{"id":13744,"date":"2015-10-23T06:32:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13744"},"modified":"2015-10-23T06:33:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:33:04","slug":"hes-told-us-not-to-blow-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13744","title":{"rendered":"He\u2019s told us not to blow it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hopefully you\u2019ve seen the recent movie,\u00a0The Martian<\/a><\/em>, a film directed by Ridley Scott and adapted from the online book by Andy Weir. If you have not seen the movie or read the book, both of which I highly recommend,\u00a0there will be some spoilers for the movie in this post. The movie is wonderful, featuring Matt Damon playing Mark Watney, an astronaut-botanist-mechanical engineer,\u00a0\u201csciencing the shit\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(literally) out of extreme survival in a hostile environment while accidentally\u00a0left behind\u00a0on Mars.<\/p>\n

\"Gauld-just-jealous\"<\/a>Cultural memes in art, music, and literature indirectly\u00a0reflect\u00a0what\u2019s happening in society before our conscious minds do. The explosion of zombie movies and science fiction about intrepid survivors either abandoning Earth for new planets or struggling to get back to Earth suggests that subconsciously, we know we are beyond our limits and headed in the wrong direction on this planet.<\/p>\n

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Mainstream cultural memes derived from this movie suggest the power of human technology and inventiveness through know-how and persistence. NASA may have used this movie as a rallying cry in support of more funding in general, and funding for longer-range space travel specifically. Good luck with that. It is no accident that space travel in the US peaked with the US oil peak in 1970. Viewed from my perspective\u00a0of the world in descent, the movie represents something different that probably hasn\u2019t already been said, at least in the US, where\u00a0Americans\u2019 manifest destiny still reigns supreme. I\u2019m not sure what Andy Weir\u2019s intentions were, beyond telling a ripping good survival yarn, but I see this movie as a symbol of what happens when we venture to the limit of what is sustainable, using extreme technology and energy.<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s told us not to blow it Hopefully you\u2019ve seen the recent movie,\u00a0The Martian, a film directed by Ridley Scott and adapted from the online book by Andy Weir. If you have not seen the movie or read the book, both of which I highly recommend,\u00a0there will be some spoilers for the movie in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9647,10157,10160,10158,10163,2418,10161,8150,485,10162,10156,10159,929,3197,10164,10165,10166,769,786,10155],"class_list":["post-13744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-a-prosperous-way-down","tag-andy-weir","tag-botany","tag-cultural-meme","tag-david-bowie","tag-earth","tag-extreme-survival","tag-limits","tag-limits-to-growth","tag-mars","tag-mary-odum","tag-matt-damon","tag-nasa","tag-overshoot","tag-pathfinder","tag-sojourner","tag-starman","tag-sustainability","tag-technology","tag-the-martian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13746,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13744\/revisions\/13746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}