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That's an Interstellar idea

If you ever met me in person you would note that I am a quite guy.  I don't talk much but when I do it is usually with purpose.  But if you could hear my thoughts you would also note I never shut up.  I am always talking in my head and thinking of things.

Today I got to thinking about the movie Interstellar.  Beside the last 15 minutes it was a really good movie.  But lets talk about that planet they went to, the one that some how safely orbits a black hole just outside the event horizon.

Besides that, once an hour, wave what was wrong with that planet that we couldn't habitat there.  Even that wave, we can build a fix for that I am pretty sure.

1. They landed on something and were walking around on something.  That water was only knee deep.  You can totally shore up some dry land by digging down in some other areas.

2. We know how to disapate wave energy, we already do it.  A water wave on that scale isn't something we have ever dealt with but the theory would be the same.

A little engineering know-how and some big machinery and the problem would be solved.  But that is how I think, this was a problem and what might be done to fix it.

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