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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Aban Rune: 5) After Serenity breaks orbit, the nacelle lights always go out, which would seem to suggest they're runing on inertia. This would necessitate an intra-system venue, though they could be waiting to get a safe distance away from the planet before rapiding.[/QUOTE]Perhaps... except that the nacelles are the engines that tilt and swivel for maneuvering and hovering. There's a lot less maneuvering in space (outside of planetary orbit), so the nacelle engines can be shut down after breaking orbit. And the danger in the pilot episode of going to "full burn" in an atmosphere is obviously a lot more real than the debatable problem with going to warp in a planet's atmosphere. ;) Therefore, seeing as how full burn is obviously much more powerful than your basic liftoff engines, and a spaceship's greatest necessary acceleration is only when escaping a planet's gravity (such as launching from the surface), it seems obvious to me that the full burn is in some way related to an FTL engine. And besides, based on various physical limitations, it's impossible to make decisions based on television-determined perspectives of the camera. For all we know, Firefly's FTL method has some sort of minimal time-dilation effect that makes things seem to be moving past at a slower speed than they actually are, or some such. That would help explain the quirkiness of that close-pass with the Reaver ship, anyway. ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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