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Editor/Nan Ke Documentary
<<——Preamble——>>
"It is an immortal love that transcends time and space, while permeating themes of life and death. ”
The movie "Space Traveler" was the finale of the year in 2016, and after its release, it immediately attracted heated discussions among fans around the world.
This is because although "Space Traveler" is a science fiction movie about future interstellar journey, in fact, in this movie, the so-called interstellar travel is actually just a façade.
In this movie, it is more about telling the story of the emotions and morals that the hero and heroine have to face in the face of such a "secret room" as a starship, which caused heated discussions among many fans at the time.
So next, let's go into the story of "Space Traveler".
<< · - Accident in the starry sky - · >>
"Space Traveler" is set in a futuristic world, due to the great progress of interstellar travel technology at that time, which led to the launch of manned spacecraft to the distant outer space to carry out interstellar colonization activities.
And in this film, the main content of the story takes place on an interstellar manned spaceship that flies to a distant colony.
Because the journey took hundreds of years, all crew and passengers were in deep hibernation to survive the long time.
But unfortunately, the spacecraft was hit by a meteorite swarm, and the hibernation module malfunctioned, waking up the sleeping male protagonist Jim early, but when Jim woke up, he found that there were still 90 years to reach the end.
This means that the male protagonist will spend the rest of his life alone in this small spaceship, which makes the male protagonist Jim feel very desperate.
Although after this, Jim once tried to spend boring personal time by studying and learning, but human beings are a kind of social after all, and living alone for a long time makes the male protagonist extremely lonely and uncomfortable.
Eventually, Jim can't stand the loneliness and manually wakes up the heroine, Aurora.
And when O'Laura woke up, she felt the same shock and uneasiness as the male protagonist at the first time, and she desperately wanted to get out of such a predicament.
However, when the heroine realizes that she has no way out of the predicament, she can only accept the fate of dying of old age on the starship.
Since both Jim and Aurora will face a long period of loneliness for the rest of their lives, this makes the two fall in love.
However, it wasn't long before Aurora unexpectedly learned the truth that she had been woken up by Jim, which made Aurora furious, and her relationship with Jim broke down.
Later, the failure of another hibernation pod wakes up the deck captain Gus, and the three of them find that the ship has a growing problem, so they go to investigate it together.
After investigation, the three found that the spacecraft had a serious failure due to a meteorite impact, which put the lives of everyone on the spacecraft in danger.
Faced with such danger, the trio decided to try their best to troubleshoot the problem, but because the hibernation chamber of the deck chief Gus failed in the meteorite impact, the only person with maintenance knowledge among the three died prematurely due to radiation sickness.
In such a desperate situation, the hero and heroine abandon their previous suspicions and join forces again to solve the ship's malfunction, and in the end, the hero and heroine finally eliminate the fault after a thrilling adventure.
And after eliminating the problem, due to the deep relationship between the heroine and the male protagonist, the heroine Aurora gave up the opportunity to hibernate again, and chose to live happily with Jim on the journey for the rest of her life.
But if you put aside the love scenes of the hero and heroine and the controversy about the moral aspects of the male protagonist Jim, the whole film still has a lot of "hard injuries" from the perspective of science fiction movies.
Although it is said that "no coincidence is not a book", and the failure is an important factor in the development of the plot, if it is really in the occasion of long-distance interstellar voyage, such a spaceship with frequent failures, I am afraid that no one dares to sit on it for a long-distance trip.
<< - What is wrong with the spaceship - >>
The spaceship in the film is beautifully shaped and luxuriously equipped with the blessing of Hollywood special effects, with a strong visual shock, and the three spiral arms are like three large milling cutters, rotating around the central axis while moving forward as a whole, like drilling into the depths of the universe.
However, as a large passenger starship designed to fly at 0.5 times the speed of light and have a total flight range of hundreds of years, the spacecraft design shown in the film, although magnificent, is just a "flower shelf" full of problems.
First of all, the spacecraft's early warning and avoidance system is not strong enough, and the spacecraft only relies on the stealth shield to passively resist meteorites on the route, and there is no evasion mechanism, let alone the technology and action of active defense.
Perhaps it is not cost-effective to change the flight trajectory at high speed, but it does not have the ability to destroy it in the slightest when it hits a large meteorite, can this doubt only be explained by the international general law that "civilian ships cannot carry weapons"?
Secondly, there is no backup of the one-time hibernation capsule involving the safety of passengers, and there is no backup of the clock chip that controls sleep and wake-up in the hibernation capsule itself, the latter directly causes the passenger to wake up early when the chip fails, and the former blocks the way for passengers to return to hibernation.
