Solar System Vs. Galaxy
POSTED BY: MadJack
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 17:41
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Originally posted by ImEarly:
we could only travel at a maximum of 17,500 miles per hour (This is the maximum speed of the space shuttle in space)
You're assuming that no technological advances were made before departing Earth, which by your own argument is not likely.
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Originally posted by Grounded:Quote:
You're assuming that no technological advances were made before departing Earth, which by your own argument is not likely.
One problem here. Firefly is placed 500 years in the future. Considering technology now, and the short time (500 years is not very long in terms of the cosmos, and human development) Thus technological advancements must be made to increase our ability to travel faster in space by 'A LOT' also there is the time needed to build transports capable of transporting earths population, time to transport these people from A to B plus, time for Terraforming and colonizing, time for Reavers to travel to the edge of the universe-and return... time for the war... Therefore my above post must be accurate.
So you're a bounty hunter.
No, that ain't it at all.
Then what are you?
I'm a bounty hunter.
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Originally posted by ImEarly:
500 years is not very long in terms of...human development
Are you kidding? Look at the advances made in the last hundred years, even the last fifty.
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No, I'm not kidding, and also I was simply using Alpha Centauri system as a reference, you must also calculate that the closest star to us aside from this is the Bernard's star, which is 6.0 light years away, Wolf 359 7.7, the numbers get greater from there my friend. These are massive distances, and these systems can be seen quite clearly by today’s technology, to appease fans I'm certain when Firefly has been rightfully reestablished, that the writers will use systems dozens of light years away, that without FTL will be impossible for the human race, regardless of sub light technology, to reach. Obviously Serenity does not have the ability to generate FTL (as you can actually see them departing a location during the 'firefly effect') however it does not mean that the ability is not there in the Universe of Firefly. I imagine that eventually the writers will develop a FTL system that is NOT like Star Trek or Star Gate, something new, something we can all agree on without resorting to cliché Science Fiction.
So you're a bounty hunter.
No, that ain't it at all.
Then what are you?
I'm a bounty hunter.
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That's not what I meant.
You're claiming that since the star systems are so far away, the Firefly universe necessitates FTL. Suppose then that a drive was built that could manage, say, 0.25c. Ignoring acceleration/deceleration periods, it would take at least 4 times as long to reach Barnard's Star as a ship going at c or greater. So what? Very long journey times would not necessarily matter for a sleeper ship. You send out a hulk full of frozen sleepers (perhaps even an automated facility to artificially produce humans once it gets there), it takes them many decades to reach their destination, but then they can begin colonising local space fairly quickly in comparison. Many genre stories have created realistic scenarios for near-future colonisation of neighbouring systems without FTL anywhere in sight.
Furthermore, you said that it's unlikely technological developments could take place before leaving Earth that would allow non-FTL travel to nearby systems. If they can't develop new non-FTL travel in that time period, what makes you think they could develop FTL?
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