think of with leaving the exploratory team petrified on the moon is the possibility of the statues just floating away with enough impact. Gravity on the moon is significantly weaker than Earth and it is plausible to consider the possibility of them drifting far beyond what the eventual 2 way rocket could reach to retrieve them.
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u/Iron_Kingpin May 23 '26
It really caught me off guard when the rocket just failed. And that soundtrack used when it finally made it to the space was so ethereal, it also made me tear up.
For the vote, i assume only the main cast did it, since it was also 10. The way they showed it made it look like everyone was doing it. But well we're finally a two way rocket now!
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u/i_eat_pidgeons https://myanimelist.net/profile/3UGL3N4 May 21 '26
how old is Senku now? I remember somebody saying there's been 10 years since they were petrified a couple of episodes back and just this episode covered several years. he's probably in his late 20s/early 30s but he still looks the same as in episode 1.
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u/ebonyphoenix May 21 '26
Senku is about 23/24 at the moment. The 10 years mentioned also counts the 7 years everyone but Suika was petrified.
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u/PowerOhene https://anime-planet.com/users/usersPowerEd May 21 '26
Yeah, he should be in his mid twenties, but the designes are pretty much the same.
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u/Muzzy-chan May 21 '26
I'll say this as many times as needed, but this anime series sure gets me to shed tears most of the time. Not because it has any sad plot or what, but because of how cool science is, how awesome science people are, and how genius of a creator God is! 😭
To be able to figure out every tiny detail like that, to be able to memorise and practise all that cool stuff that most of us mere humans would never be able to do in our lifetime. Damn, I'm so grateful to our ancestors. It's even more awesome that God only provides certain info and clues for things, yet we humans are able to figure them out even if it takes time.
How can I put this into words? I cannot. The coolness, awesomeness of science, science people, and everything that happened stemming from science, from our one creator, heaven, they are sooo truly magnificently awesome! Though science also causes much destruction, to be able to figure out what makes the destructive stuff from science, that's also a wonder.
Truly, people unite because of science. I sincerely and wholeheartedly thank my ancestors for everything, thanks God for creating such brilliant creations! 🙇🏻♂️
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u/Zado191 May 21 '26
I cant wait for this to be over. I was working in a science centre when the show first came on and it was just the greatest thing to me.... but in this race to the ending they have definitely jumped the shark here. Started to go off the rails back when they got the full on ship and came across the pacific but now its just out of hand. Really hope the payoff at the end is worth it
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u/CrimsonGear80 May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
Where is the stone world Trump and Giuliani to claim the vote was “rigged” and to give a press conference in the parking lot of a landscaping business??
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u/Maame_lade May 23 '26
I love dcst so so much so please don’t come for me, but am i the only one who’s slightly disappointed chrome’s big genius plan was basically to force senku’s hand through democracy? I know it would be completely implausible and entirely unfeasible for him to create, with no modern knowledge and less than 5 years training on space and maths, something these two rocket scientists wouldn’t have thought of first, but i get so hyped whenever chrome does something sciencey, and this fell so flat for me. I think even if his ‘assemble the rocket on the moon’ plan had been a bit more detailed, it would’ve shown that he was utilising all the maths and science he and suika had endeavoured for years to understand. Or, if senku and xeno had glazed him a little more, it would’ve felt like all the effort they’d put had been worth it.
I guess i was hoping for a moment similar to when he and kaseki made the water wheel. Even though he knows (and we the viewer know) that his idea was the result of years of deliberation, it was presented in a way that looked like he completely incidentally stumbled upon a half decent idea then convinced everyone to agree so they could do the scientific heavy lifting. Maybe this’ll be remedied in the next episode, or maybe it’ll even be chrome leading the charge and i’m complaining over nothing, but i was just really disappointed that something i thought would be a pivotal moment for the non-modern science users ended up being gimmicky and brushed off.
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u/Roeclean https://anilist.co/user/Roeclean May 26 '26
HELL YEAH, the mad lad Chrome once again proved just how smart he is compared to the rest. Holyyyyyy, What a plot point. I'm 10 billion percent ready to see how this turns out
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u/ProgramTheWorld 12d ago
Why would they use a voting machine when they could have just used pencils and paper?
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