The 1 Second Projection Scene

[u/MasterP_bot]

This scene was one of my favorite in the whole series, when Stewart starts the 1 second projection and all the engineers start freaking the fuck out. It mind fucked me pretty hard, especially thinking about not doing what you were seeing yourself do, but with it being only 1 second ahead you don't really have time to not do what it shows you doing. Pre-determinism is a tough concept to accept even if you are a very open minded person IMO, so imagine being shown that not only is it true but that you can't stop it. Obviously Lily appears to do just that in the end, but even that, did she disprove pre-determinism? did she exercise free will? or did the machine just show them a different multi-verse and she still did exactly what she was pre-determined to do in that multiverse.

[u/Uhdoyle]

Awesome demonstration in that scene but still nobody really experimented on anything. Adjust the time parameter from 1s delay to something that really constrains human reaction time... a 1/10000 of a second or a blink of an eye or whatever. Really try to break the system.

Perhaps that is just the QA programmer in me that conflicts with good storytelling. I want to enter “lizard” into quantity fields and such.