Science and mistakes in Firefly: Ask your questions.
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Thursday, September 8, 2005 08:45
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Quote:To accuratly depict two ships traveling at such speeds revative to eachother visually is not easy. A literal picture of what was happening would cut back and forth, zoom out to show real time movement, and focus on computer screens to make the point that the ships would only actually be in visual range of each other for only an instant.
Originally posted by GunRunner:Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
First off, let me say there are no mistakes in Firefly.
Oh really. In the pilot Serenity and the Reaver ship are traveling very slowly when they should be going very fast. Joss has admitted that this is a mistake!
I see it as a narrative choice, not a technical mistake (Galactica is guilty of this constantly).
Joss was mistaken; it's not a mistake.
DOP Chrisisall
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Quote:Sheer Jedi insight.
Originally posted by KayleeRulesAll:
Umm...
Is that cannon? if so, where did u get that information, because ive never heard anything like that said so definitively.
Posing answers to questions Chrisisall
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Originally posted by perfessergee:
So how should we address you in your new role? Enquiring minds (and perhaps some disabled ones, too) want to know.......
Your Firefly-like Correctness is my new thread handle.
YFC Chrisisall
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ok, so your just shamelessly trying to pass off your own personal ideas as fact?
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When the stars shine bright through the engine's trail and the dust of another world drops behind; When my ship is free of the open sky, its a damn good day to my way of mind; Theres a barren planet you never can leave, theres a rocky valley where we lost a war; Theres a cross worn 'round a soldier's neck, theres a man's faith died on Serenity's floor, but i stood my ground and ill fight once more; Its the last oath that i ever swore
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Quote:At the very top of this thread I state that there are NO mistakes in Firefly. At that precise point you should be aware that this thread is not to be taken as Gospel; no show is absolutly perfect. And crowning myself as a total know-it-all is supposed to have the ring of satire to it. I'm just a fan, like every other, with no special insider knowledge of the FF galaxy. This thread is all in fun, I'm sorry if you misunderstood.
Originally posted by KayleeRulesAll:
ok, so your just shamelessly trying to pass off your own personal ideas as fact?
Now get goofy, and act like you know something WE don't!
YFC Chrisisall
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that settles the stomach a bit. didnt know if u were maybe some kid who thought he was a badass and started spewing crap. that tends to happen on message boards sometimes. good to hear u got yer head about u.
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When the stars shine bright through the engine's trail and the dust of another world drops behind; When my ship is free of the open sky, its a damn good day to my way of mind; Theres a barren planet you never can leave, theres a rocky valley where we lost a war; Theres a cross worn 'round a soldier's neck, theres a man's faith died on Serenity's floor, but i stood my ground and ill fight once more; Its the last oath that i ever swore
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Its obvious they used Bussard Ram scoops on ships carrying the population chosen to make the journey to the new system in suspended animation.
When the ships arrived the planet engineers were 'thawed' and terraformed the inner 'core' planets, which could be quickly and easily terraformed, as they were already nearly earth-like.
The rest of the population was then 'thawed' and began building up civilisation on these new worlds, while the planet engineers began taming the worlds further out in the system.
The process of properly building a civilisation on these core worlds took about three hundred and fifty years, from first early settlements on the core worlds of the FireFly 'verse.
It was another eighty to one hundred years before the start of the war of independence.
I know this cause I read Joss's mind with my L33T Sup4 SillZ...
Q: What do you have when you are holding two little green balls in your hand.
A: Kermit's undivided attention.
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I really like the "Magically Appearing Dolly" that was utilized on the air ambulance that Kaylee and Wash fixed up. You know, the one they used to break into the hospital on Ariel. Yaah, it's really neat -- 'cause see, when the ambulance is flying around on it's nighttime journey to the hospital, you can clearly see that it's got no "Magically Appearing Dolly" (MAD, in the lingo of the biz) hanging underneath it. Even when it first lands on the hospital's landing pad, it's not there.
But as soon as our BDH's need to get out of, or climb into, or hang around and make jokes and small talk in front of the air ambulance, you can see that the MAD has materialized right beneath the landing pads, or feet, of the ambulance. It's really kinda cool! I mean, it musta been something ol' Wash and Kaylee designed into the thing for a reason, right? Probably some super-secret stealth technology that Kaylee whipped up when she wasn't fighting off the Magical Space Monkeys (MSM's fer short) or some such. You know, a MAD that increases the height of your special air ambulance so your BDH's can all be in frame (and won't hit their heads on an air ambulance that's a little too low to the ground).
Yep, I do LOVE those "Magically Appearing Dollies" that come equipped on every jury-rigged air ambulance in the Firefly 'verse. Yessiree!
(Relaxes and waits. Thinks to self: "Man, I gotta hear this one.")
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Doesn't putting the ENTIRE population in SA seem a little undo-able? You're talkin' BILLIONS fer cryin' out loud!!!
No, the OWSUMEJ Gate is the only answer. SA would be limited to a few hundred thousand at best.
Are you suggesting most were left to die on Earth-that-was? And that the FF galaxy is populated by under a million at this point? Or has enough time passed for a few hundred thousand to grow into billions?
GIVE ME DATA SO I CAN BUY YOUR THEORY! (the OWSUMEJ Gate sounds too much like Stargate....)
YFC Chrisisall
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Quote:Sorry to give a mundane answer like this, but the dollies a provided by the hospital; check out Zoe grabbing one as she almost goes off camera after she gets out of the ambulance, and the shadows of 'em are also visible on the pad as the copter lands on the lower left and right of the screen.
Originally posted by calonriel:
Yep, I do LOVE those "Magically Appearing Dollies" that come equipped on every jury-rigged air ambulance in the Firefly 'verse. Yessiree!
YFC Chrisisall
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