• roofuskit
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    2 years ago

    Seriously? That had to be an intentional name. “Let’s name our prototype after a fictional experiment that killed an entire planet of people and turned the survivors into rapey, murderous, cannibals.”

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      Firefly is the class of ship Serenity is if I recall correctly. Don’t remember what the Reaver experiment was called.

      Edit: Found it, was a chemical experiment called the Pax that had the opposite of the intended effect.

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        Technically it had too much of the effect on 99% of the population. They just sat down and died because they couldn’t be bothered to continue living.

        The other 1% had the opposite effect x100, murder cannibals

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        I’m baffled by the number of people who don’t know this reference. I haven’t seen the film either, I guess, but I thought it was a pretty well known pop culture reference.

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    2 years ago

    Should theoretically be slightly larger thrust than the Merlin 1-D. 7x engines on an Antares or similar.

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      2 years ago

      Oh that’s very cool. Startup looks so rough at 80x slowdown hah!

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      2 years ago

      TEA-TEB. Although t tep is probably a reasonable facsimile of how it is pronounced in industry…