Mark was the greatest botanist on the planet too.

Smartest being on the planet too! 😂

By that logic it would also make it the worst music on the planet

Watney is slandering the collection. It is later revealed that "Rocket Man" was in the playlist. That is 70's music, but it is not disco.

@@lukebarrow8807 smart man

And just being on Mars already increases your radiation exposure.

keeping yourself sane is a good idea so... i agree it is the most pressing matter!

He's not taking anything, that is an alpha emitter, it's not irradiating him unless as he says, the container ruptures and you get the material out of it.

In the books he used the RTG as a water heater just to get a warm bath. Madlad indeed.

@@zolikoff Right. Alpha particles can be stopped by one sheet of printer paper, the outerr layer of human skin or 1.2 inches of air. However, ingest the source and it's sayonara.

this movie is a bit more fun i think

The movie is great, but i recommend you read the book as well. Andy Weir did such a great job in writing it. It was truly a book that i could not put down. I read it in a day or two max. Tom Hanks May have Wilson, but he will never be a Space Pirate, much less the First Space Pirate in History.

In many ways also our generation's "Apollo 13"... ironically also with Tom Hanks

You know you're a true mid-llenial when you've liked both movies

@@OneMouseGaming I loved the book and was a bit disappointed with the movie

This is exactly why Damon won a Golden Globe for this movie! He has hard times, but he manages to survive all while keeping a smile on his face.

His humor is even better in the book

@@doge8825 Integral to the character, yep. A psychologist (in the book) even comments on his cheery disposition! (can't recall if that interview made the movie... I need to go watch the extended version!!)

@Heschewingonit It's okay to curl into a ball and moan, or even scream and curse the heavens/universe during hard times. But afterwards, one should pick themselves up and dust off and get back into it. When the hab blew up because of wear and tear on the defective (in the book) canvas around the airlock, Watney did all that. But in the end, he got back up, dusted himself (all literally and figuratively), and kept on working.

Ever study Mechanical Engineering? You will get the humour as a side effect

Plus a second big attraction, "Mars Needs Women"?

Thats like watching "Castaway" on a flight, or "Posiden" on a cruise.... Tasteless!

Or as a training film.

@@Reblwitoutacause Or "The Thing" at the South Pole research station... which they do every year as a tradition on the night the last plane for months leaves.

Followed up by a lecture of what NOT to do if you get stranded on Mars

Synchronizor : And, it’s a channel that falls (in and out) between a Country Gospel AM channel that gives farming news back-to-back with the weather every other song and a Mexican station over the boarder.

Thank god for XM radio

Yes kids, before the internet that was a thing that used to happen.

@@stinkyham9050 Hehe, I remember having some great trips out in the country on weekends with dad and my older brother. We played a game where you had to guess which song would come on when the station suddenly changed. There were a few times where you got a complete curveball and had to just assume some teenager or twenty something had been left in charge for a few minutes.

@@ADRooney1 I had to explain what a map book was to a girl at work the other day. She thought it was funny.

In the book it stated that each of the crew brought something that they liked to do. Martinez didn't bring anything, Beck only brought some medical journals, Vogel bought some German books and shows iirc, Johenssen brought some mystery books and sci fi TV shows and Lewis brought disco music and 70s TV shows

@@ishshah8695 I need to reread it, it's a masterpiece. I still think the chances of just one six people enjoying music are very low though.

@@conkrcstf6405 agreed. With that long a trip, you would want your favorite music!

70's shows he should have happy days

it's worth adding that this is merely what they happened to have on their personal computers that they brought down with them for the 30 day stay, with the assumed possibility of just downloading from Hermes if they wanted anything more during the stay, and not the grand total of what they had available for the entire mission.

Resistance is futile.

@@graceskerp And now I can't get the image of Borg doing the Travolta walk out of my head.

@@kingleech16 My work here is done.

That nasty boogie bugged me, somehow it just drugged me...

Did you... Did you just blame it on the boogie?

Yeeeeah... but how Watney said, she could bring something of this century? I mean do you ever heard of Dubstep or Techno commander Lewis!?

Horse With No Name by America

MOST???

@@finntheviking5579 yeah the built a rocket to go to mars

@@ChrisM-pu1hp haha

Could be earth one day

You dont say.. I thought they actually brought a film crew to mars and filmed the whole thing there

*radioactive

It was the only way to keep warm plus irony dude

In the book it was said that even if the RTG broke open he will still be safe. As long as the pellets remain unbroken, but if the pellets that held the isotopes broke open then Watney will be in trouble.