What's more, the crew's special hibernation capsule actually directly led to the sudden death of the awakened crew, and the personal safety of the crew was not guaranteed, and who dared to be responsible for the safety of the subsequent endurance?
Finally, the ship's internal plan for dealing with unexpected situations was also inadequate, and there was no detection of anyone waking up early. All the feedback that Jim gets from the spaceship is mechanical and useless, and he can only make small talk with the robots.
"People who are drowning are not rescued, and they instinctively pull others into the water. This line from the film couldn't be more appropriate.
Throughout the film, on the fragile spacecraft, only the metal door outside the crew control cabin is the strongest and reliable, no matter how it is smashed or cut, it is always solid.
But it is such a door that completely cuts off the hope of the hero and heroine to ask the crew for help, which seems extremely ironic.
<< - A love story under the cloak of science fiction - >>
There are countless accidents that can be encountered during interstellar travel, and the spacecraft itself is an extremely complex control system.
Considering the long time scale of the journey, the probability of any kind of imaginable or unimaginable accident will be close to 100%.
Therefore, if the space control system is designed according to the usual rules, it is very likely to collapse halfway, and the luxury spacecraft in the film will not even be able to fly out of the solar system at all.
But how do you build a navigation system that is as rugged as possible? There are two key criteria: backup and restoration.
The backup criterion is based on the principle of probability of failure, for example, if the probability of failure of a component on the spacecraft is 1%, then a backup component should be designed for this part.
In the event of a failure, the ship's personnel can quickly switch the faulty part to the backup part and continue to keep the system running.
Theoretically, the probability of a failure of both the original and backup parts is 1 in 10,000, so the probability of a system crash is reduced from 1 percent to 1 in 10,000 after applying this backup policy.
For extremely critical components or subsystems, there can even be more than one backup, and multiple backups are in place together, further reducing the possibility of overall problems.
One might ask, after a failure, switching to the backup part, and the system is temporarily back to normal, what if the backup part goes back to work after a while? This involves the second key criterion: repair.
The most important thing for a failed system is to restore it to its pre-failure state. This kind of recovery not only means that the function itself can be normal, but also the state that responds to the failure must be normal.
In other words, after a backup part replaces a faulty part, the faulty part should be repaired as soon as possible, and the backup standby state should be put into standby as soon as possible after the repair is completed to cope with the next round of failover.
In this way, the two parts are backed up to each other, so that the best effort can be made to ensure the normal operation of the system, and the shorter the time to repair the faulty part, the higher the system availability.
There are two types of repairs: automatic repair and manual repair.
In the film, after the spacecraft was hit by a meteorite swarm, many windows with red warnings flashed on the three-dimensional giant display screen to indicate where the fault occurred, and then a progress bar turned green in the window, indicating that it was being repaired automatically, and this kind of failure generally does not need to be worried about by the crew.
However, when the computer system controlling the central nuclear reactor is hit by a meteorite and causes a serious failure, although the backup parts are close at hand, they cannot be repaired automatically, and the protagonist has to go into battle to install the machine himself.
If there is no manual intervention in this kind of failure situation, the consequences will be unimaginable.
It can be said that as a movie with the name of "science fiction", its imagination of the future interstellar world and its cognition of related professional knowledge are insufficient.
Therefore, this film is actually just borrowing the coat of "science fiction" to create the emotional scenes of the hero and heroine, even if it is a huge crisis in the film, it is just a tool to enhance the relationship between the male and female protagonists.
Fortunately, with the blessing of Hollywood's excellent special effects team, the sci-fi elements in this film have brought extremely shocking special effects, which allows the sci-fi attributes of this film to be maintained.
Coupled with the relative substantiation of the content of "Space Traveler", this film has been welcomed by many audiences after its release.
<<·——Conclusion——·>>
After the release of "Space Traveler", it sparked heated discussions among the audience, and its solid sci-fi core and grand visual effects also received a lot of praise.
Although the values expressed in the actions of the male protagonist Jim are mixed, the film succeeds in constructing the great contradictions faced by the human individual in extreme circumstances, and tortures human nature through choice.
This is something that is difficult for many sci-fi films that pursue purely visual effects.
Moreover, the beautifully shaped luxury spaceship shuttles through the sea of stars like the unsinkable Titanic, which does add a lot of visual points to the film
It can be said that "Space Traveler" is a high-level science fiction film, which is worth a lot of recollection and thinking by the audience.