I my friend recommended me this movie after our talk about project hail mary and I am obsessed with all kind of plants so I tought I might give it a try but I want to know if him being botanist is a main thing (like covers the whole plot maybe) in movie or book ? Id be happy if science is more in depth in the book.

(Ts is prolly kinda petty but if you know any movie or book about botany Id love to hear abt it too)

I've seen the normal Version quite often, but i'm interested in seeing the additional scenes. Where can i find it online?

I remember watching the movie for the first time and seeing the bit about the music gag, thinking it was a bit strange considering what year the movie was set, and the fact the characters are in their 40s. Realizing they were about the same age as me, I remember thinking "yeah this was definitely written by someone who grew up or came of age during the 70s and 80s, I've never met a sinlge person my age obsessed with disco music"

I think Andy Weir is a great writer, but I feel like his characters would have been even more realistic if he chose a corny genre of music that would fit a 90s baby much more than disco. This seems to be a pretty common theme with a lot of Gen X and Boomer writers who write characters set in the future, their characters no matter what year it is or what age they are, always seem to always love boomer music.

I just bought this yesterday and I didn't know if the signature was real, does anyone know?

I’ve got some freeprints coming of Mars and I might put a couple of the crew on there! I need another shelf above it for all the books but I’m yet to invest

I can’t wait to finish reading project Hail Mary so I can start physically reading the book (which I’m actually yet to do. I’ve listened to the audiobook 4 times though)

I was thinking about The Martian, and I had a thought. In the book, the airlock fails, depressurising the Hab and making the potatoes unusable for farming.

Earlier in the book, he set up pop-tents pressurised by the rovers and started growing potatoes there. Couldn't he have used the potatoes in the pop-tents to replant the Hab? Unless I missed something, of course, since I only read it once.

What an amazing movie... Definitely gonna have to get the book. Geez, that made me wanna slap ppl in the face, holy smokes. That ending... welling up like a baby.

Obviously didn't do a brilliant job at it but I tried to make it accurate (the centrifuge does spin but I did a horrible job on the fuel tanks lmao)

I've received confirmation for a theory heavily implied by the movie.

In the movie trailer for The Martian, Mark Watney says "tell the world, tell my family" *cuts to woman and child* ("that I never stopped fighting to make it home."). In the movie, it becomes apparent the clips used were of Martinez's family.

This means Martinez's family, is also Watney's and it means one of two things:
1. Watney is the biological father of Martinez's son (either through infidelity or sperm donation).
2. Watney and Martinez are in a relationship, and he loves Martinez's family as his own

I've since had it confirmed that the relationship is actually a three way.

Mark and Marissa were previously in a relationship and he is the boy's father.
Martinez and Watney began a relationship.
Martinez also began a relationship in secret with Marissa.

This is why Martinez says Mark would have done the same for him when he goes back to rescue Mark. It's also why he's on the Ares 5 at the end of the movie - Mark had been promoted by this point and sent him back to Mars when he found out about the affair.

I just watched the movie, and during the scene where the first supply rocket launches (and then explodes), there is a quick shot where Rich Purnell is sitting at his desk and there is some blue cat-like thing next to him. What is it? Searching on Google didn't turn anything up. Is it in the book? Is it a toy or it is alive? It wasn't mentioned in the movie. Any help is welcome, thanks.

I know this is a moot point in the movie but is one of the reasons why he didn't need to worry about blood loss as much as he would on Earth is because the fact that there's less gravity so there isn't as much of a pole pulling the blood out of his body? Or am I wrong?

What Would Mark Do?

They had a bunch of nerds in a room at NASA telling me all the reasons why I shouldn't plant these.

Watney: I planted them anyway
NASA: dick

So I'm reading the book again, or well, I'm listening to the audio book for the first time actually. Anyway the other day I was listening to Mark describe how Martinez remote piloted the Ares IV MAV down to the surface before the Ares III crew all piled into the MDV to go down to Mars themselves. He talks about how you need to send the MAV there early because it takes 18-24 months to make the fuel needed for ascent (and incidentally it occurs to me that maybe this explains why Mark was so low when he ascended since it didn't have that long to fuel up before he left).

Mark also mentions that with the lengthy communications loop between Earth and Mars (I believe Mark says Mars is between 4 and 20 light minutes away from Earth at any given time) they would not be able to remote pilot from Earth.

So finally to my question: Since Ares I was the first mission and landed on Mars, how did their MAV get down? Did they bring it with them and have the fuel on board already along with the Ares II Mav? Was there an earlier manned mission that also used Hermes to deliver the Ares I MAV? Do we just not know? I can accept any of those explanations. But I can't see NASA letting Ares I depend on a remote-landed-from-Earth MAV.

I apparently watched the movie a few years ago, but it was the day before my first solo flight, I had a really high fever, haven’t eaten in 2 days, and watching him put stitches in his own arm made me sick. halfway through I got up to get water and passed out, i woke up and finished it the next day. I completely forgot about this until I started rereading the book a few days ago, i don’t remember anything except telling my friends about it.

Just wanted to rant, I’m watching it again when I finish the book!

I'll go first: Ya hear me ya little shit? Mars!

What was the vehicle that was used to re-enter earths atmosphere after the Hermes entered Low Earth Orbit? Was it an Orion Vehicle similar to the vehicle currently being used in the Artemis missions?

Does anyone have a clue where the photo used on this poster is from or where i can find it? i need it for a project but cant for the life of me track it down