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Originally posted by Littlemanlovesfire:
Another question which is sort of relevent - in OiS is Serenity still? Because how could Earley jump down onto the ship like that?

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Another question which is sort of relevent - in OiS is Serenity still? Because how could Earley jump down onto the ship like that?

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Originally posted by wydraz:
It COULD have stopped, if it was using inertialess drives.

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Another question which is sort of relevent - in OiS is Serenity still? Because how could Earley jump down onto the ship like that?

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Originally posted by Littlemanlovesfire:
Or am I seriously misunderstanding the basics of physics here?

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Originally posted by Grounded:
"perhaps even drifting back towards it as the only local source of any gravity."

I do hope you're joking ;)

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"perhaps even drifting back towards it as the only local source of any gravity."

I do hope you're joking ;)

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Originally posted by grrarrg:
But I remember something about the commentaries on the pilot - when they passed the reaver ship the first time, they should have both been travelling so fast that they barely saw each other, but it played out as if they were slow-moving ocean liners. They acknowledged that that was innacurate (I don't remember if it was an accident or if they took creative liberties with physics for the sake of heightening the drama),

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But I remember something about the commentaries on the pilot - when they passed the reaver ship the first time, they should have both been travelling so fast that they barely saw each other, but it played out as if they were slow-moving ocean liners. They acknowledged that that was innacurate (I don't remember if it was an accident or if they took creative liberties with physics for the sake of heightening the drama),

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I always saw this as a CGI error rather than a script error. Mal says 'we are PASSING another ship...' To me this means they are traveling in roughly the same direction. This could mean that their relative velocities are small. It could take quite a while to pass them. The trouble is the outside view which shows them coming at each other.

Oh well.

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Originally posted by bikisdad:
Since Serenity is the only object around the debris with any significant mass, it would exert a small gravitational pull that would eventually attract all of the expelled debris back to the ship.

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Since Serenity is the only object around the debris with any significant mass, it would exert a small gravitational pull that would eventually attract all of the expelled debris back to the ship.

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Not any of the expelled debris that reached escape velocity (for Serenity's mass @the distance of the cargo bay door from S's CoG), which looked like essentially all of it.

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Originally posted by TheRealMe:
As far as the passing of the Reaver ship, I am convinced that it was an error of the writer or production crew. But I can explain it! Imagine that the Reaver ship and Serenity were moving at almost exactly the same direction and speed - toward Whitehall. The motion that we saw was only the slight difference in velocities of the two ships. After all, a ship in space does not HAVE to point its nose in the direction of travel. Would it help to imagine the scene if both ships were pointed in a parallel direction as they slowly slid past one another sideways?

The Real Me

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Originally posted by Hans:

2. No artificial gravity (not because AG is necessarily unrealistic, I'd just like to see a show that doesn't take the easy way out and assume artificial gravity exists).

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