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Passengers the Movie : Space Journey to Another Planet

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On Christmas day, I watched a movie that I really like. The movie was titled Passengers. It was a drama science fiction movie about a journey of a spacecraft called Avalon to an Earth-like planet named Homestead 2. Since the trip took 120 years, all the 5000 people aboard must be put into cryonic sleep. The sleeping pod would awaken automatically just before they arrived in destination planet. The idea is mind blowing and I wouldn’t mind to be involved in such a quest. But at thirty years, a giant asteroid crashed and destroyed the spaceship’s bow shock. Most of the equipment has been auto repaired but one cryonics capsule is still malfunctioned and the person inside awoke. At first he was confused because nobody else was awake. A robot introduced him everywhere. Then he went into the planetarium. He asked the computer: “where is homestead 2?” the computer replied:  “90 light years away” it was then he realized that he woke up too early! He lived alone for 1 year a...