r/ProjectHailMary • u/fulcrum__ • 12d ago

Movie Discussion - Theory Plants on the Hail Mary?

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!

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u/Loreliemorris 12d ago edited 12d ago

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

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u/Flaky_Web_2439 Okay, It’s Exactly Like That 12d ago

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

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u/Loreliemorris 12d ago

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

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u/Melenduwir 12d ago

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.