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Crack concept where, for some ungodly reason, the minds of the Project Hail Mary team (scientists, astronauts, and Carl) get sent back in time. The sending happens after the beetles have been launched but before they have been received by earth. The waking-up-into-their-past-selves happens the day before Dr. Stratt first approaches Dr. Grace.
None of them know the others have been sent back.
Dr. Stratt, who has been in emotional hell for over a decade due to being forced to betray the closest thing she has to a friend, decides to never shadow Dr. Grace's doorstep. He doesn't need to be involved this time. She has the knowledge and ability to save the world and keep him safe, now.
She gets the original team minus Grace back together. No one figures out anyone else is a time traveler because they are all hard believers in the butterfly effect and believe themselves to be causing all changes. (Sometimes being very smart circles right back around to being very stupid.)
No one else mentions bringing Dr. Grace on, because they all low-key suspect what happened last time and want to keep their friend (...he makes friends SO easily) safe.
This silence lasts until Grace breaks down their super classified front door being like "SEND ME TO SPACE NOW I SWEAR TO GOD" and everyone is like "I CAN VOUCH FOR HIM NO ONE KILL HIM" and "DO NOT SEND HIM TO SPACE" and "WAIT HOW DO YOU KNOW HIM."
And Dr. Stratt is like "I am so, deeply sorry for-"
And Dr. Grace is like "Put me back up there right the fudge now!"
And then a day later they get a scary transmission from space saying "Give us Ryland Grace and we'll return your sun to full luminescence."
They’re somewhere in Russia when Grace bursts into the meeting room and is promptly tackled. Grace is dirty from trekking across the wilderness and his clothes are torn from where he climbed over the barbed wire.
Of course there are questions, so Grace sets up his PowerPoint presentation but he’s weird, making strange gestures and counting in base six and when he writes out math equations he uses a different alphabet. They ask what’s up with him and he says “I’m Getting there! So anyways then Stratt nuked Antarctica-” and hasn’t even reached the part about intelligent alien life when a transmission from Erid is picked up, they sent it in human English Morse code “Give us back Ryland grace or we’ll blow you up with our death star lassjebfjkwbdjskbdjs ignore that ha ha hello humans we are friendly aliens politely asking for our friend back please :)”
book Rocky is so hilarious because he is 100% done with grace’s shit all the time and yet he loves him so much
Like Rocky going “we’re always going to use earth units. Because your STUPID little brain can’t convert quick enough. So I taught myself the conversions in one minute just out of convenience. Because I love talking to you. Stupid.”
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“Eridians dislike earth because they abandoned Grace.” *Incorrect Buzzer Sound* ya missed the point of the story buddy! It’s not about someone being ‘bad’ it’s about the incredible power of love and that love being worth dying for!
Gimmie Eridians who are absolutely heartbroken to hear that humans where so desperate and so scared that they where willing to part with not just one Grace, there were three of them! Gimmie Eridians touched to find that the humans planned a way for their sacrifices to be as comfortable as possible. Gimmie Eridians who send earth a message saying “We know it must have hurt to send your heroes to die, but one made it and he’s safe here. We lost 22 good Eridians on the journey we would have lost 23 if not for your Grace.”
Give me humans sitting on Earth slowly coming to the conclusion that when we look up not only are we not alone, someone out there is alive because of one of us. That no matter what we think of ourselves a whole species thinks highly of us because we helped save the galaxy. Give me humans who figure out how to send a probe to Erid filled to the brim with messages for Grace and footage of a monument being raised that reads his name, his crews names, and then “in memory of the 22 Eridians who lost their lives on the journey to save the stars.”
some rambles & fun facts about the beach in project hail mary
if you're wondering what & where it is before i start yapping, it's durdle door, in dorset
some background context, my first exposure to project hail mary was when folks started freaking out on the local facebook groups - ryan gosling's coming to town for filming a new movie!! i thought to myself ahhh fuck. the city that i go to uni at is gonna cameo in a gosling film. fml i guess i have to see this now
anyways i forget about it for ages until the movie drops and i finally go see it and imagine my surprise when i'm expecting miserable fuckass portsmouth and instead. i snap upright like-
"is that durdle door?!" "yes i think so-" "the dorset fieldtrip?!" "yep" "ohh my god. they went there?!" "i guess so" "what the fuck" <- live reaction of me and my bf who both have done fieldwork there related to our respective degrees (geology & palaeontology)
anyways now for some fun facts:
the arch structure you see is part of portland limestone formation, and is going to eventually to erode away entirely
the arch itself it estimated to collapse anytime from 100 years time, to several hundred years time - depending on ongoing weathering/changes in weather patterns (woo yay climate change)
the cliffs are mainly cretaceous era chalks, and this area is so prone to landslides it's not even funny. we went for a day and literally i think the week after? there was a landslide
fun extra fact about the chalk, they contain loads of coccoliths which are great for dating rocks + analysing the palaeoclimate during deposition
whilst the directors cut implies the reason behind the beach being shingle is because the eridians can't figure out sand particle size, the reason why the beach is flint is literally because of geology; it's been eroded out of the cliffs
sidenote it would be much nicer if it was a sandy beach but unfortunately that wouldn't make much sense geologically
at the very end of the movie, we see some beds extending into the water and the camera panning out as he begins teaching the little eridians - this is in man o' war cove is is on the other side of the archway!
