![]() ![]() "Leather Goddesses of Phobos" was purely a text adventure and did not have a title screen as such. Watney comments on Johanssen having Infocom games "Zork 2" and "Leather Goddesses of Phobos" on her personal laptop and then we see the title screen for "Leather Goddesses of Phobos". Hermes crew members twice use the term "altitude control" when they were talking about "attitude control".Įven if the engineers didn't include it in the procedure, Watney would know to count all the fasteners he removes from the capsule and make sure they're all discarded OUTSIDE the capsule before launch to prevent injury from them bouncing around like bullets inside during ascent. Mark Watney says that if exposed to space without a pressurized suit he would implode, but in fact he would explode. ASCII (and alphabets generally) are not inherently linked to hexadecimal numbers however, without this NASA would not have been able to communicate the changes to the code of the rover. Even if Watney was insistent on using ASCII, he could have used decimal representations of ASCII (three-digit ASCII is only used for lowercase letters and characters he'd have no need of, so NASA could still represent any value with two characters), where he'd only need ten characters plus a question card and hence could have 33 degrees of separation instead of 23, increasing his disambiguation by 50%. ![]() NASA can see Watney's question card, so Watney could have written out an explanation to his base-6 code for NASA to follow. Watney could have made an alphabet with only six characters - NASA could represent 36 different values (all 26 letters and 10 digits) using two characters per value (same as ASCII), and Watney would maintain 51 degrees of separation between characters (including the question card) and thereby eliminate risk of ambiguity. What he is showing is the second pressing.Ī scientist like Watney should have realized that the hexadecimal system he uses with Pathfinder is unnecessarily complex - Watney complained that using a full alphabet would give him only 13 degrees of separation between letters, but with sixteen hexadecimal characters (plus the question card he adds), there's only 21 degrees of separation between characters, and hence still a high risk of ambiguity. The cover shows Fernando at the top of the tracklist but the first pressing only had Fernando as a bonus track and it wasn't listed on the cover. On a video call when Commander Lewis' husband shows her the Abba album he bought in a market he states it is a first pressing. Quindar tones have not been used since the early 1980s. Quindar tones (those iconic beeps before and after an astronaut speaks) can be occasionally heard when the crew is communicating with each other and NASA. ![]()
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