It’s the same one I used to power the drill that destroyed Pathfinder. I call it my “lucky cable.
How long will the patch take?” Venkat asked. “Should be pretty much instant,” Jack answered. “Watney entered the hack earlier today, and we confirmed it worked. We updated Pathfinder’s OS without any problems. We sent the rover patch, which Pathfinder rebroadcast. Once Watney executes the patch and reboots the rover, we should get a connection.” “Jesus, what a complicated process,” Venkat said. “Try updating a Linux server sometime,” Jack said.
Time to get to know my fellow patients. I don’t know who I am or why I’m here, but at least I’m not alone – aaaand they’re dead.
I didn’t want to spend any more time inside the mind of an economist. It was dark and disturbing.
I got bounced around a lot, but I’m a well-honed machine in times of crisis. As soon as the rover toppled, I curled into a ball and cowered. That’s the kind of action hero I am.
Well, okay. I know the answer to that. Part of it might be what I represent: progress, science, and the interplanetary future we’ve dreamed of for centuries. But really, they did it because every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out. It might not seem that way sometimes, but it’s true.
Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.
You started my training by buying me a beer. For breakfast. Germans are awesome.
Here’s a woman who had survived the centrifuge, the vomit comet, hard-landing drills and 10k runs. A woman who fixed a simulated MDV computer failure while being spun around upside-down. But she was afraid of a tattoo needle.
Back on Earth, universities and governments are willing to pay millions to get their hands on Mars rocks. I’m using them as ballast.
Quality is quality,” Jin said. “Age is irrelevant. No one bitches about Shakespeare fans.
My cart is a pain in the ass to control, but it’s good at carrying heavy things. So I decided it was male. I named him Trigger.
It’s awesome to have a bunch of dipshits on Earth telling me, a botanist, how to grow plants.
Half-ration for dinner. All I accomplished today was thinking up a plan that’ll kill me, and that doesn’t take much energy.
There’s nothing better than knowing you’re going to outwit the reader.
I’ll need to trick out a rover. Basically it’ll have to be a mobile Hab. I’ll pick Rover 2 as my target. We have a certain bond, after I spent two days in it during the Great Hydrogen Scare of Sol 37.
And like all good plans, it required a crazy Ukrainian guy.
There was something weird about being on the moon and fighting for your life with a stick and some fire.
No. You no can die. You are friend.
But no idiot-proofing can overcome a determined idiot.