Anything I underlined or highlighted will look like this.
Notes will look like this.
Let’s begin shall we?
(In reference to being in space) I’ll freak out about that later.
HAL 9000 this computer is not
I gasped. “Wait a minute! Am I a guinea pig!” “No, it’s not like that,” she said. I stared at her. She stared at me. I stared at her. “Okay, it’s exactly like that,’ she said.”
Okay, you little reprobates. You’re radiation-proof. I’ll grant you that. But how about I stab you in the face?
“You poked it with a stick?” “No!” I said. “Well, yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.”
I was alone all along, but now I am truly alone. This is how I felt putting my dog, Romeo, down while my parents were in Italy.
John, Paul, George, and Ringo Ryland didn’t name them.
I’m going to die out here…alone
Of course, I wired it backward at first and the LED didn’t light up. That’s pretty much a rule in electronics. You never get diodes right on the first try !!!
“I’m not falling!” I scream. “I’m not falling! This is just space! Everything is fine!”
Human brains are amazing things. We can get used to just about anything.
Science teachers know a lot of random facts.
I’m the guy! I’m the guy who meets aliens for the first time!
Buck Rogers. 1970s sci-fi hero
Or maybe they’ll board my ship and lay eggs in my brain. You can never be sure.
I don’t want to look dumb in front of the aliens.
I know I should wait for it to cool down but I don’t want to. Impatient
Time for science!
ньютоны n’yoo-tawny
*a picture of Rocky I drew on chapter 10*
No one ever talks about the really hard parts of first contact with intelligent alien life: pronouns.
His name is Rocky.
He wears clothing.
Tensile strength Max load a material can support without fracture while being stretched
But even an airlock would have some lights in it, wouldn’t it? For a smart guy he’s kind of an idiot
Wait, are you blind? Scientist of the fucking year over here
Yes, I could just run both applications on one laptop, but I don’t want to switch back and forth. Brothers never heard of split screen
*I drew a time signature next to one of the words Rocky says*
Our first two-syllable word. Technicallyyy its 3 syllables (it’s 3 eighth notes)
(Next to them getting confused with no and yes) “I turn left up here?” “Right.” “Right?” “No, correct” “which way am I going?!” “Left!”
“I observe,” he says. In movie: “watch” simpler word, but I guess they are scientists
“You are bad.” Rocky translation: you dumb bitch
I should be more culturally sensitive.
“Well, you’re not alone anymore, buddy,” I say. “Neither of us are.” I’m going to fucking cry.
“Yeah, okay. You may have a point” Eva Stratt is reasonable
Anodize an electrochemical process that strengthens the surface of aluminum/nonferrous metals by building up a tightly bonded oxide layer.
Kludge something, especially software, that has been put together from whatever is available especially when it does not work very well
Neutrinos uncharged particles with small mass, 3 forms and rarely interact
The astrophage uses stored energy to heat back up to that temperature—Just like any other warm-blooded life-form
She looked down at the hull plan—a little faster than I think was necessary, but whatever. Budding romance?
Galactic cosmo rays this fucks so hard
She smiled and looked away. She likes him
Eridian and human science both in special range: can make ship, but can’t solve astrophage problem Goldilocks zone parallel
“We all have to make sacrifices. If I have to be the worlds whipping boy to secure our salvation, then that’s my sacrifice to make”
In short: Eridians are steam-powered.
I spend the next hour tidying up. I wasn’t expecting company. Much funnier in movie when Ricky barges in “Dirty. Dirty. Dirty.”
I’m going to live!
Is biological. Is gross. In movie he thinks grace is gross and he is beautiful when he eats
I want to spend the rest of my life studying Eridian biology! But I have to save humanity first. Stupid humanity. Getting in the way of my hobbies. 
Monostome—that is, the waste comes out the same opening that food goes into.
I’ll remember this when writing up the hail mary’s yelp review.
You is science human.
That’s it. Flypaper. Fancy space flypaper, but just flypaper.
Got to love chrysalis suits. Like butterfly
“I have been well, thank you. Dr. Shapiro and I have begun a sexual relationship.” Yo what.
Prudent wise
esoteric Designed for/understood by the specially initiated alone
My students all have eyes and they were still amazed when I told them “x-rays,” “microwaves,” “Wi-Fi,” and “purple” were all just wavelengths of light. Everything is waves and crystals!
It’s the Astrophage homeworld.
“You are, somehow, special to Ms. Stratt, I had assumed you two were engaged in sexual congress.” What is this guys deal?
I was approximately as critical as toilet paper.
The force you feel in a centrifuge is inverse to the square of the radius.
Okay. If he’s dead, he’s dead. I can’t do any further harm. But if he’s alive, I have to help. There’s no reason not to try. This is the same logic used with CPR; Don’t worry about breaking ribs, if you don’t do anything they will die.
Let’s see what my little alien terrarium is up to. Nothing much, as it happens. I don’t know what I expected. Little flying saucers whizzing around in the chamber, maybe?
“Dummy!” I smack my forehead.
Epoxy takes a long time to set when it’s cold. Good to know
“Computer! Painkillers!” “Additional dose available in three hours and four minutes.” I frown. “Computer, what is current time?” “Seven-fifteen P.M., Moscow Standard Time.” “Computer, set time to eleven P.M. Moscow Standard Time.” “Clock set complete” “computer, painkillers.” The arms hand me a package of pills and a bag of water.
Maybe I’m being emotional instead of rational. But so what?
“Usually you not stupid. Why stupid, question?” Eat him up Rocky!
I missed my kids.
They looked up to me. I missed being that respected.
Eto Stratt. Chti Sluchylos? This is Stratt. What happened?
Vzryv v issledovatel’skom tsentre. Explosion at research center
“We have hope,” says Rocky. Theme
The computer finishes its boot process and brings up a screen I’ve never seen before. I can tell it means trouble, because the word “TROUBLE” is in large type across the top. Astronauts aren’t very subtle
“Hold screws better.” “How?” “Use hand.” “My hand’s busy with the wrench.” “Use second hand.” “My other hand’s on the hull to keep me steady.” “Use third han—hmm. Get beetles. I make screws.”
“Believe it or not, Dr. Grace, I kind of like you. I don’t respect you very much, but I do think you’re a fundamentally good man” Jesus that’s brutal
“Yes yes. I make now. We are team. We fix this. No be sad.”
Yeah? Well, hell’s coming back to you, Stratt. In the form of me. I’m hell. I mean… I don’t know what I’ll say to her. But I definitely plan to say stuff. Mean stuff.
I want to make this ship so utterly toxic to Taumoeba that it has no chance of survival.
I wish Rocky were here to help me save Rocky.
Yes! I’m definitely going to die! Hooray!
*the last chapter used eridian numbers and i circled it with many many exclamation marks*
lately i feel disgustingly positive about everyone and everything and i even like it. 10/10 much better than being miserable all the time i definitely recommend trying joymaxxing out
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