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My best friend and I went to go see Interstellar yesterday.
Without saying too much; I thought the movie was... okay. Just... okay. I thought some of the concepts presented in the movie were really cool (I may end up stealing the frozen clouds idea), but so much of the movie just annoyed me. The last act of the movie in particular had me facepalming.
The black hole, while unfortunately just being a big plot device, looked really cool.
It made me want to draw the only named black hole in my fictional galaxy.
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Killick's Damnation is a mostly empty stretch of space. In the years since the Ultimarian-Othian war, it has become a haven for various pirate crews who regard it as a safe haven as most sane people won't come anywhere near the area.
For that, the pirates can thank Golgotha, a massive black hole that hangs ominously in the distance.
It is not wise to make enemies with the pirates of Killick's Damnation as they have "made use" of Golgotha as a method of execution among those who have crossed them.
Enemies of the pirates have every right to fear the black hole as it is said to consume every part of a person; body, soul and spirit.
Image © 2014 Traci Vermeesch
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Without saying too much; I thought the movie was... okay. Just... okay. I thought some of the concepts presented in the movie were really cool (I may end up stealing the frozen clouds idea), but so much of the movie just annoyed me. The last act of the movie in particular had me facepalming.
The black hole, while unfortunately just being a big plot device, looked really cool.
It made me want to draw the only named black hole in my fictional galaxy.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Killick's Damnation is a mostly empty stretch of space. In the years since the Ultimarian-Othian war, it has become a haven for various pirate crews who regard it as a safe haven as most sane people won't come anywhere near the area.
For that, the pirates can thank Golgotha, a massive black hole that hangs ominously in the distance.
It is not wise to make enemies with the pirates of Killick's Damnation as they have "made use" of Golgotha as a method of execution among those who have crossed them.
Enemies of the pirates have every right to fear the black hole as it is said to consume every part of a person; body, soul and spirit.
Image © 2014 Traci Vermeesch
DO NOT copy, alter, repost, etc without the consent of the artist! Character/Image are NOT public domain!
Please think before you type...
and please read before asking questions. I will no longer be answering questions that can either be answered by simply reading the image's description or by spending 5 seconds to Google the answer.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Scenery
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File Size 123.6 kB
I have not viewed the movie, nor am I interested. However I have viewed a report about that black hole you are speaking of, it is scientifically correct, what you saw is what you would have seen had you foolishly taken a ship that close in our reality, even the scientist who was working with them on this was shocked, stunned and blown away. http://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrop.....ar-black-hole/
Nice artwork by the way.
Nice artwork by the way.
I was involved in a rather interesting discussion with an astrophysicist about Interstellar's black hole and its planetary system. A surprising amount of that part of the movie was pure Rule of Drama.
It's perfectly plausible for planets to orbit an ordinary black hole - after all, they have the same (or less!) total gravity field as their parent star, just compressed into a much smaller area. Planets orbiting it before would continue to orbit it afterward. The idea of a black hole as a giant vacuum cleaner is popular bunkum. And it is perfectly plausible for a planet to orbit a black hole close enough to experience relativistic time-dilation effects.
There were two big problems, though.
First, Gargantua was a supermassive black hole, in a super-or hypergiant binary system (that glowing rim is almost certainly star matter being pulled from its neighbor). A system like that is far, far less likely to have planets merrily orbiting it.
The second was that any planets that were orbiting close enough for time-dilation effects to occur would be bathed with an amazing flux of hard and soft X-rays from the accretion disk and ergosphere. You could have liquid water on such a planet, but no living thing or even complex organic molecule would exist for long on it. Visiting such a world would be a lethal mistake, especially if you were searching for a world that could support life!
It's perfectly plausible for planets to orbit an ordinary black hole - after all, they have the same (or less!) total gravity field as their parent star, just compressed into a much smaller area. Planets orbiting it before would continue to orbit it afterward. The idea of a black hole as a giant vacuum cleaner is popular bunkum. And it is perfectly plausible for a planet to orbit a black hole close enough to experience relativistic time-dilation effects.
There were two big problems, though.
First, Gargantua was a supermassive black hole, in a super-or hypergiant binary system (that glowing rim is almost certainly star matter being pulled from its neighbor). A system like that is far, far less likely to have planets merrily orbiting it.
The second was that any planets that were orbiting close enough for time-dilation effects to occur would be bathed with an amazing flux of hard and soft X-rays from the accretion disk and ergosphere. You could have liquid water on such a planet, but no living thing or even complex organic molecule would exist for long on it. Visiting such a world would be a lethal mistake, especially if you were searching for a world that could support life!
The *beginning* of the movie actually had the hardest science and logic. The failure mode the planet was experiencing (blight of major food crops, followed by general plant dieoff, followed by atmospheric remodeling) is all too plausible. You don't even have to wade into the whole global warming controversy for that: Earth has experienced drastic atmospheric remodeling at least three times in its history, one of which (the initial introduction of oxygen and photosynthesis) nearly killed all life on the planet.
The wormhole was awesome, too - straight out of Kip Throne's nonrelativistic modeling. The stuff that happened on the planets (mile high gravtide waves, frozen clouds of ammonia, etc.) is also very hard science, as was a lot of what happened on and to the Endurance.
It was the last act that basically turned the whole movie into an adult version of A Wrinkle in Time. I kept expecting Mrs. Whatsit to show up and explain to Cooper exactly what a tesseract was and how to use it.
The wormhole was awesome, too - straight out of Kip Throne's nonrelativistic modeling. The stuff that happened on the planets (mile high gravtide waves, frozen clouds of ammonia, etc.) is also very hard science, as was a lot of what happened on and to the Endurance.
It was the last act that basically turned the whole movie into an adult version of A Wrinkle in Time. I kept expecting Mrs. Whatsit to show up and explain to Cooper exactly what a tesseract was and how to use it.
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