Nitpickers of the verse...UNITE!!
POSTED BY: everyworldspinnin
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 3, 2006 15:08
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I never noticed Wash's empty hand until I watched the commentary where it gets pointed out. Now, it makes me nuts.
My biggest issue is the medical stuff. Maybe because half my family are nurses and doctors, but -
a) Wash is giving blood for a transfusion with the tourniquet still it place?
b) You DON'T use direct pulmonary adrenalin injection if the heart is still beating! That's a sure fire way to make it STOP beating. (Mal in "Out of Gas", Simon's suggestion in "Serenity"
c) Uh...shouldn't electronic resuscitation be placed where the impact will go to the heart muscle? (Niska)
d) Simon doing pulmonary massage with Zoe on the table and his arms bent? Come on, send that doc to CPR class!
I just overlook them. I love it anyway! However, watching it with the family this weekend, we laughed ALOT. My sister, the terminal care nurse ran around all weekend saying, "The patient was cynical and non responsive!"
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More curiosity than nit picking...
In the message tracy says that you have to transport organs in a human...but how the heck were they gonna transport his "own workin's" to put them back in????
There's problly an easy answer to this...I just don't know it lol
"See this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crochety. Breaks the heart." -Mal
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Just a thought. Has anyone put forward the idea that Mal was actually demoted to Sergeant from Captain. Mal's intelligent, a leader, and apparently one of the earlier Browncoats. He also has a slight problem with authority. It seems possible that Mal was a captain at some point, ticked off the wrong higher-ups, and was busted down to Sergeant, where he met Zoe.
I have absolutely no evidence to back this up. Just seems to fit, somehow.
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My theory on where Mal got the money to buy Serenity: The Alliance actually paid for some of the land they annexed, in Mal's case this was the family ranch on Shadow. What he was paid is a fraction of what it would really have been worth, but enough for a slightly used spaceship.
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Originally posted by gypsylife:
More curiosity than nit picking...
In the message tracy says that you have to transport organs in a human...but how the heck were they gonna transport his "own workin's" to put them back in????
There's problly an easy answer to this...I just don't know it lol
"See this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crochety. Breaks the heart." -Mal
It's only the Lab Grown organs needed to be transported in a human - not just a carrier, but an incubater (blastimmunes not approved; likely unstable).
We have the capacity today to transport human organs with no problem, and in Firefly we know they have full cryo-capabilities, so we can assume there would be no problem with transporting fully developed human organs.
My guess is that in Firefly the labgrown ones aren't completely developed - like the way Tracy's heartbeat was eratic and fast, like a newborn infants would be.
The real curiousity here is really how close we are to growing human organs in labs from stem-cels. It may not be long until something like "The Message" could actually take place.
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Originally posted by mal4prez:
Is anyone else bothered about how they move in space in the pilot? Mal pushes off, then starts turning. And again he changes momentum - turns and stops in midair next to Zoe. They coulda done that better.
The Spacesuits include miniture thruster jets. They react to user movements to give minor control over movement and orientation.
Of course if you move violently enough you can use your own inertia to spin in space, despite there being nothing to push against.
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And how about that Net in OMR? They seemed to be thinking this electric lightening stuff was gonna fry everyone IN the ship. Electric current stays on the OUTSIDE of a metal body - Physics 101 baby.
It was more than electricity. You wouldn't see electricity in a vacuum, so obviously theres also some plasma and a general EM field going on. The plasma would heat up the interior, thereby frying the crew.
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Originally posted by mal4prez:
Is anyone else bothered about how they move in space in the pilot? Mal pushes off, then starts turning. And again he changes momentum - turns and stops in midair next to Zoe. They coulda done that better.
The Spacesuits include miniture thruster jets. They react to user movements to give minor control over movement and orientation.
Of course if you move violently enough you can use your own inertia to spin in space, despite there being nothing to push against.
ya but... I don't see little jets firing and there's no arm circling happening. It looks to me like they're hanging by wires in a studio. I admit, my standards are high because Firefly is so good with how the ships move. But would it have been so hard to cgi in jets, or have Zoe braced against a bulkhead so she could catch Mal after he pushes back from the door?
And please don't flame me for being too picky! That's the point of this, a chance to let my too-picky physics freak flag fly! (trying saying that 3 times
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And how about that Net in OMR? They seemed to be thinking this electric lightening stuff was gonna fry everyone IN the ship. Electric current stays on the OUTSIDE of a metal body - Physics 101 baby.
It was more than electricity. You wouldn't see electricity in a vacuum, so obviously theres also some plasma and a general EM field going on. The plasma would heat up the interior, thereby frying the crew.
Good point. I hadn't thought of the lightening not visible in space thing. I thought the crew talked about the gate like it was electricity though. Guess I'll have to watch OMR again! (any excuse will do)
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Heh, the whole spacesuit thing was me just being stupid
The plasma in OMR seems reasonable though. The electrical and em fields would keep the plasma in place, while the high voltage electricity would keep it nice and toasty.
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In the message tracy says that you have to transport organs in a human...but how the heck were they gonna transport his "own workin's" to put them back in????
Its also very possible that the people tracy was working for lied, and were just gonna take his fake guts out, leave him dead, and keep the money. After all, Tracy doesn't seem like the brightest apple in the bunch, this scenario probably never occured to him.
Another thing that bothers me about Serenity, is how as Simon is rescuing River and they're in that shaft. The security lazers start at the bottom and light up a step at a time...very slowly. Thats just silly. Its a cliche suspence tactic that I find lame.
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Besides, why should we assume that Serenity's hull includes enough metal to make an effective Faraday cage?
Composite materials and ceramics can be assumed to be far advanced 500 years from now. Serenity could be made of a kind of super-fiberglass or some material we don't know about yet. After all, it's strong enough to stop all but the highest-energy projectile rounds.
We know one thing for sure: it's not a good enough Faraday cage to prevent massive EMP when it suffers a particle-beam hit to the engine nacelle.
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