Eighteen hours in the pod and....
She never needed to piss or defecate? Was she wearing diapers? If so, wouldn't the amount of urine or feces indicate a prolonged journey? If no diapers, was there a toilet in the pod?
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The movie doesn't go into that detail because it isn't important to the narrative. That said, life supporting systems were built into the machine in the book, she (and in the book, the whole team) were expected to be gone a lot longer than 18 hours and thus the need to eat and *beep* were not overlooked.
share1 -- You are not your body ... may be the experience wasn't physical
2 -- Did you ask what Action heros ate or how much they slept or how they defecated in an action movie? Do you really want to see ironman or batman eating a sandwich or taking a monster dump?? It is presumed they would and it is nothing we want to see them doing unless that ties into the screenplay of the film.
Correct, we do not wish to see that. My original post concerned her 18 hours in the pod, and the movie saying there is no proof she was there for 18 hours. My original post said that the proof would be the amount of urine/fecal matter generated by her. The movie skipped this obvious answer. That is my point.
shareIt helps to pay attention to dialogue when you watch a movie. It's revealed by the end that her camera recorded about 18 hours of static while in the pod, proving the experience was in fact physical.
shareYes, to the two people in that teleconference, but not to the population in general. At her review board (where it looked like a trial), all present said there was no proof that she was gone (by her estimation) for about 18 hours. And back to my original post: the amount of urine/feces would be the proof.
shareThe aliens designed the pod so you don't have to take a bowel movement. Solved.
shareWell, if the world in this movie had the same history as our's, I'd say she WAS wearing diapers and some kind of catheter-like urine collection device. Read this humorous article:
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/when-you-gotta-go-you-gotta-go-even-in-space
Otherwise, if I were Ellie, I'd have made sure to not eat and/or evacuate my bowels/bladder as much as possible before the mission. I mean, it's one thing to travel in normal space using conventional means but the Machine was something very unconventional and who knew exactly what would happen when it was turned on? I wouldn't want to have an embarrassing accident ESPECIALLY considering the significance of what taking a trip with the Machine meant to the world at large. ;D
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Actually when I'm going on a long distance flight I purposefully don't eat the day before and make sure I've fully evacuated my number 2's before I set off. This way (unless you've eaten meat which takes longer to break down) you don't need to go while on board
Doing this I had no problems on my flight to Hong Kong from London via Zurich. She could have just consumed high protein pills for a few days before the trip.
retarded question. person can hold their *beep* and piss for as long as they have to. provided *beep* isnt diarrhea.. if not then 18 hours is nothing.
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She went back and forth through a wormhole which took her out and put her back in at the same moment in time. It's like when Doc put Einstein in the Delorean and he went away for 30 secs, and came back. Doc and Marty saw Einstein leave for a spell, but Einstein never saw anything. It was like one continuous car ride for him.
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