We do not have time to develop a complicated neural network. This is a strictly procedural algorithm. Very complex, but not AI at all. We have to be able to test it in thousands of ways and know exactly how it responds and why. We can’t do that with a neural network.
I’m such a dumb-ass for not thinking of it! And my dumb-assery almost got me killed! I’m really going to have to be more careful.
THEY GATHERED. Everywhere on Earth, they gathered. In Trafalgar Square and Tiananmen Square and Times Square, they watched on giant screens.
I opened and closed my hands a few times. The bandages were off, but both hands were littered with red blisters. I looked like a leper. Or a hooker who gave handjobs exclusively to lepers.
Time for science!
So lab-coated geeks got together and decided Mars’s elevation zero is wherever the air pressure is 610.5 pascals.
The oldest words in a language are usually the shortest.
Like, melting-the-pigeons strong,” Morris supplied. “ – for him to get it,” Chuck finished.
Human waste has pathogens in it that, you guessed it, infect humans.
It wouldn’t be so bad if the MAV blew up. I wouldn’t know what hit me, but if I miss the intercept, I’ll just float around in space until I run out of air. I have a contingency plan for that. I’ll drop the oxygen mixture to zero and breathe pure nitrogen until I suffocate. It wouldn’t feel bad. The lungs don’t have the ability to sense lack of oxygen. I’d just get tired, fall asleep, then die.
Running to the spacecraft, he hugged Landing Strut B.
They lay in silence, strapped to their couches and ready for launch. Beck looked at Watney’s empty couch and saw Vogel doing the same. Martinez ran a self-check on the nose cone OMS thrusters. They were no longer safe for use. He noted the malfunction in his log.
He’s two meters tall and blond as a Hitler wet dream.
The ergonomic abortion was the result of seventeen governments designing a laboratory by committee.
Folks,” he said, “this is going to be the most ‘ghetto’ spacecraft ever built. There.
I suppose I’ll think of something. Or die.
At 13:30 my ruination occurred, though I didn’t realize it at the time.
They smiled and made happy Russian sounds.
I spent three months as the loneliest man in history and it’s finally over.
I’m out of caffeine pills. No more Martian coffee for me.