@JesseM, Sorry for the late reply ...likewise! ;) “that you're OK with some types of scenarios where the nature of the loop is such that, if the past self hadn't gotten that influence from the future, they never would had the opportunity to travel back in time at all?” Some scenarios i’m ok with, j...

Hustler wrote:Do you guys smell that? Smells like pretentious douche. No? Maybe seeping in from another thread.

Are you guys attacking lcbaseball22 based on comments they made on another thread? Their comments here seem pretty reasonable to me.

I don't think he was consciously steering the tesseract--either the tesseract was programmed to take him where the future higher-dimensional beings (referred to as "They" in the movie) wanted him to go, or (my preferred theory) it was programmed to respond in some way to his subconscious wishes, and...

This is not some gold thing inside the suitcase in pulp fiction. This is the solution to the film’s central dilemma. The solution to save the entire human population on earth. You don’t think we need to be let in on it??? just chalk it up to cooper’s love saving the human race,eh? The fate of the e...

For it to "dock to any place depending on the person," that would imply there was more than one Tesseract, which we have no evidence for. The Tesseract we saw was a 5D hyperspatial construct designed around Cooper and Murph. You are assuming that the tesseract was designed to dock to one specific p...

Good point, I hadn't considered the issue that the NASA plan would be able to use the same engine for both the scramjet and rocket phases, so that if you instead had to use a separate scramjet engine and (nuclear) rocket engine, the decrease in fuel mass obtained with the scramjet could be outweighe...

I did a quick search for some info on scramjets, and while I didn't find anything definitive I did see this article about a NASA proposal to cut down on the amount of liquid fuel needed to get into orbit: When pressed for answers by the Obama administration, NASA engineers proposed something interes...

- While in atmosphere, air is run through the engines instead of hydrogen. The shuttle can stay airborne for half a week before needing to have its nuclear cores reprocessed. Is this the same idea as a scramjet ? If so, do you know if this would significantly decrease the amount of fuel needed to a...

No matter how much Coop was "briefed" about the shape/look of a wormhole, he could still be surprised by the appearance considering nobody in history has ever actually seen one (other than the Lazarus folks). The dialogue specifically suggested Cooper was surprised by the fact that it was spherical...

http://www.fxguide.com/fxpodcasts/fxpod ... erstellar/ Don't believe this was ever posted. Paul Franklin discusses the film and it's special effects in depth. MUST LISTEN. I think you cut and pasted your link from a site that abbreviates them since the middle part has been replaced by "...", here's...