Is There a Difference Between Hard Science and Soft Science?

I feel like there was a little bit of sciencey hand waving around this just to move the plot forward. I think he's better at some things than others. You kind of have to just kind of take it at face value, you know, that humans could have evolved this way 200 years or so and develop these skills. It seems like it wouldn't have happened in a couple of days, right? It's like over the course of a couple of months. But obviously like they're in a new extreme circumstance and they need to kind of move fast on, on establishing these things. And they're all from military backgrounds, so they're able tokind of move on it fast enough