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They need to go back to making blockbusters that have like ten minutes of pro-China-ness, which was a thing for like two years in the 2010s, since China is a huge market and lots of people there might be into Hollywood films that have positive Chinese characters (for instance). Oh wait, Hollywood can’t do that because American libs and chuds will lose their fucking minds and firebomb movie theaters that show CCP propaganda. Contradictions of capitalism.jpg.
Dont worry barbie will pledge herself to the People's Republic of China and DESTROY JOHNNY HARRIS
Remember when transformer 4 was deemed to be kowtowing to china for showing hk authorities as reasonable and competent?
Honestly its sad that people see stuff like Chinese space agency helping to rescue the astronaut in the martian and call it PROPAPAGANDA. People claim to want movies to be apolitical yet hates it when Chinese scientists work together with American scientists and astronauts to save their fellow space explorers?
I rewatched The Martian recently and moments of reddit ass dialogue aside the scene where space agencies around the world including the Chinese celebrate the rescue working is legitimately heartwarming, sucks that we're in full red scare 2.0 mode now
Speaking as a lifelong space nut, it's a pretty darn accurate movie, with two big exceptions:
The dust storm at the beginning can't happen the way it's portrayed. Mars' atmosphere is less than 1% as thick as Earth's. The most violent wind on Mars has about the force of a gentle summer breeze on Earth. No Martian storm could topple over a spaceship.
Martian soil has turned out to be unfortunately too toxic to grow plants without extensive processing to remove chemicals like perchlorates. This can't be blamed on the author though, this was not known until after the book was published.
There's some pretty neat stuff we've recently found with regards to growing plants in martian regolith. Interestingly, the problem with perchlorates isn't necessarily apparent right away. Mark Watney would have likely been able to grow potatoes, just really shitty ones. The second part of the problem shows up when you eat the potatoes and the perchlorates fuck your thyroid up.
There are some pretty neat ideas in terms of bioremediation, though, like growing nitrogen-fixing plants like alfalfa to add nitrogen, growing water hyacinths to draw perchlorates out, or using bacteria for both of these things. A big wrinkle though is that the heavy UV levels on mars may affect some of these chemicals in ways that make them more troubling to plants, bacteria, and people alike. Just really hoping for a sample return soon so we can get some truly accurate simulants to grow in.
The author of The Martian going back like the terf lady and her wizard book and deciding "actually, the astronaut died from perchlorate poisoning 3 minutes after the end of the book"
Don't look up but instead of having other spacecraft blow up because hahaha american tech is better when the American spacecraft fails due to billionare bullshit China with the help of Russia and India saves the day.
Also the studios get a smaller cut from the international box office. So even if China, Europe and India represent more movie-goers, it still makes more financial sense to appeal to Americans.
They need to go back to making blockbusters that have like ten minutes of pro-China-ness, which was a thing for like two years in the 2010s, since China is a huge market and lots of people there might be into Hollywood films that have positive Chinese characters (for instance). Oh wait, Hollywood can’t do that because American libs and chuds will lose their fucking minds and firebomb movie theaters that show CCP propaganda. Contradictions of capitalism.jpg.
Dont worry barbie will pledge herself to the People's Republic of China and DESTROY JOHNNY HARRIS
Remember when transformer 4 was deemed to be kowtowing to china for showing hk authorities as reasonable and competent?
Honestly its sad that people see stuff like Chinese space agency helping to rescue the astronaut in the martian and call it PROPAPAGANDA. People claim to want movies to be apolitical yet hates it when Chinese scientists work together with American scientists and astronauts to save their fellow space explorers?
I rewatched The Martian recently and moments of reddit ass dialogue aside the scene where space agencies around the world including the Chinese celebrate the rescue working is legitimately heartwarming, sucks that we're in full red scare 2.0 mode now
Speaking as a lifelong space nut, it's a pretty darn accurate movie, with two big exceptions:
The dust storm at the beginning can't happen the way it's portrayed. Mars' atmosphere is less than 1% as thick as Earth's. The most violent wind on Mars has about the force of a gentle summer breeze on Earth. No Martian storm could topple over a spaceship.
Martian soil has turned out to be unfortunately too toxic to grow plants without extensive processing to remove chemicals like perchlorates. This can't be blamed on the author though, this was not known until after the book was published.
There's some pretty neat stuff we've recently found with regards to growing plants in martian regolith. Interestingly, the problem with perchlorates isn't necessarily apparent right away. Mark Watney would have likely been able to grow potatoes, just really shitty ones. The second part of the problem shows up when you eat the potatoes and the perchlorates fuck your thyroid up.
There are some pretty neat ideas in terms of bioremediation, though, like growing nitrogen-fixing plants like alfalfa to add nitrogen, growing water hyacinths to draw perchlorates out, or using bacteria for both of these things. A big wrinkle though is that the heavy UV levels on mars may affect some of these chemicals in ways that make them more troubling to plants, bacteria, and people alike. Just really hoping for a sample return soon so we can get some truly accurate simulants to grow in.
Oh those are cool ideas. And yeah, a sample return would be amazing.
That, and also you'd need to bring your own Nitrogen cause Mars is fresh out, unfortunately.
The author of The Martian going back like the terf lady and her wizard book and deciding "actually, the astronaut died from perchlorate poisoning 3 minutes after the end of the book"
USian "politics"
Don't look up but instead of having other spacecraft blow up because hahaha american tech is better when the American spacecraft fails due to billionare bullshit China with the help of Russia and India saves the day.
Also the studios get a smaller cut from the international box office. So even if China, Europe and India represent more movie-goers, it still makes more financial sense to appeal to Americans.
But if they do that the cool DoD guys won't let them do promos in their cool jets in exchange for final cut!