Project Hail Mary (2026): Fist My Bump and the Messiness of Science ft. Allaina Humphreys
We are in the Blanket Fort with our incredible friend Allaina Humphreys to talk about Project Hail Mary (2026), and it completely wrecked us in the best possible way. We thought we were getting a standard sci-fi survival story about a guy waking up alone in deep space or maybe a football movie. Instead, we got a profoundly beautiful reflection on the messiness of being alive. Science isn't clean counters and perfect equations; it's trial and error, doom piles, and panicked, gritty problem-solving.
Allaina opened our eyes to how Ryland Grace's journey so closely mirrors the sudden, unasked-for…
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