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SOL 420 (smoke moondust erry day y'all -- just kidding, Mom!)
Watney: I'mma firin' up the boosters to 60 giga-pirate-ninjas!
Venkat: Excuse me, but I believe the NASA standard conversion is 1 giga-pirate-ninja to 3.14 (see what I did there? If you do, you're a big nerd, you nerd) mega-zombie-joules.
Watney: Sir, I have developed a program called Monkey^Cheese (a fork of a little something called Da_SPoRK_of_DOOM) that definitively concludes that my pirate-ninjas would beat your zombie-joules in an ...more
Watney: I'mma firin' up the boosters to 60 giga-pirate-ninjas!
Venkat: Excuse me, but I believe the NASA standard conversion is 1 giga-pirate-ninja to 3.14 (see what I did there? If you do, you're a big nerd, you nerd) mega-zombie-joules.
Watney: Sir, I have developed a program called Monkey^Cheese (a fork of a little something called Da_SPoRK_of_DOOM) that definitively concludes that my pirate-ninjas would beat your zombie-joules in an ...more

I wanted to finish this before I saw the movie, and I'm glad that I did - I'll be interested to see how it compares.
There is a lot of YEAH SCIENCE in this book, which is cool, but it gets a little dense at times. there were definitely times I was skimming sections to get the broad idea - I don't need to know all the exact measurements all the time. ...more
There is a lot of YEAH SCIENCE in this book, which is cool, but it gets a little dense at times. there were definitely times I was skimming sections to get the broad idea - I don't need to know all the exact measurements all the time. ...more

I kind of recommend this to everyone.


Jun 24, 2015
Bryonna
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Lingkan Rei
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