The Martian (2015)

vostok

vostok

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I'm reading the The Martian , a film out this September, and so far its great,
he's a plant botanist and engineer left behind by his buddies, heres the blurb

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

Beginning in March, filming is set to commence in southern Jordan, at Wadi Rum, also known as the Valley of the Moon, an iconic landscape used in films as far back as Lawrence of Arabia. The location has previously been used for Martian landscapes for scenes set on the planet, such as in the films Red Planet and The Last Days on Mars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)
 
vostok

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This is why I'm reading the story first ...I'm no fan of Matt Damon, I'll bet his character is this film will be no different than his 'role' in Interstellar

the book I'll give 9/10 the film 6/10?
 
Yessica...

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That trailer makes the movie look amazing! Fingers crossed.

Hope the book is great, review when you're done.
 
vostok

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Why 'we' are not on Mars now ...is just crazy, its only about 4 years away(depending on what engine is used)...
4 years thats about average lockup time for a Brit with 5-15 plants in the UK ...the real deal is once humans are in space, its only time to reach the destinatiion
the hard part of getting off earth is already done

Can I say that if the USA stayed out of the middle east and Iraqi ..that 'we' could be almost there...?

now we leave it for the Indians the Chinese and others with very high secret agendas ..?
 
bravedave

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Growan said:
I never get time to read so I do audio books instead. Player of Games is one of my favourites
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I have forgotton so much. I have to re-read them. They were mind bending. Can't remember which one, but it opens with a human head on life support, but fully conscious with his man-servant or similar there. The man-servant had just received a package for the "head" guy, but was reluctant to give it to him or tell him who it was from. The "head", if I remember, demands to know. It turns our it was from the guy that blew him up leaving just the head. The gift was a hat. :)
 
bravedave

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vostok said:
Why 'we' are not on Mars now ...is just crazy, its only about 4 years away(depending on what engine is used)...
4 years thats about average lockup time for a Brit with 5-15 plants in the UK ...the real deal is once humans are in space, its only time to reach the destinatiion
the hard part of getting off earth is already done

Can I say that if the USA stayed out of the middle east and Iraqi ..that 'we' could be almost there...?

now we leave it for the Indians the Chinese and others with very high secret agendas ..?
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Unfortunate the US did not stay there till they had recouped the entire cost of the operation...yes...in oil. We are running Iraq, there is no Isis or Assad for that matter. Obama is the reason we are not on Mars.
 
bravedave

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GrowUrOwnDank said:
How did this thread go from being a book review to critizing war and real world politics? Things that make you go hmmmmm
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Just following the OPs lead. ;) It doesn't have to go any further. Fiction is fine.
Btw...
Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory, is not sci-fi, but a must read. Might be his first book...it started me reading the rest. It will also make you go "hmmm".
 
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Growan

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bravedave said:
Just following the OPs lead. ;) It doesn't have to go any further. Fiction is fine.
Btw...
Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory, is not sci-fi, but a must read. Might be his first book...it started me reading the rest. It will also make you go "hmmm".
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In all his Sci fi stuff he has the M in his name, for his gritty real life stuff he's Iain Banks. Helps to know what you're getting into. These Scottish writers tend to have a bit of a dark side...
 
vostok

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GrowUrOwnDank said:
How did this thread go from being a book review to critizing war and real world politics? Things that make you go hmmmmm
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lol....my book review(punt) of a forthcoming film, asking the obvious question, of which the book/film implies 'why we ain't at Mars yet?' what better subject for 'Toke N Talk'
 
vostok

vostok

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bravedave said:
Just following the OPs lead. ;) It doesn't have to go any further. Fiction is fine.
Btw...
Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory, is not sci-fi, but a must read. Might be his first book...it started me reading the rest. It will also make you go "hmmm".
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On January 23, 2015, SpaceX's CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk named two of the company's spaceport drone ships Just Read The Instructions and Of Course I Still Love You, after ships from Banks' novel The Player Of Game

The asteroid (5099) Iainbanks was named after him shortly after his death.

Banks and Hartley commenced a relationship in 2006, and married on 29 March 2013 after he asked her to "do me the honour of becoming my widow".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Banks
 
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