Update on my project to make a more realistic Ranger/Lander: http://i.imgur.com/LyNertK.png Since last time, I've swapped out the nuclear solid-core engine with a nuclear gas-core, a.k.a. the "nuclear lightbulb." This allows me to keep the performance values I had initially proposed, while still bei...

Frank-Jon wrote:Interstellar is nominated for best production design in the fantasy film category (ADG)

Stoifics42, thanks for all the Interstellar related science related posts that you've written. You da man! :clap: Thanks! ... but it seems I spoke too soon for the shuttle design. Literally the day after I posted that I realized I hadn't factored in radiation shielding for the nuclear reactor, forc...

antovolk wrote:inb4 no one finds it funny

http://www.artstation.com/artwork/cooper-in-russia

TIL Cooper now works for the Systems Alliance.

Wouldn't the ice clouds be pulled down by gravity? Not trying to nitpick the film. Just curious. Kip Thorne proposed that the clouds are not literally frozen. The Ranger scraped the bottom of an overhang of frozen carbon dioxide, whose outer surface was vaporizing in the sunlight and producing opaq...

Note: WIP! Lots of people have been criticizing the unrealistic designs for the Ranger and Lander, saying their fuel fractions are too small and that they're unaerodynamic, among other things. Most of the claims are valid, since designing a realistic single-stage vertical-takeoff orbital craft is n...

A few Redditors are claiming that you can actually see Dr. Miller crashing on the wave world during the Ranger descent. Can anyone here confirm?

http://www.reddit.com/r/interstellar/co ... i_thought/

Something in the movie that has always bothered me.. When Cooper is explaining to Murph that on his journey, time is going to change for him, there is a line he says which is a little puzzling for me. It's when he says "..or travelling near the speed of light..". It's impossible to do so, Thorne in...

Lionheart wrote:Cinema Space Tribute with Zimmer Mountains

http://vimeo.com/113142476

A very well-made compilation, even if I don't entirely agree with his film selection.

Lionheart wrote:So.Fucking.Perfect.

http://vimeo.com/113806034

No, this is the version you want:

http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http% ... nglycreepy