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Project Amaze! @projectamaze.com · 3d

Beanbag #49 | Project Amaze!

The degree symbol is used 12 times in the novel to mean either temperature or angle.

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Beanbag #48 | Project Amaze!

Some textual facts about Minister Voigt

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Beanbag #47 | Project Amaze!

Project Amaze now has an Atom feed

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Beanbag #46 | Project Amaze!

Stratt's desire to protect Earth from extraterrestrial contamination partially reflects our own modern planetary protection efforts.

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Beanbag #45 | Project Amaze!

Textual Facts about Chapter 8

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Beanbag #44 | Project Amaze!

The word “cylinder” occurs 69 times in Project Hail Mary

Beanbag #43 | Project Amaze!

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And part 2:

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Here we explore the sections that are outliers regarding verb tense

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Project Amaze! @projectamaze.com · 11d

And here is part 1:

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Verb tense in Project Hail Mary varies dramatically between the Earth and Space sections

Textual and scientific analysis of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary

Project Amaze! @projectamaze.com · 11d

Coming soon...

Scatter plot with axes:

- Present Tense (%)
- Past Tense (%)

The legend reads:
- Space Narrator
- Space Speech
- Earth Narrator
- Earth Speech

with the Space Narrator and Eart Narrator highlighted.

The dots corresponding to the Space Narrator are mostly clustered with high present tense and low past tense.

The dots corresponding to the Eart Narrator are mostly clustered with high past tense and low present tense.

There is no overlap between the clusters although two Earth Narrator dots and one Space Narrator dot are close.

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Project Amaze! @projectamaze.com · Aug 16

And we have lift-off!

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Stay tuned for daily fact drops!

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Beanbag #41 | Project Amaze!

Some more textual facts about Ryland Grace

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Project Amaze! @projectamaze.com · 13d

Movie Tie-In Cover to be released on December 2nd, 2025.

Book cover depicts Ryan Gosling floating upside down in zero g in a space craft. He is wearing a t-shirt and his glasses are floating off his face.

Text reads:

ANDY WEIR
Author of The Martian
#1 New Your Times Bestselling Author

PROJECT
HAIL
MARY

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM AMAZON MGM STUDIOS

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Project Amaze! @projectamaze.com · 13d

Beanbag #40 | Project Amaze!

Argon is useful for science but a poor choice for breathing.

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Project Amaze! @projectamaze.com · 14d

Beanbag #42 (which will come out Friday / Saturday) will actually be on the topic (relevant to my masters and probably doctoral research) that inspired this whole project in the first place!

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Beanbag #39 | Project Amaze!

Textual Facts about Chapter 7

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Project Amaze! @projectamaze.com · 16d

We also now have more beanbags posted than followers, so spread the word!

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Project Amaze! @projectamaze.com · 16d

And for Hobbit day, we look into occurrences of "time", the accidental answer Bilbo gives to Gollum in their riddle contest...

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The word “time” occurs 413 times in Project Hail Mary

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Project Amaze! @projectamaze.com · 16d

A fun Star Trek homage...

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On three occasions, Grace utters a statement of the form: I’m a X, not (a) Y.

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Beanbag #36 | Project Amaze!

Launch of the Spin Drive (Random Beanbag)