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POSTED BY: FRANCO
UPDATED: Monday, October 13, 2003 22:47
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Monday, October 13, 2003 4:25 PM

FRANCO


I liked firefly and was disappointed that it was canceled. It was unique, entertaining, hard scifi.

Firefly was the only scifi series that I recall with space dead silent as it is in fact. Universal 1G seemed to be the only big problem with the science. Considering the difficulty of dealing with that I can give them that one I guess.

Deliberately or unintentionally Firefly also seemed to follow the Rare Earth theory that intelligent life and earthlike planets will be extremely rare in the cosmos. There was never a hint of alien intelligence and the colonies were apparently all terraformed moons and planets.

For those of you that are better informed on the series, is there any information on the science and technology considered in the production?


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Monday, October 13, 2003 6:31 PM

GOATUS


All the planets people lived on were terraformed.. so we assume they have some magical planetwide gravity device to keep it around the same gravity. :)

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Monday, October 13, 2003 10:47 PM

SOUTHERNMERC


Or they just used planets that had a gravity between .9 g and 1.1 g. Terraforming could be done by automation (send in the bacteria, now send in some machines to regulate the cultures...etc.). Does anyone have info on terraforming? They do have artificial gravity and anti-gravity like devices (ref. episode "Trash").

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