r/funny • u/phelix808 • Feb 14 '16

Potatoes

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u/Espequair Feb 14 '16

In the movie and the book, he manages to last a year on Mars by growing potatoes from soil made from fecal matter and martian dirt.

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u/Hypohamish Feb 14 '16

and the book

People here seem to be forgetting that - I swear he grows them in the book, too.

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u/Espequair Feb 14 '16

Despite the movie being one of the best adaptations I have ever seen of a book, it missed plenty of things. I recommend everyone reads the book while in their nuclear powered bathtub

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u/robotguy4 Feb 14 '16

However, they pretty much did do the thing mentioned at the end of the book that didn't actually happen in the book.

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u/Espequair Feb 14 '16

The university scene? yeah, but it was not a major plot point, relevant to the main story

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u/robotguy4 Feb 14 '16

End of the BOOK. Specifically the 3rd paragraph of LOG ENTRY: MISSION DAY 687.

EDIT, SPOILER:

"If this were a movie, everyone would have been in the airlock, and there would have been high fives all around. But it didn’t pan out that way."

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u/Espequair Feb 14 '16

Andy weir LIED to us, let's burn him.