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This is Dr. Captain Ryland Grace reporting from the Hail Mary.
go watch (and read) project hail mary right now. this instant. go go go . go. go.
its never too late for 2026 resolutions
Protect the disco ball.
"They come to my class every day. And they’re all going to end up in a Mad Max nightmare world if we don’t solve this problem. Yeah, I was wrong about the water. I don’t care about that. I care about those kids. So give me some gosh-darned Astrophage!"
project hail mary + book quotes 2/?
PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller // PROJECT HAIL MARY (2021) by Andy Weir
another project hail mary observation:
Rocky’s gift to Grace immediately reminded me of the Voyager Pulsar Map
When Rocky gives him that little model with all the connected points and lines, Grace somehow catches on almost instantly that Rocky is from 40 Eridani. And at first i was like how the hell did he recognize that pattern so fast???
And then it clicked for me...
It visually mirrors the pulsar map placed on the Voyager probe. I'm aware they work differently because the Voyager Pulsar Map is about locating Earth in the galaxy using fixed pulsar landmarks, while Rocky’s model is just mapping local star distances from 40 eridani to systems like Tau Ceti, but it’s just cool because they’re alike in the way they both use spatial patterns instead of language to show where something is from and how to get there.
The concept is so similar that your brain immediately associates it with “location,” “origin,” “this is where i am from”
If you don't know, the pulsar map on Voyager was basically humanity trying to leave behind an address in space. If extraterrestrial life ever found the probe, the map could theoretically help them trace where it came from. It was humanity saying: hey, you found our probe. Please return to Earth!
I like to think that is why Grace understood it so quickly. Because even without language, the idea behind it is strangely universal. Every intelligent life form wants to know the same things:
where are you from? how far away are you from me?
grace is such an unreliable narrator because wdym you think you're underqualified? even before he boarded the hail mary, his “normal life” was literally being one of the people saving the planet and quickly became stratt's right hand.
he has a phd in molecular biology, he named astrophage, he was in the room when astrophage was identified and explained, he helped figure out how it feeds on stellar energy, he contributed to figuring how it reproduces so it could even be studied in labs. and he didn’t just observe it, he helped build the actual scientific understanding of it from the ground up.
and the crazy part is even his colleagues are clearly in awe of him?? they talk to him like he’s this genius who’s miles ahead of them and he just brushes it off like it’s nothing.
bro is not “just a middle school science teacher who got lucky,” he’s the guy everyone turns to when the problem is literally “the sun is dying” and somehow he still thinks he’s the least qualified person in the room.
all all all
this one goes out to the phm big bang artists who introduced rocky to fidget toys
maybe we should trust love, even if we can't yet understand it
«A Patchwork of Hope» 👎
Not romantic nor platonic but a secret nuking Antarctica third option
im sorry for ever making fun of men basing their entire personality off of ryan gosling in drive because im a massive hypocrite and im basing my personality off of ryan gosling in project hail mary
ryland grace who are you? ryland grace why did you choose to study molecular biology, did you have a scholarship, where did you go to school? ryland grace what happened to your family? ryland grace do you have any siblings, cousins? ryland grace what’s your favourite song? ryland grace did you take spanish classes in high school? ryland grace have you ever had a crush? ryland grace does anyone ever call you by your given name? ryland grace did you ever play sports? ryland grace, besides your work, what makes you happy? ryland grace how can i read over 400 pages of a window into your mind, and still not know a thing about you? ryland grace, when all is said and done, and the memory loss goes away, are you still left wondering who you are?
Hail Mary Full of Grace
if you were wondering what reading bsd is like it's basically chekov coming in and slowly placing more and more guns on the table in front of the writer as the writer watches. and then the writer looks into the camera, breaking the fourth wall and goes "that's a lot of guns. my weapon of choice is actually a sword" and then spawns a fucking sword out of nowhere and cuts all the guns in halves
Eva Stratt didn't send Grace into space to die.
The death of the astronauts was never the point. They will all die, and most more horribly than whatever method the Hail Mary crew can choose in space eventually. But they were send on a mission.
She sends Grace because she has full faith that he can do something deeply meaningful there with the time he is given.
She is not sacrificing his life. She is sacrificing his choice to refuse. Because she loves the entirety of their planet more than his ability to choose where to die.
But, at least in the movie, it is act of faith in him that is absolutely immense. It is also an act of love.
She knows that he will find his feet, that he will put himself to work, that he will make his best effort to find answers, in whatever way his unique and agile brain can. And that he will find meaning it that, too. Because he is a fundamentally good and brave person, underneath the constant, deflecting, terrified insecurity.
There is no universe where he could have lived in peace, free of crippling (justified) shame, had he gotten his way and stayed. Not with a quantifiable cost of human lives attached, running in the billions, just from the delay alone. His life was over the moment of the explosion. The choice to go existed and it was always going to be the full realization of Ryland Grace as a person, or his obliteration. The way he draws up his glasses, pulls on his hat, retreating into an empty shell, "I don't have it in me", that was a kind of death, too.
"This may seem like me betraying you, but it's actually me believing in you."
"You'll do great, you know who you are."
When Grace buries Yao and Ilyukhina, the most meaningful thing he can find to say about these strangers is "You were very loved". And they were. It's why they went.
But so was he. In so far as faith in the best parts of a person, the refusal to let them be destroyed, can be a variant of love.