There was one more person on a space business trip! At the moment of life and death, is human nature worth testing?

Clark 2022-09-04 04:04:05

When I was young, I liked to play StarCraft. And at that time, the novels of Star Wars were very popular, like the Star Wars in the United States and the Star Wars Flag in Japan. In games or novels, humans flying spaceships or space battleships to sail between the stars are just as convenient as we travel by plane or high-speed rail. This kind of cosmic voyage has also become the way people imagine the future of aerospace. It has to be said that the development of human science and technology is also moving in this direction. Manned vehicles, orbiting space stations, which are not manufactured to carry people into the sky?

I think such a model is human common sense.

I have to say that after the release of "Wandering Earth" two years ago, I realized that there is not only one model for aerospace as we imagined. The earth can also travel. And why human beings allow the earth to travel is because human beings do not believe that humans can stay in a small space peacefully and live smoothly. It’s okay on Earth, but it’s impossible for people to live for decades or even a lifetime in space. Even during the long voyage, some people were born in the spacecraft and never got off the ship when they died, just like "The Pianist at Sea".

Whether human beings can adapt to such a life is an unknown! That's why Liu imagined that he should let the entire planet emigrate. Of course, this is just an illusion, and there is no possibility of realization in the future. But at least, he raised the question. How do humans solve the human organization problem of the spacecraft, and how to solve the psychological problems of humans in the long journey. How big should the space city be so that humans can adapt to life in space, just like living on the earth.

The reason why I talk about it for so long is that I think this is the theme of this film.

Space travel, and even immigrants, are not like being able to replenish them at fixed points on the earth. Materials can be replenished. The materials on board are all loaded according to the plan. If, as in the movie, it was originally a trip of three people, and turned into four people, it is definitely not as simple as an extra pair of chopsticks, but an ecological disaster inside the ship! Maybe all people will die because of this.

You see, one more person will do this. What if you want to travel a planet that is tens of thousands of light-years away? This is definitely a difficult problem that humans must solve before setting off to the interstellar.

Of course, movies are not to solve scientific problems, they praise the greatness of human nature. In fact, I think that in such a situation, the first thing to show is not the greatness of human nature, but the ugliness of human nature. After all, in the choice of life and death, human choice has been proved countless times that evil is not good.

Good people live soon, but wicked people live for thousands of years. This is reality!

Well, the girl in the movie is like a brainless white leftist like in Western society. Although I admire people with high morals, I have a basic understanding: Don't test human nature, it will definitely disappoint you.

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Stowaway quotes

  • Zoe Levenson: What are we gonna do, ask him to walk out of the airlock?

  • Marina Barnett: Guys, this is not a call for a solution. The entirety of Hyperion is down there trying to figure this out. I'm only telling you this because I need you to be mentally prepared for what's gonna happen.