@@youmode562 that's what radioactive means. The atom is decaying into smaller atoms, neutrons, alpha particles etc. Millions of tiny bullets passing through you each second wreaking molecular havoc

Its a very low chance of getting cancer and dying between a few months to maybe a little over a decade from now vs freezing to death and dying on mars during a drive to another aries landing zone

People still don't get irony.

@@FireOccator yeah. People like you lol.

Add to that the fact that the temperature on the left's slowly creeping up. Neat detail.

It's not irony at all

I need to watch the movie to see if the rest of the soundtrack fits the scenes.

Good taste your family has

They could probably put all music that made it on the charts on a 1TB flash drive of some kind.

“I’M GONNA BLAST DANCING QUEEN AND YOU FUCKERS ARE GONNA LIKE IT!”

Watney would have vented all the hab atmosphere out after a week of that.

You ain't lying.

Scatman john wants to talk to you

I'm not even lying to you, I'd just turn the music off............................. Mumble rappers are the most cringe creatures on Earth.

@@onbored9627 Scatman John had rhythm and charm. All mumble rappers have are drugged up depression and mediocrity.

I laughed so many times during this movie, in not technically funny parts, because it was just like watching my brother!

This was such a god damn good movie

Storage and computers in general are a lot more complicated in space vehicles and equipment. Or rather, they're simpler: because they need to have 100% test coverage and repeatability, which is complicated enough for modern processors and memory, on top of the risk of corruption from cosmic radiation, computing equipment on space stuff tends to be very out-of-date compared to modern systems (from what I've read, at least). Of course, you could also argue that given the type of computer systems (and laptops) they had on display in the movie, that should've been a solved problem by that point.

😂 im old enough to remember 128mb sd cards holding enough music for quite a long time. Telling us, what, they cant spare a few Hundred mb for our personal stuff?

That’s pretty cringe but okay

Nerdddddd

Nerrrrddddd!

"In prison, a man will do almost anything to keep his mind occupied" - Morgan Freeman I know he's not in a prison but same deal, he's isolated and needs to keep himself from boredom

I can only imagine the next group that makes it to the base to see all the recordings "this is the legendary astronaut that survived on mars stranded for years?"

Probably not, the next mission is in another site, the only reason I can think of is for astronauts to study the effects of living in Mars at bare minimum. But most of that could have been collected from Mark. The Logs are just a way to manage the astronaut’s mental health. Too sad the world’s never gonna see those clips.

Why is everyone in this reply acting like this was real

@@a.m7393 because some people find interest in thinking about what happens after the movie ends

A.M 420 Lol. 😆

what about intersteller . best space movie of all time imo

@@erichsmall9395 not as good. The Martian is better.

@@erichsmall9395 The Martian is still better in my opinion.

you know I am Hot Stuff🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Getting "Rick-rolled" on Mars? LOL

@@starguy2718 that would be a hell of a thing you go to mars and Matt Damon rick rolls you that would be awesome🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

wouldve took off my helmet right then and there😩

disco? good music?

More like thirty, at best. We'll do well to land on the Moon again by 2026.

@@Cailus3542 depends. The technology is there and far more advanced than back when moon missions were still a thing. Probably less than a year and you could have a fully operational mission ready with spacecraft, crew etc. But the goal is to set up a permanent basecamp on the moon and not just to go there for the sake of gathering some rocks and fly back home. Longterm goal is to get resources and new living space in outer space as we are already in the deep if we keep going at this pace on earth. The situation right now is we are all stuck in a hole we can't get out and if we do not do anything about that the walls around us will collapse and we are f**ed

I bet you $1,000 it will not happen before 2030 👍

@@0oPaddyo "The technology is there" isn't sufficient. We've had the technology to go back to the moon for half a century, but the funding and the political will to make it happen didn't exist. The same is true for a Mars program. I am old enough to have witnessed the Apollo missions as a child, and I do not expect to see NASA land on Mars during my lifetime. Elon Musk may do it, but I'll be surprised if the U.S. government does. I would love to be proven wrong about this.

That too

Wait how?

I wouldn't call it official canon. It was more the creator hearing the theory that the Martain is in the timeline of the Expanse and saying 'sure. Why not?'

