Independents using dinosaurs

POSTED BY: DarkSky
UPDATED: Saturday, June 26, 2004 07:56
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MER

Thursday, June 24, 2004 4:41 PM

I would think River was mentioning what happened to those left on the planet after the war.
I do remember Zoe saying they were left for dead, or just looking it that way.
Everybody would resort to cannibalism and using old technology (referred as Dinosaurs) to get out. Maybe waving your arms around until someone saw you or have a 'help' message laying around.

I don't really have a good theory on this since it's been a while since I've seen this episode. But this the impression I have so far.

GUNRUNNER

Thursday, June 24, 2004 6:29 PM

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Originally posted by Ruthie:
When you think about it, it's rather strange that dinosaurs are talked about at all in the 'Verse.

If you accept that the human explorers haven't found life on any other planets, then the only dinosaurs possible are the ones extinct on Earth-That-Was.
Did the migrants take the trouble to pack up all the dinosaur fossils from Earth's museums and take them with them? Seems unlikely.

So perhaps dinosuars are just so much part of our popular culture that the idea gets carried out into space, with some factual information in available on the cortex, and less factual information available from films etc. (Will they still be watching Jurassic Park and Land before Time 500 years hence? We still read Shakespere....)

But I have another idea that I find interesting. Dinosaurs were part of the development of our Earth.
Perhaps the future terraformers found that the dinosaur stage is a necessary stage for planets to go through before they can become sufficiently earth-like for humans? Of course, it would have to be greatly speeded up, they've only had 500 years...

So that would mean that, on some planets in an earlier stage of terraforming, dinosaurs could be live and well. This would make Wash's dinosaurs no more than models of current aninmals, and River's game no more suprising than a current child suggesting an army could use lions - enough to cause a suprised reaction from her brother and father, but not TOTALLY impossible.

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That makes sense since where does the fossil fuels for the Mule come from? Unless they've developed synthetic fossil fuels, or the Blue Sun of Firefly is the Blue Sun Bio Diesel of today something has to have lived on those teraformed worlds then died to create oil and stuff.

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DIGIFICWRITER

Saturday, June 26, 2004 7:56 AM

I personally think you're ready WAY too much into this issue. Since it's pretty unlikely (and not supported by anything on-sreen) that River wasn't psychic till the goons at the academy messed with her brain, there's no reason to believe that River's comment was anything more than a child using her imagination.

Take my love
Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care
I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I've found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me

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