The hardest part about working with aliens and saving humanity from extinction is constantly having to come up with names for stuff.
Sirius 1 is complete! More accurately, Sirius 1 was aborted after one hour. I guess you could call it a “failure,” but I prefer the term “learning experience.
After I board Ares 4, before talking to NASA, I will take control of a craft in international waters without permission. That makes me a pirate! A space pirate!
At its heart, The Martian is a tale of survival of the geekiest.
It just didn’t occur to me. But it should have. If your lungs grabbed up all the oxygen, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation wouldn’t work. I’m such a dumb-ass for not thinking of it! And my dumb-assery almost got me killed!
Yuri Gagarin had a much more reliable and safe ship than I do. And Soviet ships were death traps.
Will you stop whining about your problems during my murder?!
Only an idiot would keep that thing near the Hab. So anyway, I brought it back to the Hab.
The area around the MAV looks like the set of Sanford and Son. I learned about Sanford and Son from Lewis’s collection. Seriously, that woman needs to see someone about her seventies problem.
It was great! Straight-A student. Hanging around nerdy guys too scared to try anything. No wild side at all. You were every father’s dream daughter.” “Thanks, Dad, I – ” “But then you got on a giant bomb that blasted you to Mars. And I mean that literally.
I experimented with potato skin tea a few weeks ago. The less said about that the better.
Well, that concept is critical to the “Mark Watney doesn’t die” project.
I knew she’d have an ASCII table in there somewhere. All computer geeks do.
Life is amazingly tenacious.
Turns out even NASA can’t improve on duct tape.
They see the water reclaimer as a critical survival element. There’s no backup, and they think I’ll die instantly without it. To them, equipment failure is terrifying. To me, it’s “Tuesday.
Try updating a Linux server sometime,” Jack said.
Maybe that ship is the Praise Allah or the Blessings of Vishnu or something.
We have figured this out, yes,” said Dimitri. “With lasers. It was very illuminating experiment.” “Was that a pun?” “It was!
Then came the digging. Oh God, the digging.