Suspension of Disbelief

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UPDATED: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:03
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DESKTOPHIPPIE

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 3:45 PM

According to the novelisation of the movie, the red paint was never meant to be blood. It's mentioned that Reavers paint theit ships with red paint. The patterns are very unusual. Some are distorted Chinese characters, and others are supposed to be similar to the warpaint patterns used by ancient Native American tribes on Earth-that-was.

HAEKELDRACHE

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:29 PM

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Originally posted by pdcharles:
How bout this? How did the hover Mule work?

I think it could maybe use some kind of Anti-Gravity Technologie. Most of the Ships in Serenity/Firefly aren´t big enough to Produce their own gravitiy (well. it might need the mass of a Death-Star here...), so there musst be some kind of artificial Gravitiy (Spacestations and rotating ships excluded, due to their rotation they can use the centrifugal force to "throw the People outside" which works approximately like Gravity.)

So there might be some kind of Anti-Grav-Tech which keeps the Mule in the Air.

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QUEENOFTHENORTH

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:49 PM

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Originally posted by Shiny:
Has anyone commented on the fact that when Mal tells the crew to tie some of the bodies to the nose of the ship, he tosses Simon *ROPE*?!?!

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I don't need a gorram back-spaceship driver!!!

Well, it is OBVIOUSLY special thermal rope designed to tie one's excess luggage to the top of one's spaceship.

You know, a few suitcases, a few gross, corpsified people, a bike or two, what have you.

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CITIZEN

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:52 PM

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Originally posted by Kent:
That it is caused by friction is a common misconception. Well... certainly part of it will come from friction, but it's negligable when compared to the heat generated when the air in front of the vessel compresses.
It's heat generated from compression, not friction.

Erm, no the compression of the Air particles causes friction in the air. The Heat comes entirely from friction, and in fact most of the heat during re-entry comes from the friction with the air hitting the craft, as at high altitudes the pressure is too low for air compression to make that much of an impact.

That is in fact one of the reasons why the temperatures experienced by a craft during re-entry are higher than those during exit, because during exit a lot of the heating happens away from the skin of the spacecraft.

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CITIZEN

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:57 PM

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Originally wroted by Jayro:
I would've thought that the hover mule works using either an air cushion, like a regular hovercraft, or some kind of directable jets.

Come to that, how come nobody's floating about when Serenity's in space? By what means is the artificial gravity generated? Not trying to turn this into a trivia thread, but it's something that's been bugging me for a bit. Help an old man out!

It looks more like a Anti-Gravity, which is likely since we know they have Gravity generators, thus they just need to set up a Gravity field with a reversed Up-Down axis.

For a theory of FireFly Gravity Tech, go here:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=16026#224033

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CAUSAL

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:08 PM

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Originally posted by ritak7:
The thesis i am reserving my punctuation for (though i still claim the title of iconoclast down with the sanctimonious grammophiles)
*snip*

Using poor grammar and eschewing punctuation do not make you look like an avant iconoclast. They make you look like a poorly educated, inbred sack of meat, thesis notwithstanding.

In addition, foregoing grammar and punctuation rules is just plain inconsiderate of anyone who reads your post; it might make sense as you write it, but anyone else is going to have to interpret, which is a bloody pain in the ass. Punctuation and grammar exist to help you communicate effectively using the written word. They are not some oppressive rule system against which to rebel. Doing so only makes you look like you don't care about what you're saying and don't care about anyone who might read it.

Iconoclast indeed.

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Edited to add:
"Sanctimonious: affecting piousness : hypocritically devout." That would be a good insult to level at someone whose writing is as atrocious as yours. But most of the folks appealing for clarity are themselves using proper grammar and punctuation. Hence the term "sanctimonious" does not apply. If you're going to insult someone, do it correctly.

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Edited to add:
As far as the sanctimonious thing goes, note that most folk are appealing for punctuation and grammar not because they want to change you, but because they can't bloody understand you!
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N7XEJ

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:45 PM

It means "if you can read this, you're over educated".

RUSSELL

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:00 PM

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Originally posted by Kent:
Quote:
Originally posted by russell:
i think that the heat from entering and exiting the atmosphere is caused by friction and high speed.

That it is caused by friction is a common misconception. Well... certainly part of it will come from friction, but it's negligable when compared to the heat generated when the air in front of the vessel compresses.
It's heat generated from compression, not friction.

i never thought about that but it makes perfect sense. the heat caused by the compression is basically heat caused by friction between the molecules no? not the friction from the molecules hitting the object but friction from molecules hitting each other because they are displaced by the object. good info

i dont mean to try and sound like a scientist or something. im actually just a construction worker ;)

RITAK7

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 5:38 AM

That is cute;)
Can you tell I am striving for my Ph.D because i really was trying to understand it.

CAUSAL

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 5:50 AM

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ritak7 of FIREFLYFANS.NET has sent you the following message:

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Poor baby you went through all the trouble of looking up sanctimonious and you still didn't understand what it means. Perhaps i should have used italics to denote whimsy. I'm irreverrent and frankly more than a bit indolent hence the sloppy prose. I did not even consider that i was being inconsiderate but now that i have been admonished i shall endeavah to do bettah as we'd say in the Bostonian vernaculah.

So, the part I'm not quite getting is why you'd take the time to insult me in private. As long as you're going to insult one of the people who are getting on your case about your disregard for others on the board, why not just come right out and do it in public? If I'm a "baby" who can't even understand a dictionary, why not expose my stupidity for all to see? If you want to engage in trollish behavior, have the courage to be public about it. Flaunting your lack of regard for proper English then turning around and using "big" words like "indolent" does not impress, nor does the Ph.D candidacy. Why not just treat everyone on the board with a little respect? It will go much further in terms of the way people on the board perceive you.

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