Has Firefly helped you in a way?

POSTED BY: jlin13
UPDATED: Friday, January 12, 2007 16:43
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OUT2THEBLACK

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:32 PM

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Originally posted by jlin13:
thanks for the responses about the moons, its just i have to have 11 planets in my script and i cant find many other places, any help? places that are in this solar system and are close enough to the sun to keep life

Well , if those are the criteria , then you could go with some terraformed asteroids , placed in regular orbits by some mass-driving spacecraft attached by the miners...

MSG

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:07 PM

Firefly led me here and that's been the best thing that's happened in a while:)...I now return you to your serious scientific discussion

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."- Albright

SHINYED

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:43 PM

I think I had gotten very bored or disappointed with most of the sci-fi genre for a long time....too dark & gritty, too damn serious, too high tech, too hackneyed, too filled with characters I could care less about...dead/alive..whatevers, too blah blah blah!

Honestly, Galaxy Quest actually re-kindled my love for the genre...the humor, the fun, the story, & the action.

Firefly took my expectations of sci-fi to an entirely new dimension...totally satsifying, totally fun, totally ADULT, totally not insulting to my intelligence ( be it as it may)..

Thank God for Joss!

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OUT2THEBLACK

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:52 PM

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Originally posted by ShinyEd:
I think I had gotten very bored or disappointed with most of the sci-fi genre for a long time....too dark & gritty, too damn serious, too high tech, too hackneyed, too filled with characters I could care less about...dead/alive..whatevers, too blah blah blah!

Firefly took my expectations of sci-fi to an entirely new dimension...totally satsifying, totally fun, totally ADULT, totally not insulting to my intelligence ( be it as it may)..

Thank God for Joss!

Well said , ShinyED . Had more than a little poetry to it , Sir !

That's definitely something I've gained from Firefly , and the folk here...Perspective .

There's always someone to affirm what I've been thinkin' .

Then there are the folk from other schools of thought...

JWHEDONADDICT

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:57 PM

Helped? Not sure I can think of anything at the moment. Besides adding to my Joss addiction, of course...and giving me someone else to crush on(Nathan)!

JWHEDONADDICT

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 7:09 PM

Okay, just read someone else's answer and am now out of the "Fire bad, tree pretty" moment (otherwise known as BUFFY #2 cover art...which is still consuming my mind).

BUFFY, ANGEL, FIREFLY & SERENITY and everything else Joss does has always been able to pull me out of every funk I seem to be in at any given time. They're what I use when I'm sad, mad, happy, bored, confused, in need of guidance, etc. Of course, they (and he) have also driven me to some of those same emotions, too!

JLIN13

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:11 PM

again, thanks for the posts about my delema, and i may just do that whole terraformed asteroids thing so i can have my 11 planets. ive had alot of ideas for my thing that i havent written down yet(id do it in school if i werent so sucure with my writings)

MARTIANWAY

Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:00 AM

I'll think of something less lameish than this to post in a while, but the first thing I figure Firefly did was show me there are some good people in the 'verse. Not many, Lord knows, but there's enough. Put things in a bit of perspective, too, which was nice, since I was going through a bit of a difficult time. Also got me here (good people in verse!), and got me off a bit of writers block I was havin' way back when (I'm writing a screenplay for a class right now, and I've got a Mal character, a Zoe character, and a sorta-River character---not a nutter, but someone who's always spouting crazy-forshadowing shit that everyone kinda ignores).

Also, for terraforming planets/moons (asteroids, being non-atmospheric, tend to knock into each other a lot; also, the radiation exposure you'd get living on one of those things might not be so good for the brain in the long run) I'd take dibs on Enceledus. The atmosphere's got a fair amount of CO2 (good for plants) and a bit of oxygen (which would grow exponentially with the terraforming process and the introduction of plants...right now, most of the stuff burns in the upper atmosphere and turns into H20) but is mostly water vapor (a bit foggy, yeah, but O2 can be extracted from it--and hydrogen, too, if you want that for power--and it protects from radiation like nothing else). The moon's mostly water-ice; terraforming would probably start on the South Pole, which is warmer than the rest of the moon (tidal stresses) and has liquid water under the ice crust. South pole's also got geysers, which are fun. Check it out.

"Woman, you are completely off your nut."

DEEPGIRL187

Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:07 AM

Besides giving me faith in good TV again, I think the biggest way it's helped me is by discovering the fandom. I'm not a very social person online (or in real life, for that matter), and coming on this site as well as others has helped me branch out a lot.

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JONGSSTRAW

Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:10 AM

Ya know....reading all the posts here and other places...well I could almost frikkin' cry ( but I won't..I'm a man dammit!)...but you guys totally validate my thoughts and feelings! I feel very, very special to be amongst your warm company. Thank you all so much!

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