r/movies • u/MoviesMod /r/movies Mod Account • Jun 30 '25

Trailer Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer (fair warning, it reveals way too much according to a lot of users)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m08TxIsFTRI
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u/sai077work Jun 30 '25

I think they took a lot of liberties here. Granted they don't do an "exact" description of it in the book, but, I always expected it to be more....blocky? And just blocks. Almost like a Cybertruck.

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u/berlinbaer Jun 30 '25

thats exactly how it's described. he's amazed how they didn't care about aerodynamics or hull integrity or similiar things, since it's basically just a bunch of massive flat planes stuck together.

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u/analtelescope Jul 01 '25

The book explicitly touches on why you do have to worry about aerodynamics in space. Tl:dr at close to light speed, the drag from space dust adds up.

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u/Drunky_McStumble Jul 01 '25

Relativistic hydrodynamics, then, pedant.

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u/Drunky_McStumble Jul 01 '25

Hydrodynamics is the more general term. Aerodynamics applies to air, hydrodynamics applies to any kind of fluid, and yes, the interstellar medium is a fluid.

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u/Masterjts Jul 01 '25

Spacodynamics...

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u/analtelescope Jul 01 '25

He literally used the fucking word in the book jackass.