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Analysis Of The Movie The Martian

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Throughout the movie, “The Martian,” the story revolves around the main character, Mark Watney, who has to survive alone on a Mars by utilizing his skills in botany, as well as other subjects. Mark faces multiple problems throughout the movie, that make his survival extremly hard. Other than botany, there were many other sciences used by Watney to survive on Mars. , including physics. An example of this is when making a battery last longer on the rover, he removes the battery in order to make the rover lighter, and he removed weight from the shuttle that was used to escape the planet. Watney uses medical science (when he had to remove the piece of shrapnel and staple his wound. Other problems included the lack of food, having the HAB (the headquarters for the mission), and having to travel a large distance in a rover that was meant to only go a short distance. The first problem he faced was not having enough food to survive until he could be rescued. Luckily, he had a large amount of food for the crew that was left in the HAB. He calculates how long he could make the rations last but comes to the conclusion that he will still not have enough food to last him until the next manned mission to Mars. Mark rationalizes that through his botany skills he might be able to grow food inside the HAB; he settles on potatoes. . He then uses his human waste, mixed with water and Martian soil, to make soil suitable for growing potatoes. The next step of growing potatoes was finding

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