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re: The official Interstellar thread (spoilers)
Posted on 11/7/14 at 10:53 am to YumYum Sauce
Posted on 11/7/14 at 10:53 am to YumYum Sauce
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Isn't NASA pretty much the most efficient gov't agency?
It's the one I have the most faith in, for sure. But our commander in chief actually told NASA that their number one priority under his administration should be to get the Middle East involved in the space program, when the space program's long term goals are completely counter productive to the Middle East, and they would try to sabotage it in order to ensure we're dependent on oil for something more than just lube.
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Posted on 11/7/14 at 10:57 am to ShamelessPel
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Eternal downvotes to however downvoted that long arse post.
I've got some poster on this board who's really in love with me and downvotes pretty much anything I post. I could post the cure for cancer, and he'd still downvote it.
Posted on 11/7/14 at 10:58 am to YumYum Sauce
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Isn't NASA pretty much the most efficient gov't agency?
technically I think the answer is the USPS. But people hate them without realizing that they have their hands tied by congress.
(like the fact that their pensions are prefunded so that they start each quarter off Billions in the hole while actually making a profit on their services)
Posted on 11/7/14 at 10:59 am to OMLandshark
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This post was edited on 11/7/14 at 11:09 am
Posted on 11/7/14 at 11:18 am to Napoleon
quote:Ironically, Plan B required using all the human eggs.
[Damon] was obsessed with plan B.
Posted on 11/7/14 at 11:34 am to Patrick_Bateman
Posted on 11/7/14 at 11:38 am to Indigold
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So I had this thought watching it, so I'm gonna try to explain it all here.
Interstellar seemed to be the reverse of Inception. Characters go on extreme missions to get back/back to their children. But on these journeys, they face challenging obstacles. They have to go deeper/farther than any other person has ever gone. But in doing this, time is slowed down/sped up, which will possibly cause their mind to age and lose its memory/their children to age and possibly be gone by the time they return.
While Inception journeyed inward, Interstellar journeyed outward. Both done for the love of their children.
So I was looking this up to see if anyone else thought this, and stumbled upon:
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Christopher Nolan says his new sci-fi film 'Interstellar' is like ''a mirror image'' of 'Inception'
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Speaking to Empire magazine, the 44-year-old director said: ''It expands out in the way Inception contracts inwards, it's a very classically constructed movie, but the freshness of the narrative elements really enhance it.
Posted on 11/7/14 at 11:39 am to Napoleon
quote:I won't damn it
Just admit it was a plot hole and move on
Posted on 11/7/14 at 11:53 am to OMLandshark
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Go to the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, and it's just fricking embarrassing how the Saturn Rockets are actually more sophisticated than the shuttles we were launching in 2010.
I have a sad feeling that the USA is regressing when it comes to space. I fear that the USA will never again spend the money necessary for space exploration.
Even IF we enacted a federal "NASA Tax", I fear that fund would be raided by FedGov to use for other purposes.
Posted on 11/7/14 at 11:55 am to jeff5891
I'm stuck in traffic and I'm afraid that I might miss the first five or 10 minutes. Can somebody give me a quick synopsis so I'm not lost.
Posted on 11/7/14 at 12:11 pm to Napoleon
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Why mask it at all? If the ship can take off like a plane, why not just have it take off in secret.
Just admit it was a plot hole and move on
I don't think it was a plot hole at all. I just took it as them being efficient and using all of the resources at their disposal. They had these rocket boosters around so why not use them to save fuel that the shuttles will need later in the mission?
This post was edited on 11/7/14 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 11/7/14 at 12:32 pm to The_Joker
BOOOOOMMM
Posted on 11/7/14 at 12:45 pm to The_Joker
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I don't think it was a plot hole at all. I just took it as them being efficient and using all of the resources at their disposal. They had these rocket boosters around so why not use them to save fuel that the shuttles will need later in the mission?
you're really not thinking that through. what kind of fuel are they using that allows them to hop off of a 1.3g planet that takes up no space at all?
and NASA is working on a secret budget. they wouldn't just build enormous rockets unless they absolutely had to. it's not like you can reuse the things.
it's a plot hole
This post was edited on 11/7/14 at 12:46 pm
Posted on 11/7/14 at 1:52 pm to baytiger
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you're really not thinking that through. what kind of fuel are they using that allows them to hop off of a 1.3g planet that takes up no space at all?
Who cares? It's like 80-100 years in the future. The SR-71 could get to an alt of at least 95,000' with a top speed of god knows what and it was designed 60 years ago. You don't have to suspend all disbelief to think that they could escape a planet's gravity without rockets. All I was saying is whatever fuel they DID use, they saved by using rockets.
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and NASA is working on a secret budget. they wouldn't just build enormous rockets unless they absolutely had to. it's not like you can reuse the things.
No shite. I was implying that they had the rockets already, not that they built them for this mission. They talked in the movie about NASA refusing to use their rockets as weapons for the govt, so it is assumed they had plenty of hardware already. I was under the impression everything they used in this movie was just left over from the old world. I thought that much was pretty obvious.
Posted on 11/7/14 at 2:10 pm to The_Joker
quote:this is the simpless answer and should be accepted. Just BC Nolan didn't explain every worthless detail doesn't make it a plot hole.
I was under the impression everything they used in this movie was just left over from the old world. I thought that much was pretty obvious
Posted on 11/7/14 at 2:24 pm to baytiger
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you're really not thinking that through. what kind of fuel are they using that allows them to hop off of a 1.3g planet that takes up no space at all?
Anti-matter reactor?
Cold fusion?
We weren't really told what kind of power they had, but it WAS in a world where India had a drone with a power cell that could "power a whole farm for a season", I would assume there was some serious advancements in power.
Could have a totally new system of thrust.
My point was strictly why the three stage, and then no stage "landers" later? But the answer to my post, about conserving power is plausible.
Posted on 11/7/14 at 2:26 pm to baytiger
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. what kind of fuel are they using
obviously corn fuel
Posted on 11/7/14 at 2:46 pm to YumYum Sauce
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obviously corn fuel
I would be happy in a world of mostly corn. I can eat corn bread like 100 ways and roasted sweet corn is amazing.
Funny that Okra was the second to last crop to last.
So your choices for dinner were always Okra and Corn and bread. Seven years ago they lost wheat, last year okra. (from start of movie) but was there nothing else?
Posted on 11/7/14 at 2:47 pm to Napoleon
So was this the greatest movie to ever grace the silver screen or what?
Posted on 11/7/14 at 2:47 pm to Napoleon
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So your choices for dinner were always Okra and Corn and bread. Seven years ago they lost wheat, last year okra. (from start of movie) but was there nothing else?
probably something shitty like lima beans.
dumb question, but was the Blight some type of plant fungus?
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