Comments on: Fisher-Price falls into a black hole

By: mom of planet hero enthusiast

mom of planet hero enthusiast — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:36:35 +0000

I think some of you are way too testy about a simple toy. There are toys that “aliens” “ghosts” super heroes that fly, etc.. All sorts of toys that don’t exactly exude accuracy in real life! At least Fisher- Price has found a toy that has my son excited about the planets. He could name them all in order at age 3. The dvd’s are cute little cartoons intended, I’m sure, to ENTERTAIN children. By the way, in the third dvd, there is a flying moon cow that saves the day. We live on a farm and my son isn’t trying to help our cows jump over the moon or fly or save the solar system! So — maybe (just maybe) children can understand that EVERYTHING they see on TV isn’t real. Please find another way to sell your book other than petty attacks against a preschooler’s fun little toy.

By: Jack Garvey

Jack Garvey — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:58:25 +0000

Thought Matteo, my 4 year old son, as of 8/17/08, was only Planet Hero lover.
Thanks for your support,my wife and I have taken Matteo to planetarium,
but he was too young at 2 and 3.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:28:24 +0000

Hmmm, Firefly wasn’t all bad. As far as I recall, it is 1 star, multiple planets, and the worlds are all actually moons. Hence why some can be travelled between quickly, and some take weeks. It was supposed to be that way. The old west had to move slowly from place to place, so autonomy from a centralised/federal government was easier. Firefly is suggesting that we can return to that pattern once distance becomes so great again that we can’t just cross the entire empire in a day.

Of course the bits involving reaver chases, proximity, and communication (the ‘cortex’) are obviously wrong.

As for terraforming, I think we are meant to use our imaginations. There was enough population or not enough equipment, so the centre worlds were colonised/terraformed first. Then they did the outer moons. There may be social reasons why the worlds couldn’t be properly developed.
Hell, Australia wasn’t exactly exploited for its resources. Why move to a hellhole when you can just deport undesirables there?

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:29:51 +0000

“And that’s only diameter. The galaxy has depth, too. Its volumes is approximately… let’s see… carry the three… a bajillion times that of the solar system. It’s no contest.”

That gave me a chuckle. Cheers.

By: tobiasthecommie

tobiasthecommie — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:53:56 +0000

Dunc:

>There are several instances in Firefly when the word “galaxy” is used instead of “system”. As in: “The Earth got used up, so we moved out and terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths.”

I always assumed that they didn’t mean galaxy as “a lot”, not the literal meaning of the word. Guess that is why they didn’t pick up on it.

As for the rest of the physics in Firefly(going places too fast), i really do not know how long it would take to fly from earth to Jupiter with a relativistic drive. And they never did explain how they were propelled(ie, in the series, i don’t think i ever heard them say that they were going X% of lightspeed or anything like that).

BUUT, i don’t want to start a whole physics in the firefly conversation, i fully agree with you, it was just the galaxy thing.

And what they did in Farscape was brilliant.. “Einstein was wrong”.. nothing more.. nothing less.. me like

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:24:03 +0000

Ugh ugh, why did you guys have to bring in Sailor Moon?

The #1 reason why I hate japan. (I have a lot of #1 reasons to hate japan though.)

By: Rand

Rand — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:09:59 +0000

“With his corrupt little minions and negatronic cloud, he has vowed to destroy the solar system!”

Despite your reservations, I still think you should use it.