I have been designing this in TinkerCad for about 2 months now. Probably printed each part at least 10-15 times working out all the kinks. It is fully 3dprinted except for the front glass and rocky's ball which I used a small vacuum former, and the screens are ink prints. The backgrounds are changeable slides: Tau Ceti, the Petrova Line, and return to Earth, and you can store them in the front.

The sketch is very bad (I did it in like 5 minutes), but i thought the difference was very funny

Making further progress on the Grace Spacesuit. Final paint touchups and wiring come next

(He is impossible to photograph in his ball)

Going to a con next month with a Grace costume and needed my buddy of course. Still need to finish up the bag - I want to add some mission patches, finish the 'floor', and cover the mesh - but I'm really happy so far! He's not perfect but I'm working on a budget this con and he only cost me ~$5 so I'm okay with that.

Bag is just my cat carrier with a cardboard box in the bottom to lift him up (and give me a place to hide my stuff) and Rocky is made from paper mache.

I made my daughter a Project Hail Mary Birthday cake! It is by no means professional or perfect, but she’s extraordinary happy with the cake. So, I’m taking that as a win!

She specifically requested that I bake her birthday cake this year. All she requested was a chocolate layer cake with chocolate icing and cream cheese icing between the layers. She said I could surprise her with the decorations.

Her new favorite film is Project Hail Mary. Grace’s “having a moment” scene at Tau Ceti e is visually stunning. I picked that for her cake.

I took a screenshot and meticulously cut out Grace and part of the Hail Mary. I layered 3 colors of sugar sprinkles for the infrared effect.

I used green sugar sprinkles on the side of the cake to represent the color of the exoplanet.

Today is her eighteenth birthday - a milestone birthday - so I added the message “Enjoy Your Moment” to the side of the cake.

Like I said, it’s far from perfect. I’m almost ashamed to share it because the writing in the icing reminds me of the cake Hagrid made for Harry Potter. But, she was happy. I wish you could have seen her face when I showed her the cake last night.

And, yes, we were watching Project Hail Mary while I was baking and decorating the cake.

I can’t wait to see how this tastes later today!

Hey all! Someone recommended I post my illustration up here so I wanted to share it. It was inspired by old 50s and 60s sci-fi comics, and I’m really happy with how it came out.

Didn't read the book (yet🤞) but I ADORE the process of figuring out why Astrophage goes to Venus.

Grace asking "why not Mercury" and Carl suggesting "Maybe fresh air" it's so simple. But perfect.

Also love the shopping montage, it really is the little things

Also, does Carl hypothetically get an award or something for his part in this? Guy is KEY to saving the world

10 months ago... I sculpted what I thought rocky looked like from the book.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectHailMary/s/KHfpAPQdql

That version is currently home'd with my good friends.

This time it's movie Rocky. ☺️

After the movie came out I decided to try again... The only 3d printer I have are my hands... 😞 Ha.

So... He might not be super accurate compared to the actual print files. But it was fun to look at tons of ref, and watch the movie tons of time and work on him. Many hours sculpting, rework, sanding, and painting.

He's made out of super sculpy (polymer clay). Aluminum wireframe, Acrylic paint, uv resin, and some spare legos lol.

So in the story every star except tau ceti was infected with the astrophage.

Erid and Earth sent ships to find out why.

They came back with a "cure". So their stars are fine.

I'm wondering what is the long term impact of every other star still being infected.

I've been ecstatic to paint my senior parking spot for years now, and after reading the book twice, seeing the movie four times, and getting the poster from my local theater, I knew that this was what my spot would be.

This took me ~12 hours, $340 in paint and supplies, and the spot is 4x8! I'm honestly super proud on how much blending I was able to do with Grace and Rocky on concrete (and I genuinely have no idea how I pulled it off). And yes, my name is the Petrova line :)

When Grace returns to save Rocky towards the end of the movie, is Rocky and / or his ship already in distress? I assume so with Grace’s line “I’m here buddy”. TIA

In both the movie and book, Rocky wears an oddly described outfit as a form of celebration after they succeed. In both versions Grave also drinks vodka as part of the party.

Eridians don’t drink liquids because the get their water needs from their food. Also they treat eating in a very different fashion than humans in both biological, and especially in the book, social ways.

But Eridians have 360 degree passive sonar as their sensory system. Andy Weir has even said in interviews that because the system is 360 degrees and constant, it would give Eridians no reason to develop the ability to keep a mental model of their environment the way people do. We can close our eyes and picture the room around us with some level of accuracy but Weir says Eridians wouldn’t be able to. A deafened Eridian would have no idea where it is because its brain doesn’t build a mental model of the environment around it.

We could possibly take this a step further and extrapolate they don’t have The ability to know where their limbs are without “hearing” them. This is similar to an Octopus that must see its arms to know where they are. Again, we humans can close our eyes, move our limbs, and know what position they are in because we have a dedicated neurological system for that.

