'Out Of Gas'
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
I always think "people who stampede the stock need shot."
From the shot there's no way to tell if they were stampeding the horses or just swooping down over a bunch of stampeding horses.
I guess I just assumed it was the latter, what with the swooping instead of straight line travel.
As Robert Heinlein pointed out, tractors don't reproduce. On a low-tech planet, you're better off with a draft animal that not only reproduces, but is fueled by an easily acquired and replaceable resource.
It's not like they were grazing on vacuum grass.
Cows - vacuum sealed for freshness.
Seal-a-meal them Hoover heifers.
Is there a ZipLoc bag big enough to hold a cow?
Freeze-dried cow - just add water.
I think that's called "soup", tommyrot.
Yes, but I think that in The Future, they will have mastered the technology of freeze-dried cow reanimators.
I had issues with that, too. As I learned in geography class, it only makes sense, when you're using expensive transport, to transport high-value per unit weight things. Concrete blocks travel by truck, and they don't travel far. Computer chips travel all around the world by airplane.
Even today, with current technology, people are much more likely to ship bull semen than to ship the actual bull.
I'm suddenly flashing on Janene Garafolo's Comedy Central ad about the jerky chew rehydrator.