Question about Interstellar

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futurefields

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So they are saying that that crappy little desert planet with no trees or water is better than Earth with a little bitty crop disease? That's the part that I still can't figure out. You would think all the research it took to build huge space stations that could orbit Saturn and how to populate a new planet, they could have instead researched how to fix Earth. Like Matthew McConaughey said "not gonna find another one better than Earth" right guys?
 

Zeze

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That's just a plot device. Just like why humanity can't become pregnant in Children of Men
 

Ventanni

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I loved the movie, but there was a lot of it where it was like, "Uhh, what?"

I mean seriously, he flew into a black hole.
 

Sabrewings

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I don't think they care about the other planets anymore. They live in Oneil cylinders now. Cooper just wants to get Brand home.
 

JamesV

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So they are saying that that crappy little desert planet with no trees or water is better than Earth with a little bitty crop disease? That's the part that I still can't figure out. You would think all the research it took to build huge space stations that could orbit Saturn and how to populate a new planet, they could have instead researched how to fix Earth. Like Matthew McConaughey said "not gonna find another one better than Earth" right guys?

The one whatshername was shown on alone at the end?

Although they didn't go into the science much, I assumed from scenes and talk about crops dying, then seeing the NASA lab where the woman was inspecting blighted crops, that they couldn't figure out how to save the crops. Not to mention whatshisname talking about the increased Nitrogen in the atmosphere and how the blight used it, and (paraphrasing) "the last to starve will be the first to suffocate".

Guess you missed those parts? "Little bitty crop disease" makes me think so.
 

Ns1

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Now it's been a while, but I'm thinking they wanted options before something hit the corn and there would be no food left on the planet.

Basically overpopulation + crop disease = writing on the wall
 

MongGrel

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Now it's been a while, but I'm thinking they wanted options before something hit the corn and there would be no food left on the planet.

Basically overpopulation + crop disease = writing on the wall

This more or less.

Earth was on it's way down, the climate had progressed to a point where growing crops or having viable living conditions at all would be unsustainable in the future, and they were looking for a way to keep humanity alive.
 
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The one whatshername was shown on alone at the end?

Although they didn't go into the science much, I assumed from scenes and talk about crops dying, then seeing the NASA lab where the woman was inspecting blighted crops, that they couldn't figure out how to save the crops. Not to mention whatshisname talking about the increased Nitrogen in the atmosphere and how the blight used it, and (paraphrasing) "the last to starve will be the first to suffocate".

Guess you missed those parts? "Little bitty crop disease" makes me think so.

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OP, no breathable oxygen and no food = death.
The blight they talk about is a fungi also called mildew. It exists for real and is common. And even today and in the recent past, now and then news articles would and will appear about more aggressive blight appearing that kill of vegetables. For example potatoes. Mildew seems to be able to survive cold temperatures as well.
 

Red Squirrel

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It's more of a society problem too. On Earth, people just don't care about fixing it. Right now we're slowly destroying the earth and we know it, but the ones who have the power to stop don't want to because of money.

So in the Interstellar world, there is not much left, but whatever people are left don't really care about fixing it either, they kinda gave up. So the ones who do want to just say F it and go to another planet.

I'm just picturing the whole conversation actually, they're talking and trying to convince everyone of what needs to be done to fix the problem, and nobody is listening. Then they say "F you, I'm done here" and get in their space ship and GTFO. Eventually everyone on Earth dies. They should make interstellar 2, where basically this happens. :p
 
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It's more of a society problem too. On Earth, people just don't care about fixing it. Right now we're slowly destroying the earth and we know it, but the ones who have the power to stop don't want to because of money.

So in the Interstellar world, there is not much left, but whatever people are left don't really care about fixing it either, they kinda gave up. So the ones who do want to just say F it and go to another planet.

I'm just picturing the whole conversation actually, they're talking and trying to convince everyone of what needs to be done to fix the problem, and nobody is listening. Then they say "F you, I'm done here" and get in their space ship and GTFO. Eventually everyone on Earth dies. They should make interstellar 2, where basically this happens. :p

It is sad that there are not much rich people who have some drive like " I want fusion to happen" . Most rich people just want to live in luxury and spend. That is the issue. The few rich that actually do pursue a better world do so after half a life of hard work, the reason behind their wealth.

Imagine all the millionaires and billionaires of the world investing together into fusion projects like from skunk works or the Bussard polywell . Personally , i doubt Iter (tokamak) will ever work. I think it is too big to keep it all under control.
The idea of small fusion chambers (in comparision to Iter) that can be put parallel seems much more efficient to me and is when designed properly, automatically redundant. When one fails, the whole system will not come down. That is a good design idea for a power plant.
 

CZroe

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The one whatshername was shown on alone at the end?

Although they didn't go into the science much, I assumed from scenes and talk about crops dying, then seeing the NASA lab where the woman was inspecting blighted crops, that they couldn't figure out how to save the crops. Not to mention whatshisname talking about the increased Nitrogen in the atmosphere and how the blight used it, and (paraphrasing) "the last to starve will be the first to suffocate".

Guess you missed those parts? "Little bitty crop disease" makes me think so.

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OP, no breathable oxygen and no food = death.
The blight they talk about is a fungi also called mildew. It exists for real and is common. And even today and in the recent past, now and then news articles would and will appear about more aggressive blight appearing that kill of vegetables. For example potatoes. Mildew seems to be able to survive cold temperatures as well.
Yes. It was supposed to be an airborne blight that feeds on nitrogen. Crops are fertilized with nitrogen, so the blight would mutate to consume whatever crops were dominant. It was clearly mutating to circumvent resistance to consume remaining crops. They made it clear that all of the world's crops except okra and corn had already succumbed to the blight and that we were witnessing the last crop of okra. The most abundant source after all the crops were gone and humanity was starving would have been the air.

As a plot device, it was pretty good.
 
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