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				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Nope, neither of those dilemmas were fully explained by the movie.  My husband hadn't read the book and so I asked him about what he thought of the movie and he said he liked it until the end, where he was like, "I'm sure if I rewatch I'll catch what happened with Rocky's space ship, but right now I have no clue."


Towards the beginning he asks the computer how much fuel it has but I don't remember food really coming up as a constraint.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think 2rafa and you are talking about different things.


You are presenting data that includes factory workers and blue collar workers. This is a group that used to work 12 hour days, 6 days a week, and they have been getting protections and more leisure time over the last 100 years.


2rafa is talking about white collar professionals, upper middle managerial class type people.  As someone who reads a lot of literature from before the 1950s, I can confirm that this group of people really did take months of vacations a year - sometimes taking a whole year sabattical.  This group would be lawyers, stock brokers, writers, professors, etc.  On the weeks they were working, a good portion of that was socialization, networking, etc.  This is separate from the aristocracy (hard or soft) who didn't hold a profession besides the managing of their assets.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I liked The Martian for what it was - a web novel released chapter by chapter that got picked up by a major publisher.  I appreciated starting with a possibly absurd premise and then logically going step by step over the challenges caused by that absurd premise in a way that mostly coheres to our current understanding of science.  The voice of the narrator didn't matter as much, the puzzle was fun and seeing the math explained at a popular level was nice.  I think I'd give it to a high schooler about to go into AP Physics to get them psyched up.


Project Hail Mary is kind of in the same vein, but without the advantages of being a first novel.  It might help introduce a teenager to basic evolutionary concepts, the suspense was decent, there was legitimate pathos with the main character only acting brave because he thought he was the kind of person to volunteer for a suicidal mission and then remembered that he wasn't a volunteer after all.  In that sense it was a better novel than The Martian but that wasn't enough to make it a good novel.  The movie is a better movie even though I felt it didn't do enough to foreshadow/explain the problem at the climax - the book-over did it with the explanations, the movie under-did it in exchange for some nicer visuals.