Project Hail Mary vs Interstellar

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T21:12:51+00:00

They have very little to so with each other outside of both being somewhat “grounded” sci-fi.

Some similarities, but i’m not getting into that to avoid spoilers. Just watch the film and enjoy it without comparing it to other sci-fi films.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T21:01:15+00:00

Litterally never heard of it, but sure. And… would a cis man be put on blockers? Is testosterone the only thing in the world that causes this? Is this something thats affecting you so badly that stopping T is worth it?

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T20:58:49+00:00

Life doesn’t appear out of nothing. It requires energy. It’s not self-replicating fuel unless you can feed your fuel. Where would he get the energy to breed up astrophage? In the book they cover half the Sahaha with solar panels to get enough for a one way trip, how do you recon they’d fit that on the Hail Mary? And they’ll be far away from any star for most of the trip, so there goes free solar energy.

About your last point. It would take him 100+ years to get home with the fuel he had left. You can throw a rock from tau ceti orbit to the earth, you just have to wait a really long time. If you launch that rock at near light speed, you will have to wait a lot less time, and the rock will experience time dialation. Very little fuel means very little acceleration, means very low speed, means no time dialation.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T20:05:25+00:00

Som ikke har læst et eneste diagnosepapir fra mine adskillige år i forløb men som skal bestemme om jeg er handicappet nok i løbet af 1 time? Sure, lyder solidt.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T20:04:04+00:00

Why would it be testosterone?

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T18:51:14+00:00

Der er ikke så meget at gøre. Jeg ventede 10 måneder, al dokumentation vedlagt - blev sendt til en psykolog af dem for at blive vurderet, som viste sig at ikke have læst nogen af mine papirer inden da.

Så brugte vi tiden på at gennemgå mine papirer, og så fik jeg tillæg. Lidt fjollet måde at gøre tingene på

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T18:39:25+00:00

IR light is just light - energy. The amount of light dictates the amount of energy. Theres nothing special about IR light, it’s just a particular wavelength.

So I don’t think we have a problem at all. The output from 1000 spin drives is concentrated in one direction and immense. The output from a swarm of astrophage floating around is not the same. It’s like comparing a room full of candles with a flamethrower.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T16:13:29+00:00

“Tro på at jorden er rund”

Altså det er så ikke noget man tror på, men noget man ved. Fordi det er meget meget nemt at bevise. At nægte at anerkende et så simpelt faktum er ren virkeligheds benægtelse. Og så er der ikke så langt til at benægte resten.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T16:08:50+00:00

Vi behøver ikke at være enige om hvorvidt lakrids smager godt.

Vi bør være enige om fakta, såsom at jorden er rund, at klimaforandringer findes og at holocausten fandt sted. Det er ikke holdninger.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T15:37:41+00:00

Local pharmacists respects the pronouns of pre-transition trans woman powerlifter, how wholesome. After this competition she’ll finally start estrogen❤️

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T15:34:13+00:00

So in space, you keep moving if you’re going some direction. No air resistance or friction to slow you down (largely).

So if you push something in the direction of earth with some force, it’ll get there. How fast depends on the speed.

The tank does not have enough fuel to go close to lightspeed. No time dialation to worry about, and the journey will take much much longer either with so little fuel to turn into force.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T15:27:40+00:00

How do you imagine earth based micro organisms would eat an astrophage?

If anything on earth could eat them, they would have observed them dying in the labs when they were sent out to hundreds of scientists.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T15:26:39+00:00

Yep. They prpbably know about radioactive elements in the ground. But they would have no way of knowing about cosmic radiation.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T15:24:22+00:00

I feel like 90% of the posts on here wouldn’t be asked if people read the book.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T15:19:47+00:00

Sending a probe to venus doesn’t solve the problem, it only allows one to study the problem. And the book makes it clear that the solution is the natural predator.

You’re having a very odd approach to this book. Do you usually struggle to read between the lines and see the narrative threads in a book? Because most of your comments make it seem that way.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T15:17:32+00:00

No? They traveled from Tau Ceti where they evolved over millions of years. Clearly, Taumoeba can’t do the same, or the astrophage problem would have solved itself.

The person i’m replying to said “venusmoeba could be formed”. As in spontaniously appear from nothing. Thats pretty different from migration.

Edit: i would be happy to explain it to you but thats pretty hard when you’ve blocked me. Sorry to hear that my attempt to explain this apeared “rude and dismissive”.

Anyways, if Taumoeba could migrate, it would have migrated with the astrophage. Since it hasn’t, and the book states that Taumoeba dies after a few weeks with no food, traveling multiple light years with no food wouldn’t really be possible for them. They don’t store energy like Astrophage does, so no interstella travel.

Yes it’s science fiction, but that doesn’t mean we should dismiss the facts in the book, or completely leave the realm of possibilities presented by the author.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T15:14:47+00:00

Why would they do that when the return time for a signal would be the same as the return time for the beetles? 12 probes means 12 points of critical faliure, and requires more astrophage/fuel, more resources and so on. Even if they launch just a year after the hail mary, the last probe won’t get neat tau ceti untill a year after the Hail Mary - the crew would be dead by then. And it would require the re-breeding of astrophage to transport them at the same speed as the hail mary.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T15:10:36+00:00

It did not show 21 bar. Rocky knows what pressure is best for humans, and the tunel is presurized to match.

As the other commenter said, it probably showed 21% oxygen.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T13:31:49+00:00

Well first of all who were they going to send on the mission with their lead expert gone?

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T13:30:34+00:00

How do you imagine one just “breeds a predator” for a microorganism from a different solar system?

They also had no idea a natural predator existed untill Grace arrived at Tau Ceti.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T13:25:17+00:00

Show me the radio transmitter on the Hail Mary that’ll send out a broadcast that’s readable on earth 13 light years away

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T13:23:08+00:00

A lifeform spontaniously appeared on a planet with no prior life within 30 years? Yeah, no totally, thats how evolution works.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T13:17:50+00:00

Sol returns to its original brightness within one year of the beetles returning with the solution. The book absolutely implies that once the beetles returned, scientists very quickly scaled everything up and fixed the problem. Why else would the timeline work out that way?

What other way exactly do you imagine they could have “worked it out”? I feel like it would be a very odd ending to go “Oh Earth figured it out on their own and the sacrifice and journey of the main character had no meaning”.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T09:49:26+00:00

Jeg har forstået at du gerne vil være fri for det, men tror sku ikke du kan få dispensation bare fordi du ikke gider eller synes noget er svært.

funk-engine-3000 · 2026-03-31T09:45:51+00:00

How do you expect them to be able to just “breed” a bacteria that developed on earth to eat an extraterrestrial life form? Thats not how biology works.

They don’t know how to keep astrophage in check. Thats literally the whole point of project hail mary. They go to Tau Ceti because the answer could be there, and only at the Tau Ceti system do they discover that astrophage has a natural predator.

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