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Sound waves are vibrations through the air. The suits would be impermeable to the sound waves and when the waves hit unprotected skin, the skin would vibrate and be buffered so their inards would be okay. Like sacrifical zinc blocks on ships.
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It looks like the the device has no name. It's used at the end of Act 3 in Ariel and is referred to in the script as a "rod-like device".
Here's a link to the script at Firefly Wiki:
http://www.fireflywiki.org/108.html
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I don't think it's a sounds weapon, I think it somehow raises a persons blood pressure to the point that it begins pouring out of sinus cavities and such to relieve the pressure. It just looks that way based on how the actors looked as the blood began to pour out of the thier eyes, nose, ears and fingure nails. It's a mysterious, futuristic device where there are no modern explanations for.
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I always thought it emitted focused microwaves, heating the blood and other fluids of the body, until the pressure would burst and fluid-carrying tissue. If it was a sound device, it wouldn't work in space but a microwave device would (vibrations won't travel in a vaccuum, but electromagnetic energy will). I think they'd want it to work in space, 'cause you never know when you're going to have to make someone bleed out of their eyes...
Or maybe it's something even crazier that makes the blue hands guys even creepier. If this was Star Trek, it would create localized irregularities in the fabric of space/time inside your body, ripping your insides to bits in ways only Stephen Hawking could explain.
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Originally posted by RocketJock:
(I'm not spoilerizing because the comics have been out for a year now, with reprints available. If you haven't read them yet, it's your own fault.)
Not necessarily. We're gettin' new recruits everyday. Please accord them some respect as many may have only just seen the movie and don't even know about the BDS let alone the GN's.
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"Hands of Blue Weapon" (video link below):
The weapon shown in the video (above) is used to amplify and focus our mental powers toward our intended victims.....
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Originally posted by RMMC:Quote:
Originally posted by RocketJock:
(I'm not spoilerizing because the comics have been out for a year now, with reprints available. If you haven't read them yet, it's your own fault.)
Not necessarily. We're gettin' new recruits everyday. Please accord them some respect as many may have only just seen the movie and don't even know about the BDS let alone the GN's.
I don't disagree on any particular point, but taken to the extreme, this would require us to spoilerize any and all discussions of every episode of Firefly, since, after all, some folk might not have seen them yet.
And that thought wearies me.
I'm not going to go out of my way to scream
Select to view spoiler:
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, but I think a year's grace period is sufficent to open a plotline up for unspoilerized discussion.
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HOB 2X2
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I like the term "hobsticks" to refer to those weapons.
And it don't matter how they work exactly. What's important is
a) that they are very scary
b) that our Big Damn Heroes beat 'em anyway
and c) that an even scarier weapon had to be called in - the Operative.
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Originally posted by CanticleForKaylee:
First, let me say hello, as I am new here. I have long been a fan of Firefly/Serenity and have enjoyed this website for a while, but am only now entering the fray. So, hello everyone!
Second, as far as this thread goes, the weapon certainly could be a sonic-type device, as sound waves can be directed and can do things like damage and liquify tissue. (Scientists have done this to lab animals, but no serious weapons have been made, probably because bullets do a better job!)
And third, something I noticed that I have not seen a post about before. (Though I am sure it has been noticed and commented on!) At the beginning of the movie, as the class teacher is narrating and we see some of the planets in the new solar system, the last planet they show, the one on which the animation of its orbital track is placed, is, in fact, Mars. It is a picture of the Syrtis Major region. Anyway, I hope at least one other person than me thinks that is cool!
Sorry for the long post.
Welcome aboard our shiny ship, CanticleForKaylee! I hope to see you around, and enjoy your stay in the 'verse!
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