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A bad perspective of a really long life is that you could have an insane amount of bullshit to deal with.

Wow wow things are getting a little bit complicated.
Jander used to be Gladia’s husband? Whaaattt?
A Solarian who once fell in love with a robot?
Well looks like the death of Jander could be due to the Three Laws.
An individual which its only purpose of existence is to please you? Already feels the hidden contradiction here lol

Conquer, reconquer, and reconquer.
Rome, Christianity, Islam and Scandinavia.
Nice and chaotic history, Europe!

So it’s about preventing human beings from such type of colonization with the assistance of robots?
WOW, I just realized that this is the whole point. Nice callback Asimov!
The Spacers grew lazier as they caged themselves in such sterile planets. They have chose not to go further, because they reckon what they already have as all it is.
Cooool

Yes! I knew it! The callback.
Fastolfe is indeed intelligent, he even mentioned the term “psychohistory”, wow insane.
Finally after several years of reading the series, I finally know what type of science psychohistory is. Bro it’s humanics.

There must be something hiding then, since it seems like Fastolfe has no motive to terminate Jander. Well, feels like the climax of the story.
Btw, Daneel seems perfect, except that he’s restricted by the Three Law. Yes, that means he’s a servant of human beings after all. And I don’t think that’s of any kind of free will.
Fastolfe is right, he’s really the masterpiece.

So that was how everything in the Foundation series like even before the empire was created?
R. Daneel was the only functioning humaniform robot back then with Baley, and things seemed to be progressing. Hmmmm, Aurora, Solaria. Earthmen, Spacers… So did people end up destroying themselves?

History is indeed a cycle. Citizen-soldiers for all three of Greek democracy, Roman Republic and French Revolution.
That's why it's called the Renaissance, WOW.

Wow OpenDyslexic ist wirklich hilfreich.
Plötzlich kann ich verstehen, was ich lese.
DAMN English orthography sucks.
Übrigens hat Octavian viele Namen, was echt interessant ist. Ich glaube, das ist irgendwie schwierig, sich das zu merken, weil es so viele "Caesaren" in der Geschichte des Römischen Reiches gab.
In sum: Wow I'm making some progress. GOOD.

The story actually feels way less dramatic compared to the movie.
Anyway I'm finished, wow!

Wow!
Electrolyze the water Mark brought with him to get Hydrogen as additional fuel? DAMN SMART. Didn't expect the two thing to be related.
And yes, the modification. I remember it since I've read it for the first time, but wow, such radical!
Finally realized why I love it. SO DAMN HARDCORE!

Made it to Schiaparelli, bypassed the sandstorm... And the rover rolled.
I knew it Andy, it's a damn sci-fi.

Well, arithmetics.
I'd say it's actually more intuitive than what I've expected it to be.
I'm going to reread the entire book after finishing it anyway, plenty of time left!

A bunch of things. Dunno how to describe here briefly. So let's say I'm making some progress.

Mark is testing the modification on the rover as planned.
Energy from solar panels will reduce because of a Martian sandstorm? At least it's a fiction, Mark is going to working it out.

Pathfinder's dead, as expected (cuz it's a DAMN SCI-FI, this is just how story works).

Rich Purnell Maneuver.
Get to Ares 4 MAV in Schiaparelli, rendezvous with Hermes, which will be in a flyby.
DAMN didn't notice Andy Weir's incredibly hardcore settings here.
Raumflugmechanik! Already love it.

对了，突然有了有趣的想法：
On the road to Avalon
I met the elf
The insect, the elf from Avalon
Children's mind powered their strength
Their strength weakened
As imagination faded away
Fairytales died, comics live

这本书其实是我几年前买的，今天再次开始读里面的短篇故事。
我一直惊讶于阿西莫夫极其丰富的想象力——其中很多短篇故事的点子我都能在现在的科幻小说中看到影子。Multivac, 代表式民主走到尽头，*心灵的力量*，观察历史etc.
虽然文本因为翻译部分有些难读懂，内容还是很丰富。
流石最高のSci-Fi作家、永遠まで（虽然未来比过去要短得多lol）

Why did I just stop writing long updates?
DAMN, at least I've already known the end—Mark won't die, which is a really good news to me.
Still going.

Well a lot of things happened.
DAMN I think if I were there stranding on Mars it'd be a insta death lol
Andy framed Mark well.

Well, I'm still reading.

Brilliant!
Andy Weir has depicted Mark as a really resilient person, and DAMN he’s smart, more precisely his strong execution.
Such intelligence is more about remaining optimistic in challenging circumstances and being able to implement plans.

I'm making progress, good.

Wow hadn't noticed that Mark was in such a hurry lol
DAMN bro, hydrogen wouldn't completely react with oxygen, and Mark just used his high school level chemistry a bit, assuming it would, which now feels kind of hilarious to me.
He's a botanist anyway. What else should I even anticipate?

Just picked it up and started reading it again.
I believe I bought and read it in early 2023, maybe March. I was in Grade 6 that time (yeah I'm still pretty young even now) and wasn't really good at reading. It's basically the first book I've read deliberately in English as a child, which is pretty cool.
Briefly after picking it up I found out that I still remember a small portion of the text in a few chapters. Cool.

Fire alone will save our clan!