Plan A
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Plan A is the initially presented strategy in the film "Interstellar" that proposes solving Earth's crisis by making the planet habitable again through a groundbreaking gravity equation.
Observed surface forms (2)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Plan A as business-as-usual scenario | 1 |
| Plan A (Interstellar) | 0 |
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional plan
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plot device ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Interstellar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedCharacter |
Amelia Brand
NERFINISHED
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Joseph Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ Murph (Murphy Cooper) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| communicatedAs | official mission objective ⓘ |
| communicatedTo | NASA crew of the Endurance mission ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Plan B (Interstellar) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coreMethod |
completion of a unified gravity equation
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manipulation of gravity to enable mass evacuation or stabilization ⓘ |
| dependsOn | solving Professor Brand’s gravity problem ⓘ |
| enables |
construction of massive space habitats
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humanity’s large-scale evacuation from Earth ⓘ |
| ethicalIssue | used as a deception to secure cooperation ⓘ |
| failureReason | lack of access to black hole singularity data ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Interstellar universe ⓘ |
| laterRevealedAs | secretly considered impossible by Professor Brand ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| moralFunction | gives hope to Earth’s remaining population ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | initially motivates Cooper to join the mission ⓘ |
| primaryGoal |
save humanity on Earth
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solve Earth’s environmental crisis ⓘ |
| proposedBy | Professor Brand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicRationale | make Earth habitable again ⓘ |
| requires |
data from inside a black hole
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reconciliation of quantum mechanics and general relativity ⓘ |
| scientificBasis | theoretical higher-dimensional gravity ⓘ |
| statusDuringMostOfFilm | believed to be achievable ⓘ |
| strategyType | terraforming-like restoration of Earth ⓘ |
| supportedBy | NASA (in Interstellar) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeRelation |
explores tension between truth and hope
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illustrates reliance on advanced physics to solve existential crises ⓘ |
| ultimateOutcome | eventually enabled when Cooper obtains tesseract data ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
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Plan A as business-as-usual scenario