JesusIsMyZoloft

JesusIsMyZoloft t1_j7xk9fv wrote

I'm kinda with Doordash Support on this one. He didn't know you have a video doorbell. I don't know why he was in a bad mood, and he shouldn't have taken it out on you, but he didn't know he was taking it out on you.

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JesusIsMyZoloft t1_j1a9dyd wrote

The book is the same. And he knew it was unrealistic. He even considered an alternate opening, where the MAV malfunctions. He figured he had been so accurate everywhere else, that he could afford one mistake. It was a Man vs Nature story, and he wanted Nature to have the first punch.

(The one other inaccuracy he admitted to was the radiation on the surface of Mars. Watney likely would have gotten cancer before he was even rescued. In the book, he said that there was radiation shielding in the Hab and the spacesuits, but nothing that could block radiation would have fit in so thin a material.)

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JesusIsMyZoloft t1_iup1gib wrote

Fun fact: in years when Halloween falls on a weekend, child pedestrian deaths are comparable to any other day of the year. There is a movement to officially declare Halloween as the last Saturday in October.

Edit: After further research, either my "fun fact" is incorrect, or I don't know how to use the NHTSA data tool correctly.

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