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The lack of any explanation or science?

posted 8 years ago by laymonite-2
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At one point, the Dr explains to the pilot a train travelling at 85mph trying to catch up with a train travelling at 85,000mph. I assume he was talking about the speed of their space vehicle vs the speed of expansion of the universe? If so, what was the point and how did they reach the universe edge?

Everything in the film looked deliberately dated (the 1970's style TV show, old TV on a hard drive, buttons, levers, writing on sheets of paper, a pinball machine) but they had 'Earth' gravity and a ship capable of reaching the 'edge of the universe' - despite the train analogy).

I feel like someone saw the end of 2001 and Interstellar and a couple of episodes of Red Dwarf and decided to put them randomly into a film and fill the 100 minutes with s-l-o-w repetitive scenes.

[–] Carnage81 8 years ago

So you can suspend disbelief for a movie like Alien which use 286 computers to run a spaceship. Yet this movie you need to know exactly how they get where they are. Sorry to break it to you but Einstein proved nothing with mass can go faster than the speed of light. So any explanation they give is going to have plotholes. So stop nitpicking.

[–] equazcion 8 years ago

Spoilers here.

The scientist who presented that theory about one thing catching up to another thing was a marine biologist, not an astronomer, rocket scientist, or theoretical physicist. He was also going mad at that point in the story. He was the non-military participant who kept fainting during the mission prep.

The woman in charge of the mission back on Earth had theorized that the universe is not expanding and is not nearly as infinite as was once thought.

Everything looked dated because this is an alternate reality (a parallel universe) in which the technology to build a "black hole starship" was discovered a few decades ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_starship

We're seeing this alternate reality because the ship reached its goal and cracked the (apparently physical) barrier between parallel universes that exists at the edge of each universe.

A lot of the movie is slow because it's an attempt to fuse two different themes, one of which is exciting sci-fi action, and the other being the condition of prolonged isolation in deep space. We see bits of excitement in the beginning, while most of it is a deeper exploration into the mind of a regular person going crazy because he's been so far from Earth for so long, in the deepest, blackest part of outer space.

Hope that helps.