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Why Seafarers Love Firefly

POSTED BY: CYBERSNARK
UPDATED: Saturday, June 30, 2012 07:00
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Saturday, June 30, 2012 3:24 AM

CYBERSNARK


An article just turned up on Deep Sea News:
http://deepseanews.com/2012/06/shiny-top-ten-reasons-why-seafarers-lov
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But what we’ve both learned through our marine biological travels is that rabid Firefly fandom is common throughout the ocean science world! I once spent an entire month-long cruise trading juicy Firefly quotes with the chief engineer, and had a second mate tell me “Oh, I thought you were just wearing some dorky science t-shirt, but when you took off your PFD I saw that it’s a Firefly shirt!”

And so, Dr. M and I have conspired to send me to San Diego Comic Con as the first ever (to our knowledge) Official Ocean Science Correspondent. For one day of Comic Con, I’ll be reporting on the latest intersections between ocean science and science fiction. In honor of this, and of Firefly’s 10th anniversary, Dr. M and I have put together this list.


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Saturday, June 30, 2012 4:39 AM

BYTEMITE


My dad was a naval officer for a while, and I thought he'd actually really like the show for these reasons, but no luck.

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Saturday, June 30, 2012 7:00 AM

SUASOR


In my experience, sailors, especially bubble heads (submarine crew dogs) are avid science fiction fans. Before ships got Internet access in the last decade, there was a lot of time to read, or, from the 80s on, watch VCR or DVDs of movies and TV shows.

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