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I got the chance to watch the movie again recently (it was my fourth watch [^~^]), and got to see various comments on the blight accuracy through the web (I omitted Mr. Krauss's analysis, though, because he's just biased negatively against the film as he hated it).

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I got the chance to watch the movie again recently (it was my fourth watch [^~^]), and got to see various comments on the blight accuracy through the web (I omitted Mr. Krauss\'s analysis, though, because he\'s just biased negatively against the film as he hated it).

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The average take for what I've seen is that, while theoretically a blight of that nature could exist on a moderate scale (a state or a country), it's implausible that it would occur on a planetary scale. Here's an excerpt I found in a science forum:

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The average take for what I\'ve seen is that, while theoretically a blight of that nature could exist on a moderate scale (a state or a country), it\'s implausible that it would occur on a planetary scale. Here\'s an excerpt I found in a science forum:

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''Nitrogen is an inert gas and thus no organism can

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\'\'Nitrogen is an inert gas and thus no organism can \"breathe\" it to make energy. However what can happen is that the organisms might be converting nitrogen to other compounds (the movie doesn\'t explain this). Also no organism can have a major effect in such a short term on atmospheric levels of nitrogen or oxygen but it is possible that other gases are created out of nitrogen. Blights usually only attack one species and cannot cross species, Blights which cross species are usually not very harmful.\'\'

On [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/15/the-science-of-interstellar-fact-or-fiction/ The science of Interstellar: fact or fiction?]], the blight scenario is labelled as \'\'unlikely\'\':

\'\'“Without chloroplasts a plant will die. Now suppose that some new pathogen evolves , for example in the oceans, that wipes out all algae and plant life in the oceans and jumps to land where it wipes out all land plants. [...] This is possible. I see nothing to prevent it. But it’s not very plausible. It is unlikely to even happen.”\'\'

Finally, from [[http://ranggarmaste.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-blight-could-it-happen.html this article]]:

\'\'In conclusion, the chance of the Blight attacking the Earth is ultimately small. I believe that we should not believe a film entirely without researching the films’ facts first. Our environment is maybe getting worst, but technological developments are always invented simultaneously. Of course, we should not fully rely on the scientists out there either. Though the chance is small, we people should begin to learn how important a good condition of our environment is. Conserve our environment, and we will preserve our lives.\'\'

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All things considered, I would identify the entry as ArtisticLicenseBiology, more because of the many factors that have to occur at the same time for it to happen than anything. And in a world as variable and changing as this it\'s near-impossible to have that scenario.

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