# Did you know that Firefly is awesome? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 1, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-firefly-is-awesome/523324 "2010-01-01T20:37:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-firefly-is-awesome/523324/81 "2010-01-06T16:20:12Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I haven’t seen anyone saying that. I liked that it didn’t have FTL, but only because it made a nice change. I’m OK with shows that have FTL as their “one thing”. **groo** implied it in his pass/fail tests. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-firefly-is-awesome/523324/82 "2010-01-06T17:48:17Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Our solar system has a habitable zone that could easily include three planets. A large hot star would have a habitable zone much bigger. Maybe twice the size. That’s maybe six to 8 possible rocky planets in a habitable zone. There’s no cosmological reason why a system couldn’t even have many more small rocky worlds than that. If anything, the past decade of discovery of exoplanetary systems has revealed that our own system is nothing like a “model” of what we can expect of other systems; the diversity revealed by the discoveries is simply astounding. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-firefly-is-awesome/523324/83 "2010-01-06T18:25:54Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > Cool pic - got a link to a bigger version? Alas, that was the biggest version of it that I could find (and, as you’ve probably noted, it’s too small to be able to read clearly). ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-firefly-is-awesome/523324/84 "2010-01-06T18:55:42Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > And face it, Firefly’s “there are many inhabitable worlds in a single star system, all reachable within a few weeks at sublight velocity” is almost as bad as FTL. Well, to allow some handwaving, a constant acceleration drive can get you around within a solar system in a reasonable amount of time. Even a crummy 0.1G can get you from Earth to Mars in three months without having to time things like a [Hohmann transfer orbit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohman_transfer_orbit) does. Imagine the travel times at one or two G. Of course, that ignores just how much energy you can pack into those fuel tanks, and judging by the time it took the Reavers’ ship and Our Good Girl to pass each other in _Bushwhacked_, their top speed is about five miles per hour. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-firefly-is-awesome/523324/85 "2010-01-06T19:59:50Z")
Maybe the Reaver ship was flyng backwards at a speed 5mph less than Firefly? ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-firefly-is-awesome/523324/86 "2010-01-06T21:58:45Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > **groo** implied it in his pass/fail tests. No; I’m just continuing in my years-long attempts to get **The Core** more respect. Every sci-fi movie requires some suspension of disbelief, and I sometimes wonder why people pick apart movies for various flaws in their logic rather than just enjoy them. I like all of these movies, and love Firefly. I’m home sick today, watching the second Transformers movie for about the sixth time. Transformers are cool. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-firefly-is-awesome/523324/87 "2010-01-06T23:12:04Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Maybe the Reaver ship was flyng backwards at a speed 5mph less than Firefly? My impression was that the Reaver ship was more or less drifting, that its course just passed close to _Serenity_. It seems like SOP for Reavers is a lot of nothin’, followed by ferocious aggression. This would be in keeping with what we know about what made them from the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-firefly-is-awesome/523324/88 "2010-01-06T23:13:19Z")
> [@groo](#): > > … I sometimes wonder why people pick apart movies for various flaws in their logic rather than just enjoy them. Sometimes, picking apart flaws is fun, and we do it even for movies we adore. Sometimes, the flaws are just too glaring or severe. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-firefly-is-awesome/523324/89 "2010-01-06T23:26:20Z")
> [@groo](#): > > No; I’m just continuing in my years-long attempts to get **The Core** more respect. Every sci-fi movie requires some suspension of disbelief, and I sometimes wonder why people pick apart movies for various flaws in their logic rather than just enjoy them. I think there’s just something about _The Core_ (or rather, some combination of things) that makes it very difficult for people to suspend their disbelief. I guess it just manages to present itself in such a way as to be the diametric opposite of those sorts of films people describe as immersive, engaging, enthralling, etc. That’s not to say it’s a bad or dull story, or badly told - it just pushes all the buttons the wrong way (for me, and apparently I’m not alone in this regard) I routinely watch and completely enjoy other films that stretch plausibility just as much, or more, it’s just that they happen to have whatever it is that makes it possible not to care about all the implausibility - for whatever reason, _The Core_ can’t do this for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-firefly-is-awesome/523324.md?page=4)