this is visualised in the little diagram i made at the very start of the post, so ryland's house sits atop where the pathway down IRL is located, and the beach where he and rocky sit on is the western side, and the classroom is on the eastern side
the line in the movie where ryland says "the beach is always changing. you could go to the same spot every day. you're always looking at a different beach." is so especially true because durdle door is (like i said before) constantly changing both from erosion, landslides, and just the result of it being a tourist location
it's been different everytime i've been, in fact it was closed? earlier this year because the paths were badly damaged from storms
so it's like the paths you see in the film are the old ones, and if you visited, they'd look different/they'd be new
sidenote not confirmed at all but i wonder if they chose durdle door because of its "proximity" to portsmouth because of filming locations in hampshire... it's a 2hr drive but ig that's not far if you've got a film crew
anyways here's some pictures from when i went for fieldwork a few years ago:
so yea! hope someone enjoys reading this mini info-dump about the beach. super recommend people visit, it's a beautiful place and a great way to spend a day. the beaches are fantastic, the geology is great, and you might even see an adder!
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I'm having so much fun going through a bunch of Project Hail Mary fanfic (you people are writing it so fast) but I have to say very few people are committing to the absolutely bizarre things that would happen to language in the Hail Mary over the years. Like you take two social species speaking languages the other physically can't pronounce and stick them in a confined space for MULTIPLE YEARS.
These two are going to come up with absolutely insane ways of speaking. They're going to invent weird whistling words that they can both say because their little social brains want to mimic one another so so badly. Grace is going to start speaking in the same cadence as the translation software he wrote. Rocky probably simplified a lot of his speech and probably isn't speaking in actual Eridian sentence structure. Most of the science they discuss they both had to make up new words for in their respective languages. They're going to have inside jokes so wildly dependent on context that no one will ever understand them. I understand that this would be difficult to do in a fanfic but it would be so funny. Regardless of whether they head to Erid or Earth they should be completely incomprehensible when they get there.
Some progress! Here's a handful of Rocky's words out of the ~26 identified so far. The sound designers of Project Hail Mary really didn't need to go this far.
I haven't seen Project Hail Mary yet but I am now reading the book and oh my God, does Andy Weir ever understand scientists. I'm at the point where Grace just figured out that he is one despite not knowing his own name, and everything about his thought process right now screams scientist.
He's puzzling out his own identity via trial and error. He's very, very observant and using every little thing as a clue. He thinks in miles, the tape measure is metric. He took the time to figure out stopwatch controls before an experiment, in the midst of an identity crisis. He knows how to improvise an experiment from really basic supplies.
As Mark Watney would say, he's sciencing the shit out of this. But Grace wouldn't say that because he has like the polar opposite of Watney's swear word vocabulary.
Also the way he just trusts the data and runs with it. He doesn't go "acceleration due to gravity can't be fifteen meters per second, that's impossible," he goes "that can't be true on Earth so I'm not on Earth."
Or it could be a centrifuge. He proceeds to spend half an hour proving it's supremely unlikely to be a centrifuge. Yeah, this man has the scientific method baked into his head.
Ohhhhhh it's the dude who wrote The Martian. I thought so but hadn't confirmed.
Yes!!! I've never even read The Martian but every time I saw stuff about it I was like "wow that is EXACTLY what my best friend (aerospace engineering degree) thinks like"
Project Hail Mary is a fantastic example of how filmmakers can create a faithful adaptation and still take artistic liberties. The writers didn't try to copy the book to a tee, and added their own elements (the mental health room, the astrophage transition, the beach scene on erid, Grace's wardrobe etc). They understood that a film is a different artistic medium than a book and tried to write the story in a way that best suited that medium, all while staying loyal to the original story and themes.
Shout out to all the Project Hail Mary fanartists who are very aware that Rocky weighs 370lbs and cannot live in our atmosphere and then completely ignore those facts to draw Rocky hugging/snuggling Grace and sleeping on his chest no problem you're doing the Lord's work
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Stratt is the funniest bitch in the project on purpose. When she makes a joke she 100% meant to do that and she knows that it's the funniest shit ever, even if everyone is too intimidated to laugh.
Grace is the funniest bitch in the project by accident. He's used to being around kids so he's forgotten that filters are a thing and just says the first, dumbest joke that pops into his head. He has no control over it. Nobody makes him feel bad about it because they're afraid of what Stratt will do if they hurt his feelings.
Rocky is the funniest bitch on the Hail Mary because he's been alone in space for years and has probably gone insane, sane, and then insane again. He's 10-20% worried that Grace is just a vivid hallucination and treats him accordingly.
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