What is the contradiction? I didn't notice it!
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @bmc_
And then ask, how does this thing contaminate the ship if they had to work hard to even get it to survive in 3.5% nitrogen?
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The book made mention that the cabin was a reduced-pressure environment. It's possible the Hail Mary cabin was pure oxygen:https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/5690/why-is-the-breathing-atmosphere-of-the-iss-a-standard-atmosphere-at-1-atm-conta …
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Replying to @bmc_ @Jonathan_Blow
Which would explain why he needed to use a canister of nitrogen which only happened to be on the ship by chance. If the ship was designed to have nitrogen then the ship would likely have it's own tanks.
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Thinking more about it, this would have been fine and made the book stronger actually -- instead of "oops, I was negligent and didn't think about containing this life form that eats my fuel so that it won't eat my fuel," he could have been like, "wait a minute, I assumed
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @bmc_
the atmosphere of the ship was Earth-normal and full of nitrogen, because I don't remember anything, so I thought there would be no safety issue, but upon seeing the fuel was corrupted I had a flashback to the bead exchange and like, oh no."
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Hopefully they do something like that when they make the movie because "oops I am a stupid doo doo because maybe I don't sleep enough" is not very strong.
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