@@yazanmowed and its because in the Expanse there's a ship called the Mark Watney

@@dartmada9733 Thanks for the explanation

@@dartmada9733 Epstein drive .... aged badly.

What you talkin bout he is drippin

A lot of that heat is dispersed on the glass through infrared radiation, maybe 🤔

He is on mars and mars is cold

@@fanboyhater832 Mars is cold. But the radioactive battery is not cold. Its suuper hot

@Pipe Tunes It is in degrees Celsius. You can see the "C" in the circle to the right of the number.

Name??

@@miguelrodriguezz9 Hot Stuff. By Donna Summer, 1979.

When you have no other choice, you can at least have some fun

Gay

My favorite scene was "Mars will come to fear my Botany Powers." :)

Sunlight70 : yes, and he does it so well! ( as I watch this over and over).

It's not really a problem. Remember there are three types of radiation: Alpha (can be stopped by a piece of paper), beta (won't pass through sheet metal) and gamma (goes through everything, can only be absorbed). The stuff used in the RTG was an alpha emitter with very low doses of gamma radiation that one doesn't need to worry about. He only has a problem on his hands if the container breaks and the radioactive substance becomes airborne. Because is you inhale an alpha emitter, it destroys your body from the inside. If that happened, he would have been done for.

@@rockyblacksmith My bad, I meant dose rate and not dose.

@@ollie4022 In the books in is mentioned that his suit, HAB and the rover have radiation sheilding so he doesn`t have to worry about the cosmic radiation. But they don`t say it in the movie.

Unfortunately I think we will get to Mars first.

hillbillyhangover I’ve done it when people WERE looking. In a queue. To buy coffee. Including the spin. I have no shame.

I'm doing it right now.

If the reactor doesn't rupture, most of the radiation is absorbed by the shielding --that's why it's warm. If he can feel it's hot, it means it's in the infra-red part of the EM spectrum. Mars' weak magnetic field means there's a greater chance of him getting cancer from cosmic rays...

He needed to save power. Trade off. Also cold is deadly on Mars.

immortaljanus Well, you could say that the Hab and the Rover were shielded to protect against cosmic radiation. I’ve no idea how they’d do that, since real plans for Mars bases often involve building the things underground, but meh.

@@Cailus3542 its actually doesn't really take much to block cosmic radiation water will do it the I.S.S uses polyethylene and Kevlar sheeting to block cosmic radiation but that never goes through the Van Allen belts so its not really the same amount of shielding that would be required for a trip to mars.

Cancer would take years to develop in the body because of radiation. Freezing to death is a lot quicker

@Gary Hassani Yeah, I get that a lot.

@@triclopsgamer5934 damn bro. You didn’t have to succumb to the burn

@@benjaminpointdexter7280 I don't care I'm loaded.

Wtf??

@@SlimTheydy An eloquent reposte, indeed.... Although I will admit that your compelling argument may not have completely swung me around to your was of thinking.

@@13thdukeofwybourne69 oh get over yourself, this movie is 5 years old, saying it could never get made nowadays because of nebulous Hollywood forces is an incredulous and unfounded take. So again wtf

@@SlimTheydy Your responses indicate I'm bang on target with my "Take". I'd say it's an unpleasant truth, that Hollywood would not make the same casting and story choices if this excellent book was "adapted" now.

That would be true on Earth, but this movie is set on Mars, wherein the atmosphere is only about 1% as thick as Earth’s, so a Mars wind of 100mph, which is possible although quite rare on the surface, would only have the same dynamic force as a 10mph wind on Earth. That said, this movie also portrays a massive duststorm being that's so insanely powerful that it literally destroys mechanical equipment and strands an astronaut on the red planet, so you're perfectly justified in criticizing this scene.

Shhh just enjoy the pretty movie and nice story

Well they were only gonna be in that location for 30 days originally, then go home, new crew land thousands of miles away from the rtg. All would be ok

@@potpan6393 And yet, a wind storm was responsible for him being left behind on Mars.

First of all they wouldn’t have heavy duty equipment capable of digging much further than a few feet or yards. Secondly, we don’t see how much ground was on it months ago, also we don’t see exactly how much he had to move or if wind blew the digging prints he’s made thus far and or work as well as things in the way that he’s altered. Also the idea, mainly, is to keep the outward explosion contained not so much the explosion as a whole or the vertical part. If they did have it go off further under the ground who’s to say what chain of events it could set in motion that might end up being far more catastrophic?