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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:47 am
by Vince
Windshield/meteor question... some sort of force field. When they crashed, it was gone.
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:27 pm
by Cakedaddy
Also, your typical bullet proof vest will stop a bullet, but it will not stop a knife from stabbing you. Maybe it's the same principle.
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:00 pm
by Leisher
Either of those explanations would mean poor design decisions on the part of the engineers who built the Firefly.
Windshield/meteor question... some sort of force field. When they crashed, it was gone.
The engineers didn't put redundant backups on top of redundant backups for the windshield? We're talking about something that, if it fails, everyone dies.
Also, your typical bullet proof vest will stop a bullet, but it will not stop a knife from stabbing you. Maybe it's the same principle.
True, but wouldn't allowing through a knife work against the science of a forcefield? Although, I haven't seen a kevlar vest let it's occupant be stabbed by a tree trunk.
And hell, if it let's through a knife that size, then why didn't it let in space debris that is smaller and would've killed Wash a long time ago?
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:56 pm
by Cakedaddy
I'm not talking forcefield. I'm thinking something more along the lines of 'safety glass'. They were able to manufacture the glass fibers or something, or hell, it could be plastic too, such that space debris would not petetrate it. Maybe it has microscopic spikes that pulverize small debris into dust or something. I don't know. I'm just saying some sort of technology that doesn't allow small stones/rocks to break through. But a large pointy thing with a ship behind it was outside the scope of what it could handle.
Just brought up the vest because most people probably think if it can stop a bullet, surely it could stop a knife. But it can't. Maybe we are making the same mistake with whatever the windshield (wait, it's a damn space ship. Would it still be called a 'wind' shield?!) is made out of or something.
I got it. . . the windshield material is flexible with micro spikes on it. As debris hits it, the windshield gives and somewhat surrounds the debris and crushes it with it's micro spikes. The large spike pushed on the windshield, and the windshield gave as it was designed to do, but couldn't pulverize the large spike and the spike then pentrated the windshield. And knowing that large spikes defeat the windshield design, the reavers mount them. Then they ram the ships. Hard enough to kill the pilot, but not hard enough to destroy the ship (or themselves). Then they have a new ride. . . with duct tape covering a hole in the windshield of course.
See. I figured it all out.
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:30 pm
by Vince
Leisher wrote:The engineers didn't put redundant backups on top of redundant backups for the windshield? We're talking about something that, if it fails, everyone dies.
Yeah, but if it were some sort of forcefield that surrounded the entire ship to protect it from space debris, skidding across that concrete floor would probably overwhelm it and any backups in place. We're talking about a good 30% of the ship's surface probably.
Plus a crash landing is a rather cataclismic failure to begin with.
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:37 pm
by TPRJones
Leisher wrote:The engineers didn't put redundant backups on top of redundant backups for the windshield? We're talking about something that, if it fails, everyone dies.
Dude, it's not the space shuttle. Serenity is a nice ship, but she's a flying death-trap. Did you not see Out of Gas?
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:20 pm
by GORDON
Yeah but Kaylee TOLD him that part was bad.
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:30 pm
by TPRJones
Sure, but how many parts does she tell him about that we never even see. That thing was a heap when he got it just a few years before, after all.
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:06 pm
by Vince
I'm re-reading this thread, and a thought occured to me.
I need to get laid soon. I'm starting to feel like that uber nerd I was in high school surrounded by my uber nerd friends.
I need a tit in my hand soon.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:53 pm
by GORDON
Vince wrote:I need a tit in my hand soon.
Buy a dairy cow.
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:42 am
by GORDON
This movie was voted #1 sci fi movie ever. In some scifi mag or something.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6517155.stm
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:35 pm
by Leisher
This movie was voted #1 sci fi movie ever. In some scifi mag or something.
I love Firefly. More than any other Sci-Fi series, except for possibly, ST:TOS and ST:TNG, but these people need to chill a bit on the #1 Sci-Fi movie of all time bullshit.
Still, if it brings back the series or even just reminds FOX how fucking stupid they are, then I'm ok with that lie.
Edit: Just clicked the link, if the voting only contained those 5 options, I understand why it won.
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