Name for a Facebook-equivalent in the Firefly verse?
POSTED BY: Chrisk
UPDATED: Sunday, April 17, 2011 00:44
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My local Whedonites-type mailing list had a discussion question last week about who you'd want to be Facebook friends with from Joss' shows, and it got me thinking. If there was an equivalent thing to Facebook on the Cortex, then what would it be called?
I've tried to come up with something snappy and Fireflyish, and I can't think of anything that fits. Can any of you great Firefly Fans bless me with your own inspired thoughts? :)
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they allready have one, and....
https://www.facebook.com/thecortex
"I don't wanna rain on your crazy parade, buddy. But I don't think we can fix this thing."
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AlliedWaves.
CodexVerse, MyVerse, or FriendVerse.
TedianMingz (Chinese-ish for "Traits and Names." Ish.)
Facts are stubborn things.
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I like MyVerse. got a nice ring to it.
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I like MyVerse, too.
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MyVerse sounds good.
Bear in mind though, that The Cortex in Firefly/Serenity is *not* the same thing as the interweb that we're using right here and now - at least not on the evidence from canon.
On a planetary scale, there may well be "local" internet equivalents on the more developed planets, but on a systemwide scale, you run into speed of light issues as well as accesibility, power, planetary alignments (it's 5 linked solar systems and they're all moving) and the possibility that stuff like FB etc may simply have been a passing fad of pre-Exodus Earth That Was. (We see no evidence of social networking internet type stuff in Firefly or Serenity. Doesn't mean it's not there, but doubtful that it could behave in the same way as we are familiar with between planets of the 'Verse)
Jill Arroway looks at some of these issues in "Cortex 2.0", an article on The Signal podcast, here:
http://signal.serenityfirefly.com/mmx/show/view.php/192
Nick
The Signal < www.serenityfirefly.com>
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Spacebook
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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Spacebook
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two]
Oh that's even better :-)
Nick
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Spacebook
Spacehook
Skyhook 
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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I like skybook. you cant take the sky from me!
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