People who donāt want to read The Martian in case the science is too complicated should be informed that it contains the linesĀ āThe best way to store the ingredients of water is to make them be waterā,Ā āIt is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraftā, andĀ āIf I cut a hole in the wall of the hab, the air wonāt stay inside any moreā.
I love this fucking book
āIāve said the words kilowatt-hours-per-sol so many times theyāve lost all meaning so Iām going to call them pirate-ninjas.
āSo I need to generate nine hundred pirate-ninjasā¦ā
thereās an entire chapter dedicated to him wondering how the cubs are doing while heās stuck on mars, dying
I like the part where the guys on Earth are likeĀ āHe thinks we all gave up on him, and that heās completely alone. I wonder what heās thinking about right now.ā And heās likeĀ āHow come Aquaman can control whales?ā
ā As with most of lifeās problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation. ā
āActually, I was the very lowest ranked member of the crew. I would only be āin commandā if I were the only remaining person.ā
Two pages later⦠āWhat do you know? Iām in commandā
āMe: āThis is obviously a clog. How about I take it apart and check the internal tubing?ā NASA: (after five hours of deliberation) āNo. Youāll fuck it up and die.ā So I took it apart.
And my personal favorite :ā Also, I have duct tape. Ordinary duct tape, like you buy at a hardware store. Turns out even NASA canāt improve on duct tape. Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.ā
It sounds like a book-long XKCD comicĀ
Thereās an xkcd comic about it if that helps.






















