History WMG / Interstellar

...At least [[http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/interstellar-is-a-sequel-to-transcendence.php in spirit]]. After Will Castor's second murder, there are only small pockets of technology left - Boston has phone service, for instance. But in general, "There are no smartphones, let alone ones with personalities to fall in love with. There aren’t even many computers, save for a laptop used by Matthew McConaughey‘s more tech-friendly character. Look at the emptiness of an administrator’s desk when he has a meeting at his kids’ school. In the same scene, a teacher spouts an exposition-laden belief that people of the 20th century were wasteful and excessive and spent too much money on “useless machines.” Given the dialogue and the apparent dependency on textbooks with a rewritten history of the (faked) Apollo program, we can assume there is no longer any Wikipedia, or any internet whatsoever. Outside of the secret NASA facility, it’s a fairly analog world, one in which almost everybody is a farmer."

[[WMG:Interstellar takes place in the Mario universe, specifically Super Mario Galaxy 2]]
Before the blight, Mario was a plumber residing on Earth. He found a dimensional rift not unlike the wormhole near Saturn that lead to the Mushroom Kingdom, a planet in a distant galaxy. Where this gets interesting is when it deals with Rosalina. Rosalina happens to be one of the humans who transcended the third dimension and built the Tesseract. Rosalina sent Mario to the Mushroom Kingdom to protect their world from Bowser, similar to how they used Cooper to save the human race in a convoluted way.
Perhaps the Mario world is one of the worlds the 5-dimensional humans colonized after their transcendence. This also explains the presence of warp pipes and the many violations of physics in the Mario series; Rosalina and the 5-dimensional humans are controlling the laws of physics to allow Mario to win against Bowser. This gets even more interesting when thematic elements are involved. Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Interstellar share a common theme, being reunited with your loved ones. Rosalina and Luma were reunited along with Mario and Peach in Super Mario Galaxy 2. Love is also stated to be a "gentle pull" in Super Mario Galaxy 2, similar to remarks about love as a force in Interstellar.

[[WMG: The future alien/human things are [[DoctorWho Time Lords]] that evolved from the humans.]]

Perhaps the Mario world is one of the worlds the 5-dimensional humans colonized after their transcendence. This also explains the presence of warp pipes and the many violations of physics in the Mario series; Rosalina and the 5-dimensional humans are controlling the laws of physics to allow Mario to win against Bowser. This gets even more interesting when thematic elements are involved. Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Interstellar share a common theme, being reunited with your loved ones. Rosalina and Luma were reunited along with Mario and Peach in Super Mario Galaxy 2. Love is also stated to be a "gentle pull" in Super Mario Galaxy 2, similar to remarks about love as a force in Interstellar. Gargantua may be in World 6 in Super Mario Galaxy 2.

So she's marooned on a habitable planet with CASE and freezers full of egg cells. She has no way of knowing whether Cooper and TARS successfully sent the gravity data back to Earth or not. If they failed, Dr. Brand should start implementing Plan B as soon as possible. If they succeeded, well, there's plenty of planet for everybody when the colonists show up, right?

[[WMG: It is the prequel to Event Horizon]]

[[WMG: In the original script, the wormhole led to the [[CthulhuMythos Court of Azathoth]] ]]

[[WMG:2001 and Interstellar are connected]]

[[WMG: The wormhole is a [[Main/MetaFiction metafictional]] passageway that leads to another movie of a [[Main/GenreShift different genre]].]]

[[WMG: The film is a prequel to Series/{{Firefly}}.]]

[[WMG: The film is a sequel to Film/{{Transcendence}}.]]

We've no real indication other than his saying so that "love" is a physical force. He's dealing with an [[ClarkesThirdLaw impossibly advanced civilization whose technology looks like magic to us]], and Cooper is simply coming up with an explanation that makes sense ''to him''. If it comes across like magical woo, that's because it looks that way to ''Cooper'', not because it works that way in reality. Given how much the movie references other Arthur C. Clarke work, it seemed fairly obvious to me that his Third Law is involved here. The answer to how the tesseract's time-fiddling works is simply supposed to be "beyond our understanding, but human connections are necessary to pass on the information." Love "transcends time" in that Cooper's connection to his daughter enables her to understand the information he gave her, something he'd initially dismissed with Brand, and that's what Cooper latches onto in order to understand the incomprehensible. The actual physical laws of how it all works, on the other hand, involves math and technology that none of us could yet begin to understand.

