Baresark said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you cannot see a black hole at all since no light escapes from them. You would literally need to know where stars should be compared to where they are in order to figure out the location. There would be a noticeable parallax from light bending but not being absorbed by the black hole, from distant stars. Though, as I understand, some forms of radiation escape a black hole, so you could detect them with the right instruments. But you could never see one with the naked eye.
Well, the point is, you're not actually seeing the black hole.
You're seeing light from behind/around it. Any light that paths straight into the black hole from the source to your eyes is consumed.
However, light that is near the edges of the event horizon is curved, but not drawn in. Thus, you get a refractive lens effect. Similar to if you look at concave/convex glass lenses and look at the edges compared to the center.
So you don't ever "see" the black hole simply because no light comes from it. However, if you were close to the event horizon enough to visually look at it, you would be able to tell(if there was enough light sources to see the effect) that space was distorted.
As for the trailer, what killed it for me was right at the beginning.
Where he comments he's an engineer, and the military space general man makes the jab that 'We don't need more engineers, we already have enough TVs, we need food'
....what do you think engineers....do?
Engineers are given a problem and told to figure out how to solve it. Solving a food shortage would probably be something you could give to engineers.
That, and why is this guy the guy that goes on this interstellar trip? If he's some random engineer/scientist/resident smart guy, why plop him on your random expedition to the stars? Did he draw the short straw at work that day?