I am reading a screenplay of movie Interstellar. At the beginning of the movie the actor is shown trying to control his buffeting aircraft. He is given the following instructions from the control room:
Crossing the Straights ... shutting
it down, Cooper. Shutting it all
down ...
What does "Crossing the straights" mean in above sentence?
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Best Answer
Though I have never heard the specific phrasing "crossing the straits", perhaps it is referring the following definition:
If this is accurate, perhaps the phrase would mean, "crossing" the threshold into a level of serious distress. Hence the command stops the tests by powering down the aircraft, rather than allowing the test to continue.
Alternately, if it may be referencing a specific geographic location being used as a landmark in the test. However, I don't believe there is any way to corroborate that, since there is neither visual indication in the movie shot, nor any reference to it elsewhere in the film.