/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11845264
>>11845270
Tell me about it
We are lucky it still look like a nuclear propulsion spaceship in the end. (still have a lot of part that would be hard to launch and assemble in orbit)
I wouldn't be surprised if they based their choices on having already "ISS looking" 3D model in their database. It would take more time to make the "planned" Hermes look awesome.

>>11845264
>Still, I’d love to see a movie with pic related as the main ship.
Only if we make it a deliberately rocketpunk story with the US still in a cold war against the evil commies and everyone have slide rulers because there's no magic "computing thingy".

>>11794354
that pic makes me rage like nothing else, there will be nothing left but ruins by 2100. It's not gonna get better.

>>7733057

Nice point-by-point rebuttal. No wonder you failed your humanities courses.

Anyway, ftfy. The Martian takes into account real-world physics, astrophysics, botany, biology, technological limits, NASA bureaucratic limitations, resupplies, rationing, speed of light delaying communications, etc. because it was written by a Hard SF autist...Ridley Scott left most of that science untouched, to his huge credit. Contrast that with Christopher "Love Dimension" Nolan, who cherry-picked Kip Thorne's input in an attempt to give his soggy, laden screenplay gravitas.

The scene where Watney and NASA have to build a shit-tier communications device using hexadecimal coding and a failed probe to communicate, in order to bootstrap a more efficient information exchange, was particularly brilliant and realistic.

I think it's fashionable on 4chins to hate on it because of Watney's gallows humor about his desperate situation ("Science the shit out of this") and it's upbeat, can-do tone, as opposed to Nolan's relentless feel-baiting (OMG SO SAD QT3.1416 LEFT ALONE ON PLANET BY HERSELF. ;_; :-((((((( )...