Have you seen “The Martian”? A Matt Damon movie based on Andy Weir’s book?
So this Mars mission is evacuated due to a dust storm, but a piece of equipment falls off, rendering Mark Watney unconscious and disabling his spacesuit, so his crew leaves him. Everyone thinks he’s dead, but he’s not, so he takes inventory of the contents of his habitat and realizes he must survive until the next mission to Mars to be reunited with his crew once again back home. Even with rations, Mark doesn’t have enough pre-cooked food to survive, so he has to grow his own food on Mars. It turned out that the Thanksgiving packages from NASA contained real potatoes, so he figured out how to use the space in the habitat—and he happened to be a botanist—to grow potatoes.
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Eventually NASA checked the satellite and realized Mark was not dead. They observe what Mark is doing and since he retrieved the Pathfinder probe they have activated the replica in storage and now they can communicate with Mark.
Something happens, Mark’s crops are destroyed, the supply mission goes sideways and explodes before reaching Earth’s orbit, Hermes – the ship Mark’s crew is on – slingshots around the Earth and resupplies with rockets from China, returns to Mars to pick up Mark, after he reaches Hermes using the next mission’s emergency escape vehicle that has arrived, something happens, Mark pretends to be Iron Man, TA-DA, Mark is rescued, and still more. Need a shower.
How wonderful! Cast – Matt Damon! Jeff Daniels! Jessica Chastain! Chiwetel Ejiofor! Michael Pena! Sean Bean (isn’t dead!) Kate Mara! Sebastian Stan! Benedict Wong! Donald Glover! Kristen Wiig! –marvelous! This is a movie about smart people doing smart and cool scientific things! It has great dialogue, is pretty funny for a movie whose plot is essentially “hey, this guy might die alone on Mars”, and Ridley Scott directed the absolute hell out of this movie.
Regardless, Marquette went on a 21-1 run at the end of the first half, trailed DePaul 32-14 at halftime, and ultimately lost 62-51.
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Next: Wednesday night road trip to Providence where nothing weird is or ever will happen. The Peacock game is scheduled for 6 p.m. central time. The Friars defeated Creighton 79-76 on Saturday to win their third straight game.
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