User talk:Galaxia92

Welcome[edit]

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Hello, Galaxia92, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Pulsar planet. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Blooper section on Interstellar (movie)[edit]

Hi, I noticed that you added back a blooper to Interstellar (movie) having to do with travel time to Alpha Centauri. I had removed the text because I think there may have been a mis-interpretation. I believe in the movie Cooper described the voyage to the nearest star would take "one thousand years", not "one thousand light-years" as you describe. I remember working through the logic behind his estimate, considering how fast a human-design space craft could reasonably accelerate/decelerate on such a voyage. Can you confirm that the line in the movie actually referred to "one thousand light-years"? Is there a source for this? If not, perhaps we should remove the line until the exact quote can be confirmed. Thanks! Ronnotel (talk) 14:55, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(relocating your comment for ease of discussion, apologies for moving your content but threads are normally kept where there are started for legibility)Actually, even such an estimate would be wrong: the voyage to Saturn takes two years, and Saturn is, at the furthest, about 11 AU away from earth, that is 88 light-minutes away. The nearest star is at 4.2 light years of distance, which means 25085 times the maximum distance Earth-Saturn. Assuming that the journey took place while Saturn was at its furthest (which, if true, would be an exceptionally stupid thing to do) and that the trajectory was the minimum distance path, with the same spacecraft the voyage to Proxima Centauri would take more than 50 thousand years, give or take.

Moreover, the section scientific bloopers, which you cancelled, contained a calculation made using the formula extrapolated by the Pound-Rebka experiment, which may be replicated by anyone at any times.

In my belief, the section should be renamed, as the name it has today misleads people into thinking that the film was scientifically accurate, whereas the only scientific accurate thing was the depiction of the black hole as seen from a distance.

Hi Galaxies, thanks for responding. First, I only recall removing the mention of the travel time to Alpha Centauri, not the entire bloopers section. Someone else may have made that edit. And the only reason I removed what I did was I felt there may have been a misinterpretation and wanted to make sure we got it right. And I have no issue with your suggested alternate derivation. Based on current technology, I agree 1000 years is far too short a period. For giggles, I found this article that speculates on various advances in space flight technologies. But again this is only speculation. In any case, I won't edit the article again, but I do suggest it be changed to remove the thousand light year reference which I don't think is correct. Thanks! Ronnotel (talk) 11:54, 30 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the patience to read through the whole message, and I surely will read the article :) I'm sorry for not agreeing to the usual formatting (and for any mistakes in English I might have made), I have been away from wikipedia for some time I wasn't sure you would see the answer :)