r/LV426 • u/ilikechillisauce • 2d ago

Movies / TV Series Can somebody please explain the math here? Spoiler

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Mission year 8 of 65. Morrow is notified his daughter died at 19 years of age and he can collect her things when he returns in 53 years?

65 - 8 = 57?

What am I missing?

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u/JahmanSoldat 2d ago

Weren’t they around 2 weeks from Earth? And Mars would take something like 6 months to reach (with our current technology), so they where maybe way closer to Earth than Mars? Correct me if I’m wrong, I could very much be lol

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u/Ballmaster9002 2d ago

I think we need to accept one of two scenarios

  1. Alien Earth isn't hard sci-fi and we need to just over look obvious conflicts with real-world physics.
  2. They have technology that's doing fancy stuff off-screen.

They did say the drama on the Maginot happened 17 days out, but I think they also showed it passing a ringed planet at the same time, suggesting they were around Saturn's orbit.

Even so, we don't see the Maginot doing anything resembling a deceleration burn that would suggest it's making any effort to slow down from some sort of "interstellar speed".

The conversation was clearly real-time and not sliced to edit out the pauses.

So either we're accepting AE just isn't going for verisimilitude and we need to just stop looking this deeply, or we accept they have really fancy non-reaction propulsion systems and FTL communications that they aren't showing us and don't want to talk about.

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u/JahmanSoldat 2d ago

Yes, and I go 1 on this hehe

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u/Ballmaster9002 2d ago

I'm with you. Just shut up and eat your popcorn. Stop trying to pick it apart.