The Tet Caught Tom Cruise Lying. So Why Did It Let Him In?

The Tet broke the Moon and can manufacture an army of Jack Harpers. So why does it still need a human with a toolbox and a stick of gum? Another day in the yard!!!! We inspect the repair, the apartment, the worker and the final security failure in Oblivion (2013). Apollo 13, robot dexterity, patient H.M., Dolly the sheep, fusion fuel and zero-trust security help separate the useful science from the movie’s fictional machinery. Full spoilers for Oblivion. CHAPTERS 00:00 The impossible employee 01:36 A repair, not a miracle 03:43 Different kinds of intelligence 05:56 The apartment is a machine 08:10 Skills, memories and clones 10:22 What the ocean harvesters need 12:39 Identity is not intent 14:50 The Tet sees the warning 17:25 Flexibility or control? Narrated by: Me :) SOURCES AND IMAGE CREDITS Oblivion (2013), dir. Joseph Kosinski (Universal Pictures), with Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough and Morgan Freeman. Every film line quoted is from the film itself. McGill / The Neuro — Brenda Milner: Neuropsychology (archival footage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhfNtyL_Cj0 The New York Times / Retro Report — Dolly the sheep (archival footage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tELZEPcgKkE Princeton University / PPPL — What is fusion? (footage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNve35UnkHs Joseph Kosinski on Oblivion’s unanswered questions https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Oblivion-Spoilers-Director-Joseph-Kosinski-Answers-Your-Burning-Questions-37271.html NASA — Apollo 13 mission details https://www.nasa.gov/missions/apollo/apollo-13-mission-details/ NASA — Putting a Square Peg in a Round Hole https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/putting-square-peg-round-hole/ DARPA — Robots elicit cheers at the 2015 finals https://www.darpa.mil/news/2015/robots-elicit-cheer Squire — The Legacy of Patient H.M. for Neuroscience https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2649674/ NHGRI — Cloning Fact Sheet https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Cloning-Fact-Sheet The Roslin Institute — The Life of Dolly https://vet.ed.ac.uk/roslin/about/history/dolly/facts/life-of-dolly U.S. Department of Energy — Deuterium-Tritium Fusion Fuel https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsdeuterium-tritium-fusion-fuel NASA — Cassini image of Enceladus south-polar plumes https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/bursting-at-the-seams-the-geyser-basin-of-enceladus/ NASA — Ocean Worlds https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/ocean-worlds/ NASA/JPL — RoboSimian at the 2015 finals (footage) https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/robotics-at-jpl/robosimian/ NASA/JPL — Global ocean on Enceladus (artist’s rendering) https://science.nasa.gov/resource/global-ocean-on-enceladus-artists-rendering/ NASA — Apollo 13 archival photographs https://www.nasa.gov/history/houston-weve-had-a-problem/ McGill — Brenda Milner and Henry Molaison photographs https://www.mcgill.ca/neuro/fr/propos/brenda-milner NASA/JPL — RoboSimian, December 2013 trials https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/jpls-robosimian/ ABB Robotics — IRB 120 camera assembly demonstration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goNOPztC_qE U.S. Department of Energy — Plasma Confinement https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsplasma-confinement NIST SP 800-207 — Zero Trust Architecture https://www.nist.gov/publications/zero-trust-architecture NASA — Apollo 13: Houston, We've Got a Problem (1970 film; NASA STI Program upload) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKgaKD3uNog NASA/JPL, McGill, DOE, ABB, Princeton/PPPL, The New York Times/Retro Report and Roslin Institute materials are credited on screen. The mirror-tracing and fusion animations are conceptual illustrations, not patient data or a reactor design. The security comparison is an interpretation of the film’s depicted decisions. #Oblivion #ScienceFiction #ShipYard