– Perfect. Dr. Barbe, let Earth know that we've arrived safely, that it's nice here, and all that. Kisses.
– Impossible, Cooper. . We can still receive messages, but we can't send them anymore.
– Really? But then how did the people who left before warn us that they had indeed gone through the wormhole and found viable planets?
– SORRY COOPER I'M GOING THROUGH A BLACK HOLE I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
– You're right in front of me, Dr. Barbe.
– Cooper, leave him alone, you're annoying him with your questions. We have more important things to do: decide which planet to explore first. For the record, the explorers left 10 years ago, so they're dormant now. But industry email list we're receiving signals from their beacons: Dr. Miller's and Dr. Mann's. Dr. Bob's, on the other hand, stopped transmitting three years ago, but until the end, he sent information about the exploration of his planet. So, where do we go first?
– The closest one.
– It's Dr. Miller's, which is right next to Gargantua. But there's going to be a problem, because it's so close to the black hole that time is all distorted there. One hour spent on this planet or its orbit is equivalent to seven years on Earth!
– Seven years? But?! Earth needs a solution right now, guys! We need to find a planet for it quickly, not when everyone's already dead! Let's go see the other two planets instead.
– Cooper, if we do this and the other two planets aren't good, we'll burn a lot of fuel for nothing.
– Hmmm… so… what if we use our thrusters to put ourselves into a mock orbit around Dr. Miller's planet? Right at the edge of his rotten orbit, where time still passes normally. We lower the balloons full speed, retrieve Dr. Miller and his information, and come back up before too much time has passed.
– That's not stupid. Fine, I'll stay here and study the black hole with CAGE. Cooper, you go down with Dr. Brand, Dr. Barbe, and TARS.
– Okay, here we go!
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And so the shuttle heads towards the surface of Dr. Miller's planet... which turns out to be covered in water! Damn! But intercepting the beacon's signal, our heroes arrive at a place where there is actually absolutely nothing. They land anyway, because in fact, the planet is covered in water, but only 20 centimeters. Oh really? Is this the planet Little Basin? Well. Why not, eh. The small crew hurries to get out, except for Cooper who stays in the shuttle, and TARS guides them: " The beacon is partially submerged at 200 meters ." Cooper says that it's not worth losing months, or even Earth years for this and that they have to take off again, but Dr. Brand dashes off, yelling " Yes, I see the beacon! Over there, towards the mountains! " and she flounders heavily all the way there, because what's more, the planet has a gravity 130% of ours.
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