Was Mars a Mars-That-Was in the Firefly 'verse? by chrisisall

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Was Mars a Mars-That-Was in the Firefly 'verse?

POSTED BY: CHRISISALL
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 03:11
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Monday, April 24, 2006 5:06 AM

Why go to another galaxy, wasn't Mars a viable candidate for terraforming?
Or did the Blue Sun Co. mine, pollute and radiate it, making it impossible to terraform long before the need to leave Earth?

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Monday, April 24, 2006 5:42 AM

ZZETTA13

CHRISISALL, yep the Mars that was, was. I think we earthfolk may have trashed it and the other local planets as well.

Joss decided to take his verse out of town

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Monday, February 9, 2026 8:19 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

Musk clips his Mars settlement ambition, aims for the moon instead

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/science/elon-musk-spacex-priorities-moo
n-intl-hnk

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Tuesday, February 10, 2026 2:58 AM

ANONYMOUS1

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Why go to another galaxy,

Hi,

Not another Galaxy. No FTL in the verse. They used generations ships…which meant people lived and died and their children carried on etc.

Was the solar systems in the Firefly/Serenity universe much closer than the ones in our universe or they had much faster ships then we have now or it took a very loooooong time.

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Tuesday, February 10, 2026 3:03 AM

ANONYMOUS1

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
wasn't Mars a viable candidate for terraforming?

Our Mars has no global magnetic field. So it might not be a viable candidate except in sealed shield environments.

They might have used Mars up like they did Earth.

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Tuesday, February 10, 2026 3:03 AM

ANONYMOUS1

Speaking of the moon

https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/?q=Artemis&f=&tab=

Artemis II currently set for Tuesday March 3, 2026.

“ First crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft. First time humans will go beyond Low Earth Orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.”

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Tuesday, February 10, 2026 3:11 AM

ANONYMOUS1

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Musk clips his Mars settlement ambition, aims for the moon instead

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/science/elon-musk-spacex-priorities-moo
n-intl-hnk

I still think Mars is his long term goal. Moon would be a stepping stone…also proof of concept. Darn thing is also so much closer.

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