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I LOVE the linguistics in this book!!!!!!!! andy really did his homework omggggg

"I am personally immune from prosecution for any crime anywhere on earth." DUDEE

BUT an entire section of my dissertation is that this, data philanthropy (using data for humanitarian good) is actually a bad thing. if a company gave your data to your city so that it could track how you used public transport, they would have your location data. thats bad. just cause its gonna fix a humanitarian problem doesnt mean you should give up data protection

EXCEPT THATS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED ON PHM

the bit with IP Vs PHM, they're arguing that they have a ssd with every piece of copyright material on it, the computer that grace has in space. and as the reader your first thought is "well yeah but who cares, it'll save humanity, I'm sure one author doesn't mind three astronauts having their book in space."

that one meme that's like "when you find a scientific paper that completely disproves your entire hypothesis and so you just pretend you didn't see it."
except thats me with my dissertation AND THE PROJECT HAIL MARY BOOK WTF 😭😭😭😭

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ROCKY IS WEARING A TSHIRT

"sometime I play klondike solitaire on the nav computer." SO TRUE

"this is an alien spacecraft."
"holy fucking shit!"
they should've made ryan gosling swear more in the movie

"someone put a post-it on my head while i slept."

THATS WHY the movie was so focused on astrophage that went 'to sun' and 'away from sun'! cause theyre different life cycles
im having lots of fun being taught about science n stuff

no carl mention 😭😭

"you poked it with a stick?"

"oh thank god I'm a teacher"

immediately got scared at "you'll hear it from the american president soon anyway" god I would NOT want to hear about the petrova line from trump 😭😭

"not a beach-bod buff." barbie and ken mention

"bite me'

"gentleman's equipment" cringe

centrifuge diagram go crazy

"I sent out surveys for everyone's opinion" I LOVE IT

"what do you think she'll be like? the girl you meet after me? your soulmate" OK MY HEART BROKE AT THAT

"what are you thinking about?"
"all I ever think about is you."

I love both the metaphor island and the real island

this is the first book I've read in a long time where not only do I not know what the ending will be, but also what I would do in this situation, it's genuinely interesting. would you stay?

I love women in a man's role