re: The official Interstellar thread (spoilers)

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It's not a stretch for me that 1)Murph wants her dad to explore and 2)Cooper wants to explore. That's really all I need to know about it.

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Murph doesn't want her dad to explore, she wants her dad to go to Dr. Brand, who is currently residing on a planet that is in another galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor, is 2.5 million light years distant from our own Milky Way. Assuming that ship has the ability to travel at the speed of light (which it does not), it would take Cooper 2.5 million years just to reach Andromeda. But there's no guarantee that Brand resides within the Andromeda Galaxy and, even if she does, the Andromeda Galaxy is larger than our own Milky Way. It's impossible to find her using the means he has available if the wormhole is closed. So basically what Murph told her dad to do was drop dead. Because that's what's going to happen to him.