Project Hail Mary

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Rabbit_Games said:
It was obviously used up as fuel. Thus, the reason there could be no return trip until Rocky chose to give him more.
Unless I missed something?

As for the other point... I'm saying there are two simultaneous missions. One for sure, the other being other intelligent life showing up there to save their planet [a VERY real possibility]. The argument "WE are the proof of life in the universe" comes to mind. I'm saying they damn sure should have put some thought into it and had a plan.
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I forgot the exact reasoning, but the astrophage aren’t immortal and they don’t have limitless CO2 to allow indefinite replacement

They planned as well as they could for an alien. Mission number 1 is save Earth. Grace seemed to have some linguistics training, which is about as well as you’re going to get. Supplies were already tight, doesn’t make sense to dedicate an entire crew slot to an anthropologist or linguist for something that as far as humans know was a .001% chance of happening. One thing to keep in mind is all the stars except tau ceti were dimmed. That means they were infected 4-15 years ago at minimum. Rocky I think was in Tau Ceti for like 40 years, which means their star was infected a long time ago
 
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It's Andy Weir's "hard sci-fi" material, same as The Martian. It's somehow plausible if you're okay about flawed humans doing hero stuff. Both Sunshine, Interstellar
(lol Matt Damon)
and a load of other scifi flicks showed us how "flawed humans doing horrible stuff" could turn to.
 
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Logically makes sense, I'm just saying there had to be other qualified people. This guy didn't even do any astronaut training or anything. It's a movie plot point where they force the characters to do something stupid to advance the plot. In my world we call that bad writing.
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dude, it's impossible to teach an astronaut how to drill
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Astronaut training is mostly to prepare them for lots of worst case scenarios and to make them adept in lots of things. The movie mentions he had been doing stuff along side the astronauts related to the science, so it’s not like they just plucked a random dude off the street day of launch
 
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Just watched it with the wife, who listened to the audio book a few months ago. She really wanted me to listen to it, but I wasn't all that interested.

I really enjoyed the movie. Sounds like she did too, but she actually said she was disappointed because they left off a lot of the science. Which, for my wife to say, is pretty insane, because any time I start getting into the weeds on anything she zones out.
 
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Supposedly the original runtime of the movie was a lot longer and they presumably went into more of the science - I wonder if they'll release an extended edition at some point
 
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