wheres my watch? by zzetta13

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wheres my watch?

POSTED BY: ZZETTA13
UPDATED: Sunday, March 19, 2006 16:59
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Sunday, March 19, 2006 3:38 PM

Hello fellow Browncoats, new recruits and others.

Been thinking of trying my hand at a little Firefly story but as I thought more about it some questions came to mine so I thought I'd share one with the group.

The question is "TIME". Is TIME a man( and woman) created thing or is TIME just something that has been defined by humankind?

On Serenity, way out in deep dark space there is no day or night, yet the crew seem to hunker down in their bunks around the same moment. Same with suppertime. They all are in the galley (and hungry) pretty much the same instant. It's not like someone gets up a 3am to go to the bathroom or that Zoe and Wash (the married) couple get frisky and are disturbed by another crew member walking around in the middle of the night. There is no NIGHT.

So what are your thoughts on this? I'd like to see whacha think.

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Sunday, March 19, 2006 3:41 PM

GRIZWALD

I think they have watch cycles, but not everybody sleeps at once (evidence when Inara's wave comes through in the BDM). Mal's asleep, everybody else seems to be up and about.

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Sunday, March 19, 2006 3:55 PM

ZZETTA13

Hello grizwald,

It just had me thinking. Back on good ol earth in the old days the fact that watching the sun come up and go down gave people an idea of how long a journey may take or when it was time to get up and start hunting for food or time for rest and sleep.

With space being so vast and unchanging, the idea of TIME seem to loose itself.

As Charlton Heston said in POTA" Space is boundless. It crushes a mans ego. I feel lonely."

Z

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Sunday, March 19, 2006 4:59 PM

DAVESHAYNE

Quote:
Originally posted by zzetta13:
With space being so vast and unchanging, the idea of TIME seem to loose itself.

Space may be vast and unchanging but the human body works vastly better when it follows a more or less steady rhythm of wakefullness and sleepiness (curiously on about a 25 hour cycle with 9.5 or so hours spent sleeping.) All of the crew being on more or less the same schedule makes life easier on a boat the size of Serenity. Of course in their travels the crew have to make occasional adjustments due among other things to the variations of local time on the various planets they visit (see Shindig) and there does apear to be a rotating night watch (Wash has the night watch in OMR, Mal in HoG, Kaylee in OiS. Zoe I would assume is also in the rotation but I'm not sure if anyone would trust Jayne alone, awake, and in charge.)

David

"A lot of people are asking me, you know, what exactly is Firefly? It's a tv show you morons!" - Joss Whedon

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