(June 15, 2017 at 9:46 am)Drich Wrote: interstellar was on FX last night... Got a little complaint/plot hole so spoiler if you haven't seen it.
So the 4 astronauts go though the worm hole and wind up on the other side of the galaxy or whatever, and the decide to explore the planet nearest the black hole first, as a result of this planet proxcimity to the black hole 1 hour planet side = about 7 to 8 years our time. So they put the ship in orbit just outside this time dilatation. and send down a landing party of 3 leaving one guy in the mother ship. things don't go to plan and they wind up spending about an hour maybe two planet side and when they get back they find out 27 years have past...
My problem?
Why didn't the retard they left behind move the ship in a closer orbit so as to minimalize the time distortion??? Say an hour goes by, and they thin an hour =7 years and they plan less than an hour total mission time, but never the less an hour goes by... so why not move the ship closer at that point? I mean after 27 years one must think there is no return, the mission is over ect, so again why not make your time better match the away team's time so you are not spending decades while the rest are spending minutes?
hehe.... so you have a beef with that, butt not with the amount of energy it takes to go in and out of that "orbit just outside this time dilatation"?
Not with the fact that there is such an orbit?
At some point, we have to go "meh, it's Hollywood, they want to make us feel the difference in time passage as soon as possible, or else we'll be disconnected, when it resurfaces again, later in the movie, with the guy's daughter... whatever... it's "sci-fi"..."
also, the guy that stayed back on the ship was not the captain, if I remember correctly, so he just had to follow the other guy's orders, so they could find the ship, when they got back from the planet. Space is big.... there's lots and lots of space... moving a small spacecraft means it will be difficult to spot it upon return... unless we're in star trek where scanners can do anything, except peek around the moon's gravitational field (looking at you, Mr Worf)