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Interstellar

Communication Updates from Various Space Missions

Doyle The lost communications came through.

Brand How?

Doyle The relay on this side cached them. Years of basic data, no real surprises. Miller's site has kept pinging thumbs up, as has Mann... but Edmunds went down three years ago.

Brand Transmitter failure?

Doyle Maybe. He was sending thumbs up right till it went dark.

Romilly Miller still looks good? She's coming up fast ... with one complication: the planet is much closer to Gargantua than we thought.

[Doyle nods, and Romilly begins drawing on a whiteboard]

Cooper Gargantua?

Doyle A very large black hole. Miller's and Dr. Mann's planets orbit it.

Brand And Miller's is right on the horizon?

Romilly A basketball on the hoop. Landing there takes us dangerously close. A black hole that big has a huge gravitational pull.

Cooper Look, I can swing around that neutron star and decelerate—

Brand It's not that, it's time. That gravity will slow our clock compared to Earth. Drastically.

Cooper How bad?

Romilly Every hour we spend down there will be maybe... seven years back on Earth.

Cooper Jesus...

Romilly That's relativity, folks.

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Interstellar

Difficult Choices in Space Exploration

Cooper We no longer have the fuel to visit both prospects, so, we have to choose.

Romilly But how? They’re both promising. Edmunds’ data is better, but Dr. Mann is the one still transmitting, so…

Brand We’ve no reason to suspect Endmunds’s data would have soured. His world has key elements to sustain human life.

Cooper As does Dr. Mann’s.

Brand Cooper, this is my field. And I really believe Edmunds’ is the better prospect.

Cooper Why?

Brand Gargantua, that’s why. Look at Miller’s planet. Hydrocarbons, organics, yes, but no life. Sterile. We’ll find the same thing on Mann’s.

Romilly Because of the black hole?

Brand Murphy’s Law. Whatever can happen will happen. Accident is the first building block of evolution. But when you’re orbiting a black hole not enough can happen. It sucks in asteroids and comets, other events which would otherwise reach you. We need to go further afield.

Cooper You once said that Dr. Mann was the best of us.

Brand He’s remarkable, we’re only here because of him.

Cooper And yet here he is. He’s on the ground, and he’s sending a very unambiguous message, telling us to come to his planet.

Brand Granted, but Edmunds’ data is more promising.

Romilly We should vote.

Cooper Well, if we vote, there’s something you should know. Brand? He has a right to know.

Brand That has nothing to do with it.

Romilly What does?

Cooper She’s in love with Wolf Edmunds.

Romilly Is that true?

Brand Yes. And that makes me want to follow my heart. But maybe we’ve spent too long trying to figure all this out with theory.

Cooper You’re a scientist, Brand.

Brand So listen to me when I say that love isn’t something we invented. It’s observable, powerful. It has to mean something.

Cooper Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing…

Brand We love people who have died. Where’s the social utility in that?

Cooper None

Brand Maybe it means something more, something we can’t yet understand. May it’s some evidence, something artifact of a higher dimension that we can’t consciously perceive. I’m drawn across the universe to someone I haven’t seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can’t understand it yet. All right, Cooper, yes, the tiniest possibility of seeing Woolf again excites me. That doesn’t mean I’m wrong.

[Stays quiet.]

Cooper Honestly, Amelia, it might. TARS, chart a course for Dr. Mann’s.

[Brand leaves]