🌞 Dean's Newsletter #36

Project Hail Mary

Jun 9, 2021

📕 Project Hail Mary

This week I binged my way through the audiobook for Andy Weir’s latest book, Project Hail Mary. If you liked The Martian, you’ll love this. A hard science fiction space drama filled with science puzzles and challenges as well as relatable characters. The things I share below are related, but shouldn’t be too much as far as spoilers go.

🦠 Evolution

I’ve shared a video about this before, but it’s cool enough that I’ll share it again. This is the evolution of a bacteria essentially happening before your eyes.

🛬 Docking a Ship

Moving a ship in space can be tricky. If you want to give a try you can do it right in your browser with this SpaceX ISS Docking Simulator.

👋 First Contact

The challenge of figuring out how communicating with an intelligence from another planet. Here’s a couple fun videos about projects that have actually made some attempts to do this.

🧗🏻 Normalizers

“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

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Thanks for reading.

Be sure to check out my previous posts.

Hit reply and tell me what you enjoyed and if you read the book let me know! I’d love to discuss.

-Dean

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