A key theme in The Martian by Andy Weir is to persevere through difficult situations, even when you feel that you have no hope. “Of course, I don’t have any plan for surviving four years on one year of food. But one thing at a time here. For now, I’m well fed and have a purpose: fix the damn radio.” -Mark Watney (page 11) This reveals Mark’s ability to take one issue at a time and not give up hope. He knows the odds are against him, but he stays optimistic, tackling issue by issue. “Remember
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In the late 20th century, we began to explore Mars. These studies were not conducted through a telescope, but the much more advanced technology of interplanetary probes. In 1964, lead by multiple prior failures, two unmanned missions to Mars, the Mariner 3 and 4, were launched. The Mariner 3, was a battery-powered spacecraft designed to make scientific measurements of, and to obtain photographs of the planet's surface and transmit these to Earth. The mission was predicted to last about 8 months
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to the planet Earth. It is located in about 500 light-years from Earth and sails through its habitable zone, resulting to potentially watery surface. The planet was put outside the edge of the habitable zone from the fact that in only gets about one-third of the energy from its star compared to Earth. Though researchers find a potentially habitable planet we still need to surmount the problem of getting there or surviving the trip. (Anonymous, 2007) stated that we still don’t have the idea on
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I found it interesting to see how the author incorporated this real-life event that happened on October 30, 1938, where H.G Wells did a broadcast on the radio called, “War of the worlds” that caused chaos to break loose. It is important to note that this was just a skit and Martians had never touched earth, so the green person that Dona sees is really a normal New Yorker not an alien. Through the green person making a face when seeing the lentils, the author shows us that people are not willing to
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War of the Worlds is a movie about Martians invading the east coast. The movie starts out with Rays kids, Robbie and Rachel, coming to stay with him for the weekend, and all the power and electricity going out. There was lightning strikes the ground started to shake and crack Martians came out. The Martians have Heat Rays which made people that were trying to runaway disappear. Ray realizes how dangerous this situation is, so he went to his friends service station and got a car. He was begging the
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We are off! Me and 499 people are off to go to the planet Mars. We are going to live in Marsavaction (Mars-a-vacation) Space Station. I know you are probably wondering how are these people all going to fit on Mars. Well, Mars is not too big or too small. People will be living in groups with their families. So if you are alone, you might be paired up with someone else. In this space station there will be a places for games/relaxing, a gym, cemetery, courtroom, restrooms, work office, school, meeting
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He comes at me like he hasn’t eaten for years Making me sweating like it’s raining My clothes are all screaming “no!”… My skin is all red I rub my eyes thinking the blurriness in front of me is because of my vision Oh no! It’s the heat waves Blocking my view with little squiggly lines in the air Making everything distorted… And I trace back to this ancient myth The story begins with this crazy little town With many gods governing the Earth This god, Humacus has a son Who thinks that
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COLONONIZING MARS AND BUILDING SMART HOTELS Recently, space tourism and space colonization topics on the agenda. The works of NASA has reached so far and today, “life in the Mars” is not a dream. With these technological developments in space science, people had started thinking about going Mars trips. So many businessmen already spent so much money on space tourism. In this case, what comes to mind is, if today, it is possible to travel to Mars, why would not be impossible not to live there
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but more specifically Mars and Venus. In the first steps it outlines the summary of this unit. The steps that the students have to take in studying these planets are outlined in the objectives. There are three cognitive objectives, one psychomotor, and one affective objective. The students will take this new knowledge of these planets and have to compare and contrast it with each other as well as weather on Earth. They will then have to assemble their own measuring tool for Mars or Venus and then have
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