Eighteen hours in the pod and....

I think maybe most of the time on the beach unconscious

But the 2nd to last scene in the movie had Mrs. Constantine telling Kitz that although
Ellie's recording device only recorded static, it recorded 18 hours of it. So, it can't be mind link only, since her body (and the device) were out for 18 hours.

No. She lost 18 hours according to the static recording. That's not imagination or mind link. She traveled through a worm hole. Otherwise it did not need to be dramatic.

Are you serious?
It's one of the easiest things to understand about the whole movie! There are also the evidence: 18 hours of static registration.
If it's hard for you to understand this (no offense), try to read the book (or at least the last part) where everything is clear and loud with several proofs. I don't want to spoiler anything but the book is AMAZING. And the final message (another gigantic undeniable proof of the intergalactic trip) is mindblowing.
The trip was real, period.

WRONG! Read the book.

So she's superman now?

How odd and presumptuous thing for you to say and actually beLIEve.

And you could know that because people go through wormholes every day? 😁

I could have replied to any other post in this thread, or even to the thread directly, but for no reason at all I pressed "Reply" here. Anyway, this isn't a reply to this one post but to the entire thread.

Until a few months ago, I used to "defecate" only one or two times a week. That's how my body worked, and that's how it works for many other people. After that I started drinking coffee two or three times a day, which completely changed that, because (and I don't understand why) coffee makes me go to the bathroom 30 to 60 minutes after drinking it. Every single time. However, I must say - from my own experience - I understand she would not need to defecate in just 18 hours, mainly because she didn't eat anything during that time and COULD be clean before getting into the pod. And even if she needed, she probably could hold it.

Now, about peeing, it's a different story. She didn't drink anything during those 18 hours, which helps, but it's still hard. Well, sometimes I sleep for over 12 hours, but when I wake up I feel an urgent need to go to the bathroom (plus a headache >.<), and it's hard to hold. She spent most of the time unconscious, which could explain how she did that though. Also - and I know a few other people would identify with this - sometimes I spend the entire day playing online. I completely forget about eating, drinking and even going to the bathroom. I wake up 6 am, log in into the game, and when I notice it's already midnight and I'm still playing nonstop. I'm a Computer Science student living a very unhealthy life, and because of that I've seen very weird behavior from my body. I don't even bother anymore, and that's probably why the fact she didn't need to pee for 18 hours didn't even seem "weird" to me when I watched the movie.

I've never been inside a pod traveling across a wormhole, and I've never been to other galaxies. I have no idea how my body would react to the experience, or how anybody else's body should react to it. But under my usual "routine", I can easily pass over 24 hours without going to the bathroom, as long as I don't drink or eat anything and keep my brain busy with games or some programming challenges.

I believe that's what I said..... Earth's perspective for a few seconds (nanoseconds?), her perspective about 18 hours, hence the need for nature calls.