Name: الرحلة الفضائية المستحيلة
ISBN: 9786140129962

Andy Weir

الرحلة الفضائية المستحيلة

Naïa

They say hunger is the greatest seasoning.

Shari Ilg

Thierry Schellenbach

Rahma Ali

Zhao Ma

Danny White

Gravity doesn’t just “go away” when you’re in orbit. In fact, the gravity you experience in orbit is pretty much the same as you’d experience on the ground. The weightlessness that astronauts experience while in orbit comes from constantly falling. But the curvature of the Earth makes the ground go away at the same rate you fall. So you just fall forever

It’s a weird feeling, scientific breakthroughs. There’s no Eureka moment. Just a slow, steady progression toward a goal. But man, when you get to that goal it feels good.

And just like that another climate denier is born. See how easy it is? All I have to do is tell you something you don’t want to hear.

For fifty thousand years, right up to the industrial revolution, human civilization was about one thing and one thing only: food. Every culture that existed put most of their time, energy, manpower, and resources into food. Hunting it, gathering it, farming it, ranching it, storing it, distributing it…it was all about food

It’s rare to find a scientist who is also a good administrator

Antarctica used to be a jungle. For millions of years it was as lush as Africa. But continental drift and natural climate change froze it over. All those plants died and decomposed. The gases from that decomposition—most notably methane—got trapped in the ice.”

Tabea

Also bin ich ein Mann Mitte dreißig, der allein in einem kleinen Apartment lebt, ich habe keine Kinder, aber ich mag Kinder sehr. Mir gefällt nicht, wohin das führt... Lehrer! Jetzt erinnere ich mich! Gott sei Dank. Ich bin Lehrer.

»Tja, jetzt bist du nicht mehr allein, Freund«, sage ich. »Wir sind beide nicht mehr allein.«

“I penetrated the outer cell membrane with a nanosyringe.”

“No!” I said. “Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.”