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My first Project Hail Mary Fic!
Summary: I am changing. Itâs very obvious I am. Physically, somewhat. Mentally, quite a lot. I should be afraid of the changes, but Iâm not. Something isnât letting me be afraid of how itâs changing me.
Or: Grace on Erid, and how living on a world inhabited by beings who are at least somewhat of a hive mind changes a person.
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just saw a post about how âGrace loved humanity but Stratt did more, Grace was selfish if he really loved humanity heâd jump to go on that shipâ. Which made me block like half the comments becauseâŚ
like⌠did we watch the same movie? Read the same book?? Grace is NOT selfish. Grace is someone who didnt want to die, a completely reasonable thing to want. It is not selfish to not want to die.
I honestly think this comes from peopleâs inability to understand complex female characters. Listen to me. Stratt was trying to save earth, and she did. She wanted to give it the best possible chance, which is right. But! Sedating a man, jailing him in the book, calling him a coward for wanting to live, lying to the crew of the Hail Mary about Grace agreeing? That is not ok.
Did it get the job done? Hell yes but outcome does not excuse method. Stratt is a complex character, who had the right intention and the preferred outcome, but some flawed methods. She is neither in the wrong nor the right for sending that ace to space, and Grace is not selfish or a coward for not wanting to die. End of post, I rest my case.
can you imagine tho if Eridians discovered radiation years and years after the Blip-A left
and they're just absolutely horrified because now they know why the Blip-A never returned, they sent them all to die, now to save their sun they have to redo the entire program all over again and Adrian is devastated -
and then three Eridian years later Rocky shows up with his pet alien and a ton of taumeoba all I LIVED BITCH
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a concept: Unicron sounding powerful but gentle. A wizened voice with all the patience in the world, that curls around you with its warmth. A voice with all the answers, carefully explained, and he has much to teach you. Straightforwardly but politely requests a favor or two in return. If you can't do it, do not worry, do not fear... he will grant you another chance, and won't raise his voice about it either. It was too much for you, he understands. Let him help. How can you deny such a sweet, caring being?
I forgot to clarify that this excludes deanaming you if you've changed your name. I specifically meant the "brain offers the wrong word" kind of accidental name mix-up.
This was prompted by me and my boyfriend discussing handedness and being able to tell apart left and right. And me, being ambidextrous, was baffled by how do people with an obligate dominant hand mix up which side is the one with their Writing Hand and which one isn't?? And my boyfriend pointed out that I go "turn left - no I mean right" so much when giving directions that I have lost my navigator privileges.
I argued that mixing up the words isn't the same thing as mixing up the directions. Like if your mom accidentally called you the dog's name doesn't mean that she literally can't tell you apart from the dog. And he looked at me like this
Because evidently not only has this never happened to him, he has never heard of this being a thing. And he was so confident in this that I had to double-check that I'm not the only person this has ever happened to.
In relation to my Is Earth Doomed post, I'm piecing together a timeline with red string and way too many spreadsheets... So, let's unspool some of that thread here. The book never established when it is meant to take place, nor specific dates for any of the events (beyond, funnily enough, Stratt telling Grace to come back to the lab on the 23rd).
This means that no matter how you deal the cards on this one, you're going to be ultimately going to have to make some assumptions. This is my particular set of assumptions, but it isn't meant to invalidate anyone else's and you can definitely come to different conclusions based on how you evaluate the text. I'm mostly looking for a scale I can work with in terms of my climate model, and don't care at all about what's happening in Tau Ceti. It's like Vegas to me.
(Skip to the end for simplified timeline, stay here for a prolonged breakdown of how I get to those dates)
So in order to derive a specific date to start from, I'll be breaking my own rules to steal a date from movie canon. Namely, the watch in the post-explosion scene puts the date that Grace is originally detained at February 14th, 2023. Valentine's Day: cute! Not so great for the happy couple, rip Drs. Dubois and Shapiro. Real ones. Grace is then held in a cell for three days and the launch of the Hail Mary occurs on February 19th, 2023 (though the crew is ferried up two days earlier, February 17th). This is derived from the book - Dimitri lays out the timeline during the tertiary scientist conversation.
"The Hail Mary will leave on schedule" said Stratt. "Five days from now. The crew will have two days of preflight checks, so that means the Soyuz has to launch in three days."
- Chapter 23, Project Hail Mary
Okay, so as previously established in Part 1, we know that the Antarctica Nuking occurred within a year of this launch. Now, for the sake of easier travel, let's presume they went when the ice was at minimum, thus establishing the Nuking of Antarctica in Late February to Early March 2022.
Overall, the timeline of the Petrova Taskforce is intentionally vague. We are working with bread crumbs, but thankfully, those breadcrumbs have numbers. So let's turn to everyone's favorite negligent gambler, Dr. Robert Redell. One of the early primary constraints on the Mary's launch is fuel, and Redell provides a solution in Chapter 14 with his blackpanels - he notes that the fuel will be enough for the Hail Mary in a few years, and that the ship won't be done by then anyway. If you do the math based on that 2000 kg/day figure, btw, it works out to 1000 days for the 2mil kg of fuel for the Hail Mary. Roughly. There are a couple of other factors we would throw in - construction time, scaling of astrophage, restructuring of entire industries to support this kind of mass construction etc. For the sake of mitigation of incoming headaches, let's say that 1200 days is our number from Redell's meeting (October 8th, 2019) to Launch, and that any difference may be assigned to the fact that Stratt definitely never had all her eggs in one basket on the energy front, and likely was still utilizing nuclear energy to produce astrophage in excess of the Sahara farm.
