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Barry 2021-10-13 13:06:59
Breakthrough and Dilemma
Compared with "Interstellar", the biggest feature of "The Martian" is to keep your duty safe. There is no such big ambition, no deliberate sensation, no rise to the height of all mankind, and it is this kind of steadiness that makes this film satisfactory in terms of entertainment. Not...
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Barry 2021-10-13 13:07:00
The feeling of the illiterate watching "The Martian"
For my illiterate, the process of watching "The Martian" is full of exciting reversals.
At the beginning of the story, there was a dust storm on Mars and the American expedition was forced to leave early. Unfortunately, Matt Duomo was blown away. I thought that the team members would find...
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Bruce Ng: Okay, um, I'm going to start by stating for the record, you are not going to like this.
Vincent Kapoor: Oh yeah.
Mitch Henderson: Yeah. The problem is the intercept velocity. The Hermes, well... it... it... can't enter Mars orbit, otherwise they will never have enough fuel to make it home. The MAV is only designed to enter low Mars orbit. So in order for Mark to escape Mars' gravity entirely to intercept with Hermes...
Vincent Kapoor: He has to be going fast.
Mitch Henderson: Exactly.
Bruce Ng: Which means we need to make the MAV lighter. A lot lighter. Five thousand kilograms lighter.
Vincent Kapoor: But you can do that, right?...
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Mitch Henderson: He's not even got to the bad parts yet.
Vincent Kapoor: Well, let's get to the bad parts.
Bruce Ng: We need to remove the nose LR, the windows, and the whole of panel 19.
Vincent Kapoor: You want to take the front of the ship off?
Bruce Ng: Sure. The nose alone is four hundred kilograms.
Vincent Kapoor: You want to send a man into space without the front of his ship?
Bruce Ng: Well, no. We are going to have him cover it with HAB canvas. The hull is mostly there to keep air in. Mars' atmosphere is so thin, you do not need a lot of streamlining. By the time the ship is going fast enough for air resistance to matter, it'll be high enough that there will be practically no air.
Vincent Kapoor: You want to send him into space under a tarp?
Bruce Ng: Yes. Can I go on?
Vincent Kapoor: [exasperated] NO!
