Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir

And it’s not just sudden terror. It’s a cozy, comfortable terror with a permanent seat at the table. I’ve felt it for a long time.

“We fell in poop and came out smelling like roses,”

Sometimes, the stuff we all hate ends up being the only way to do things.

Deadline-induced quality issues: a problem all over the galaxy.

“Discrepancy is science. You think about discrepancy. Make theory. You is science human.”

It’s an amoeba from Tau Ceti. “Taumoeba, I guess.” Taumoeba. The savior of Earth and Erid. Hopefully.

fifty thousand years, right up to the industrial revolution, human civilization was about one thing and one thing only: food. Every culture that existed put most of their time, energy, manpower, and resources into food. Hunting it, gathering it, farming it, ranching it, storing it, distributing it…it was all about food. “Even the Roman Empire. Everyone knows about the emperors, the armies, and the conquests. But what the Romans really invented was a very efficient system of acquiring farmland and transportation of food and water.”

Food glorious food