We've no real indication other than his saying so that "love" is a physical force. He's dealing with an [[ClarkesThirdLaw impossibly advanced civilization whose technology approaches magic]], and Cooper is simply latching on to the explanation that makes sense ''to him''. If it comes across like magical woo, that's because it looks that way to Cooper, not because it works that way in reality. Given how much the movie references other Arthur C. Clarke work, it seemed fairly obvious to me that his Third Law is involved here. The answer to how the tesseract's time-fiddling works is simply supposed to be "beyond our understanding, but human connections are necessary to pass on the information." Love "transcends time" in that Cooper's connection to his daughter enables her to understand the information he gave her, something he'd initially dismissed with Brand, and that's what Cooper latches onto in order to understand the incomprehensible. The actual physical laws of how it all works, on the other hand, involves math and technology that none of us could yet begin to understand.

We've no real indication other than his saying so that "love" is a physical force. He's dealing with an [[ClarkesThirdLaw impossibly advanced civilization whose technology approaches magic]], and Cooper is simply latching on to the explanation that makes sense ''to him''. Given how much the movie references other Arthur C. Clarke work, it seemed fairly obvious to me that the answer to how the tesseract's time-fiddling works is simply supposed to be "beyond your understanding, but human connections are somehow necessary to make it work."

The bacteria responsible for the blight are said to be nitrogen-based, similar to the aliens in ''Evolution''. Also, their final form was a giant germ. Rather than being destroyed, the alien amoeba simply split into multiple amoebae and evolved into a plant disease.

...At least [[http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/interstellar-is-a-sequel-to-transcendence.php in spirit]]. After Will Castor's second murder, there are only small pockets of technology left - Boston has phone service, for instance. But in general, "There are no smartphones, let alone ones with personalities to fall in love with. There aren’t even many computers, save for a laptop used by Matthew McConaughey‘s more tech-friendly character. Look at the emptiness of an administrator’s desk when he has a meeting at his kids’ school. In the same scene, a teacher spouts an exposition-laden belief that people of the 20th century were wasteful and excessive and spent too much money on “useless machines.” Given the dialogue and the apparent dependency on textbooks with a rewritten history of the (faked) Apollo program, we can assume there is no longer any Wikipedia, or any internet whatsoever. Outside of the secret NASA facility, it’s a fairly analog world, one in which almost everybody is a farmer."

[[WMG: How can the tidal waves in Miller's planet be formed?]]
The water is knee-high, how is that enough to make such huge waves? And how is it possible that no sand bank is formed, how can it be so plain?
* See the discussion of this under headscratchers. In equilibrium, the water wouldn't be knee-high; the level is so low only because it's all pulled into those colossal waves by Gargantua's gravity and constructive interference. There hasn't been time for any land to form; the time dilation means the planet is very new.

[[WMG: How the Ranger can break an atmosphere?]]
Why is it needed a giant rocket to take off Earth but only a small ranger ship to take off somewhere with a greater gravity?
* A couple things: the giant rocket had to achieve escape velocity, whereas the Ranger only had to make orbit. The Rangers were designed to be refueled from the ship's supply. Finally, the main ship had to carry the sperm/egg bank, sensors, crew hibernation capsules, and a bunch of other junk, none of which was on the Rangers.

The stations and the new planet together comprised a jumping-off point for humanity to leave the solar system. Upon further exploration, they found a new system with "dozens of planets and hundreds of moons". Shortly after they arrived, the wormhole closed. It would explain why nobody's ever gone back to check out "EarthThatWas".

No need to dig for it. Everything they need is already there. After billions die due to famines there's an abundance of steel, silicon, plastics, and whatever else they need.

The movie starts out as [[Main/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard science fiction]], so space travel is depicted in a somewhat realistic manner: the Ranger needs a launcher vehicle and the transit to Saturn takes two years. After going through the wormhole, the characters are effectively in a softer work, where the Ranger can land and take off on its own power and leap from planet to planet in a short time, and where you [[spoiler:can plunge into a black hole and live]].

So, when Bowman enters into the monolith and gets to the "hotel" room, he sees himself as a young man, an old man, a dying man, and so forth over and over again, all at different "times" and "places," and is finally reborn as a Starchild. If dimensions are, more less, moving along a "number line," like walking down your street is moving along the X axis number line, jumping is moving along the Y axis, and taking a step left is along the Z axis, Bowman is experiencing non-linear time (he's moving back and forth), and seeing different possibilities of time (moving left and right of time). Thus, the Starchild is born as a fifth dimensional being, who doesn't experience linear time, and sees all permutations on all scales. Bowman is the fifth dimensional being that kicks off the movie.

There are 12 potential worlds. Eventually humanity develops terraforming technology and returns to the other potentially habitable planets and colonizes them. Then, at a point, RobotWar happens and culminates in robots leaving to create their own 13th colony, naming it after humanity's original homeworld. The Earth that humanity discoveres in the series finale is their original homeworld, which has now recovered, and people that were left on it gradually, after many generations, have lost all technology and civilization and became tribal. And beings who created the wormhole and helped Cooper contact his daughter are the angels (or whatever they are), who appeared to Baltar and Six in the series.