WALL E question

[Zixinus]

Of course the fact remains that they did survive and thrive thanks to movie logic

And because they had robots to do quite a bit of the heavy lifting (thus reducing the problem of weak humans) and there is still access to all of the resources of the Axiom.

[Simon_Jester]

Realistically speaking, Auto is correct about the habitability of Earth.
One plant does not equal habitability, and while the atmosphere is no longer toxic the ground remains largely covered in trash and contaminated, while huge dust storms constantly batter the old decayed cities.
Meanwhile the humans on the Axiom who can barely stand up and have brittle skeletons surrounded by a huge layer of fat would never survive in normal Earth gravity (I assume that the Axiom maintained gravity equivalent to, say, Mars).

Of course the fact remains that they did survive and thrive thanks to movie logic but accourding to our logic Auto was right

At the very least, they could stay on board the Axiom, only venturing onto the surface for short periods of time, while the robots started the reterraforming process rolling.

Do we have any specific reasons to assume lowered levels of gravity on the Axiom? Clearly artificial gravity is involved (with an adjustable angle to the deck, weirdly enough...), but the Axiom passengers aren't more obese than a substantial number of real people who manage to be at least marginally functional in Earth-normal gravity.

[Starglider]

Do we have any specific reasons to assume lowered levels of gravity on the Axiom? Clearly artificial gravity is involved (with an adjustable angle to the deck, weirdly enough...), but the Axiom passengers aren't more obese than a substantial number of real people who manage to be at least marginally functional in Earth-normal gravity.

Gah. As I said earlier, we know that the gravity on the Axiom is 1g, because dropped and thrown objects follow the same parabolas that they do on earth. Lower gravity would have been very noticeable in the action scenes.

[Simon_Jester]

Yes, that was more or less what I was thinking. But I'm averse to making active assertions about that sort of thing when I haven't gone over clips from the movie frame by frame with a ruler to make sure I've got it right.

[Mayabird]

It is quite clear that Eva is highest possible point of technology that BnL could create.

They can also make pretty damn fast FTL drives; the Axiom got back to Earth in seconds. Unless it uses some super-exotic and expensive fuel that was exhausted after that one trip (unlikely, given that nothing else seems to need fuel), galactic colonisation should've been easy.

How do we know they didn't? We never do see any other ships.

It's not hard to shut an Auto off and besides, whatever happened to the CEO of BnL? He and his cronies were getting an evac and they knew they couldn't go back. And the ships apparently carry everything they need for terraforming anyway, and DNA of all the species needed for a proper ecosystem, since the credits show birds and fish and everything else that would've been long extinct on Earth. It's been several hundreds years as well. Plenty of time for colonization all over (probably with varying levels of success) while the Axiom was left floating in the void.

[lord Martiya]

Do we have any specific reasons to assume lowered levels of gravity on the Axiom?

The fact that the BnL CEO declared it in the advertising for the Axiom and the others evac ships?