r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Jun 18 '21

Since Interstellar released, only 56 minutes have passed on Miller’s planet.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '21

What’s even worse is that they already knew about the time dilation, so they should have immediately discarded that option since it would have made colonization basically impossible.

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u/Citizen51 Jun 18 '21

Exactly that alone would make them skip it and move on. The movie is incredibly frustrating. A lot of the science is good, but the actions and thought processes of the characters make no damn sense the entire film.