re: The official Interstellar thread (spoilers)

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Many of your second points could actually serve as evidence that the wormhole was indeed closed.

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Possibly. I don't see it but I may have missed something:


How?


Humanity was in a desperate fight to save itself....nothing to spare for curious exploration until survival was assured.


The wormhole only has value as a goal or focus if you think there is something on the other side necessary for survival.


In that hope, they sent out unknown number of probes, followed by 12 manned missions, followed by a followup to the follow up mission to the most promising targets they had.

From humanity's prospective, the Endurance mission failed as well, with zero contact, not even "Hey I am still alive" transmissions for 40 years before the gravity equations were solved.


So why do you think that they would make further exploration of the wormhole a priority?

Seemed to me that Cooper Station was a lone outpost stationed there because things were no longer quite so dire and they were considering to start exploring the worm hole in much the same way we explore Mars.


But just out of curiosity's sake....not because of they were looking for a homeworld.