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Jim3001 t1_itmr30h wrote

Reply to comment by Bovey in Will The Expanse ever get the last 3 seasons to finish out the last 3 books? by MajorRichardHead7

The time skip was closer to 30 years. That's not including internal time of the books. The book 'Cibola Burn' takes place over the course of a minimum of 4 years. Hell Abbadon's Gate had a minimum time if 7 months.

By the time you got to the last book the main crew had to be pushing 70 easy.

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Kryavan t1_itn00la wrote

But they also take anti-aging meds so they could hand wave a lot of that aging and just make then a bit grayer.

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Jim3001 t1_itn24n3 wrote

Not sure about those pills. I remember a few paragraphs about Bobby's knees and Naomi's back.

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Kryavan t1_itn2ezl wrote

Yeah, but I'm 27 and regularly have knee and back pain.

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Jim3001 t1_itn33e8 wrote

Today, being my 41st Birthday, I can get away with making a joke about 'youngin's being old before their young'.😜

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GhostRobot55 t1_itphxm4 wrote

Well they definitely took anti aging pills too though. This conversation about actos and ages has popped up on the sub every week since that book dropped.

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jmcgit t1_itqy92e wrote

In those books they're in their 70's but are meant to have the bodies analogous to those of people in their 50's today. Someone might not die of old age until they're in their 100's, but age still comes. It would be possible for a TV series to handwave it but it might feel a little bit cheap. I think if they were to do it today, it'd be better to trim down the 30 years to 10 or so and just skip the idea that many of the invading forces had been born on Laconia and had never seen Sol, which works better in the books anyway.

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NotTroy t1_itp1a3k wrote

I think Avasarala is supposed to be in her 80's during the early stuff. This is a future where cancer meds and anti-aging drugs have pushed life expectancy out to (I'd imagine) somewhere in the ~110-120s.

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wolfsrudel_red t1_itpyzxa wrote

>life expectancy out to (I'd imagine) somewhere in the ~110-120s

Pretty sure this is explicitly stated a few times

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Jim3001 t1_itqfq03 wrote

I know she was well past 100 when she died. But I always chalked it up to her being too stubborn to die and so cranky that heaven and hell were afraid to let her in.

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NotTroy t1_itqic1l wrote

I haven't read the books, only watched the show, and I don't think that it's outright talked about in the show.

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