re: The official Interstellar thread (spoilers)

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ANd once again with the personal attacks for having my own interpretation.

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Much of our pain is self-chosen, and personal attacks are underrated.

Have fun. I'm out.

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You could say the same is true about Interstellar. It doesnt matter if he ever finds Brand or if he dies trying. What matters is he has made peace with his daughter and has gone out into the unknown where he belongs. Exploring the universe in search of something better for the human race.

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You're just oblivious to how large the universe is. If the sun were the size of a white blood cell, then the Milky Way would be the size of the United States. And that's one star in one of hundreds of billions of galaxies. Telling him to go back and find Brand would at best be taunting him for abandoning her for Brand, and at worst telling him to kill himself. I don't think that ship could make it to Proxima Centauri, nevertheless another galaxy they have no idea where or even when it is. If the wormhole is open, then we don't have this problem. It completely changes the context of that scene to have it closed.

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The world needs those people. I believe this is Nolan's call to all of us to re-engerize the space exploration program.

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No we don't need idiots who go and blindly kill themselves. The space program should have realistic goals, not just lauch a person into interstellar space in a random direction and somehow hope he lands on an inhabitable planet without dying. It's preposterous.

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To go beyond what we think is rational and investigate whats possible.

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That's like a school guidance counselor telling her students to frick studying and going to college and just play the lottery. I guess there's a one in a billion chance, which are significantly higher of him finding Brand, so frick it.

You obviously didnt read my previous posts on the topic. He's not going out and blindly killing himself. He's going out with the TARS and the information inside it to seek out an alternative way to get back to Brand. There is serious risk that he is not successful and he will pay with his life (just like astronauts). But its a calculated risk and one that we as humans must be willing to take for the survival of mankind.

And yeah I am totally oblivious to how big the universe is. Ya got me.

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He's going out with the TARS and the information inside it to seek out an alternative way to get back to Brand.

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That's not a thing.

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But its a calculated risk

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What went into that calculation?

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Near the very beginning, Cooper has a dream which shows imagery of the (seemingly) very same spacecraft he later flies on the mission. Is that because it's the same craft he spent his earlier career in or are we supposed to take away that the future Cooper has somehow Inceptioned him in some way? Also, perhaps it is in this 80 page thread, but what is the grade-school version of what happened in the movie...meaning, how did Cooper/NASA open up the worm hole to begin with and get into the future?

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That was him in his younger years and the crash that ended his flight career.

Cooper/NASA didn't open the wormhole. The fifth dimensional humans from the future did.

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meaning, how did Cooper/NASA open up the worm hole to begin with and get into the future?

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He loved his daughter so much that he could alter gravity to the point of creating a wormhole.

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Were they from earth? What is the conceivable explanation?

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They are us, but in the future. So yes, they originated from Earth.

They evolved to the point where they can manipulate time and create wormholes and shite. They created the wormhole so present day humans could escape Earth and eventually evolve into 5th dimensional humans as well.