Kame

Do you know how Hollywood creates "the scientist" and the scientist knows all science, but if you have PhD in one kind of biology, you know shit about the other type of biology? Yeah. So I think it was very smart move to put Grace in school. If he stayed in Uni, he wouldn't remember basic physics and earth radius (he states himself that every science teacher knows the earth radius). I respect this move both as a writer and as a chemist who remembers shit about basic chemistry

Okay, I thought I can finish this book in 1 week, but I'm taking too many breaks to analyze everything. I guess in english it was something like: "ArcLight’s lab has only basic equipment. Just an electron microscope and an X-ray spectrometer" and I need to know WHICH microscope and WHICH spectrometer. My first thought was SEM + EDS (or WDS) because they're often used together and one is electron microscope and the other x-ray spectrometer. BUT SEM IS HUGE! And I have no idea what is "basic equipment" for NASA people.

Also my frustrations is growing. MC asked about cube root of 8 said "dwa e do potęgi dwa i pi" which I read as "2 e to the power of 2 and π" since "i" means "and". Keep in mind that "e" and "pi" were written in cursive, but not "i". Damn. They could translate it as "2 pi i" and it would made more sense. Also him doing experiments with gravity reminded me that I almost fainted in lab while doing it bc my breathing synchronized with the pendulum.

Question to people who read Project Hail Mary in English bc the Polish translation is driving me crazy. In the first chapter there's an email from Irina Pietrowa (Petrova in English probably) and she wrote something about IR wavelength 25,984 micrometers. The problem is in polish translation it's 25,984 mikronów (microns) and like the fuck. Who says microns? Do you use microns, dear English speakers and it was translated directly?

Chciałabym jeszcze dodać że kinofile to ćpuny i słyszałam to gasp jak Kosa dał Zorze garść grzybów. Ale jednocześnie zastanawiam się, czy we Wrocławskich liceach nastolatki serio tyle biorą różnych rzeczy, bo może to gasp było od wrocławskich kinofilów tylko, a my słoiki jesteśmy niewinne dzieci i moi rodzice słusznie nie puścili mnie tu do liceum