The price of meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin spiked roughly 2% to reach an intraday high of $0.167 after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted a popular cryptocurrency meme inspired by Interstellar, Christopher Nolan’s epic science fiction film.
The meme refers to the instances of extreme gravitational time dilation that were depicted in the hit movie.
After landing on Miller, a water planet orbiting very close to a fictional black hole called Gargantua, Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) tells his crew that seven years on Earth is equal to just one hour there because of strong gravity. A screenshot from the visually-gripping scene featuring Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway) and Doyle (Wes Bentley) became a meme a few years after the premiere of Interstellar, gaining traction on Facebook and Reddit.
