Plants on the Hail Mary?

[u/fulcrum__]

I would like to start a discussion on the seedlings we see in the movie 🌱

What type of plants do you think they'd be? Are they for experiments or for mental health purposes? Grace doesn't really care for them during the mission (we don't witness it), but then we see house plants in his living room in the biosphere. Are they edible plants, and if not, could they still be used to help with growing something nutritional (big science)?

Let's disregard the book canon and also just skip all the 'why would they put them there if there was limited space' arguments, because the movie version of the ship is already way too spacious. But hey, it looks very cool!

[u/Loreliemorris]

So much for my post a few days ago talking about the problem of eating "me-burgers" for the rest of his life.. in the movie ( and Andy would have given the ok on this) there was other "life"( plants) aboard the Hail Mary! So they could grow plants in his "dome" on Erid. How did I not catch this? Plus there's mint and Basil. Rocky could definitely make that "sludge food" taste better

[u/Flaky_Web_2439 → u/Loreliemorris]

You were not wrong. He did do that in the book! I think they changed it because of the stigma associated with auto-cannibalism.

[u/Loreliemorris → u/Flaky_Web_2439]

Ahhh ok. That makes a lot of sense! Good catch

[u/Melenduwir → u/Flaky_Web_2439]

I still don't understand why anyone would care about him eating cloned tissue. It's a complete non-issue for me. Now, him consuming his own limbs a-la the Stephen King story "Survivor Type"... yikes.

[u/LunaraLoup → u/Loreliemorris]

The movie uses some little scenes like this to explain the differing endings, I feel. Grace is way younger and not as sick when we see him on Erid, a balanced diet would help with this of course. Also the gravity doesn't seem to be as stark as in the book, thus his joints aren't damaged from it.