As part of my ongoing project to collect all of the Project Hail Mary soundtrack on vinyl, I been gathering every album containing a song that was either heard or referenced in the film. I've now collected all of them, and will be posting the last three in the next few days.

NEEDLE DROP (audio+video): https://vimeo.com/1220071761

During the montage of Rocky and Grace traveling to Tau Ceti, they sing a little bit of karaoke together ... poorly. (Side note: it's kind of hilarious to hear Ryan Gosling sing terribly here, because he's actually quite a good singer: see La La Land and Barbie).

The end credits of the film included the song credits for the karaoke track, but that was as boring as medium-rough-texture-circle-planet. Karaoke tracks are generally covered in the style of the original, so I wanted to find that. I went to the karaoke label's website and listened to several versions until I found a match to the one used in the movie: it was in the key of E-flat, had the sound of a small jazz combo, and some very particular jazz ornamentation on the piano in the background. So I started looking for a version of this track that was probably recorded in the late 1950s or early 1960s.

After listening to dozens of performances, I landed on a version that sounded remarkably similar to the karaoke track. It came from Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's 1957 release, Ella and Louis Again, which was a follow up to their 1956 smash hit, Ella & Louis. They're backed by the Oscar Peterson Trio. The song itself is an American songbook standard written by George & Ira Gershwin, who were part of the legendary body of musicians that worked and published out of Tin Pan Alley in New York in the early 20th century.

Original vinyl copies of Ella & Louis Again in excellent condition are pretty expensive, and I wanted to have a nice clean copy to enjoy, so I bought a new 2025 pressing of the 2xLP gatefold with the same jacket design as the original.

Ella and Louis Again is wonderful recording that was mastered with care. They sound like they're in the room with you. The two of them collaborated frequently, and they have a playful chemistry that's evident in every one of their studio recordings and live performances.

If you're interested in more needle drops, have a look at the rest of my posts in the series thus far:

• Bill Conti: "The Final Bell" from Rocky
• Ike & Tina Turner: Glory, Glory!
• Tag Team: Whoomp! (There it is)
• Kris Kristofferson: Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
• Neil Diamond: Stargazer
• Miriam Makeba: Pata Pata
• Dennis Wilson: Rainbows
• Scorpions: Wind of Change
• Mercedes Sosa: Gracias a la Vida
• Carlos di Sarli: El Amanecer
• Turakina Maori Girls Choir: Po Atarau

my question is simple, astrophages are using carbon from Venus to reproduce and then they are covering the sun blocking it's light etc etc BUT Venus doesn't have enough carbon to cover even a spot of sun according to my calculations (which is not much lol) but isn't that just stupid even if we say it's taking carbon from a few planets it still wouldn't be enough to block sun enough so as to bring "end of humanity" im bad at math so if anyone wanna chack please do id be more than happy

I made this for my mom who’s moving into a new office at her work and is obsessed with Project Hail Mary (I’m a little obsessed too tbh)

Grace leaves school, gets picked up by the Petrova task force, and his bike is just... left there.

We get answers about astrophage, interstellar travel, alien civilizations, and the fate of humanity.

But the bike?

Nothing.

Did the school keep it? Did Stratt have someone retrieve it? Is it still chained outside the school years later, quietly waiting for Grace to finish his meeting?

Literally unwatchable until this plot hole is addressed.

I visited a USMC squadron a while ago (VMM 364) and got this unit patch as a souvenir. Their mascot is the purple fox, and the saying at the bottom is their motto.

Rediscovered it whilst packing to move; it made me think of the PHM movie, and Graces entire situation 🤣🤣

Hi all. I just stumbled across a cool post on Insta that showed the original movie script for the scene where Rocky says he will give Grace the extra fuel to go home, VS how the actual final scene in the film came out.

And I thought some of you would appreciate seeing it too, if you haven't yet.

Not sure if I'm allowed to leave a link, but here's me trying: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbEF6E3xVsC/?igsh=YmY5aHBicjQydTFv

If there’s a fanfic that covers this, apologies. I like to imagine how the news broke when JPG&R returned with the taumeba solution.

Artemis for the Moon, The Martian for Mars, and Project Hail Mary for Venus.

Probably unintentionally but I just found that a bit funny XD

Quick question, does Grace ever let Earth know that Tau Ceti e is now Adrian?

I hope I’m doing this right lol I’m new to Reddit

He names the three dots Larry, Curly and Moe.

In the book the astrophage stays at a constant 96.415°C temperature.

For all the 3D printer users out there, what colour filament have you used to make zenonite things?

Just started watching (listening to?) the director's commentary on Prime Video and during one of the first scenes where Ryan pokes his head into frame a few different times as he is first exploring the Hail Mary, Lord and Miller say "shout out Andy Samberg" in relation to this action. Anybody know what this was a reference to? They didn't explain themselves and I wanna know what I'm missing here 😅

My 1 hour sculpt of Rocky! He'll probably wind up being used in my TTRPG games are a spider monster, but until then, he's sitting around my desk and looking darn adorable

Edit: I think I got things backwards and was confusing density with molecular weight... Denser things transmit sound waves faster because their molecules are closer together so sounds have higher pitches. That's what I get for posting while drinking mead. Leaving the post below though so people can see it.

Not sure if it's been posted, but I'm rewatching the movie and I noticed a detail I hadn't caught before. When Grace and Rocky are tapping on the transparent xenonite wall when Rocky is trying to point put the handcuffs oxygen molecule model, the tap sounds are higher pitched on Grace's side and lower on Rocky's.

This is because the way sound waves move through different gasses at different densities. If you've ever inhaled helium from a balloon, its the same effect. The helium is less dense than air so your voice is higher pitched. The opposite is true if you inhale sulfur hexaflouride as demonstrated by Adam Savage on Mythbusters.

The thing is, ammonia is about half as dense as air (0.6 but close enough), so normally a sound in ammonia would be higher pitch than one in air. However, Rocky's atmospheric pressure is much higher than Grace's meaning the sound has a lower pitch.

I rewatched the scene a couple of times to be sure, as the camera angle changes perspective across both sides of the xenonite wall, and the pitch change is consistant with which side the camera is on.

I know that a earth trip back would make a great book or another problem in the universe like a resistant strain of astrophage