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I don't remember how many pings they received in the movie. I've understood that they had received just one ping from that planet.
by gglon 12y ago
I don't remember how many pings they received in the movie. I've understood that they had received just one ping from that planet.
- chton 12y agoThey expected a ping every year, if it ever stopped pinging they would write off that planet. It was up to the scientists to keep the ping going, if they considered the planet still a suitable candidate for humanity. The signal they received from the time dilation planet was supposedly "looped around the black hole" and repeated yearly.
- sangnoir 12y agoIf I remember correctly, one of the characters hand-waved it as (paraphrasing) "multiple echoes of the same signal". Meaning there were no meaningful timestamps