Chapter 350: Adventurers
"Professor Brand!"
"Pang, you're here! Have a seat. ”
Professor Brand was in his fifties, with a full beard and an unfathomable light behind his thick glasses.
This is the first character Pang Xuelin has seen that appears in the original movie.
In fact, after this morning's observation, Pang Xuelin has already made a preliminary judgment about the world.
This version of the interstellar world should have taken place many years before the original, when the first astronauts to explore the stars through wormholes had not yet set off, and the "Lazarus" program had not yet entered the official implementation stage.
The so-called Lazarus Plan was proposed by Professor Brand in front of him.
The core of the Lazarus Plan is composed of two main parts.
First, a group of physicists led by Professor Brand have made every effort to understand the mechanism and principle of gravity and find a way for humans to enter space on a large scale.
Second, these space explorers, led by Pang Xuelin, took a spacecraft through the wormhole to find a new home for mankind in the depths of the starry sky.
These two parts complement each other, but if one part is missing, humanity on Earth will slowly die out in ultimate despair.
But Pang Xuelin knew that if it was set in the movie, this plan would not be successful at all.
Because if humans want to understand the mechanism of gravity, they must obtain the relevant parameters inside the black hole.
This is simply not possible.
Professor Brand has long been aware of this.
Therefore, the real purpose of the Lazarus Project is that these space explorers with Pang Xuelin as the core will drive the Eternal Night spacecraft, pass through the wormhole, and find a new suitable home for human beings, and then directly use the fertilized eggs carried in the spacecraft to rebuild human civilization in the new home, and all human beings on the earth will be abandoned.
From a rational point of view, Professor Brand's plan is the only way to continue human civilization.
But from an emotional point of view, Pang Xuelin couldn't watch Chrissy and Murphy die in despair on Earth, while he rebuilt human civilization in his new home.
In the movie, in order to solve this contradiction, the screenwriter directly set up a super bug of the body passing through the black hole.
When the male protagonist Cooper decided to sacrifice himself and entered the horizon interface of the black hole, he found himself entering a five-dimensional superspace.
It was there that he sent vital information back to Earth through his daughter.
Then Cooper's daughter finally solved the cause of gravity and helped humans immigrate to space, alleviating the looming danger of extinction.
If you look at it from the core of science fiction alone, there is no way to give a passing grade to such an inexplicable bug in such a hard science fiction movie.
But the humanistic feelings of this movie are incomparable, and the touching father-daughter relationship between the male protagonist Cooper and his daughter Murphy across the vast time and space is the reason why this movie can get such a high score.
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"Pang, why did you come to me suddenly, is there something wrong?"
Professor Brand looked at Pang Xuelin with some curiosity and said.
"Professor Brand, I'd like to pull up some of NASA's past archives and see if I can find an astronaut with real hands-on experience to join Project Lazarus."
Brand was slightly stunned and frowned: "The global climate has changed dramatically in recent years, and there are many people who used to work in NASA, and we are no longer in touch. But I do have some astronaut archives here, if you really want to find them, see if you can find a few ...... through the civil affairs system."
With that, Brand stood up and found a thick file from the filing cabinet behind him.
Pang Xuelin took the file from Brand and said with a smile: "Okay, then I'll take a look first, by the way, Professor Brand, how is the progress of the gravitational equation?" ”
Brand glanced at Pang Xuelin and said, "It should take a few more years, there are still some problems, I can't solve them for the time being, what, are you interested in this?" ”
Pang Xuelin nodded and said, "I'm a little interested, if it's convenient for you, can you show me the research materials?" ”
Brand hesitated, nodded and said, "Then you wait a minute, I'll give you a copy." ”
Soon, Pang Xuelin took the manuscript paper with ink fragrance after copying from Brand and walked out of Brand's office.
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An important reason why Pang Xuelin asked Brand for the archives of former astronauts was to find out Cooper.
In addition to wanting Cooper to join Project Lazarus as soon as possible, the strange phenomena that happened in the attic of Cooper's house implied important parameters inside the black hole.
If he really finds Cooper in advance, as shown in the movie, Pang Xuelin may be able to obtain these parameters in advance and unlock the secret of gravity, so that human astronautics can take a big step forward.
Pang Xuelin thought about this as he prepared to return to his office.
Passing by the door of a gym, Pang Xuelin saw his teammates training inside.
These include Billy, Emmond, Dr. Mann, Professor Brand's daughter Brand Jr., and his sister-in-law Murphy.
It should be noted that Aemond and Little Brand are lovers.
Billy is the unlucky guy who landed on an ocean planet in the movie that had been distorted by a black hole.
He had been on that planet for less than two hours, and as soon as he signaled to Earth, he was engulfed by a super wave that was thousands of meters high.
And in just a few hours, more than ten years have passed on the earth.
So the second group of astronauts led by Cooper was miserable.
They also landed on that planet and stayed in it for three hours, and when they realized that something was wrong with the planet and chose to return, twenty-three years had passed since the outside world.
Dr. Mann was the discoverer of the frozen planet.
Frozen planets are not suitable for human life, and Dr. Mann is unable to face death calmly, so he sends a signal back to Earth in the hope of being rescued.
In the movie, Dr. Mann's plot ultimately fails, and he dies in the fight for the Eternal Night, due to his own carelessness.
Only Emmond has found a true new home for humanity.
However, because of the delay on the ocean planet and the frozen planet, by the time little Brand arrived, Emmond had already died of old age on that planet.
The lovers didn't end up together.
Cooper, the male protagonist of the movie, also chose to go to that planet at the end to rescue Little Brand.
As for her sister-in-law Murphy, because of her own relationship, she also chose to join the Lazarus Project and become one of these explorers.
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