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ATTN: Browncoats | by Nightwind | 2008-02-09 03:22:52 |
| Assuming there's some kind of FTL travel, |
by fudje |
2008-02-09 05:44:57 |
we never see it, although according to the apparent distances, territory sizes, et cetera of the worlds we see in the series and movie, I'd suggest that we're looking at a 'visited' universe the size of, say, the milky way galaxy. The "Reavers have been to the edge of space" theory is pure speculation, but could be reduced to "edge of the galaxy" on the basis that once you got there the nearest neighbour is that much further away, and most galaxies are invisible without telescopic equipment -- exceptions from Earth are the two Magellanic clouds, M31 - Andromeda, and M33 - a Triangulum galaxy. These are all close to the nearside of the Milky Way. When you get to the edge of the galaxy, you're going to be looking at more or less nothing when you look out. It would perhaps be even more humbling than the mass of stars that you see in the Milky Way, possibly because you know that there are a lot of galaxies out there that are much larger than our own, you just can't see them.
Could send a man mad. Of course, Jayne was never humble except that one time Mal shut him in the airlock of the cargo bay. |
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well, bad assumption for one | by Freakazoid | 2008-02-09 14:57:35 |
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the movie took place in a single, dense system | by Astro-g | 2008-02-09 16:40:37 |
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