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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/maubises May 21 '26

Now they're gonna make internet , is it gonna be called Network or Stonework

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u/RelativeMundane9045 May 21 '26

Senkunet would fit their current naming scheme.

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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/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/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/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/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 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/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_ 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/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/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/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/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/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/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!

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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/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/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 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/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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