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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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."

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Miranda was the planet the experiment was on

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Ah you’re right

[–] Rayston@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Someone also thought that Soylent is a good name for an actual product...

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Green seems to be one of the most prevalent colors for it.