You know what time it is. It's time for Ask a Space Man. I'm your host, Paul Sutter. You've got questions and I've got answers. I'm going to skip the rest of the traditional

intro because this is a very, very special episode, usually in these shows, in fact, all the time,

you only ever hear my voice and my voice alone. But this episode is a little bit special.

Well, a very bit special. What happened was we went to

see The Martian. And by we, I mean me and my co-hosts on Space in Your Face, Wayne Schlingman

and Anna Nirenberg. Space in Your Face is our YouTube show that you totally need to subscribe to

and watch all the time. But you're already doing that, of course. So tell your friends to do that too.

We were invited by Laura Orinscheld, the science writer for the Columbus Dispatch, to get a sneak

preview of the movie and to get our thoughts, our scientific-minded thoughts of the movie.

And then after the movie, we retired to a little cafe, and she plunked a recorder down in the middle of the table,

and we had a conversation about the movie. Really, we had a conversation about whatever we felt like,

while Laura tried to hurt us into actually answering the question

so that she could write her newspaper article. So thank you very much to Laura for providing

this recording to me so that I could turn this into a podcast. And I'm just going to let go.

It's a little bit noisy because we're in a cafe. It's not exactly a quiet recording studio. But you get the point. It's pretty fine. So on with the show.

The lead is that thing. I'm fucking one. But, okay. She wants to science the shit out of it with the

because the rest of the movie has a good approach to science. Trial and error, things are going wrong.

It never says, you know, he did this right.

That was like the one moment where I was just laughing.

And if that's for him being on Mars, his calculations weren't always correct.

Right.

Something worked, something didn't.

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