âWe know that,â I said. âIâve been using a nuclear reactorâs heat to breed up Astrophage for the last several months.â
âWhatâd you get? Maybe a few grams? My idea can get you a thousand kilograms per day. In a few years youâll have enough for the whole Hail Mary mission. Itâll take you longer than that to build the ship anyway.â
- Chapter 13, Project Hail Mary
So now we turn to Venus to figure out our ArcLight intercept in 2019. Now, time to admit that I'm not a trained astrophysicist, and so when I chose a launch, I'm just choosing based on two factors - the least amount of distance between the two planets, and the lack of obstructing planetary bodies (the Sun & Mercury). There are two periods in 2019 where the odds aren't entirely against us, and it's at the very beginning and end of the year. Now, these still aren't great in terms of proximity, it would've been better in November/December 2018, but considering the text specifically references that this wasn't a great time to go to Venus, I think we're on the right track. Let's place that intercept at roughly January/February 2019, which puts a launch at late 2018, and has the probe coming down roughly mid 2019.
âTell us about going to Venus,â the reporter said. âWhat makes it so hard?â
âThe main problem is fuel,â said Browne. âThere are specific transfer windows when interplanetary travel takes the minimum amount of fuel, but we were nowhere near an Earth-Venus window. So we had to put a lot more fuel in orbit just to get ArcLight there in the first place.â
âSo itâs a case of bad timing, then?â the reporter asked.
âI donât think thereâs ever a good time for the sun to get dimmer.â
- Chapter 2, Project Hail Mary
Now, take a year off of that per Grace's inner monologue about the ArcLight, and here we are in 2018. This is where everyone first hears about the Petrova Problem, and Grace has his conversation with Marissa. Now we have a general scale for those luminosity figures she gave us: loss of 0.01% in 2018, 1% in 2027, and 5% by 2038. Yay! Let's check back in with those numbers later on, but for now, we're assuming the events of Project Hail Mary (Earth-side!) take place over roughly five years. I know that seems super compressed and accelerated, but in canon Grace spends a lot of time talking about how fast everything is moving - Stratt is utilizing her power to the fullest extent to command resources across the globe, and entirely ignoring bureaucratic red tape. It's breathtaking.
Project Hail Mary Timeline
2065 - Eridani 40 sees that Sol is restored
2049 - Astrophage is cured
2048 - Beetles Arrive at Earth
2036 - Arrival of Hail Mary in Tau Ceti
February 19th, 2023 - Hail Mary Launch
February 17th, 2023 - Soyuz to Hail Mary
March 31st, 2022 - 1st Nuking of Antarctica
October 8th, 2019 - Redell's Meeting / Paving of the Sahara
went to a new optometrist today wearing my squid facts âsave our freaksâ shirt from @sarahmackattack that has a strawberry squid on it. and i wasnât even thinking about it but the optometrist walked in and he was like âoh what does your shirt sayâ so i showed him and he was like âoh thatâs neat!â and then i thought he might like to know about strawberry squid eyes since they have weird eyes and he is an optometrist and all. so i was like âyeah itâs actually a real kind of squid called a strawberry squid, their eyes are really cool because they have one big yellow-green one and one small blue oneâ and he kind of gasped and went âoh my god thatâs so interesting i wonder why they have that. do you know what their retina composition is like?â and i watched as he minimized my chart on the computer and started looking up images of strawberry squid and then he googled âstrawberry squid retina compositionâ and he was like âsorry weâll get to your eye exam in a moment i just really want to find outâ LMAO 10/10 optometrist experience will be returning
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So, I was just mentioned in the comments of a post, which made me go look at it.
It's almost certainly a scam, if you get linked to something similar to the image, don't click on any links in the post itself.
I know the image isn't that great, so I'm reproducing the text in the post here, minus the link in it.
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This is almost certainly a scam. I've already reported them to tumblr for it, and am perfectly willing to follow up with @staff.
if youve never physically been in the presence of like, a real live wolf, and you probably wont get the chance to, heres some stuff about them you should know
a wolfâs fur is so unbelievably thick that you can get like, your whole hand into it while petting. and then you can keep going
wolves are a lot bigger than you think they are. think about how big you think a wolf is then just like double that
they dont really smell like dog but they DO smell and youre not going to be able to figure out if its a good smell or not
a wolf really wants to lick the inside of your mouth. he will not stop trying to lick the inside of your mouth at any cost, and generally speaking you need to press your lips together kind of tightly when he approaches your face so that he doesnt worm his damn tongue in there to give you what he thinks is an appropriate greeting
a wolf doesnt really want to look at you while you pet him but he wants you to pet him. hes embarrassed
if a grown ass wolf decides to lay down on you, you just have to deal with it and thats your life now
young wolves, much like young dogs, are overwhelmingly goofy and stupid. a teenage wolf will see your very fragile, very human shoulder and go âi can probably step on that with my full weightâ and then he will do it
letting a wolf eat out of your hand is actually not remotely frightening, and youll want to do it all day
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