10 Movies That Ignored Shockingly Simple Solutions

3. Interstellar - Build Something More Helpful With Time Manipulating Techonolgy

Limitless Bradley Cooper
Warner Bros. Pictures

So as Interstellar would have us believe, in the future, mankind has evolved to the point it is capable of both interacting with and manipulating the past.

Yet they choose to create a wormhole for Matthew McConaughey's astronaut Cooper to travel to another galaxy, then get sucked into a Black Hole, entering a labyrinth-like tesseract that holds the equation to launch space stations to carry mankind from the Earth, and transmit that back to Cooper's daughter on Earth using of all things, morse code.

Couldn't they have come up with something a little less complicated to enable humanity to access this vital information?

The obvious answer should be yes, as gambling that a daughter will be able to understand her father's message through manipulating something as small as the hands of a watch is a pretty long shot, even for a film this brilliantly complicated.

Why not just transmit the necessary data back to the past straight from the off? Even if they were to use something as rudimentary as morse code, it wouldn't have been long until someone on Earth figured out what the transmission was and solved it.

Way more simple then dropping into a Black Hole on the off chance you might found some future humans with god-like powers of creation to assist.

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