# Passengers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passengers/775508>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 24, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passengers/775508 "2016-12-24T03:12:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passengers/775508/121 "2017-06-15T09:15:44Z")

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> [@outlierrn](#):
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> He tells her you need special equipment to place someone in hibernation, he says ‘remember the facility where they put us under, all the procedures we went through?’
> 
> Later, when she wants to go through the cargo manifest he says we’re not gonna find a whole hibernation facility-in-a-box.
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> Then, with a command bracelet they find that the med pod which is smaller than the sleep pods, and has a host of other functions has a sub-routine that’s just as good.
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> Well, that’s convenient. You guys say it didn’t pull you out of the movie a little bit, well and good, but it did me.

so in fact you make the assumption indeed that you claim not to make, that somehow the medical pod (room) is equivalent of the hibernation pod.

It did not, to utilize this arch hip phrase too often used here, ‘pull me out of the movie’ since there is no reason for it to do so unless one imposes extra assumptions. There is no reason to think a cargo manifest will tell him the confidential capacity profiles of the medical pod / room.

There is no reason in the movie to assume that medical pod standing alone is the unit and not the entire medical room is the unit. In the movie it has already shown the capacity for medical resuscitation which is in keeping with the concept.

Within the movie context the idea of a ship surgeon medical pod/room having an extra capacity does not seem in any way unusual or a leap within the movie.

It is not a plot hole at all.

It is a point someone searching for points to dislike can dislike but it can not reasonably said to be a “plot hole.”

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**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passengers/775508/122 "2017-06-15T13:23:30Z")

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I don’t know why people are giving you such grief **GuanoLad**. I understood what you were talking about. You could have put “She didn’t even care about being on Mars (or whatever the name of the place is, it’s not important for my point). She was going to hang around for a year then go back to earth again. Her missing out is not really that big a deal, she still lived to old age, even if it was a lonely journey”

I guess people would rather nitpick an insignificant word in your post, instead of trying to understand what you are saying.

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passengers/775508/123 "2017-06-15T17:20:51Z")

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No, I’m saying that the med pod doesn’t equal the dirt side facility  
And  
Lighten up, Francis.

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