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A Real-Life Space Botanist Comments On the Potato Garden In 'The Martian' (cnet.com)
MarkWhittington writes: In the hit movie, The Martian, stranded astronaut Mark Watney famously survives on Mars by creating a potato garden using Martian soil mixed in with composted human excrement. According to a story in CNET, NASA believes that the movie is on the right track as far as astronauts growing their own food on long-duration space missions. However, some caveats exists concerning how the film depicted space agriculture.
If you're wondering how Matt Damon eats or breathes, and other science facts.
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You should remind yourself it's just a show I should really just relax.
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A few years ago I saw a comedian on TV who was talking about watching Dr. Doolittle with his wife who happened to be a lawyer. When Dr. Doolittle's wife offered to defend him in a court case, the lawyer wife said "That would never happen in real life, the court would never let a spouse represent a defendant". The comedian responded with "Did you miss the part 5 minutes ago where they had a talking alligator?"
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>My favorite example was "Gravity" where orbital dynamics where simply ignored wholesale, mainly because what would take weeks/months/years to develop in reality, needed to happen on much shorter time frames for the sake of the story. If you liked the movie, I'll bet you didn't notice this the first time you watched it.
I gotta tell you, my grasp of orbital mechanics is at Kerbal levels, but that was enough that it ruined major portions of Gravity for me.
It would have been better if the movie (like Interstellar) hadn't been promoted as scientifically accurate when there was obviously no real intention to make it so.
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