re: The official Interstellar thread (spoilers)

Must have because the son was driving the same dogge truck 20 years later

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I'm thinking that John Lithgow was probably born in the 70's or 80's. Maybe even 90's.

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Yeah, I'm guessing Lithgow was born anywhere from the mid-80s to the late 90s. Doubt he's a 70s kid though.

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Just by some of the dialogue about the past. I don't get the Moon landing thing. Was NASA so hated that they were removed from history?

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It's not that NASA is hated, it's just ridiculously fricking embarrassing for them to have gone to the Moon and more or less put forth a politically incorrect version of history down in order to believe that we as a species are pretty much destined for mediocrity.

And that's really the way the world is actually working now. The world at large is saying we don't have time for that and that we have more minute and pointless things to do on Earth, rather than push ourselves forward as a species and save ourselves from certain extinction. Rest assured, that if mankind continues on the reckless path it is currently on, some variation of this film is inevitable. We are merely mortgaging the future of our species.

And to double down on the symbolism, this film was made in 2013. 2013-1972= 42; now compare this to the depression/dust bowl era: 1972-1930= 42. This film is supposed to also be symbolic on how far we came since the dust bowl to the moon landings, and then despite being just about equal times apart, we've gone nowhere, and merely worry about our places in the dirt, rather than going forward with our natural impulses in being pioneers and explorers.

If July 21st 2019 comes around, and especially December 7th 2022, and we haven't been back to the Moon, then we should be embarrassed as a species. It's mind boggling to me that people don't get this, and we need to change this to further ourselves as a species and save us from inevitable extinction.

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If the world is now a one world government without borders, do we really think they let NASA have a blank check?

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The film never says there is one world government.

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If this did take place at least 60-70 years in the future, are we to think that vehicle production stopped in 2014, like it did in WW2?

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While the vehicles look old, there's no conclusive proof for this either. Maybe they just stuck with a model after the Blight and ran with it for decades, since it's clear the world as a whole has given up on any type of innovation or creativity at this point.