Questions tagged [the-martian]
A science fiction novel by Andy Weir framed as the journal of Mark Watney as he attempts to survive alone on Mars after being abandoned there in an emergency. In 2015 it was adapted into a film starring Matt Damon.
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What does Mark Watney say to NASA?
On my way to my holidays, I watched The Martian on the plane. At the beginning of the movie, a disclaimer said that the movie had been "edited for content." In fact, it seems no profanities ...
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Three questions about The Martian: [closed]
Why doesn't Watney, who is desperate to communicate after he is stranded on Mars that he is, in fact, still alive, arrange rocks, equipment, etc., to make some sort of signal that could be read from ...
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Was Mindy Park's ethnicity confirmed in the text of The Martian?
I spotted this article in the Guardian.
The anger focuses on the character of Mindy Park, who is described as Korean-American in the book and played by white actor Mackenzie Davis
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When Watney used the Ares IV MAV to ascend, he pulled 12 G's. But the crew used the MAV from Ares III to ascend, how come they didn't pass out?
The crew used the same type of MAV at the beginning of the movie as Mark did at the end of the movie to ascend to Hermes. Did they all pull 12 g's leaving as well? Did they pass out?
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Why didn't Watney just go to the MAV IV, use the three years of supplies till the next mission arrived?
Why did he not just take his existing 14 months of food over to the "pre mission" supply/launch vehicle, that has three years worth of supplies (for six people by the way) and just wait for the next ...
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What did the crew do for 533 days without use of most of the living quarters in the Martian movie?
In the movie, they caused a deliberate breach in the airlock so the Hermes can decelerate. We see that the living quarters and the kitchen werer depressurized and exposed to the cold vacuum of space. ...
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What about Ares IV?
What are the plans for the Ares IV mission after the rescue operation? They can't use the MAV that was sent for the mission, because it is in poor shape.
If they send a new MAV as fast as possible to ...
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What did Mark Watney type about his cussing?
Right after he started communicating with Earth, Mark was warned (by Mission Control) that he needed to to stop cussing because the whole world could hear him.
What did he type as a response?
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Why does Watney need an air day every five days or so on his trip to Schiaparelli?
When Watney must get to the Schiaparelli crater in The Martian, he stops every five days for an "Air Day." Why does he do this?
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Why didn't anyone mention the orbit altitude difference until later?
The following question is packed full of spoilers:
In the movie "The Martian" (2015), the Astrodynamics specialist Rich Purnell
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Potatoes were alive and sprouted on Mars: How were they preserved on the journey there?
Please note: The biology related aspects of this question are posted here.
In "The Martian" (2015), the protagonist grows potatoes on Mars. We see him using seemingly fresh potatoes as his seeds.
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Communcations and the MDV in "The Martian"
In the book "The Martian", communication is lost with Earth after the Mars Ascent Vehicle leaves. It seems to me the Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV), which they landed in, would have had some kind of a ...
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In The Martian, how were the crew in the Hermes shielded from radiation?
I have not read the book of The Martian, but there was one glaring omission in the movie that struck me.
How were the crew in the Hermes protected from radiation?
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Problem with the film "The Martian" [duplicate]
In the film how does NASA manage to accomplish the complex engineering task of getting a group of people to mars but are seemingly unable to to build a spacecraft that does not blow over in a strong ...
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Why did Teddy Sanders say Ares IV would launch in 5 years?
In both the movie and the novel, when Venkat (Vincent) Kapoor is trying to persuade Teddy Sanders to allow satellite imagery of the Ares 3 site, Sanders says that Ares 4 wouldn't launch for another ...
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