CROPS? Who needs crops?
Posted on 10/28/2014 1:59:58 PM PDT by EveningStar
The world's crops are being devastated. People face mass starvation. The earth is dying.
A team of scientists sets out on an interstellar journey to find a new planet for the people of earth.
From Wikipedia:
Interstellar is a 2014 science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Michael Caine, the film features a team of space travelers who travel through a wormhole in search of a new habitable planet...The film runs nearly three hours -- two hours and forty-nine minutes to be exact.
Interstellar premiered on October 26, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Commercially, it is scheduled for a limited release in North America (United States and Canada) on November 5, 2014 and a wide release on November 7, 2014...
The good mistress also releases your bank account, your house, your kids, your car, and your boat to your soon-to-be ex.
Cannibalism may be a fair short term solution to famine, allowing you to literally feed upon your enemies and live a while longer after you’ve killed them. However, humans mature too slowly and have too little calories per person to be a permanent prey species to our own kind long term.
They’d have to scavenge something out in the stores or grow crops to supplement the cannibalism. And if they’d cleared an area of people, they either become self-sufficient as farmers/scavengers or literally turn on their own.
Thank you. :)
CO2 levels were higher when the dinosaurs were around, we had no ice at the poles, and yet the world thrived.
And CO2 was higher during other warm periods, when life was much better than it was during the ice ages.
In the libertarian version the world is in crises because the pot crop is dying
It’s ridiculous isn’t it, they actually have people believing that the world is about to blow up. “Save the planet”..That is their favorite motto as if the earth is about to explode it into bits.
Without “evil” corporations, how do they afford to build interstellar spaceships?
The irony is that many environmentalists say there is no God and then worship Mother Earth as a fickle, sensitive creature that requires constant care, sacrifices of life (if quality of life isn’t enough)and the world will end and we’ll all die if we don’t follow their agenda/beliefs.
And how evidence and science to the contrary of their “we’ll all die unless we follow their maxims” rivals the blinders they accuse the religious of having.
I saw this last night.
The cause of the world’s problems are not specified but it’s never implied that it’s due to corporations or global warming. There’s a crop infestation called “blight” that breathes nitrogen and during metabolism also removes oxygen from the atmosphere. The implication, if anything, is that nature has selected against oxygen breathers like it did against cold-blooded organisms when mammals ascended over dinosaurs.
The movie has a few plot holes, and there some paradoxes that imply a plot holes where there is not one.
I left the movie feeling a little confused by the ending, like the first time I saw 2001.
It wasn’t until today after putting a lot of thought into it that I realize what truly happened and have to give kudos to Christopher Nolan for not dumbing it down.
This is (mostly) hard science fiction with largely underdeveloped characters that challenges the viewer with an ending that’s a bigger twist than it appears on the surface.
It feels every minute of three hours long, but much of that is spectacular and enjoyable even if you don’t immediately grasp what just happened.
When I left last night, I’d have given it a 6/10 — Largely because I saw what I thought was an enormous plot hole and a contrived ending. I’m now elevating that to an 8/10 after connecting the dots and realizing that the ending felt contrived because it *was*. The epiphany for me hours after viewing casts the film in a much more intriguing light.
Enjoyed it very much. I give it a 9/10. Nothing in it that set off my “attempted liberal brainwash” alert system.
No political message in this movie, just entertainment. Best movie I have seen in years.
OK, next time Mrs. JimRed harasses me to take her to the movies...
;^)
Saw this.
No enviro-wackoism in the movie at all. Not even a hint of it.
The only hint of politics is that the public schools of the near future are teaching students that the moon landings were faked. The main character has a huge problem with this...so if anything, the movie has a slight right lean.
This is great science fiction.
Visually outstanding. Great plot.
Not dumbed down. I give it 9/10. Loss of a point because sometimes the background music drowns out some key conversation.
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