Ghent Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theedge00 Posted March 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 I understand that time was slower on the planet but I still don't understand how ageing works? My head is so fucked that I can't even explain what I want to understand. I can't explain what I don't understand basically hahaSo what ages us? Time? Gravity?haha ok! Relativity can be a true mindfuck hehe. Several factors contribute to ageing actually! There are things called telomeres in your cells. These get shorter during your lifetime and this is linked with the ageing process. Here are some more things listed:http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/chromosomes/telomeres/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSandt Posted April 3, 2015 Report Share Posted April 3, 2015 Saw the movie. It was pretty good and made me think a lot but also very flawed. For starters, the premise about some blight destroying every eatable plant in every corner of the world (apparently including greenhouses) was fucking stupid. I mean, you can send all this shit into space but you can't cure a plant disease/build sterile greenhouses? Every time I tried to think of the tragedy facing humanity back home, I was reminded of how stupid the whole concept is. Even a zombie apocalypse would've made more sense. And when they landed on that ocean planet, couldn't they look around a bit first while still inside the ship? Would have saved a lot of trouble. The whole thing about entering the singularity intact was stupid. Tidal forces would have ripped him (and the "probe") apart. The tesseract was very unclimactic. It's kinda like with Contact, you're excited to see what's on the other side but there's no way they're not going to disappoint you. And communicating through a clock? C'mon, if you can do that, why not just send her an email or something? The clock had quite a "hard drive" and a processor I must say, not only to store all that binary data but to keep playing it in a perfect sequence ad infinitum. Even Tom Delonge wouldn't be able to come up with a sillier idea. And Christ that stuff about love was some terrible writing. I did like the Matt Damon segment though. I thought it was somewhat credible and didn't try to be overly complex. The back home stuff was mostly uninteresting except for the father-daughter thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theedge00 Posted April 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2015 I think its highly overrated too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted April 3, 2015 Report Share Posted April 3, 2015 I agree with some of those plot flaws, but in the end, it's just a movie. One of my favorites of all time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prankerd14 Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 Bloody hell! Its a movie ffs..its not real! Its a great movie ..best I have seen in a while, do you pick holes in every Adam Sandler movie too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsov Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 I actually just watched this movie tonight for the first time. I loved it, rated it 9/10. When they started talking about love, I could only think about Tom though hahaha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSandt Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 Bloody hell! Its a movie ffs..its not real! Its a great movie ..best I have seen in a while, do you pick holes in every Adam Sandler movie too? This was an incredibly ambitious movie; you can clearly tell Nolan wants it to be a great movie. Has Adam Sandler ever been in a movie that's even average? It's not like the things I mentioned were of minor importance to the plot. I still haven't been able to get past the clock thing. How does touching it make it "remember" the sequence anyway? Reaching out to his daughter through five dimensions by the power of love? Such rubbish. It has sadly become a trademark of Nolan to lose sight of things and end up overdoing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSandt Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 I understand that time was slower on the planet but I still don't understand how ageing works? My head is so fucked that I can't even explain what I want to understand. I can't explain what I don't understand basically hahaSo what ages us? Time? Gravity? Locally they age the same way as we do, as a result of biological processes. This is why the Matt Damon character had put himself in that cryo sleep, to inhibit aging (and boredom), and it had nothing to do with time dilation. Think of time dilation this way: You jump straight up aboard a moving train (constant velocity). Where do you land? On the same spot as where you started. Your trip was straight up, then straight down: you can never measure anything else. Now imagine someone observing this from outside the train, as it passes this observer at constant velocity. Like you, he sees you land on the same spot as where you started, but that spot has moved during your jump because the train itself was moving while your feet were off the floor. That means you too must have moved along with the train; otherwise you'd miss the spot. From his point of view, your jump consists of two diagonal lines, one upward, another downward. These lines are longer than the straight up-straight down lines you measured (mathematically they have to be). The height of the jump is the same. The speed of the jump is the same. But the outside observer sees you travel a longer distance. From his point of view, you take a longer trip through time, i.e., you age slower than he does. Time dilation reconciles these observed (and 100% real) differences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prankerd14 Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 This was an incredibly ambitious movie; you can clearly tell Nolan wants it to be a great movie. Has Adam Sandler ever been in a movie that's even average? It's not like the things I mentioned were of minor importance to the plot.I still haven't been able to get past the clock thing. How does touching it make it "remember" the sequence anyway? Reaching out to his daughter through five dimensions by the power of love? Such rubbish. It has sadly become a trademark of Nolan to lose sight of things and end up overdoing it.Lol Adam Sandler has made some quite enjoyable movies down the years..anyone who says the don't find at least one of them hilarious is lying.Interstellar had a scientist to advise Nolan in this movie so its as accurate as it can be without actually going to space and doing it.What can't you understand about the watch? It seems pretty simple to me...Love might be a cheesey line but hey like I said its a movie .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theedge00 Posted April 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 the problems are not with the science used in the movie, but with the story 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aria Posted September 26, 2019 Report Share Posted September 26, 2019 I was pretty psyched to see this when it came out, as I love movies that deal with space. But then I didn't go to the theatre, and I bought it on Blu-ray but never put it on. And then I did. I thought it was a masterpiece? Made me cry multiple times. And that song. Jesus. It's a movie I could watch whenever, just absolutely brilliant/beautiful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted September 26, 2019 Report Share Posted September 26, 2019 One of my favorite movies of all time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russel Coight Posted September 26, 2019 Report Share Posted September 26, 2019 Yeah great movie. Space movies in general. I watched like 3/4 of the Martian again the other day. Was so great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted September 27, 2019 Report Share Posted September 27, 2019 Anyone remember the movie Contact? That was probably the first one that got me into that sort of movie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n i k u Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 Rewatched this for the 20th time and I must say this may be my favorite movie of all time. really happy I got a chance to see it imax, 70mm and regular digital in theatres. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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