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POSTED BY: SUCKFAIL
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 12:34
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 6:21 AM

SUCKFAIL

Hi I'm a big Firefly fan, but I don't really have.. any.. friends who watch Firefly. But I came across this today, and I found it funny.. just wanted to share.

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 7:12 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...

Yeah! And what's with this Santa Claus dude? Every chimney??! Fuck-all, there's no way!

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 7:28 AM

WISHIMAY

Yeah, I'd thought about that too...I think the mythology was they survived by eating people and... whatever.

I think the weapons thing could just be a result of angry=make weapons. Some parts of the brain still functioned?

But in the end, they were just supposed to be boogymen, and boogeymen are fun...

Thanks fer posting it!

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 7:30 AM

TWO

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

If you think about it, as the cartoonist did, Reavers might not be stupid nor disorganized. To build an ugly, yet functional, spaceship by splicing together the engines of one spaceship to the frame of another requires craftsmen and engineers. The Reavers did more to the Trans-U that chased Serenity than cut ragged holes in the hull.

Take a look to see how much modification was done by the Reavers on the Trans-U.

You have to be completely crazy to start such a project, but Einstein-smart to finish with a spaceship that doesn't blowup when you fire the engines.
www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=12&t=33087

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 8:26 AM

WISHIMAY

Who's ta say some damn redneck witha death wish didn't build that BEFORE the Pax??

I know people that make building dum-I mean awesome stuff that'll get you killed- their main goal in life. heh.

BTW...I want one. Makea nice hood ornament-right up there with the baby Jesus...

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 8:41 AM

TWO

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
Who's ta say some damn redneck witha death wish didn't build that BEFORE the Pax??

A redneck that is a rocket scientist? I've never seen that combination. Maybe a redneck parent to a rocket scientist. Or a redneck married to a rocket scientist.

I would believe that Joss had bigger plans for the Reavers, plans which require Reavers to be smart.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 8:52 AM

BYTEMITE

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to play with jet engines, plasma, or rockets.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cars+with+jet+engines&hl=en&biw=1056&bi
h=191&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Ir1nTuuVEOfmiAKZ6vSGCg&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQsAQ

Though you might end up with the nickname "stumpy."

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 10:21 AM

JOURNEY

Sorta off topic, but the comic right before that one is rather hilarious too. I just hope no one in Hollywood with any sort of producing power actually reads this comic, on the off chance they get the idea that Hungry Hippos would be a good movie idea.

Dinozombies!

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 10:57 AM

SUCKFAIL

Thanks for all the responses! I wasn't really expecting that.. I'm glad you guys enjoyed it as much as me. The authors really did seem to think a lot about the issue haha.

And ya, the comic before, the hungry hippos one is pretty funny also.

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 11:10 AM

TWO

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to play with jet engines, plasma, or rockets. . . . Though you might end up with the nickname "stumpy."

I feel a need to shoot at your example. It is a matter of scale: a two ton jet engine jalopy racing down the Bonneville Salt Flats is easy to design compared to a 1,000 ton spaceship flying round trip between planets. Or to use a different analogy: a two story house is easier to design than a 200 story skyscraper. I think the skyscraper will need more than one structural engineer unless collapse and death by crushing are not a problem.

If you want to believe a redneck built a Trans-U spaceship with 3 mismatched engines from a junkyard and the howling-mad Reavers stole it, that's wonderful. Science fiction is fantasy, not science, not engineering.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 12:34 PM

BYTEMITE

They do treat Kaylee like a car mechanic splicing stuff together.

I'm not an engineer myself, but it seems to me so long as you can get the connections right, and you're taking whole engines and hooking them up intact, then scale doesn't really seem to matter. The bigger problem would be if the engines themselves are similarly cobbled out of parts, because these engines appear to have a lot of moving parts in them, and the wrong size or type of part could make things go catastrophic quickly.

Now if what you're talking about is hull integrity and vacuum crushing, that's maybe getting closer to the design problem, but looking at the Reaver ships, I'm not sure design is their number one priority. Or safety.

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