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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope


*** And the external pressure where there shouldn't be an allowed for SpaceIsCold UpToEleven?

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*** And the external pressure where there shouldn't be an allowed for SpaceIsCold UpToEleven?up to eleven?

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** Another possibility is that Schmidt received the same orders, but either refused to carry them out or eventually decided to disobey them to avert a war.



* How did Volkov survive that long with a gyroscope and thousands of worm inside of him?

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* How did Volkov survive that long with a gyroscope and thousands of worm worms inside of him?



** Also (see below) he got the plans from his alternate self, who may well also have been working for an intelligence agency just like the Alt-Schmidt.



** Likely his alternate universe self somehow, probably telling him about the AU version of Schmidt. That would explain his reaction.

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** Likely his alternate universe self somehow, probably telling him about the AU version of Schmidt.Schmidt being the saboteur. That would explain his reaction.
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centripetal -> centrifugal


** Even inside the rings, the rotation pulls them to the "side" of the ring, not "out" as centripetal force would.

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** Even inside the rings, the rotation pulls them to the "side" of the ring, not "out" as centripetal centrifugal force would.
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Added a much more reasonable explanation to Mina knowing where Volkov's gun was.

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** Mina implied that alternate Volkov died in her universe, it can be safely assumed that he also printed a gun to confront Schmidt and that the rest of the events transpired the same way as the earlier scene. She would have been present with the rest of the crew to see the gun locked away.
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**** He was working inside a particle accelerator (and one which was possibly intersecting with parallel world versions of itself). It's not specifically mentioned, but they traditionally use very powerful magnets to contain the particle beam.
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*** And the external pressure where there shouldn't be an allowed for SpaceIsCold UpToEleven?
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*** Or they could have found it but thought they were just relatively close to our solar system. By the time they saw Cassiopeia, they must have known they were still near our sun, since they immediately knew to look past it.
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** If they were orienting themselves in relation to the sun, Cassiopeia would look upside down from what they expect (that is, they'd expect a star to be at the edge nearest the sun, but it's actually furthest from it). Since the constellation looked like it was upside down, they just carried the term over to themselves when realizing that's they were in the wrong place.
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** In the original Cloverfield, the ARG implied that Clover's species was some sort of massive deep-sea megafauna that fed on a naturally occurring super-serum (the same kind that goes into Slusho, the soda that's in a lot of JJ Abrams' movies and shows). Since they were envisioned as living off of magic super chemicals, the answer is "''huge''."
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gyroscope and positioning guesses

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** The first can be chalked up to shoddy movie physics allowing the spinning rings to create gravity. Because spinning always works. The second could possibly be in reference to their orientation to Earth. Where before if you were standing on the floor of the station your head would be pointing at relative north to the Earth but now you're pointing at the south pole instead.
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attempt to explain why jensen knew where the gun was.

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** As stated on the wmg page: She printed the gun in her own universe, which is why she knew where it was. The logs were hers and she masked them as Schmidts'. She managed to emotionally manipulate Hamilton into letting her go back to her Earth. She was combat trained and able to take out multiple people.
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* How does a gyroscope work when not in the gravity well of a planet? Even worse, while inside an area having artificial gravity? And what does "We are upside down" even mean when you are floating in space?
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** Probably in the same way how Mundy's arm survived and could move not attach to a body. Their bodies do not behave naturally anymore.
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** Yes.


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** Everyone assumes that the evil spy Schmidt is from the other dimension and not the one they have, which is true.
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*** Wait, does that means that someone in some other uniserse has Mundy's arm giving him the finger?

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*** Wait, does that means that someone in some other uniserse universe has Mundy's arm giving him the finger?
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*** Wait, does that means that someone in some other uniserse has Mundy's arm giving him the finger?
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*** The answer my sister came up with is that Tam's Cloverfield Station interects with Jensen's Cloverfield Station at the moment - seeing as its crashed into the sea, that's where the water came from.
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** Because it was added in at the last minute.
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Answering a headscratcher.

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**Likely his alternate universe self somehow, probably telling him about the AU version of Schmidt. That would explain his reaction.
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* Who was Volkov talking to in the mirror before he made the gun?


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** How did she know it existed at all?
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**** That’s true when someone is on a populated area of Earth, where light pollution limits the number of visible stars, and there are consistent reference points like “north.” In space, staring at a dense star field and at an arbitrary orientation, you literally wouldn’t know where to start looking.
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** Even inside the rings, the rotation pulls them to the "side" of the ring, not "out" as rotational gravity would.

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** Even inside the rings, the rotation pulls them to the "side" of the ring, not "out" as rotational gravity centripetal force would.
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** Even inside the rings, the rotation pulls them to the "side" of the ring, not "out" as rotational gravity would.
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** After 47 failed attempts at activation, and a 48th that went disastrously wrong, how could they be so sure that it would work the way they needed?
*** They were fucked either way so they didn't really have a choice.

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** * After 47 failed attempts at activation, and a 48th that went disastrously wrong, how could they be so sure that it would work the way they needed?
*** ** They were fucked either way so they didn't really have a choice.
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** Why would a spy communicate without any attempt at code language or encryption?
*** It was encrypted. It says so in the dialogue.
*** Doesn't count as encryption if it's broken in the time it takes to say "encryption".
*** An easily solved encryption is still an encryption. A ''good'' encryption? Hell, no. But an encryption nonetheless.

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** * Why would a spy communicate without any attempt at code language or encryption?
*** ** It was encrypted. It says so in the dialogue.
*** ** Doesn't count as encryption if it's broken in the time it takes to say "encryption".
*** ** An easily solved encryption is still an encryption. A ''good'' encryption? Hell, no. But an encryption nonetheless.
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*** Where did the magnetic field come from?

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