Apologies if this has already been discussed. I didn’t see it anywhere.
I loved Wall-E, but I have a couple questions about it.
Where does the Axiom get its supplies of fresh air, water, nutrients, etc.? (I’m assuming as far as electricity it’s solar powered.) Did they take along 700 years worth of supplies, even though they didn’t know they would be up there that long? Is there some sort of technology that provides it? Do they periodically suck it off of other planets?
Also, if nobody has a job, where do they get money from? Or are they just on some sort of eternal credit plan (I can just see Wall-E 2: Revenge of the Creditors).
I’m sure Pixar has thought of these things, I just don’t have the answers yet .
The ‘fresh’ air, water, and food is all recycled, I can’t exactly remember how it was mentioned in the movie, so if anyone remembers please help me out. I’m pretty sure they use solar power as you said, as demonstrated by WALL-E. The humans use Vari-Credits to buy things, I’m guessing they were used as a sort of credit card, and the humans are probably in HUGE debt!
I can see food (Maybe that’s why it’s cup based now though. Ew), water, and air being recycled, but Since they blow their trash out the airlock does that mean they run on fewer and fewer robots each year since there’s no material (or maybe even ability) to create new ones?
Who says the probes that hop between Earth and space don’t pick up extra materials on the way? Or maybe there are separate probes for that. As for air, there is technology that allows BnL to have a constant supply; maybe plants? I’m writing my first Pixar fanfic (WALL•E, of course) to explain all this.
Maybe their chemistry is amazingly advanced and they can create matter. Hey, it could happen!
One thing I’ve always wondered is whether or not there are any disabled people (i.e. blind or deaf) or people with serious illnesses such as cancer on board, because if you assume that through evolution and being in the ‘perfect’ environment, these things had been eradicated, then surely everyone would look the same too? Also, I honestly can’t remember if there are any people on board of ethnic origins. Once again, I assume there wouldn’t be, because of a sort of in-breeding type thing where everyone ends up virtually the same. What about the problems of in-breeding? There really aren’t that many people on the Axiom, at least not really enough to guarantee that they wouldn’t sort of all be related in some way or another. Or perhaps their technology ensures that if there is in-breeding, there are none of the side effects that this can cause.
Okay, went off on a bit of a tangent there…But back to the original question, Fett101 makes a very good point- year after year, the general overall mass of the ship and its materials must be decreasing, unless they have some way of producing more material on the ship, or collecting it from Earth itself. I believe the latter is a real possibility; after all, they’re easily able to send down probes to check out what sort of condition Earth is in, so would it be so much trouble to bring back some of the abandoned materials in order to create new robots and other technology? M-O would have lots of fun decontaminating all of that stuff.
It is impossible to create mattar, but it is plausible that matter can e x p a n d, which could act like more matter. There’s gotta be a lab somewhere on the AXIOM.
The AXIOM is a non-smoking environment. Also, even if evolution was real, it would take much, much, much longer than 700 years, and couldn’t happen in space.
Yes, there was a dark-skinned person talking to a white-skinned person.
A113- Good points there. I guess I used the word ‘evolve’ too loosely, because it definitely seems that everyone is ‘perfect’ and free from abnormalities, (aside from not being able to walk due to being rather large). Even in scenes where we see a lot of the people on board of the Axiom, we don’t see anyone who is markedly different, as such. I’m guessing the technology of those days is so advanced so as to be able to cure such disabilities as deafness or blindness, and other possible disabilities that might occur randomly, as can happen. There’s a ward for ‘sick’ robots, so there might also be a ward for humans in the same way, but there seems to be a distinct lack of both physical and psychological problems for the humans on board.
Then again, perhaps that’s the point- that the robots are more human than the humans themselves.
Either they do it the old-fashioned way , or BnL takes their sperm and other sutff and reproduces them without introducing them to their parents, which i think is the case.
I’d guess they get water by extreme purification of anything, and extracting all the water they can get out of it. As for food, i’m guessing they do the same.
I saw a couple of African origin people, and evolution takes longer than 700 years, because there a re no predators, therefore natural selection deosn’t matter as much and we habve no need to evolve. say we were put on a desolate planet with human eating monsters, the people who can run fastest/have longer legs will survive and so only the people with long legs with reproduce and long legged babies will be born and then natural selection has taken place.
Watching again today, in the scene [spoil]on the People Mover, one of the signs says “Buy Today, Later”, so I guess it is all on credit. Thank god BNL’s computers are probably all scrap on earth now so there’s no way for them to tell who owes what.[/spoil]
This is another of those questions where I think stanton et al. are relying rather heavily on info that the generation of Star Trek fandom (my generation! Yay!) would know: Replicators on the Enterprise were established pretty early on in the fandom to be able to create organic compounds out of CHON (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen), so theoretically, human waste could be recycled to make, say, fish, or tiramisu. Of course, they had to throw the trash-disposal scene in there, which bollixes up that idea… Really, it wasn’t reaslistic to have that scene in there. Of course, it was a very wasteful, consumer culture, and I understand wanting to put that in, and even the BnL bigwigs not grasping the necessity of not wasting, but surely by the time Earth became unlivable, they would have known it was essential to recycle in space. Perhaps not thought through enough?
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Hey, it could happen!
