Finished it in 32 miles of pounding up & down the trail. The title alone conjured the imagination. Long ago, Carl Segan said one day we would find life on Mars & the martians would be us. The title was obviously a play on that nugget.
It definitely has a few flaws. The mathematical descriptions sometimes get tedious, yet some of his solutions to problems are over simplified & wouldn't really work. It's technical sounding enough to sound like everything is factual. Sounding accurate is what it does better than any other book.
Otherwise, it works. It's easy enough to see how the general direction in the hacking of the various parts could work in real life. It's interesting to see how many different ways the oxygenator & water reclaimer could be basterdized to do virtually any task & to imagine a world where NASA produced stuff that really did work. If the movie is done right, it could invigorate a lot of interest in funding a space program, for a time. A book isn't accessible enough to reach enough people, but a movie might.
There were many attempts to make a movie about traveling to Mars. None got it right, showing how hard the task was. This one might get it right.
In other news, Fitbit finally had their IPO, but more importantly in today's terms, was valued at $4 billion. In creating unlimited free credit, Old Yellen solved the problem of monetizing private data that companies had no right to sell. They would just sell
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