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So they were worried that this might be the end of Mark because he might not be able to get power for his rover power for his life support through this dust storm because he’s powering everything from selection they should have known wasn’t going to be the case because there’s like eight more chapters after he enters the dust storm so of course he’s not going to die. But he didn’t know that because dust storms are very gradual things you don’t really notice that the air is getting easier and easier until you’re in the thick of it. So the problem that we face as we start chapter 23 is Mark Watney has been driving to skapar le crater in the rover, and the people from earth who can no longer contact him have seen from satellites that there is a giant dust storm heading Marc’s way. So Alex, why don’t you explain to us why what he’s doing with the solar panels and figuring out the dust storm and all that. And also a little bit of pregnancy brain where sometimes I don’t feel like doing the work. I’ve still got some major pregnancy congestion, so bear with me. Okay, you guys, I just just to preempt the rest of the show. Let’s go ahead and jump on into the Martian. There was no there was no getting around it.
Terrigenesis on iOS, Android, and Windows. For terraforming haĪnd in case you would ever like to try your hand at terraforming? Yes, we have a game for paving the way for people like Mark Watney. It’s going to do some chemistry tests to see about supporting human life, you know, see if it can produce oxygen from the Martian atmosphere and things like that.
It’s going to look for signs of life, it’s going to look for signs of past life, it’s going to be that test to try to see if I can get something to fly. It’s going to do a lot of the stuff that Mars rovers often do. I don’t really know what it plans on doing. Nice little insight from a seventh grader. Yeah, that’s all explorers have to have that.Įxactly. You know, before curiosity before insight before spirit before opportunity, you have to have perseverance. But the most important thing, the thing that will take us into space is perseverance. He wrote, he wrote an essay about how other rovers on Mars Curiosity, insight, spirit, opportunity, these are all qualities that we possess as humans. Have you heard about the male perseverance? So they held a contest among K through 12 students all across the country to name the new rover and a seventh grade student named Alexander Mathur, in Virginia, just got the ring of trustworthiness and genius.
The other thing that I really enjoy about the perseverance rover is where it got its name. I heard today that the engines are based on 50 year old technology, like it was so good then, that they’ve just kind of reiterated a little bit, but it’s, it sounds like it’s pretty much the same thing, which I think is really cool. And especially tricky considering that Mars’s atmosphere is only half of 1% as thick as Earth’s. But it’s also the it’s carrying a helicopter that is going to try to be the first powered flight on another planet, which is cool. So perseverance is cool for a lot of reasons. I mean, in real life, it’s a planet of robots. But it’s a it is a planet of robots, which I think is fantastic. But first we need to talk about the news of the day, which is the landing of the perseverance rover, it touchdown just a couple of hours ago on the surface of Mars, and I think that’s pretty cool. This week we are talking about chapters 23, 24 and 25 of The Martian by Andy Weir. And this is a show where we talk about science and entertainment.