《星际穿越》中的科学 The Science of Interstellar (2014)【完整台词】

for refusing to drop bombs from the stratosphere...

onto starving people.

When they realized that killing other people was...

not a long-term solution, then they needed us back.

- In secret.
- Why secret?

Because public opinion wouldn't allow spending on space exploration.

Not while you're struggling to put food on the table.

Blight.

Wheat seven years ago. Okra this year.

Now there's just corn.

And we're growing more than we ever have.

But like the potatoes in Ireland and the wheat in the Dust Bowl...

the corn will die.

Soon.

We'll find a way, professor. We always have.

Driven by the unshakable faith the Earth is ours.

Not just ours, no.

But it is our home.

Earth's atmosphere is 80 percent nitrogen.

We don't even breathe nitrogen.

Blight does. And as it thrives, our air gets less and less oxygen.

The last people to starve will be the first to suffocate.

And your daughter's generation...

will be the last to survive on Earth.

Murph is tired. I was wondering if she could take a nap in my office.

Yeah. Thank you.

Okay...

now you need to tell me what your plan is to save the world.

We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it.

Rangers.

The last components of our one versatile ship in orbit, the Endurance.

Our final expedition.

You sent people out there looking for a new home?

The Lazarus missions.

- Oh, that sounds cheerful.
- Lazarus came back from the dead.

Sure, but he had to die in the first place.

There's not a planet in our solar system that could sustain life...

and the nearest star's over a thousand years away.

That doesn't even qualify as futile.

Where'd you send them?

Cooper...

I can't tell you anymore unless you agree...

to pilot this craft.

- You're the best pilot we ever had.
- I barely left the stratosphere.

This team never left the simulator.

We need a pilot, and this is the mission that you were trained for.

Without even knowing it?

An hour ago, you didn't even know I was alive. You were going anyway.

We had no choice.

But something sent you here.

- They chose you.
- Who's "they"?

How long would I be gone?

Hard to know. Years?

I've got kids, professor.

Get out there and save them.

Who's "they"?

We started detecting gravitational anomalies almost 50 years ago.

Mostly small distortions to our instruments in the upper atmosphere.

In fact, I believe you encountered one yourself.

Yeah, over the Straights.

My crash. Something tripped my fly-by-wire.

Exactly.

But of all these anomalies, the most significant is this:

Out near Saturn...

a disturbance of space-time.

- Is that a wormhole?
- It appeared 48 years ago.

And it leads where?

Another galaxy.

A wormhole's not a naturally occurring phenomenon.

Someone placed it there.

- "They"?
- Mm.

And whoever they are, they appear to be looking out for us.

That wormhole lets us travel to other stars.

It came along right as we needed it.

They've put potentially habitable worlds right within our reach.

Twelve, in fact, from our initial probes.

- You sent probes into that?
- Mm-hm.

We sent people into it. Ten years ago.

The Lazarus missions.

Twelve possible worlds...

twelve Ranger launches carrying...

the bravest humans ever to live...

led by the remarkable Dr. Mann.

Each person's landing pod had enough life support for two years.

But they could use hibernation to stretch that...

making observations on organics over a decade or more.

Their mission was to assess their world, and if it showed potential...

then they could send out a signal, bed down for the long nap, wait to be rescued.

And what if the world didn't show promise?

Hence the bravery.

You don't have the resources to visit all 12.

No.

Data transmission back through the wormhole is rudimentary.

Simple binary pings on an annual basis give us

some clue as to which worlds have potential.

And one system shows promise.

One. That's a bit of a long shot, isn't it?

One system with three potential worlds?

No long shot.

Okay.

So if we find a home...

- then what?
- That's the long shot.

There's a Plan A and a Plan B.

Did you notice anything strange about the launch chamber?

This entire facility's a centrifuge.

Some kind of vehicle. A space station?

Both. Plan A.

How do you get it off the ground?

The first gravitational anomalies changed everything.

Suddenly we knew that harnessing gravity was real.

So I started working on a theory and we started building this station.

But you haven't solved it yet.

That's why there's Plan B.

The problem is gravity. How to get a viable amount of human life off the planet.

This is one way.

Plan B: a population bomb.

Over 5,000 fertilized eggs weighing in at just under 900 kilos.

How would you raise them?

With equipment on board, we incubate the first 10.

After that, with surrogacy, the growth becomes exponential.

Within 30 years, we could have a colony of hundreds.

The real difficulty with colonization is genetic diversity.

This takes care of that.

But what about the people here? You just...

give up on them?

My kids?

That's why Plan A is a lot more fun.

- How far have you got?
- Almost there.

You're asking me to hang everything...

on an almost.

I'm asking you to trust me.

Find us a new home.

And by the time you return...

I will have solved the problem of gravity.

I give you my word.

Go away!

Murph.

Go! If you're leaving, just go.

This world was never enough for you, was it, Coop?

What, because heading out there is what I feel like I was born to do?

And it excites me? Heh.

No, that does not make it wrong.

It might.

Don't trust the right thing done for the wrong reason.

The why of the thing, that's the foundation.

And the foundation's solid.

We farmers, we sit here every year when the rains fail and we say:

"Next year."

Well, next year ain't gonna save us, nor the one after that.

This world's a treasure, Donald, but it's been telling us to leave for a while now.

Mankind was born on Earth, it was never meant to die here.

Tom will be all right, but you got to make things right with Murph.

I will.

Without making promises you don't know you can keep.

You have to talk to me, Murph.

I need to fix this before I go.

Then I'll keep it broken so you have to stay.

After you kids came along, your mom said something to me I never quite understood.

She said, "Now...

we're just here to be memories for our kids."

And I think that now I understand what she meant.

Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future.

You said ghosts didn't exist.

That's right, Murph.

Murph, look at me.

I can't be your ghost right now.

I need to exist.

They chose me.

Murph, they chose me. You saw. You're the one who led me to them.

That's exactly why you can't go.

I figured out the message.

- One word. Know what it is?
- Murph.

"Stay."

- It says, "Stay," Dad.
- Murph.

You don't believe me.

Look at the books! Look at this. It says, "Stay."

Why...? You're not listening! It says, "Stay!"

No, I'm coming back.

When?

One for you, one for me.