| allenmaher said:
The Nolanator does not know enough about space to make a movie in space. His understanding of orbital mechenics, propulsion, and basic spaceflight is laughable. Even forgiving the big lie of a deus ex machinus stable navigable worm hole (I can easily forgive one big lie) there is no way that a three planet system with a dead sun which is now a singularity would be remotely appealing as a home to any scientist, ever. Why are the planets still there after the star became a singularity with atmospheres intact, orbiting close enough to the event horizon to suffer massive time dilation but otherwise great? Why is there sunlight on all the planets after the star that used to provide them with light stopped fusing and collapsed into a singularity and any mass, light or heat that it could give off are on the other side of an event horizon from which nothing can escape except the nightmarish acting of Mathew Mcpleasedontshowyourfaceinthisgenreagain. Sure black holes radiate Hawking radiation as things pass over the event horizon... but this is not what one would consider a stable source of photosynthetically active light to grow crops by. And what crops are they going to grow if all thier crop species have a fatal blight that made them extinct decades ago? |
When I was watching the movie I assumed it was a binary system with the planets orbiting a center of mass between the black hole and the star (or the black-hole could even be orbitting a distant super-massive star with the planets, and the planets are orbitting the black-hole.) After I searched online, there was an implication that the black-hole was the only object in which the planets were orbiting. There is heat and energy given off by matter circling a black hole, but the radiation from that would likely be too energetic for life. If we assume that the black-hole is a wandering kerr black hole with a mass of a small star then the tidal forces for its size could be explained, and also so can its stability in the solar system found in interstellar. Also there are more planets in the system, if I recall correctly. Something like 12 or so, but only 3 were good candidates. The black hole didn't have to become a singularity in the system, it could've had its stellar death in another system and then collided with the solar system (unlikely, but not impossible.) Remember, if we are to assume the plot-device of future superhumans who can manipulate space-time then by the anthropic principle they chose a stable system with the black-hole necessary for cooper's communication of gravity. That can explain why such an exotic, and improbable system exists, as among the billions of billions of star systems in the universe one should have the right requirements.
edit: As for the wormhole, that was placed there by the future humans. So I don't think it counts as a Deus Ex Machina.
