Timeline for In Interstellar, how can 60-year-old robots interface with the new Ranger spacecraft?
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| Mar 13, 2015 at 23:51 | answer | added | Jim2B | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 16:22 | comment | added | Scott Whitlock | Well, if C3-PO can communicate with Lars' binary load lifters... | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 10:42 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @GorchestopherH: Perfect :) | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 7:45 | vote | accept | Cherubel | ||
| Jan 28, 2015 at 1:20 | comment | added | Gorchestopher H | @LightnessRacesinOrbit Wish granted. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 1:20 | answer | added | Gorchestopher H | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 0:58 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @GorchestopherH: Honestly, I think it perfectly answers the question, and not just because the question has an invalid premise! | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 0:54 | comment | added | Gorchestopher H | @LightnessRacesinOrbit Technically it's just pointing out that this question is based on an invalid premise. Unfortunately it's not a valid close or edit reason. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 23:52 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @GorchestopherH: That, right there, is the answer. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 16:26 | comment | added | Joe L. | Technology eventually hits a plateau, when it's developed as much as it can be. After that point everything is just features. It can be seen in internal combustion engines and firearms, both of which have been engineered just about as far as they can without becoming something completely different. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 15:13 | comment | added | Gorchestopher H | @Cherubel You're talking about cheap consumer gadgets and electronics. Spacecraft isn't the same kind of animal as PlayStation games and distributed music. How often do you think actual aerospace conventions change? How old are the GPS satellites you use every day? What about the Hubble Space Telescope's comms? The point is, yes, it's reasonable to expect a space robot to be able to communicate with a spacecraft 80 years newer than it. Just as reasonable as it is to plug your new refrigerator into an 80 year old wall outlet or insert a new light-bulb into an 80 year old lamp. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 15:07 | answer | added | Red_Shadow | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 14:47 | comment | added | Cherubel | @GorchestopherH Well yes I am. A track, Walkman, cd player, vcr. I could go on... and is it really reasonable to have a 80 year old robot be able to interface with technology that is ages and ages ahead. Im not saying that you cant take a technology relic, lock yourself in a dark room and then after a period of time come out with a solution on how to make a viable interface. but just plug and play?? that is a bit of a streach. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 14:38 | comment | added | Gorchestopher H | You're assuming that whatever improvements occurred over an 80 year period would have altered that field of technology significantly enough to render interface impossible. Is it a plot hole that an 80 year old radio still receives radio signals today or that a 25 year old HTML document still renders in a web browser? Some things don't change as much as you'd expect them to. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 14:26 | history | edited | Paul D. Waite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 27, 2015 at 14:16 | comment | added | PointlessSpike | You're assuming that they don't simply have backwards-compatibility for that model of robot but are designed for something completely different. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 14:13 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 27, 2015 at 14:10 | history | edited | Cherubel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 27, 2015 at 14:06 | comment | added | Cherubel | I could swear that the "new" one is a 1 man craft with room for a robot too. @Stan edited my question. ty. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 13:58 | comment | added | Stan | Not quite sure what you're asking. Are you asking how/why was the older robot able to interface with the newer craft ? Or are you asking why the spacecraft wasn't smaller/sleeker and positing the interface mechanism as the reason for that ? | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 13:56 | comment | added | phantom42 | I thought I remembered him taking his own Ranger back out. I didn't honestly pay much attention to the design, though. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 13:15 | history | asked | Cherubel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |