how many planets (spoilers)..
did TLJ search for intelligent life?
hundreds of thousands ??
and he was searching for cities etc right? not just primitive life?
I didn't understand that bit. We were shown photos, that looked to me like the planets and moons of our solar system, but up to that point I'd understood they were listening for signs of life.
Also, I think the revelation that we were alone was supposed to be a profound moment in the film but they sort of blew it by showing his return to Earth and the tentative reunion.
I understood it as they were at the edge of the solar system/neptune to be able to search and examine these earth like exo planets we hear about today in other solar systems and galaxies to see if they harboured intelligent life- i.e. they'd be able to see via their Hubble like thingy for signs of civilization cities, roads etc not basic life that wouldn't show up
shareYes that was my read too but in the search for life he had overlooked the underlying beauty of the planets he had been studying.
i still dont quite get if the film was saying TLJ checked out hundreds or thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of earth like planets... but even if he did there must be millions of earth like planets in the universe.. billions even. are they expecting us to go along with the reasoning that because TLJ checked out a few hundred or thousand planets in nearby solar systems and near by galaxies theres no other intelligent life and we're it (as the film ends with)?
I think that's the take away - all the beauty and what looked like architecture were natural phenomena - but if anyone has an alternative view we love to hear it eh?
shareYeah, it's a pretty dumb conclusion, especially given that the tech at our possession in that film allowed us only to travel up to neptune, which is like a meter away on the universe scale.
At the end of the day, the whole obsession with finding another life is kind of dumb as well - especially given that they supposedly discovered hundreds of thousands of earth-like planets - where we could settle and carry on our search, if you will.
At the end of the day, I feel like they are completely ignoring the actual size of the universe - if we can't find shit from earth, the odds are we won't find much more from Neptune, because it's so freaking close. BUT, you have to keep in mind that this film has illogical fallacies of epic proportions - where the dude had to go to mars to send a message to neptune (yep, this message couldn't be sent from earth) - following similar logic, we can't find life from earth, but once we travel to Neptune, all universe questions will be answered. Dumb, dumb. dumb.
I feel like this film was trying to steal the first prize in stupidity from the recent Alien sequels.