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It has a couple problems. Like a windstorm that can tip their spacecraft and knocks a radar dish into the protagonist. But later, the atmosphere is so thin he d
by aqme28 9y ago
It has a couple problems. Like a windstorm that can tip their spacecraft and knocks a radar dish into the protagonist. But later, the atmosphere is so thin he doesn't need a nose on his rocket.
Also there's no way you can grow that many potatoes on mars with a solar array that size.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago> Like a windstorm that can tip their spacecraft and knocks a radar dish into the protagonist. This is literally one of the two cases in which Andy explicitly said he used artistic license and departed from realism. The other one being super-efficient radiation shielding on Hermes which he didn't in any way explain in the book.