After viewing a trailer for “interstellar”, I was left shaking my head at the stupidity of the last sequense:
They have travelled a gazillion miles in a highly advanced spacecraft; well engineered for the job, including landing on the surface of planets in all sorts of bad conditions. They target a place to land on water, and didn’t realize that a mountain range was actually a wall of water? Were they as poorly equiped to deal with a surprise as the ‘s.s. minnow’?
Pathetic.
They didn’t get a lot of data from the original probe, and it’s proximity to a black hole warped time so they couldn’t get close enough to survey the planet before landing, as time was warped as they got closer to the planet and the plan was to quickly go in and out so their mission wouldn’t be prohibitively long on Earth time.
Every hour they were close would be seven years on Earth.