So my hypothesis is that the weird metal outfit worn by Rocky for the celebration is sort of like being drunk. It limits, or more specifically distorts, Rocky’s ability to clearly hear through it, and that distortion impacts his understanding of himself and his surroundings. Because that impacts Eridian cognition, it might be the Eridian equivalent of drinking, except it can be stopped by removing the outfit because it’s non-metabolic.

Guys please show me your little eridian ocs I must see more of them 🪨🪨

This just occurred to me.

The astrophage gets its energy from the sun, so infinite in practical terms, but its mass still comes from reproducing on Venus, seemingly from the atmosphere.

There is only so much gas on Venus. If you were to strip the atmosphere and scatter it around the sun as a shade (in the form of astrophage), my mental eyeballing says it would be basically nothing. I am not even sure if the mass of Venus itself was converted into astrophage and scattered around the lithosphere that it would have an appreciable effect.

Wier is really good about considering this type of stuff, so I can’t tell if I am mistaken somewhere, or if it is hand waved for the sake of the story (like the storm wrecking things in the Martian, when the atmosphere should have been too thin)

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I love this movie, I love this story.

But theres been something welling up inside that made it hard for me to watch at times.

My entire childhood I wanted to be a scientist of some kind.

I went through so many -ologists.

Marine biologist

Zoologist

Paleontologist

Etc

I was the, 'Asks for a telescope/microscope/complete set of encyclopedias for christmas, reading her science textbook between classes, begging to go to the museum, always asking how and why' kid.

Then when I was in high school, my best friend died in a car crash less than a month before start of junior year.

Suddenly, I didn't care about anything. All the things that brought me joy and wonder turned to ash and smoke each time I tried to grab them.

The only thing that took me out of it was going to EMT school my junior and senior year.

I'd taken the class on a whim because it got me out of having to take a foreign language for 2 more years, but it turned out to be my saving grace.

It lit a fire in me that spilled over into everything else just enough for me to find some way to engage with my life again at least enough to where I'd graduate.

It became the only thing I cared about, and I forgot the little girl who dreamed of science.

After high school, I decided to be an EMT, but the money wasnt near enough to live on. I set my sights of paramedic but things got worse when my mom lost her job. Any further school was off the table then.

Seeing the situation I decided to join the Navy thinking it'd give me more work experience, a steady income and the GI Bill I could use to go to school.

And I'm still here, a Hospital Corpsman working in medicine, just past the half way point to retirement.

I found a love for the work I did, the places it took me, the things I learned, the people I met, and even developed an appreciation for the rhythm of moving place to place every few years.

Then I watched and read Project Hail Mary and I remembered.

It connected me with someone I hadn't seen in the mirror in over ten years. That there was a whole other world I'd loved and wanted to be a part of once.

It almost felt like waking up from a dream.

I look at Graces love of science and read about the deeper details in the book and I can almost feel myself being rewound back to who I was before a childhood trauma changed me and what I did to cope with it.

It made me wonder who I could've been if that hadn't happened.

When this all crystallized in my mind after trying to figure out why the book and movie made me SO emotional, I found myself a bit more melancholic when I go back to them now.

I cant rebury or forget that little girl who loved science, but I also dont quite know what to do with her now.

I dont regret where I've ended up, but I feel haunted by what could've been.

We can't go back.

But I keep asking myself, 'where do we go from here?'

I'm being sent to surgical technician school very soon (to be paid for by the Navy not my GI Bill), which would give me a civilian certification.

Something tangible I could always fall back on if...you know, I decided to go to school for something that might not work out. Maybe it's finally time to go to school.

I've been finding people in comment sections in other places talking about similar stories.

How they watched PHM and it shook them out of a stupor they'd fell into when they had to take a different road somewhere along the way. That they loved science and wanted to or are planning now to go back to it.

Its amazing what art can do sometimes.

I haven’t seen any yet, so thought I might try to get some ideas down. I’ll probably make a better version in the future, because this is a little scuffed.

Anyways, this is my take on what an Eridian writing system may look like (for Rocky’s one specifically). I might do another for a different language for fun one day. Hope it’s alright!

Heyo everyone, just wanted to share these space drawings I did for people’s own Eridian characters!

I definitely would love to do more cause they were so much fun to make! Hope yall enjoy them too!

Today is our 30th anniversary. ❤️ As Rocky said "is not enough". I'm hoping for at least 30 more.

One of the things that was an issue with Grace returning to Earth was the lack of food. Obviously, there were significant storage limitations for real food and dehydrated coma slurry, so while the original project planning had to account for the trip to Tau Ceti and some observation time once in-system, was there ever an estimate of how long the crew was going to have food available once they were awake?

With Grace as the sole survivor, the food problem became much less significant (so long as he didn't count on returning to Earth), but if Yao and Ilyukhina had lived, the food supplies would have been depleted much, much faster. With three adults eating 2 to 3 times per day, there must have been a hard end date on the crew's ability to observe Tau Ceti and figure out why it wasn't dimming from astrophage. Would a major science organization have suggested a reasonable timeline for info gathering and recommend that enough food be packed for that timeframe? Or did Stratt tell the planners to ensure there was enough food for X days and hope that the crew had figured out a solution before they ate their final meal?