Science in Wall-E Introduction Imagine the Earth with trash piled as tall as skyscrapers, and the only sign of life is what the people left behind. What the people left are Wall-Es to compact trash and to essentially clean up the planet. 700 years later, one Wall-E is left with no company except a cockroach. One day, EVE is sent down to see if the planet is sustainable for life. When Wall-E laid eyes on her, he falls in love with EVE. Wall-E follows her around, shows EVE his collection including a plant he found earlier, and protects her when EVE was unresponsive. Then, the ship reclaimed EVE and Wall-E went after her. They arrived for Axiom where the people of Earth move around in hover chairs, eat their meals through straws, and are so fat …show more content…
Is it possible for the people to become that way? In the movie, the BNL’s President blames their obesity on microgravity. Obesity and microgravity have no direct correlation with each other. While microgravity does cause many changes to the human body such as loss of bone and muscle mass (Canright), it does not explain the people’s obesity because microgravity could cause people to lose weight not gain it. In order for a person to be obese, a person has a lack of physical activity and eat calorie heavy foods (“Causes”). The passengers fit into that criteria when all they eat is heavily processed foods through milkshakes and never get up from their chairs. However, the passengers should not be alive not because of their obesity but of their food supply. The space trip was originally planned to be five years, but it is now extended to 700 years. How could have they gotten food for 700 years when it was originally planned to be five years? The ship is not prepared to hold that much food. The only hint of what the people are eating is when the captain check the regenerative buffet and the computer said unchanged, but that is still vague. The regenerative buffet could be plant based or meat based since humans are omnivores. Plants can be grown on the ship, but the captain did not even know a plant is when he should now what is going on in his vessel. If the people did not resort to cannibalism, then the people should be …show more content…
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