Questions tagged [interstellar]

For questions about the film Interstellar, a 2014 film directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain. This tag is not to be used for travel between galactic bodies.

Insterstellar is a 2014 film directed by Anglo-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan. In it, humankind faces certain extinction at the hands of a worldwide crop blight, and the only recourse is to find a new world on the other side of a wormhole.

Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), once an engineer and NASA-trained pilot, discovers a mysterious message in his daughter's bedroom that is communicated to them through gravitational anomalies. A sequence of events unfolds that sees "Coop" pilot a team of scientists through a wormhole that has one end in Earth's solar system. At the other end, they find themselves face-to-face with harsh realities on alien worlds in the vicinity of a giant rotating black hole.

The film is noted for its special effects, its IMAX cinematography, its score, its scientific detail, and its focus on the trials faced by Cooper's family.

Use this tag for questions about this film.

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Were the Moon landings faked in Interstellar?

In Interstellar, Murph's teachers explain to Cooper that the moon landing was fabricated; a successful piece of propaganda that bankrupted the Soviets. Is it ever mentioned if this statement was true or not for the universe of Interstellar?…
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Why did the Endurance crew bother landing on Miller's planet?

After the events on Miller's planet, it seems to come as a revelation to Brand that Miller had only landed a couple hours ago, and died a few minutes ago. The crew of the Endurance, even when they were back at NASA headquarters, had all the…
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Why are TARS and CASE named as such?

TARS and CASE are the two robots which are part of the Endurance crew. The Interstellar wiki explains TARS is a former marine robot with angular limbs and a sarcastic attitude. and that CASE is one of three former marine surplus robots,…
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Why was the Earth in such bad shape in Interstellar?

I understand that in “Interstellar” Earth was going through some kind of a dust bowl. But considering how bleak every other planet they experienced was, how could it be any worse than a random planet in another galaxy? I’m not sure if I missed an…
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Who exactly constructed the tesseract room in Interstellar?

At the end of the movie—or the beginning; take your pick—Cooper ends up in a room that is a three-dimensional projection of a five-dimensional object behind his bookshelf. This five-dimensional room allows him to move freely about space-time within…
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In Interstellar, how could you build a space colony without bringing the Blight with you?

In Interstellar, there is a Blight destroying all the world's crops. If Plan A involves launching a space colony, presumably full of crops, etc., how could they avoid bringing the Blight with them? At the end of the film we see that they've…
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Why will data from a black hole solve the gravity problem?

In Interstellar, the team hopes that data collected from the inside of a black hole will solve “the gravity problem” (presumably the question of how to get a massive space station to escape the Earth’s atmosphere, explained in more detail in this…
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What books are shown on the bookshelf in Interstellar?

What books are visible on the bookshelf in Interstellar? I could only focus on The Stand, by Stephen King, since it's one of my favorites. But I'd love to see a more complete list.
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How can the frozen clouds on Dr. Mann's planet stay afloat?

When the crew is entering Mann's planet's atmosphere, their ship hits a frozen cloud. How can a frozen cloud stay afloat even though the planet contains 80% of Earth's gravity?
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Is the wormhole still open?

We witness the closure of the tesseract once Coop successfully sends the singularity data back to Murph. And then it appears that Coop is sent back through the wormhole to our home galaxy. Is the implication that the wormhole remained open, and only…
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Interstellar and spaghettification in the black hole

I don't understand why the ship didn't suffer spaghettification when entering the black hole. What was the explanation for this?
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What software was used for the effects in Interstellar?

In the movie 'Interstellar' they have used pretty good real time animations with large details. I guess they may have used global illumination rendering. There are basic software packages to make animations like Cinema4D (used in 2012), Autodesk 3ds…
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What precisely was the discovery facilitated at the end of Interstellar?

Near the end of Interstellar, (HUGE and nearly utter SPOILERS follow): TARS, the robot, gathers data from the singularity that Cooper relays to Murph via Morse code on her watch. The outcome of this message allows for completion of the work that…
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In Interstellar, did TARS or CASE ever lie?

Did the robots, which have less than 100% honesty settings, ever lie in such a way that the audience and/or characters may have been tricked? This plot point seemed important when addressed directly during the story, but I missed if it ever opened…
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Wouldn't Miller's planet be fried by blue shifted radiation?

In Interstellar, wouldn't Miller's planet be fried by blue shifted radiation? The 61,000x time dilation multiplier would make even cosmic background radiation photons into Extreme UV photons.
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