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You should watch Gattaca.

• lmm 9y ago
  And then consider the alternate ending: his heart condition lead him to die halfway through the mission, and without a pilot everyone else onboard died.
  • alien_at_work 9y ago
    I came away from the film with the impression that he didn't have and never had any heart condition. He was assumed to be super unhealthy because he was a natural birth (a kind of superstition, if you will), but that makes him like us. Do we all have heart conditions?
    • lmm 9y ago
      IIRC heart disease is the second most common cause of death, something in the region of 20%. So not all, but a substantial fraction of us have heart conditions.
      • alien_at_work 9y ago
        Which might be why they thought that he had it. They seemed to be incorrect about something or he wouldn't routinely outperform his brother in physical sports.
        • lmm 9y ago
          Many athletes die young from heart conditions - a heart that's overperforming is one that's wearing itself out faster.
    • Casseres 9y ago
      He had to fake the heart-monitoring test when he was running on a treadmill.
      • alien_at_work 9y ago
        Did he have to or did he assume he had to?