Hexadecimals to the Rescue
erco
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Heck, we knew that all along! Watch ~49:30
http://putlocker.is/watch-the-martian-online-free-putlocker.html
http://putlocker.is/watch-the-martian-online-free-putlocker.html
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Really good film and even better book.
I saw it a few days ago in the theater, and I liked it very much. There are several technical issues in the movie that violate the laws of Physics, but I accepted them as fictional enhancements to make the movie more entertaining for the general public. I'll have to read the book to see if it accurately follows the laws of Physics.
After the movie my son asked me about the hexadecimal thing, and I explained to him how two hex digits make up an ASCII character. I think he learned something from that. I also told him there was no need to find an ASCII table as long as you know that the letter "A" is 41 in hex. All the other letters just follow sequentially after that.
Much nicer than having to go to any movie theatre around here.
It was interesting to see Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain in the same space travel movie again, on the heels of "Interstellar". And Damon was once again the lone inhabitant of a remote planet, waiting to be rescued at great cost and risk to his rescuers. He handled the situation better in "Martian".
This is def a pirate movie, as you can hear people in the audience talk and see them walk around! These sites are in foreign countries and apparently not easily shut down. There are similar sites like solarmovie.ac , ffilms.org. FFilms seems more legit. Putlocker & solarmovie change their url extensions periodically.
Well, I never did get it to load. So no I did not.
As good as it may be I can probably wait for it to pass by me on TV or DVD or whatever.
Besides, think back to Ed White's space walk during the Gemini days. He used a little pistol-thing with gas jets, not too different from that fire extinguisher. And then there was the MMU, the Manned Maneuvering Unit. One astronaut, no tether.
I'm sure it's a thousand times harder than it seems, center of mass/center of thrust/tumbling notwithstanding. The guys in "Apollo 13" did a good job of showing how difficult it was to use real rocket thrusters in an improvised situation, and they were professionals!
The movie is still good, far better than any other Mars movie and most other space movies. Movie + book is a killer combo because the book fills in a lot that the movie shortcutted. Well worth seeing on the big screen and in 3D if you're into that.
Obviously the whole premise is shot in the foot with the density of the atmosphere, since there's no way so much dynamic pressure could be generated.
That hexidecimal portion was probably the best of the movie. Really cool to see that.