In Interstellar , if Cooper and his crew landed on the darker side of Miller 's Planet -LRB- the side facing away from Gargantua -RRB- , could they have avoided the giant tidal waves ?
Cooper sends the Endurance into a slingshot trajectory around Gargantua . When emerging , he disengages his shuttle from the Endurance . Without thrust , both would have equal velocity , but the Endurance alone moves out of Gargantua 's gravity . Is this a violation of Newton 's second law ?