Out of Pod Experience

Watched interstellar yesterday... Was a bit underwhelmed, but the Robot s were cool.

Also, didn't understand why they never noticed 300 metres high mega waves on the first planet they approached before they went down to the surface.

Same here. It was the only way I could even offer insight in the conversation, I don't make a habit of arguing with people who have worked in Los Alamos in their own field. I bought the tesseract explanation, I've though of time as a physical dimension before, but she quickly dismantled it and pointed out that time was still passing on the inside of a black hole, and chuckled at the gravity waves. We didn't spend a lot of time talking the science but it was clear she was impressed by the majority of it. Kip Thorne, Niel Degrasse Tyson and the friend in question all gave it a thumbs up, what can I say.

Now, I'm not sure what part you're referring to. I was talking about when they park in an artificial orbit above the first planet. A wider, circular orbit outside its sphere of influence but keeping pace with it. Impossible unless you keep your thrusters running and continually correct your course, which is absurdly wasteful and something they mention and weigh the costs of. What they don't mention is how it wasn't a catastrophic problem they left it in orbit 21 years too long.

Now I'm beginning to suspect you're taking issue with the point when they use Gargantua to slingshot. Their orbit was, by the nature of what they were doing, definitely not circular at that point, so intuition isn't going to be accurate. They fired their thrusters and dropped a good chunk of weight at their intended periapsis, in order to gain as much speed as was possible before they fell in. Cooper continued along the ship's original course, and the ship edged past. Yes, their window would have been tiny, but they had a demonstrably capable computer on board that was explicitly helping him during the scene. All you can fault them for is stretching the scene out for dramatic effect, just like they condense the hours on the water planet so we don't have to watch water drain slowly while they shoot the ****.

I would say that the best thing about the film would b the visuals and soundtrack, it also asks some pretty deep questions. Yes the science behind it is stretched. I would say it will win 2 oscars for its sound and visuals. The scripting was decent if not spectacular but the premise behind the scripting was pretty awesome.

They weren't orbiting the black hole, they were falling into it. That's what the thruster burn after they controlled the spinning did. So they dumped mass and burned when their velocity was extremely high but they still had a window. They slingshotted, they did not alter an orbit.