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A Mustard Seed, a Basketball, and Ryan Gosling in Space
Project Hail Mary science hides something real that the movie barely touches, and Dr. Elaina Hyde found it. The microbes proposed for Venus's atmosphere, the ice pockets theorized on the moon, these exist in science papers, not just screenplays. The fiction is almost the boring part.
There's something disorienting about learning that the strangest details are the ones closest to real. Extremophile bacteria capable of surviving 400 to 500 degrees Celsius have been theorized for Venus's atmosphere. That's not a plot point. That was already a conversation happening in labs before anyone wrote a…
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