Questions tagged [the-martian]
A film adaption of a science fiction novel by Andy Weir framed as the journal of Mark Watney as he attempts to survive alone on Mars after being abandoned there in an emergency. It features Matt Damon and is directed by Ridley Scott.
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Was the film Red Planet from 2000 an inspiration for Andy Weir's The Martian?
Did Andy Weir ever acknowledge using Antony Hoffman's 2000 movie Red Planet as an inspiration for his 2011 book and eventual 2015 film The Martian?
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In "The Martian", why did they catch the probe?
In "The Martian", why did they need to catch the probe after they already changed the plan to not support Mark with food, but pick him up from the orbit.
Did they need the supply because the ...
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What is the programming language seen in The Martian?
In the "systems shutdown" scene in The Martian, they show some code. Is that a real programming language (best guess Haskell) or just some hacking-movie-fake-code-with-random-math thing?
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Colonizing Mars with Crops
In The Martian, after Mark Watney reestablishes contact with Earth, he says this:
I’ve gotten e-mail from rock stars, athletes, actors and actresses,
and even the President.
One of them was from my ...
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Why were the Pathfinder images in "The Martian" split?
In the movie "The Martian" (2015), Mark sends an image to the JPL team asking "Are you receiving me? Yes No". The JPL team then received multiple images that are then moved around. ...
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Was a supercomputer really needed in "The Martian"?
In "The Martian", Rich Parnell uses a supercomputer to calculate a life saving slingshot trajectory that allows Watney to be saved.
The entire film is renowned for its scientific care, so I was ...
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Why does Mark have to move to the Schiaparelli Crater? [closed]
In The Martian, why does Mark have to move to the Schiaparelli Crater? How does he get there, and what is the problem with that?
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Why does Mark say he hasn't had a shower for a year and a half?
In the movie The Martian, why does Mark Watney say he hasn't had a shower after reuniting with the Hermes crew when he's shown to actually come out of the shower fully naked and shave that very day?
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Why does Mark lose so much weight in the end?
In the movie The Martian, why does Mark Watney lose so much weight as to literally start eating himself by Sol 561 when, according to Vincent, he has enough potatoes to last him till Sol 609, or 48 ...
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Why can't the second MAV reach the Hermes?
In the beginning of The Martian, the first MAV can reach orbiting Hermes just fine with 5 passengers on board. Yet towards the end of the movie, we are shown that the second MAV needs to lose weight ...
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How did they manage the return home?
After blowing up the airlock to slow down sufficiently to rescue Mark at the end of The Martian, how did the crew make it back to Earth with the change in velocity having exhausted all their fuel?
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How did NASA astronauts launch the pod from Mars, though they were at millions of Kilometres away?
I watched The Martian (2015) not long ago and it has finally dawned on me why it looked a bit weird:
When Mark was stranded on Mars because of a dust storm, back on Earth they hold a funeral for him. ...
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Why would Watney write his own name?
Why would Watney write his name after he wrote a communication?
When Watney was asking how the launch to get him supplies he writes this below:
Being that he is the only one to be communicating with ...
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Why didn't Mark Watney start digging downward?
I've watched The Martian and I've read the book, yet I still don't understand one thing.
If he ran out of horizontal space for crops, why didn't Mark Watney start digging downward?
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Pertaining to The Martian, what is the ratio of SOLs to Earth days?
I didn't see an explanation in the movie. How many days pass on Earth when one SOL passes on Mars?
I heard a reference of two months passing, but I thought only (counts)....less than 50 SOLs had ...
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