No Aliens in the Serenity Universe
POSTED BY: Windwalker
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 18:36
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Originally posted by Causal:
Just curious, but why do you regard God's non-existence as a zero possibility?
I regret the way I said that, since I didn't want to turn this into a religious debate (even though, as I said before, the existence of intelligent life is a debate that has some religious undertones to it).
Short answer: My reason for rejecting the possibility of God is because of Occam's razor, so basically it's based on logical reductionism.
Also a short answer: The existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipotent being just plain doesn't make sense.
In contrast, the existence of intelligent alien life does make sense. I think the probability is extremely small, but if we one day find out that there are clever aliens somewhere, we have a good idea of how it came about. The same cannot be said of God, because the existence of God would just pose many more questions than answers.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
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I remember watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos many years ago, and one concept that stood out to me was the Christmas Tree Analogy.
Imagine that our Universe is a Christmas Tree with a string of flashing Lights on it. Each flash of light represents the presence of an Intelligent Cicilization coming into and out of existence. Some lights would flash much longer than others, but they would all tend to randomly flash at different times. The fact of two or more lights existing at the same time and close to each other would be relatively rare. It would depend on the number of lights/civilizations, and how long the average light/civilization would last.
My personal feeling is that For all practical purposes we are alone. If we ever do come across an intelligent life form, it will be archeaology that tells us about them, Not "Universal Translators".
So Joss' approach makes perfect sense.
"Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one." -Mal
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I bet if the show had gone on for 5 or 6 seasons, we would have seen aliens eventually. Probably an invasion of some kind with only one alien species represented, but alien nonetheless.
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We may have seen aliens but it would have been a hoax (make a good story plot). That or maybe some terrible space monkees.
Z
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Quote:I don't think you're right about that. If it happened, I would probably consider it the point where Firefly "jumped the shark".
Originally posted by LawgSkrak:
I bet if the show had gone on for 5 or 6 seasons, we would have seen aliens eventually. Probably an invasion of some kind with only one alien species represented, but alien nonetheless.
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I'm pointin' right at it!
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Quote:Mike, Mickey, Peter, or Davy?
Originally posted by zzetta13:
We may have seen aliens but it would have been a hoax (make a good story plot). That or maybe some terrible space monkees.
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"Hey Hey we're the space monkees...You never know where we'll be found..."
DANGIT DON!! Now I'll be having that in my head all night 
and btw it would likely be Mickey to join Serenity's crew as the comic relief after Washs passing. Peter would have joined in with the Alliance after becoming very, very wealthy from his mom inventing "White-out". He's been hired to go to his labs an invent "Reaver-out".
Z
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Quote:All true, all true. But Mike could come aboard as a wry troubador/bard, and Davy -- well, he makes all the teenage girls swoon. Love interest for River?
Originally posted by zzetta13:
it would likely be Mickey to join Serenity's crew as the comic relief after Washs passing. Peter would have joined in with the Alliance after becoming very, very wealthy from his mom inventing "White-out". He's been hired to go to his labs an invent "Reaver-out".
Firefly/Monkees... that's gotta be the weirdest. Crossover. Ever.
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"Firefly/Monkees... that's gotta be the weirdest. Crossover. Ever."
That or Pee-wees Playhouse
Pee-wees playhouse= Laurence Fishburne= Matrix= Gina Torres= Firefly= husband/wife, Hey maybe there is something to this. This is doable.
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thats just too much. cowboy curtis in outer space?
Wash> but thats like science fiction
Zoe> you live on a spaceship, dear
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