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You’ll be glad you know ed on that day when you’re stuck with nothing but a thin-client teletype terminal on Mars and having to edit a file stored on Earth 24 light-minutes away.
I call Andy Weir’s stuff Back-of-The-Envelope-Calculation-fic and Chipperfic, because both his The Martian and Project Hail Mary have a ton of back of the envelope calculations and a chipper protagonist. _
You’ll be glad you know
edon that day when you’re stuck with nothing but a thin-client teletype terminal on Mars and having to edit a file stored on Earth 24 light-minutes away.Something like that happened in the book “The Martian” by Andy Weir. I loved that part!
I call Andy Weir’s stuff Back-of-The-Envelope-Calculation-fic and Chipperfic, because both his The Martian and Project Hail Mary have a ton of back of the envelope calculations and a chipper protagonist. _
Project Hail Mary needs way more attention!
I’m sure it will get more attention when the movie comes out
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12042730/
I am both excited and dreading this. There are some things I just don’t know how they can translate into a film.
I got really excited about hexagons
I’m not even sure that’s the strangest thing! I’m definitely looking forward to the movie. I just hope they do it justice.