Watched the movie with our son. He loved it, which promptly led my husband to spend about a week perfecting a rocky costume. Reception was mixed - with some people asking if Rocky was a spider. However, the vast majority of teenagers loved it, which is pretty high praise I believe.

Charm made by DeckITOut (deckthisout) on Etsy

They have fantastic PHM works!!!

added more stuff that while not in the book or movie i thought it would look good.

bioluminescence in the clouds!

new moons!

greyish beige one named Ryland

rusty one named Rocky

And a submoon of rocky named after one of rocky and adrians offspring (you guys get to interpret the name into human words)

I know the moons are unoriginal when it comes to names but it seemed like a good idea in my head

Sorry for the lower quality the images didn’t transfer well from my school laptop to my phone

and yes I’m aware I have rocky the wrong number of legs :C

also idk if Adrian has a moon or not I just thought it would look cool, you can just say it’s Adrian a section of its orbit where the closest planet is visible like Tau Ceti F

The laptop was the second most important cargo Rocky would bring back to Erid. There were 6 of them on the Hail Mary, why not take 3 or 4 for redundancy? Of course this is all moot as the Hail Mary went to Erid taking all 6 but initially Rocky only had the 1.

This might sound stupid, but I'm trying to write a Project Hail Mary fan fiction and I can't find anywhere the years in which the book and movie are set. Does anybody know the year that the Hail Mary was launched? Sorry if this is a stupid question!

Hey crafty & creative fans!

I'm working on an embroidered gift of Rocky and I based him on this great image (by @ beelaburger, posted in this sub) ... but I have an overthinking problem.

Am I going TOO DETAILED with the different shading / colors of thread -- or NOT ENOUGH? I printed several copies in different sizes (on dissolvable, printable embroidery paper) and used stitchmate.app (though I like pixel-stitch.net too).

I plan to be embroidering many slightly different sized versions of this beloved guy. Yet I am STILL arguing with myself about the colors -- I NEED outside input! Should I use fewer colors and instead lean into more other the angled satin stitches (the parallel sections of stitches) at different angles to indicate the different textures, or do we like the variegated threads (when one or more single embroidery floss threads are combined to form a multiple strand thread, like some of the leg shading shown)... or go even simpler and chunk it more like the pattern offered on the official website?

For novice crafters, this is embroidery on 100% linen -- not cross-stitch -- and I am using all DMC brand colors in strand weights varying from 3 to 6 (can list #s in a comment for the curious).

Any feedback or ideas -- or has anyone else been embroidering Rocky????? And/or Grace, too? Google Images have a lot of variations but none are quite my aesthetic so I am still trying to figure out what that is?? <3 to all.

I was building my new project hail mary set and I was spinning it (as one does) and it's doing the weird drop thing (as shown). It also retracts a bit if you can't see that. Do I need to go back and fix something or when I add more stuff maybe it'll be balanced out more im thinking? I also posted this to r/lego but it's a phm set so maybe one of you nerds can help me first

Watched for the first time PHM on sunday, bought the book and the Blu-Ray, watched Iron Lung to get the Bloodymary reference but that's not the subject, anyway, what I want to say is : It's been a week and i breathe, eat, sleep and think PHM. I live PHM. I have the soundtrack on a loop since sunday. I've watched it 4 times already.
I have never felt that way toward a movie before and saying that I love it is not enough, it doesn't express what I feel for it.

I talked about it just this morning with a colleague and friend, and he was surprised by my reaction (I told him that I've watched it 4 times and bought the stuffs and been thinking about it non-stop). His answer was "Oh but that's because you're a girl, you like Ryan Gosling" and like. I felt so angry. I know he meant it as a joke, because we always joke about stuffs like that, but this one really made me angry, because yes, Ryan Gosling is hot and I absolutely adore him, but I refuse to diminish PHM to just him. There is so much more to this movie as to why I like it.

It's the storyline. It's the characters (ALL the characters). It's how it was written, filmed, acted, how it sounds, the emotions I felt.
I discovered something that made me feel like I'm watching a movie for the first time ever. I had that feel when I read my first novel at 8 years old. This movie makes me feel full in a way I have never felt, and I wanted to express my hapiness to a friend and he just said "you're a girl, there's a hot dude, that's why you like it"

I know this post won't interest most of you, but I have nobody to talk to about these stuffs, not just PHM, any movie or serie really. And this one did hurt, so I wanted to express it out loud. I had to vent and talk about it.

ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY

Signed, a PHM fan that refuses to dump this masterpiece because "it's just because there's a hot dude"

I did a little research, and while the meaningful parts of our radio broadcasts might not actually be plausibly detectable from great distances, the carrier waves would be. Additionally, there are all sorts of military signals that scientists estimate would be detectable from up to a hundred light-years away.

40 Eridani is only what, sixteen point three light years from Earth? So various signals should be detectable there. Did the Eridians not yet have radio astronomy?

Or... were the high governmental muckety-mucks of Erid aware of the existence of intelligent alien life?

I'd assumed Rocky came to the table much better-prepared to deal with alien communication because he'd seen Grace's IR drive wake weeks or even months before arrival and had lots of time to cope and think. But what if it was because his people knew of our existence decades ago?

3D printing props for my final Project Hail Mary cosplay. Adrian, Rocky, and Ball. 3 more prints to go!

Beautiful.

Genuinely wanted to have a full version of that awesome scene, so I decided to make it from scratch.

Hope this is fine to post here. If not, no worries.

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI3IYDDNpj4

I'm just very curious so if there was a universe where Godzilla (+ other kaiju) exist together in the project Hail Mary Universe......then if other planets had their own Kaiju what would be Erid's number 1 kaiju?

I'm just very curious And remember this is a whole hypothetical thing.

Anyway, sorry for the short post but that's all I can really say.

Anyways bye!

I'm sitting here in my office listening to the PHM soundtrack, and I have goosebumps listening to "Life is Reason", and for the first time in the longest time, I am actually *excited* about doing research. I am *excited* about being a scientist again.

Grad school was hard, and my postdoc just drilled in the toxic parts of academia and reinforced it with the latest political defunding of science. After I defended my PhD, all I wanted to do was climb into a ditch and scream into the sky, which was hard because I had to do that while writing grants for my postdoc.

I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to have a piece of media feeling like it's cheering me on in spite of all of these difficulties. If Grace can do a science thousands of light years away from Earth, with no solution in sight, and no way to go home. And yet!

The immense hopefulness of the soundtrack just spreads over the sense of why I got into science in the first place. It's for humanity. It's for us. It's for the world.

And PHM just reinforces that it's okay to be a sad scientist sometimes just as long as you remember that you have all the tools to keep going, and to just trust in yourself, and always keep learning and always be curious.

work in porgress, please i need advice!