Rationalizing a Firefly - Serenity type setting

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Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Why is the most obvious reason so hard for some people to accept? Poor science education? With how ignorant of space's vastness the general populace is, the writers may have though they were being realistic by not including FTL. They simply didn't think/care about the absurdity of so many garden of edens in one system.

FTL= poor science education

It's not possible, Flyn.

Why can you accept it, but not a miracle star system?