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JUICY HAMBUGAR
Nov 10, 2010

Eating, America's pastime.

BrianWilly posted:

Something I've been wondering...isn't it weird that the Hab can't communicate with the Hermes or with NASA at all? It seems strange to me that a little random probe from however many years ago could still ping images to Earth, and that they could eventually send messages to and from the rover after changing its code, but that no one thought to include literally any means of communication in the place where they were actually living.

The initial injury that Watney sustained was from their communications dish impacting him during the storm, thus leaving it and him in a state of disrepair. I haven't read the book so I'm unaware if it was different.

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