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> which is otherwise a hard sci-fi book Hard sci-fi is still a story and doesn't need to nail everything. And it had other pretty "unrealistic" moments that pu
by throwbadubadu 3y ago
> which is otherwise a hard sci-fi book
Hard sci-fi is still a story and doesn't need to nail everything. And it had other pretty "unrealistic" moments that put me more off than the storm. Foremost, how they fixed the missed orbital rendezvous, no never going to happen that way. Or that they could just revert their home flight and go once more back and back again, how much delta-v would that be, never could have had that much extra fuel at least in that world... and other minor things, but still superb story.
- NotSammyHagar 3y agoI thought in the martian they just looped the earth to go back, and then there was the supply rocket problem. They didn't do anything silly like just use the rocket to turn around and go straight back iirc.