Just open all the pods
A thousand plus people will figure something out. And you'll have much more company.
shareAND NOBODY SURVIVES THE TRIP.
shareI think at that point the techs would run diagnostics, figure out the ship's broken parts, preventing the potential annihilation. Then they'd turn their attention to the pods themselves and fix 'em. Somebody would almost certainly have an "override command" to put everybody into stasis. You could maybe build a robot to put you all in, for instance.
shareOK...I COULD SEE THAT...
shareI mean, everybody would probably get pretty ticked off at the guy.
He maybe should have searched the manifest for robotics engineers and experts in medical stasis pods or something.
They wouldn't know he did it. Unless there's some sort of surveillance cam. But he could have somehow disabled it.
shareI've got to think that when other engineers on the roster got around to looking at the pods to check for the problem, they would figure it out.
The pods were supposed to be infallible, too, and while Pratt's pod proves that's not true, a whole bank of them going offline en-masse would prompt people to investigate. I think they'd catch him.
It's also unclear if he could "malfunction" open the pods from a distance. He tripped open Jennifer Lawrence's pod, then scooted away, but if he had to manually open and short-circuit every pod, I figure the third or fourth person might notice the guy scuttling around and zapping wires.
You're forgetting that Jim described how they had special equipment to put people into the cryogenic stasis state back at the launch port. The pods were only built to preserve that state once it had been attained, and then to wake people up. There was only one pod that had the additional ability to put someone into stasis, and that was in the medical bay.
shareI did forget that, yeah. Thanks for that bit of clarification. It would probably be harder to odify the other pods to also do that.
shareFor sure. They are almost like cans. Once you open a can, you can't close it again: you need all the equipment at the canning factory to seal them up.
shareNow, if there was one pod that could do it, it's conceivable that they might be able to rig up other pods to do it, too, but that'd be a long shot. You'd need the spare parts, equipment, and possible fueling substances to do (all sci-fi polarity-reversing-type stuff, but still) plus people who could figure it out AND implement it. That's low odds. Well, it seems like low odds. Again: it's all just made-up tech, so they could hand-wave that. However, if they did without a really good explanation, it'd seem very much like a cheap, cop-out ending.
I liked the movie and I liked the way it ended.
Me too.
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