Miller's Planet Time

In Interstellar, Miller's Planet orbits perilously close to the supermassive black hole Gargantua. Sitting that deep in a gravity well bends time itself: as Romilly warns the crew, "every hour we spend on that planet, seven years pass on Earth."

This sketch takes that one line of dialogue literally. The film's U.S. theatrical release was November 7, 2014. Earth has been racking up years ever since — but down on Miller's Planet, with its 1-hour-to-7-years dilation, the clock has barely moved.

The conversion factor is exactly 7 × 365.25 × 24 = 61,362: for every 61,362 seconds that tick by on Earth, a single second passes on Miller's Planet. Watch the two clocks drift apart in real time.