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[oflgtfol]

YOUR MIND’S IN DISTURBIA, AIN’T USED TO WHAT YOU LIKE

[usergambit]

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

[bleedthebeat]

“supporting neil gaiman isn’t as bad as supporting jk rowling because he isn’t using his money to hurt trans people and he doesn’t seem bigoted!” is a real take i’ve seen and i am going to blow a gasket. “he doesn’t seem bigoted” He raped and trafficked women. Paying for his works and engaging in fandom for them is giving him money and good publicity that he uses to curry good favor with the masses and silence his victims in ongoing legal battles. You are enabling a rapist and abuser.

[oflgtfol]

also because i didnt pay much attention to the technobabble, a large part of that is because the math is written in prose. which is like insane. does anyone, even math phds, want to read math in prose form? so i genuinely didnt absorb anything i really just read it without internalizing it because its like man fuck if i know. kinetic energy is one half mass times velocity squared. thats nothing to me. i need it written out as an actual math formula for me to understand it and internalize it. so im kinda like... what if i reread the book. but annotated it. i never annotate books wouldnt that be fun. and as i annotate... i DO THE MATH?? that way perhaps i could appreciate the technobabble more. ultimately the prose of the technobabble im still not impressed with but at least i could appreciate the hard work that went into like, andy weir doing the math to just tell the story

but on the other hand. would rereading a book that i literally just finished within 2 days be kinda crazy or what

[oflgtfol]

i fear this may be fun

[notahorseindisguise]

everytime i wear an outfit like this i think about this tweet

[moth-amphetamine]

thought I was going to a concert to see the cure ? but it was actually placebo??? fml

[ceruleana]

project hail mary is a touching and poignant film that leaves you asking questions about humanity like, "wow what if all mainstream media was genuinely good" and "what if book adaptions actually gave a shit about the book in question" and "what if studios hired actors that could actually act, and then let them get a lil wacky with it"

[astriiformes]

#Don’t forget ‘what if puppetry was treated as a serious artform’ (via @specialagentartemis)

[sup-its-cat]

WHY HAVE I SEEN NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW THE GRACE SCULPTURE LOOKS LIKE THE LITTLE DUDE FROM THIS MEME

THAT WAS LITERALLY MY FIRST THOUGHT UPON SEEING IT IN THE MOVIE

[notes-and-violets]

I had to xD

[oflgtfol]

also because i didnt pay much attention to the technobabble, a large part of that is because the math is written in prose. which is like insane. does anyone, even math phds, want to read math in prose form? so i genuinely didnt absorb anything i really just read it without internalizing it because its like man fuck if i know. kinetic energy is one half mass times velocity squared. thats nothing to me. i need it written out as an actual math formula for me to understand it and internalize it. so im kinda like... what if i reread the book. but annotated it. i never annotate books wouldnt that be fun. and as i annotate... i DO THE MATH?? that way perhaps i could appreciate the technobabble more. ultimately the prose of the technobabble im still not impressed with but at least i could appreciate the hard work that went into like, andy weir doing the math to just tell the story

but on the other hand. would rereading a book that i literally just finished within 2 days be kinda crazy or what

[oflgtfol]

ANYWAY some things i liked about the book more than i did the movie:

nuking antarctica. MAN!!! i got spoiled for that before i read the book but everyone always brought it up in the joking "stratt is crazy in the book hahaha" way. but in the book it's done so much more seriously than i was expecting. it just really drives home the stakes of the upcoming astrophage-induced climate crisis. that you need to resort to doing ecological war crimes just to have any chance at all of mitigating or delaying the death of billions of people. and having the climate scientist himself have to make the decision...... like, having to do something so utterly antithetical to your core being, to your purpose in life, something so utterly unthinkable, but this is what you' must do to have the chance to delay the much bigger disaster.... it was just absolutely nuts, and i do think that the book is able to drive home the impacts of the astrophage climate crisis much better than the movie because of this. the movie, i got the sense that yeah earth is gonna die, but in the book, before the hail mary even LAUNCHES they're already dealing with climate problems and they're already being forced to do crazy shit. it just makes the issue seem so much more urgent and you really understand just how bad things are gonna get because of that

the coma gene: even without the coma gene im still firmly on #stratt did nothing wrong, but the coma gene just makes her even more justified. when such a small percentage of humanity is able to survive a long term coma, and ryland grace is there WITH the gene and WITH the mission critical knowledge and expertise required to make the mission a success, AND the hail mary MUST launch within 3 days, it is a no fucking brainer that grace needs to go. like i get it it sucks and its terrible and i really dont know how i would react if i was in his shoes being forced into such a terrible fate, but like. i am firmly in a utilitarian mindset here, that as much as it sucks for grace, this one (1) guy does not have the right to throw the entire human species away because of that. like the coma gene really really made it urgent that it NEEDED to be grace. IT NEEDED TO BE HIM. HE NEEDED TO GO regardless of his feelings on the matter. he was the ONLY ONE. so the coma gene really shows that YES, WHILE IT SUCKS, STRATT WAS 100% JUSTIFIED IN THROWING HIM IN THERE WITHOUT HIS CONSENT. IDGAF. again even in the movie without the coma gene i'm still on her side just because of pure utilitarianism, but in the movie it plays out a lot more morally gray than it does in the book. it's still gray, but like a pretty light gray, whereas in the movie its more of a medium-dark gray

the ending. its very similar between the book and the movie but i loved that in the book grace gets a pipe organ so that he can talk to the eridians in their own language <3 <3 <3 so cute!!!! so sweet

