What was wrong with the Avalon in Passengers?

In the course of the asteroid’s journey through the Avalon, it damaged Jim’s pod, and several other systems. Some of the ship’s systems could be automatically repaired by the ship, except for the computer which controlled the engine.

What was wrong with the ship in Passengers?

After only 30 years, an asteroid collision damages the ship (although theoretically it is damage-proof), resulting in a malfunction that awakens mechanical engineer James “Jim” Preston, 90 years too early.

How fast was the Avalon going in Passengers?

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Rather than speeding through wormholes — theoretical tunnels that provide shortcuts through space and time — to hop from planet to planet like the astronauts do in the 2014 film “Interstellar,” the sleeping astronauts aboard the spaceship Avalon in “Passengers” are traveling at one-half the speed of light.

What year is the movie Passengers set in?

So let’s say that the main body of Passengers takes place in the year 3000, just to give us some round numbers to work with. Let’s also assume Jim and Aurora are 30, just to make the math easier. On January 1, 3001, Aurora goes to sleep and they begin the first plan. One year asleep, one year together, one year alone.

How many passengers does the Avalon have?

The film begins on board the Starship Avalon, which is carrying more than 5,000 passengers to a distant, habitable planet known as Homestead II.

How does the starship Avalon Travel?

These space colonists had to be put in hibernation in order to survive the journey, with the Avalon traveling via an intelligent autopilot, at half the speed of light. The starship Avalon certainly doesn’t look like any ship that we have at present. Okay, it looks like an uber futuristic version of the ISS.

Is the starship Avalon similar to Icarus Interstellar?

Looking at previews for the movie, Tziolas said he thinks the Starship Avalon is similar to the concept that Icarus Interstellar has proposed for an interstellar spaceship. Called Project Hyperion, this craft also has cruise ship-like amenities, room for 5,000 passengers and a spinning design for artificial gravity.

How does the Avalon generate gravity?

Another aspect to consider is generating gravity aboard the ship, and Landis thinks that the Avalon uses its spin to generate gravity artificially. The film shows pods and pods of people in a prolonged state of hibernation—as long as 120 years—to survive their space exodus.

Was the Avalon built in space?

The Avalon is huge. So, most probably, it wasn’t built on Earth but rather in space. NASA physicist and science fiction author Geoffrey Landis thinks that it would have been built mostly in space, relying on space mining. Actual space mining is not so far off in the future, it would seem, but we are slowly getting there.