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re: The official Interstellar thread (spoilers)
Posted on 11/24/14 at 7:04 pm to lsugradman
Posted on 11/24/14 at 7:04 pm to lsugradman
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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.
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.
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.
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.
This post was edited on 11/24/14 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 11/24/14 at 9:42 pm to OMLandshark
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.
And yeah I am totally oblivious to how big the universe is. Ya got me.
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