[oflgtfol]

i was talking to a cowkrer yesterday about my iffiness on the book compared to the movie and she seemed surprised by my feelings on the book which is what is spurring this on. she said she loved the book because it was great to see the science in the book was real and actually backed by our degrees

and like yes. but she also specifically chose to read the book before she saw the movie so thats also a factor here

for me i was already like. used to that idea i guess because the movie also is incredibly accurate. i already knew everything is backed by real science with very few artistic liberties. so that novelty was already lost to me by the time i read the book

so then the only unique factor of the book was just showing the actual nitty gritty aspect of DOING science, which the movie very obviously needed to streamline. and so sure, it was fun to see the Doing Science in the book but it like, very much leaned into it in a way that i found reminiscent of the dudebro physics Im So Smart Look At Me way that irked me about quite literally doing an astronomy degree in college

the whole front that they put up that hahaha theyre so smart they dont need to look up formulas they just have everything effortlessly memorized. they can do quick back of the napkin math with everything they have memorized. theyre so much better than you because gasp you need a formula sheet. but irl you dont fucking need a formula sheet and quite frankly literally everyone needs to look up formulas except for A. the very basic physics equations, like physics 101, that you really should have memorized, and B. for those one singular "lone genuises" who dominate everyone in the academic program who i dont fucking like because they act so superior because of it. but every normal human being looks up formulas ITS FINE and you arent special because you have photographic memory

so idk. that one aspect irked me becasue for as much as the story is touted as being so realistic to real science, the way that grace just, effortlessly did everything did not seem very realistic to me. his absolute BROAD range of science beyond his unique discipline in microbiology and astrobiology (that i normally could suspend my belief in if it was just like oh he double majored!! but he DIDNT so why does he know THIS MUCH)... his ability to just whip out intense physics formulas with no reference... its just like, the only explanation is that either he IS one of those annoying physics bros who i hated in college, in which case i find him very personally unlikeable, or that andy weir just wants him to be some super cool genius, in which case i just have a personal distaste for how the narrative is, narrating

anyway again all this to say its not a bad book it was still enjoyable. i literally read it in 2 days i wouldnt have done that if i disliked it. just that there were quite a few parts of the book where im just rolling my eyes or cringing because its cringeworthy. im only writign this much on this topic, not because im genuinely hating, but again because i had this convo in-person with someone who i am very similar to and whom i have had a similar academic path to, and we had different takes so its making me reflect more on why i feel this way than i probably would have otherwise

[oflgtfol]

phm

project posting

hail posting

mary posting

madonna posting

virgin posting

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[oflgtfol]

Grace was explained in the book as one of the top experts in the world on zenobiology so him knowing a lot about space makes sense to me. Also as a self described cool teacher I feel like he would tell his students cool space stuff for fun, he quizzes them on space facts in the early chapters

sure sure but all i'm saying is that, as someone with a degree in astronomy and has been in the astronomy field for 3 years now, albeit not in an academia context, bro was spouting off facts that go beyond fun space facts to tell your 8th grade students, and was doing math that only someone with at least a bachelor's degree in astronomy should know. as in like, things that are absolutely not applicable to astrobiology. astrobiology is primarily biology and chemistry, with some planetary science, MAYBE some basic stellar physics if you decide to look at star system-level habitability.

but bro was talking about lorentz transformations (special relativity) and sun spots which are both astronomy yes, but vastly different subfields of astronomy, which suggests to me that he seems to have a wide, WIDE expertise in astronomy beyond just what astrobiology asks of him. which is where my suspension of disbelief gets a little bit too suspended. ESPECIALLY when he's doing astrophysics MATH -- like, knowing facts off the top of your head and having a conceptual understanding of something is one thing, but why do you know the mathematical FORMULAS?? not only the actual formula but also the scientific name of them? like, it's one thing to know the basic concept of special relativity where faster = time dilation, why does he know the lorentz transformation formulas off the top of his head and why does he know that they're called the lorentz transformations (instead of just like, "the relativity formulas") ?!?!??!?!?!

[fredersen]

a meba 🦠 is almost like a really really small anermal but not quite

[oflgtfol]

i feel like i need a posting tag for phm. i could go the alliteration route and just say like, project posting. which is humorously vague. or i could go the sarcastic catholic route and say like mary posting. mother posting. virgin posting. madonna posting

[oflgtfol]

hashtag just read the entirety of phm in 48 hours

[oflgtfol]

hashtag stratt did nothing absolutely nothing wrong