People who don’t want to read The Martian in case the science is too complicated should be informed that it contains the lines “The best way to store the ingredients of water is to make them be water”, “It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft”, and “If I cut a hole in the wall of the hab, the air won’t stay inside any more”.
I love this fucking book
“I’ve said the words kilowatt-hours-per-sol so many times they’ve lost all meaning so I’m going to call them pirate-ninjas.
“So I need to generate nine hundred pirate-ninjas…”
there’s an entire chapter dedicated to him wondering how the cubs are doing while he’s stuck on mars, dying
I like the part where the guys on Earth are like “He thinks we all gave up on him, and that he’s completely alone. I wonder what he’s thinking about right now.”
And he’s like “How come Aquaman can control whales?”
It bloody starts with “Well, I’m pretty much fucked.” When Wattney finds out he’s being broadcasted to the entire world, his reaction is to say something lewd. It is brilliant.
achilles: when I die, mingle our ashes together so that we may be together for eternity
historians: f is for friends who do stuff together
I can imagine Hussie is just at a complete loss about candidate dave strider cause on the one hand this is the meta stunt of his horse-laden dreams but on the other hand even he has a line and I think he must be genuinely torn about getting involved in actual real united states politics and the consequences of actively encouraging his fanbase to support a real electoral campaign.
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