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MadDogMike
Apr 9, 2008

Cute but fanged

Luneshot posted:

I think someone showed that there was a more efficient way of doing it? I'm not entirely sure about that, all I know about hydrazine is that it's toxic as gently caress and a good monopropellant. I'm not a chemist.

Although it'd be kinda moot though, since we've found that Martian soil is way more loaded with water ice than we thought. Watney would have mud just from bringing it into the hab.

I swear I heard somewhere that Martian soil was toxic enough (perchlorates, I think?) that growing things in it would be problematic at best. Again, something found out after the book was written though.

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