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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] I don't believe you can derive anything about what "short range" and "this far" mean from that, though, beyond the relative. Just that the freighter is out farther than it normally ought to be. The only thing about Firefly that gets weird when it is limited to one system is the number of habitable planets, even given that many that we see are in fact moons of gas giants. I mean, that's really weird, but I don't think it breaks the show. Nothing ever happens that would have to take place across interstellar instances, or, for that matter, that has to take place within a system. (Except for, maybe, "Out of Gas." In the real world, the kind of radio you could buy and put on a spacecraft in the 1970s is sufficient for communicating across at least 88 AU. And Serenity is, at a conservative estimate, at least as advanced as the Voyager probes. ((Come to think of it, how close were they to Whitefall, in the pilot, while enjoying real-time communication with Patience? Perhaps we can say that they must have FTL radio, at least?)) They wouldn't be out of communications range if they were inside a planetary system, though of course being in the range of any practical help is another matter. On the other hand scientific accuracy was not a particular goal of the show, beyond the incidental. And look how much goodwill no sound in space can generate with the hardcore.) And, really, every planetary system found these days turns out to be weirder than the last. So who knows? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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