One of the more fascinating scientific speculations in the movie Interstellar is the possibility of a planet orbiting at a black holes event horizon. Normally, when an object enters a black holes event horizon, itll just get sucked in by tidal forces no matter what orbital velocity the planet has. But like the movie, lets leave that conceit aside and imagine what Romilly, the person orbiting outside the event horizon, would see as his crew made their way to Millers Planet. ROMILLYS LOG: Romilly: Goodbye Ranger. Last words to the rest of the crew. Dear Diary [1 second after entry]: Relativity is pretty weird. The moment they entered the event horizon, they just stopped. Everythings just frozen there. Even the planet isnt moving on its orbit around Gargantua. Dear Diary [1 day after entry]: Yup. Theyre just hanging there. Just frozen. Our ship cant just stay put around Gargantua. Well have to circle around in our orbit just to see them again. Out. Dear Diary [1 month after entry]: Well this is boring. Ive already made 30 orbits around Gargantua and theyre just right there where I left them. Maybe they moved a little. I cant really tell. Dear Diary [1 year after entry]: TARS beats me at chess every time. Oh. And after looking at Millers Planet, I can see now that the Ranger has touched the top of the atmosphere. This is the worst game of Seven-Seven-Up Ive ever played. Dear Diary [2 years after entry]: Cant see the ranger any more. Must have finally went past the clouds. And I found a nickel. Dear Diary [5 years after entry]: The last crew that manned the Endurance really let this place go. Thankfully Ive had enough time to clean. Dr. Mann of the previous crew left some of his CDs here. The guy really likes listening to himself talk. What a tool. Dear Diary [7 years after entry]: Well, thats just about one hour for them on Millers. I wonder if they just landed. God. I should have gone with them. Dear Diary [10 years after entry]: BlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackholeBlackhole. Dear Diary [15 years after entry]: You know, come to think of it... Brand does have a nice butt. Dear Diary [18 years after entry]: Well this is stupid. Theyve been down there for more than two hours by my estimates. Im going crazy just doing nothing around here. But TARS and I hatched up this plan. Ill post it here if we get it done. I love you. Dear Diary [19 years after entry]: TARS and I did it! We landed on Edmunds planet! Now this is more like it! The air here is breathable and theres water and organics everywhere! I have to get the other guys here if they make it back. Dear Diary [20 years after entry]: Can you believe it? Theres intelligent life here! Just met a crew of alien travellers. One was a human! Another was grey while this other one was green. The other two were a giant anthropomorphic tree and a talking raccoon. Good times! Dear Diary [21 years after entry]: Oh shit. Shitshitshitshit. Well, we made it back to Millers just fine. But I burned up most of our fuel in the process. Shit. We wont have enough to make it back to Edmunds and Earth after that. Shit. I screwed up. This idea was stupid. Stupid. This is all TARS fault! I set his adventure settings to 180%! Dear Diary [22 years after entry]: Oh God. I can see the ranger. Its right there, right out of the planets atmosphere. Just ready to exit the horizon. TARS and I agree. We are not to speak of whatever happened to anyone. [23 years, 4 months, 8 days; ranger returned]: Romilly: Ive waited years. Cooper: How many years? Ah, time. Aint it relative?
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:00:21 +0000
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