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Is there still any hope for Miranda? (SPOILERS)


At the end when it's revealed her and Jordan's pods switched courses, she is last seen screaming as she plunged into deep space/oblivion/nothingness....which is imo a creepier fate than Jordan's, since she won't be rescued.

Does anyone think maybe a slight chance Miranda' s pod will land on another planet or something, or will she float around forever until she dies/pod burns away?

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I think she will continue to travel in space til her oxygen is depleted. But it would be interesting if she landed on a planet or was picked up by an alien. Maybe Calvins parents? lol

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Calvin's parents are actually good folks. Their son, who escaped his cell a few years ago, had mental problems.

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poor calvin.

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Does anyone think maybe a slight chance Miranda' s pod will land on another planet or something, or will she float around forever until she dies/pod burns away?


I don't think you realise how vast space is. There are no other planets in the vicinity of Earth that can be reached on a pod with very limited propulsion capabilities. There is the moon, but even that is way too far - the Apollo 11 took three days to get there, and that was with propulsion. Of course even if she could reach the moon before running out of oxygen and land there safely, there is nothing there to sustain her - no air, no water, no food.

Her only hope for survival is to be picked up by a ship from a visiting advanced alien civilisation.

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I don't think so. I think earth is scrambling the military to fight the onslught of calvins that are about to infest the ocean rather then prepare a rescue for Miranda. I mean they didn't attempt a rescue before and were actually pushing the ISS further out into space. Even if Miranda did make it back I'm sure a calvin would eat her too and she of course woulden't know about the calvin escape at this point.

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Miranda is done.

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no chance. shes drifting out into space. her oxygen will run out and she will suffocate to death.

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Why did she float out into space at all? She had control capabilities too, right?

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because movie

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I'm pretty certain her escape pod was hit by debris from the space station and it wiped out the automatic navigation system. Presumably Calvin was smart enough to pilot the other pod down to earth safely :-)

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No, after her pod collided with the solar panelling, and her systems started glitching, you could see her flight become erratic. The last shot inside her pod showed the screens flashing "controls offline". She's done and gone.

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Kinda pointless adding the (SPOILERS) in your subject line, bmw9413, when what you'd already written gave it away. You should have replaced Miranda's name with an ellipsis.

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"happy answer" would be some temporal/space/sci-fi/whatever anomaly occurs with her pod, and she's returned to Earth, to be revealed in a "Planet of the Calvins" spin off sequel

"Gloomy but realistic answer" is she's going to die. As the other answers ahead of me mention, she'll run out of oxygen. Even being lost on Earth, getting rescued is difficult. Out in space, exponentially harder. And they probably couldn't even be able to catch up to her.

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