Timeline for Why didn't Mark Watney lose all of his water when the hab exploded?
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| Jun 22, 2020 at 8:34 | history | edited | Mike Harris | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 11, 2018 at 13:18 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | @Renan - Or, you know, quotes. Because we've been using quotes to indicate quoted material for Quite Some Time Now. :-) | |
| May 11, 2018 at 13:07 | comment | added | Arthur | @Renan It sortof happened in the book. He did burn hydrazine, and there was an explosion, but they were two different events. As a result, the "accounting for his own breath" thing made a lot more sense to me in the book than it did in the film. I don't remember the exact details, though. (The way I recall it, he noticed that the hydrogen trap he built didn't burn nearly all the hydrogen, so he stopped the hydrazine experiment, empty the hab of oxygen, then burn the hydrogen little by little by having a tank of oxygen and a flame, but he forgot to take his breathing apparatus into account.) | |
| May 10, 2018 at 18:40 | comment | added | Marvel Boy | @KRyan Thanks. I didn't know that. I'll use italics next time. | |
| May 10, 2018 at 18:39 | comment | added | KRyan | @Renan Please do not misuse code formatting for non-code text, like quotations. Quotation marks, or if you really must, bold or italics, work just fine. The issue is that code markup doesn’t precisely make text monospace with a gray background—really it marks the text as “code” and the formatting you see is just the standard way to visualize that. For alternative browsing technologies, particularly non-visual technologies (e.g. screen readers for the blind), something else has to be done. That something else may inhibit easy understanding (reading letter-by-letter is not unheard of). | |
| May 10, 2018 at 12:20 | history | edited | Mike Harris | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 9, 2018 at 20:56 | comment | added | Marvel Boy |
I can't recall if the same thing happened in the book. It did.
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| May 9, 2018 at 17:53 | history | answered | Mike Harris | CC BY-SA 4.0 |