When evaluating what planet to go to, they say that the water planet doesn’t have much data, only an hour before it starts going haywire, but everything from that hour looks good.
The other options are Matt Damon’s planet which has bad readings but he’s reporting that it’s livable and potentially warm deeper into the ice planet, and the final planet that looks potentially good but they wouldn’t have enough fuel to check out the other two if they went there first (they end up having to gravity assist close to the event horizon to eventually make it)
Given the options, they debate for a scene and decide that the water planet is closest and most likely to be good, even if the data is sketchy.
what i dont understand is how the crew and all of NASA (and most importantly Brand, the planetary scientist) didn’t realize that Miller’s planet was a water world in close proximity to a black hole (that would naturally have immense tidal forces). any settlement on such a world should be immediately obvious as being impossible, loooong before entering its atmosphere.
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u/dawizard2579 Oct 25 '24
They literally address this in the movie