A self-healing infotainment system, to boot!

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Which others? I can't find where Thorne said that, either. I would think the tidal forces must be an issue because we see tides on the Puddle Planet. Tidal forces would be an issue around any gravity well; in black holes they just rip you to shreds.

Sure. And I did that just fine for Big Hero 6... but then BH6 wasn't being praised for its excellent adherence to science.

An enclosed space is an enclosed space. Doesn't matter if it's a space habitat just outside the orbit of Saturn or an Earth biome just outside the old Saturn auto plant in Tennessee. In fact, putting a dome in Spring Hill would actually be far easier because you don't have to account for gravity, radiation protection…

The debris didn't continue to accelerate. Why did you make that up? In the movie they actually state — at least twice — that the debris is keeping the same orbit. That's how they know it's coming back around in 90 minutes: because that's the orbit the stuff was in when it got pulped.

These have to be some of the most petty complaints I have seen someone make about a movie.

The issue is that Interstellar is being billed as "the next 2001!" and people are praising its scientific accuracy. It deserves neither of those accolades. It's just not a good movie.

Oh yeah. Look up any list of "scientific plausible movies" and read the reviews when it came out, talking about how Spielberg had a team of futurists work out the technology. It's ridiculous how fawning these people are over it.

I just expect more from science fiction. I know people always say, "It's science FICTION!" but I can find made-up BS from anywhere, including the government. I want something a little more interesting that includes the science part of that equation.

I feel about Interstellar the same way I do about Minority Report. People keep claiming they're so magnificently scientific, but they simply don't hold up to the barest scrutiny, while the story turns on woo-woo pseudo-intellectual feel-goodism.

The more troubling aspect of that truck is that it never changes in more than a half century of use.

You also wouldn't want to live anywhere near a black hole that size. The x-ray output would be deadly. Or so I've read in Kip Thorne's and Neil Tyson's books. But what do they know?

Any GRB that would require us to leave Earth would fry us.

#8. Since they seemed to have no problem growing stuff in space, I also found it a little incredulous they couldn't put together farm facilities protected against the Blight. A minor narrative niggle though...

I made that same point to him the other day. Plagiarist!

The more you think about Interstellar, the stupider it becomes. Getting the visuals of the black hole right can't save it. However, if you assume the whole thing is a con job by the Brothers Nolan, it makes perfect sense. Coop dies at the very beginning of the movie and then it simply apes Jacob's Ladder. (BTW,…

Really makes you wish Lithgow would co-star in a decent space movie again.

Weirdly enough, by 2010 (and even more so today) tensions between US and Russia were nearly back to Cold War levels and by 2011 we were grudgingly working together on space missions, because we need their help. So point in Hyams' favor on that score.

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