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Originally posted by KayleeRulesAll:
and that was pretty much it. Now the kicker is probibilty. while this system could exist, its far more likely all the dust in the birth of the system would all congeal into about five, maybe 6 planets of decent enough mass to terraform. so the the colonists from Earth had to be pretty damn lucky to find a system like that in the first place!

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Originally posted by citizen:

As a rather pedantic sidenote, why in night scenes in FireFly don't we see all these other planets, being so close together wouldn't you see them?

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Originally posted by Diego:
I think it may be a little easier to conceive of the Firefly system if we drop the "70 Earths" requirement.

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Originally posted by KayleeRulesAll:
i agree. i think the "hundreds of Earths" and "a whole galaxy of new worlds" refers instead to just the few planets in the system. i mean, were hearing this from space cowboys; safe to say there aint much education among them. they hear a fancy word like galaxy and use it cuz it sounds cool, not much carin if its really the most accurate term for thier little planetry system. thats my take on it, anyway.

while having more systems would make more sense, they are supposed to be able to get to all the planets in the 'verse. its a well known fact that there is no FTL in the 'verse, though, so getting to worlds in another system would take like 50 years or so, probably more. clearly, they cant be in multiple systems.

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When the stars shine bright through the engine's trail and the dust of another world drops behind; When my ship is free of the open sky, its a damn good day to my way of mind; Theres a barren planet you never can leave, theres a rocky valley where we lost a war; Theres a cross worn 'round a soldier's neck, theres a man's faith died on Serenity's floor, but i stood my ground and ill fight once more; Its the last oath that i ever swore

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