Scientists Decipher Fact From Fantasy in Movie 'Passengers'

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7 жыл бұрын

In the new Sci-Fi film Passengers, people on Earth are on a 120-year trip to colonize a new planet, but something goes wrong on their way there. Scientists say while much of the movie is a work of fiction, there is some real science behind many of the ideas in the movie. VOA’s Elizabeth Lee, in Los Angeles, explores what they are.
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@jasinAmsterdam1976 7 жыл бұрын

What would be possible if nassa had the same budget as the military?

@ankhenaten2 7 жыл бұрын

Jasin Tairaidrissi what if we have a one world goverment no wars on earth and spend all the saved global money on space r&d?

@jasinAmsterdam1976 7 жыл бұрын

Now you're just asking to much bro :D

@SLHAnimation 7 жыл бұрын

ankhenaten2 That might be possible once the global is in a big danger..... and the humanity will have no choice but to work together...... I think

@wesmo_ 7 жыл бұрын

@ankhenaten2 Shove your "one world government" up in your own ass! I don't want any fucking globalist elite deciding my life for me. It will never happen, just give up that bullshit.

@TheJanind 6 жыл бұрын

They would spell their name with double S for sure Wait..

@bluebox5631 7 жыл бұрын

Deck Officer Morpheus said the ship was travelling half light speed. What's so "fantasy" about that? The fantasy lies in the ship stopping rotating when there was a fault in propulsion but that's just likening it to how things stop "going" here on Earth when you shut down the power. Plus it allows them to throw the actors around as if the "gravity" is on the fritz. I don't have a problem with it. Picking apart the science of a movie based in Sci-Fi is pointless. No one knows the technological advances that might come in future. Harnessing huge amounts of energy are all about our path to a type 1 civilisation and are completely plausible. Within the realms of Physics movies like this aren't about what is, it's about what's possible.

@lucianosilvestri4289 3 жыл бұрын

2:30 USA wanna explore the space but still uses miles instead kilometers It's the same as me going to an upper class party riding a wagon pulled by a donkey.

@timdoyle3028 2 жыл бұрын

The US general public uses SAE , scientist, physicists, engineers, etc use metric.

@enzonoora6690 3 жыл бұрын

Bo its not its 300 years gurl 300 hundreds years of hibernation

@Megadriver 4 жыл бұрын

All the wonders we can uncover out there in the endless cosmos and here we are wasting our money and our scientists on slightly better military equipment and sending drones to fight axe-wielding talibans... We could have had spaceships with Alcubeierre drives, fusion reactors, artificial intelligence and even met aliens... But nah, fuck space, let's waste over a TRILLION dollars on a fighter jet.

@lassedk4955 5 жыл бұрын

travelling at lightspeed i dont think that it will be possible to take a nice fly stroll outside the ship as in the movie...

@berkovl7226 3 жыл бұрын

There's no air in space, therefore there's no drag or friction. If you're moving at ~lightspeed~ inside the ship, stepping out of it will still make you move at ~said speed~ you will not decelerate in vacuum, there's nothing to force you to slow down. It's not like jumping off a plane mid air. So, it's pretty much possible, what's not possible though, is lightspeed travel...

@benwaters5627 3 жыл бұрын

@@berkovl7226 I mean there is some dust in the interstellar medium just tooo little of it. At 50% the speed of light like the avalon, radiation will be extremely high and erosion is 5kg / ms ^2 per 6ly or more when above .1c. Wouldn't recommend.

@toddkes5890 3 жыл бұрын

@@benwaters5627 Strong shield, it took that giant chunk of rock to have a small piece get through and damage the main reactor systems

@SicilianStealth 3 жыл бұрын

Starship not spaceship.

@jayhouse345 6 жыл бұрын

They are guessing about "finding" earth like planets. In reality they have no idea.

@robertstevens913 3 жыл бұрын

Well as technology advances we may indeed be able to not only detect an earth like world, but be able to image it. When they finally launch the James Webb space telescope, no telling what we're gonna see.

@brightax7502 3 жыл бұрын

there are tons found but they are light years away so they have to hibernate

@NeilsonBuntowa 3 жыл бұрын

Many forget that even if we can build a ship as fast as the starship avilon we would still be limited to a certain speed because we have to maintain at least 1g force. The faster you go in space the greater the gravity force.

@brightax7502 3 жыл бұрын

@berkovl7226 3 жыл бұрын

That is not correct, G-force is exclusively relative to acceleration, not velocity. The ship will not reach lightspeed instantly, it would logically break apart into billions of atoms instantly if it did. In reality the ship will accelerate and slowly reach desired speed. Passengers will experience G-forces while the ship is accelerating, which depends entirely on engine capabilities and how fast it accelerates. Let's look at planes for instance, you feel the forces pushing you back on your seat during takeoff, but then you can pretty much walk normally at 600km/h mid flight, that's because both you and the plane are moving in space at 600km/h and the acceleration = 0m/s

@toddkes5890 3 жыл бұрын

You have the rotating sections, those can be spun for gravity (centripetal force). Beyond that, they have the hibernation capability, so muscle and bone loss from lower gravity is likely reduced too

@raffacasting 6 жыл бұрын

Hibernation? how would this people poo? cells not making miosis? there any biology class I missed?

@beanfieldjones6277 6 жыл бұрын

yea right! you are right sir.

@marcuswalker3056 6 жыл бұрын

bio stasis slows down all cellular function hence why you appear to not age you do but it’s something like 1 year of ageing in status is about 100-200 years in stasis.... so eating breathing drinking no longer matter you’re cell’s won’t be dividing their in stasis

@melisa-jn9de 5 жыл бұрын

@@marcuswalker3056 does that mean to reach alpha centauri with hibernating properties you would age 15 days 10 hours 33 minutes and 36 seconds? (If you travel at light speed)

@enzonoora6690 3 жыл бұрын

Um it the hibernation scan your body and you dont need to poop

@enzonoora6690 3 жыл бұрын

@@melisa-jn9de Speed of light is very fast but they only travel at HALF speed of light . And we dont know where did they came from maybe theyre alliens cuz theres only one Planet cand be lived in Planet Earth Or should i say Homestead II colony (Which is not im agree on)