Neil deGrasse Tyson appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in the US to explain one big problem with Ridley Scott’s premise.
The movie revolves around a group travelling to a new, previously unknown area.
“There is no sensible space mission that is going to send humans to a planet before we send robots,” Neil pointed out.
“Because if anything’s going to do some killing, they’ll kill the robots first and not the people.
“That’ll tell us, ‘let’s try a different planet!’ So I don’t know what they’re doing there.”
Other than that, though, it seems Covenant’s set-up is reasonably legit.
Neil went on: “They’re sending people who are going to make babies and start a new civilisation – that’s cool.
“Genetic research shows only about 12 families started all human life in North and South America, so it’s not hard to imagine just a few fertile couples beginning an entire new generation.
“But these are the movies – and every time a movie takes place in space, the plot is they go to space and something bad happens.”
