Timeline for The Martian – what happened to all the video log recordings?
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| Dec 31, 2017 at 1:54 | comment | added | Laughing.Thalia | The only Martian expanded universe is kinda useless for answering any question you have but here anyways: blog.whsmith.co.uk/… | |
| Dec 31, 2016 at 10:03 | comment | added | DaG | @MikeJRamsey56, if there are a novel and a film that encourage to suspend disbelief as little as possible, they are exactly these ones. | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 19:36 | vote | accept | Santa | ||
| Dec 15, 2016 at 14:53 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| S Dec 15, 2016 at 13:12 | history | edited | maguirenumber6 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Dec 15, 2016 at 13:12 | history | suggested | Edlothiad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 15, 2016 at 9:56 | answer | added | Edlothiad | timeline score: 22 | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 9:08 | answer | added | Cherubel | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 5:33 | answer | added | Gallifreyan | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 2:39 | comment | added | Andrew Thompson | I think they were more for his own sanity than anything else. Plus if NASA had discovered he had made them & perished there, they might have dedicated a mission to recover his remains and the videos at the same time. If he did not perish there, and remained nominally sane, he could relate the information in person. | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 1:45 | comment | added | John Feltz | Several interviews with Andy Weir indicate that the video diary idea was deliberately chosen as a literary technique, putting the reader more intimately into the story than regular 3rd-person omniscient point of view. As @MikeJRamsey56 says, suspend your disbelief. | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 1:37 | comment | added | MikeJRamsey56 | Suspend your disbelief. :-) There were follow on Aris missions. Perhaps they picked it up. The Science channel film crew would want to visit Mark's hab. | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 1:24 | comment | added | Edlothiad | @Adeptus, unlikely as that would have taken a ridiculous amount of bandwidth, especially since all the data is video and would be a ridiculous amount of data (approximately 500 Sols worth of videos, 350 if he did them 75% of days) | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 1:20 | comment | added | Adeptus | @Politank-Z Also possible that it (automatically?) uploaded to the ship that came to rescue him. | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 0:50 | comment | added | Politank-Z | Using near-future storage and compression, it seems likely that he could have carried the records on a microSD card or an even lighter successor format. | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 0:37 | comment | added | void_ptr | We don't know... | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 0:05 | comment | added | Buzz | Is there an expanded universe for The Martian that can possibly address this question? | |
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| Dec 15, 2016 at 0:00 | history | asked | Santa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |