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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bX: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [qb]...Not to mention that some planetary body would probably be in every space scene and most worlds would have several moons (or planets) in their sky in most scenes...[/qb][/QUOTE]It's true. We didn't see a lot of that. But we did see some. From [i]The Train Job[/i]: <center> [IMG]http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/419/TrainJob-PlanetsInSky.jpg[/IMG]</center> They're SO close!! [QUOTE]Originally posted by Hobbes: [qb] I still find a single star system unbelieveable. The outer planets would be iceballs that far away from their sun...[/qb][/QUOTE]Which assumes a geometry very similar to our own. I don't know how plausible it is, but in an [URL=http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=interviews&id=980]interview with CHUD[/URL] Joss responded to a question along these lines: [QUOTE]... Q: Does Serenity go faster than light? Joss: I don't think so. Q: Are the planets really close together? Joss: They�re really close together. You�ve never seen a planet cluster like this one. It�s a little planet village. If you start asking my science questions I�m going to cry. ...[/QUOTE]Which (among other things) is adorable and makes it clear why he'd never write for Star Trek. Add to this that we've never seen multiple stars in any of the skies (to my knowledge), and there hasn't been any dialogue about different stars or how to get to them in reasonable amounts of time given sub-luminal velocities. Anyway, yes. It is sort of silly to assume that they can have this many habitable planets orbiting one sun. But we don't have [URL=http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/4104/anglosinoallianceatlassmaller8.jpg]much else[/URL] besides our present understanding of planetary mechanics on which to base our assumptions. And at the beginning of the movie here we have this teacher explaining things by way of exposition, and behind her there is this animation with what appear to be planetary orbits: <center> [IMG]http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/419/Serenity-TeacherMap.jpg[/IMG]</center> [QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [qb]...And the images are vague - the pic with the teacher in front appears to have 19 at a stretch (work monitor isn't very good with dark backgrounds); the image below it 14 (although that could be a closer-in image showing the inner worlds; does the pattern of separation match?); and your map 21...[/qb][/QUOTE]For the purposes of this map (and before I started really), I took frame grabs as this animation unfolded and layered those into an Illustrator file so as to include as much detail as possible. The pattern of separation does match such that the lower image with 14 orbits shows closer detail than the wider one (with teacher's shoulder obscurring the innermost portion of the map.) Which is where I got the placement of the [b]20[/b] (not 21) orbits that I have been using. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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