Plot hole: The entire purpose of the clone teams on earth was to service drones. When Jack enters the Tesseract, there are thousands of them lined up in niches in the bulkheads. Further, one would think the alien craft would have the ability to constantly replenish them by the thousands. So there is zero actual need for the clone teams at all. And for that matter, given the drone power cores are powerful explosives, they could just be used to explode on disablement or proximity to kill the humans nearby.
Oblivion (2013)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough
There are drone repair stations set up all over Earth, all manned by exact copies of Jack and Victoria. The Tet orbiting in space is in fact an alien craft that programmed the drones to kill all surviving humans on the planet. The Jack and Victoria clones were made when the aliens abducted the real Jack and Victoria years before invading the planet. Julia was ejected from the shuttle Jack was on moments before the aliens took him.
The Jack in the movie is about is one such clone. Jack, Julia and Beech plan to reprogram a drone to fly a nuke into the Tet, but the drone is destroyed in an attack on the human base, leaving them with no choice but to have Jack fly it up himself. Julia goes with him, but Jack puts her in cryo sleep and drops her off on his secret cabin on Earth and goes up to the Tet with Beech in her place. They detonate the nuke and destroy the Tet, disabling all the drones on Earth. Years later, Julia is at the cabin with her and Jack's daughter and one of the Jack clones arrives at the cabin. (Earlier in the movie, Jack encountered one of his clones who had memories of Julia and knocked him out).
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Jack Harper: 60 years ago, Earth was attacked. We won the war, but they destroyed half the planet. Everyone's been evacuated. Nothing human remains. We're here for drone repair. We're the "mop-up crew."
Trivia: At the start when the UNIVERSAL writing comes around the Earth, the TET can be seen in orbit.
Question: Since the Moon is not gone, just broken into pieces, wouldn't this still provide the same mass, and hence the same gravitational attraction? Hard to see how the tidal effect would destroy the Earth without physically removing the Moon's mass. Makes a nice visual, but seems to fall flat on the science.
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Answer: The gravitational pull of the broken moon is spread out, not concentrated in a single body, and therefore broader but weaker. This would alter the tides. Whether it would do so as depicted I can't tell you.
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