Timeline for How is it that the outer planets in Firefly are not frozen?
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| Dec 4, 2014 at 11:33 | comment | added | hitchhiker | @JonofAllTrades The day scenes I have seen so far all suggest to be shot in more equatorial regions as the sun is mostly quite high above the horizon. | |
| Dec 9, 2012 at 6:41 | answer | added | Trig | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 10:31 | answer | added | Lord Sardonicus | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 10, 2011 at 13:08 | comment | added | user1786 | In addition to all the great answers below, consider that we may have only seen the equatorial regions of some of the colder bodies, and the polar regions of some of the warmer. | |
| Apr 13, 2011 at 1:49 | answer | added | aramis | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 7, 2011 at 18:15 | history | edited | user56 |
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| Apr 7, 2011 at 17:12 | vote | accept | Dima | ||
| Apr 7, 2011 at 15:26 | answer | added | Poindexter | timeline score: 38 | |
| Apr 7, 2011 at 13:27 | comment | added | DampeS8N | the inner planets would cook, yes, but the habitable region around the star would be larger. It just would be farther away. Consider Jupiter and Saturn in our own system. If the sun were larger, those moons would likely be habitable. There are a lot more of them than there are terrestrial planets. | |
| Apr 7, 2011 at 13:07 | comment | added | Dima | @DampeS8N That still doesn't seem to add up. If the sun is larger and hotter than ours, then the inner planets would be way too hot for life, like the day side of Mercury | |
| Apr 7, 2011 at 12:11 | comment | added | DampeS8N | I love Firefly because it solves all the problems of space travel without magic. I hate Firefly for including psychics for no reason other than to ruin a perfectly plausible world. | |
| Apr 7, 2011 at 12:08 | comment | added | DampeS8N | @Keen has the right canon explanation, however there are a few other possibilities: the sun could be larger than our own, this would mean the solar system is young, hot, and large. This would lead to a lot of gas giants with big hot moons, and big hot moons can be easily terraformed. The problem here would be that, because the system is young, life wouldn't have arisen or become complex. But we can assume they brought life from Earth. It also means this system has between 1 million and 1 billion years to exist. But that's long enough. | |
| Apr 7, 2011 at 7:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/55897145433260032 | ||
| Apr 7, 2011 at 3:56 | answer | added | user1027 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 7, 2011 at 3:47 | history | asked | Dima | CC BY-SA 2.5 |