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Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary

Inquiring Minds

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The First Contact Between Intelligent Life Forms and Things Like That

i knew right from the getko, this was going to be a story about first contact between intelligent life forms and stuff like that. One thing is, it's always bugged me when aliens are totally comfortable in our environment and that they can speak the words that we say. So i decided, one way or another, i want this alien to be completely incompatible with our atmosphere. And that worked well because the planet arid, as i mentioned earlier, has to be like 200 plus degrees celsius. Then like 29 atmospheres later, i decided that the atmosphere is mostly ammonia. If a human were in that environment, you would die in under a second. You would die in a

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