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How Time Travel Works in "Interstellar"

Alienating the Audience

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The Importance of Monoculture in Time Travel

The film is about the food sources and our ability to create them, to grow them. They do mention something like, oh, our air is actually like 80% nitrogen or something. And blight thrives on nitrogen and it actually increases nitrogen in the air. So they give some kind of slightly hand wavy, but at least reasonable explanation for that,. Yeah, I liked that. That was what we'll talk about in a minute because it'll factor into the big kind of grand plan of Michael Caine's character and whatnot. But the idea that we've used all the Earth's resources, therefore, we should go to Mars also strikes me as far as to be as far as

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