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attention! This article contains Spoilers For “Foundation” Season 3, Episode 5. She also has spoilers of “ISAAC Asimov” novels and “Robot” novels. Go ahead with caution!

In “Foundation” Season 3, Episode 5, Brothher Dawn (Cassian Bilton) wakes from a jump between stars across space. “The first few jumps are always strange.” She touches it and adds: “You are not cold. It seems like that. But … he will feel that you left a bit of yourself, and she is trying to catch up with you. But that will, in the end.”

It is easy to miss the line in the middle The second foundation drama It is revealed in the show, but there are a lot of points in Apple TV+ Adaptation where the book He managed to infiltrate hidden gestures to the source material. In this case, references may be to things like feeling cold and leaving some of yourself a little more behind than the eye at first. They are scary in a short story of Isaac Asimov written entitled “Escape!” He was included in his short collection of 1950 “I, Robot”, which indirectly provides source materials for the current series. ((ASIMOV robot stories and novels are held in the same universe as the foundation, although there are 20,000 years or so.) The best part of the connection? “Run!” It is one of the most short stories of Asmov all of them.

When you write a multi -novel epic in the fall of the galaxy empire and the rise of its alternative, you better think that you will need a way to transport people through vast distances in space quickly. You do not have to be detailed on this topic, but this transfer component of invasion and human disasters galaxy is a necessary piece of the mystery.

For Isaac Asimov, travel between stars was an important part of the process and an integral piece of stories. In fact, in his subsequent “institutional” novels, he devotes a great time to describing how to travel between stars – and how basic scientists quickly develop it to incredible new levels. Even there is an anti -ligament ship connected to the human brain through touch and can make many jumps between stars in the sequence – but this is not what is happening here. This was earlier in the development of stars travel in Asimov. By this point in “Foundation”, travel between the stars is firm, but the hint in feeling cold and leaving behind it refers to a short story from “I, Robot” that occurs tens of thousands of years – when the travel between the stars is tested for the first time.

“Escape!” It follows the adventures that control two scientists, Powell and Donovan, when they are deceived on a ship designed by a supercomputers to test the travel between stars. The ship praised it inside and takes off without warning. In the end, it jumps, and scientists inside become Guinea pigs between galaxies. The descriptions that follow are wild.

“Escape” describes Powell’s experience in the first jump among stars: This way:

“He suddenly came and stabbed the pain (…) Something that is summarized inside and struggled against an increased blanket of ice, those thick. The struggle.

Looks beautiful, right? This is not half of it. The multi -page description continues to track Powell as the investigating judge hears the sale of boxes. Then she says:

“The white thread, which may have been in varying Powell, is in vain in the unusual temporal time that was present.”

He hears a hundred million ghosts demanding his death. He climbs a spiral staircase and joins a line binding with sky and hell. (He went to the latter.) Donovan has a similar but different experience, where they discover when they speak after they suddenly wake up (or more accurately, return to life) hundreds of thousands of Parsecs away from Earth, at a random corner of space.

Again, travel between stars people at the ASIMOV world point when “Foundation” is not killed. Humans have come a long way by that time. But early? Yes. It literally kills people and returns them to life – and we seem to have a hidden signal to that cold experience in episode 5.

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