Timeline for Why did the soil go infertile after the hab depressurised?
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| Jan 18, 2022 at 21:29 | comment | added | Moo | Even with the revelation later on about some of the bacteria surviving, theres no guarantee that there was enough to sustain a viable growing environment and he had no time to re-grow the bacteria like he did before (by doubling) without starving. | |
| Jan 9, 2022 at 10:46 | comment | added | Yaroslav Kornachevskyi | @Adam.at.Epsilon he just decided at that moment, that bacteria is dead due to the depressurization and cold. Water just escaped the farm. | |
| Jan 9, 2022 at 10:07 | comment | added | Adam.at.Epsilon | so the answer isn't that the bacteria suffocates, but depressurization kills them when the water boils? | |
| Jan 9, 2022 at 0:57 | comment | added | Steve | Yes, Watney did say that in an experiment done by request from Earth, after comms were restored, that he found some still alive in the soil. | |
| Jan 8, 2022 at 13:23 | comment | added | notovny | Even Watney realizes it's wrong later in the novel, but by that time, he's abandoned growing potatoes. for other survival options. | |
| Jan 8, 2022 at 10:53 | history | answered | Valorum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |