Interstellar
- Started 11 years ago
- Last post 2 years ago
- 137 Responses
- CygnusZero40
So nolans washed up then? Good. I really need the i believe in nolan posts from people to end.
- benfal990
Timeline of INTERSTELLAR (spoilerzz)
- coolsea_sea
- very coolorganicgrid
- helps understand a bitbenfal99
- wasn't exactly that complicated a timeline in the first placeBluejam
- except that he must have gone BACK in time after entering the black hole, because the approach would have cost him so much timesarahfailin
- benfal990
Another timeline (spoooileerzzz)
- benfal990
"Christopher Nolan Responds to Complaints About 'Interstellar' Science"
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com…
- organicgrid0
★★☆☆☆
It must be nice to have an endless tank of fossil fuel tucked away in the glove compartment.
- iCanHazQBN0
^ I'm no expert, but there's no wind resistance and virtually no gravity in outer space (away from planets). These two factors, wind and gravity, are the things that keep things from moving.
So if you were to throw a tennis ball while in the blackness of space, it would just keep going and going and going. You can imagine a spacecraft doing the same thing, with the "throw" being just one (or several) thrust(s) of fuel to retain the momentum. The spacecraft could be capable of traveling at very fast speeds with little use of fossil fuels. I think that is why we saw the Endurance spacecraft just spinning through space with no kind of streaking flame behind it to suggest fuel use.
Space travel is MUCH more efficient than traveling on Earth, and the necessity for fossil fuels as energy can't be held to the same requirements.
If I'm wrong, someone please correct me, but I'll probably just ignore you anyway.
- iCanHazQBN0
organicgrid, did you even read that article?
He's talking about taking a spacecraft capable of carrying 500 people to the nearest star (Alpha Centauri), which is 4.367 light years away from Earth.
Saturn is just 746 million miles away from earth (where they went in the movie).
4.367 light years (Alpha Centauri) MINUS 746 million miles (Saturn) is: 4.3668731 light years
^ That's a MASSIVE difference. Of course we don't have enough fuel to go to the nearest star!
- The reason the movie was labeled "Interstellar" was because of the wormhole that provided a shortcut.iCanHazQBN
- "We now have the technology to take ET home..."Maaku
- I think what you mean is a negligible differencecannonball1978
- 4.3668731 light years is not a negligible difference.iCanHazQBN
- Oh, I misunderstood your comment.iCanHazQBN
- No, the difference in distance between Earth and the Alpha Centauri VS Earth and Saturn is massive.iCanHazQBN
- cannonball19780
I hate people who are unable to disentangle speculative science from their enjoyment of it. (Yes, I hate them).
"Okay I saw the film.... now let me see... what science are other people saying is broken... Hup! There is broken science. I automatically hate the film."
It's almost like people don't know how to like things anymore. Like they need some sort of rules that allow them to be a movie critic, rather than relying on how the movie makes them feel.
Just another reason to leave the planet lol.
- +1monospaced
- ++1
Morning_star - cannonball, this is because science just like atheism is a religion, peeps get angry because it shakes their dogmasgeorgesIII
- damnit georges, just lay off the trolling a little, damnmonospaced
- < proof that what I'm saying is true, science zealot respond aggressively to the comments of a dissenter,georgesIII
- okay, Georges, whatever you saymonospaced
- LOLgeorgesIII
- benfal990
That movie is great. I was like a kid watching it on the IMAX screen.
This is the point of a movie.
- no, the point is to talk about the science, you know the science of a science fiction movie... sighgeorgesIII
- What is this 'Fiction' you talk of. It's almost as though an invented story.Morning_star
- ...it's [an invented story]
.Morning_star - < lolgeorgesIII
- the point is to watch on imax? sounds like the story sucks lolCygnusZero4
- It adds to the experience. Why can't that be an added piece to the art of filmmaking??iCanHazQBN
- BusterBoy0
Suitable to take my 11yo son?
- It's fine for your child, just let him know that the science in the movie is speculative at best.organicgrid
- Have him take an astrophysics course beforehand. It will really help.iCanHazQBN
- nothing above 34thorganicgrid
- LOLmonospaced
- organicgrid0
The most creative, interesting and best part of the film is when McConaughey enters the black hole.
- hotroddy0
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- hotroddy0
I would have bought it had they blast off on the Millennium Falcon.
- hotroddy0
don't change the space ship technology in middle of movie
- futuremongolian0
FAKE
- CygnusZero40
Meh, disappointed. Just saw it. Script needed another 6 or 7 drafts to clean it up, refine it. Didnt need to see old murph at the end. Didnt need matt damon as a friggin villain that was shoehorned into the movie. Too much going on at once, under developed characters. It was a bit of a mess and was too long.
I like the concept, really poor execution outside of the visuals.
- ernexbcn0
Watched last night, loved it.
- fadein110
Science:
Fiction:
Both hugely enjoyable - just don't get them confused.
