{"id":99625,"date":"2019-12-11T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T18:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/how-real-world-science-sets-the-expanse-apart-from-other-sci-fi-shows"},"modified":"2019-12-11T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T18:43:15","slug":"how-real-world-science-sets-the-expanse-apart-from-other-sci-fi-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/how-real-world-science-sets-the-expanse-apart-from-other-sci-fi-shows","title":{"rendered":"How real-world science sets The Expanse apart from other sci-fi shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-real-world-science-sets-the-expanse-apart-from-other-sci-fi-shows2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On 13 December, Amazon Prime will air the fourth season of <em>The Expanse<\/em>, a hardboiled space drama renowned for its working-class characters and real-world space physics. Showrunner Naren Shankar is part of the reason the science checks out. The veteran writer and producer for programs such as <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>, <em>Farscape<\/em>, and the police procedural <em>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/em>, has a doctorate in applied physics and electrical engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Shankar chatted with about why he feels it\u2019s important to have a realistic sci-fi show, and how television work is like the scientific peer-review process.<\/p>\n<p>This interview has been edited for clarity and length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 December, Amazon Prime will air the fourth season of The Expanse, a hardboiled space drama renowned for its working-class characters and real-world space physics. Showrunner Naren Shankar is part of the reason the science checks out. The veteran writer and producer for programs such as Star Trek: The Next Generation, Farscape, and the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,224,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}