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    68 months ago

    Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir does a great job at hypothesizing a first interaction like this.

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      28 months ago

      Good lord I love that book.

      I really like that he recognized that you’ll have 2 beings both motivated to understand each other. The back and forth communication, along with some coding skills, made good progress pretty quick.

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        38 months ago

        Did you do the paperback, or the audiobook? The audiobook was enhanced with some neat audio tricks for Rocky. It was a fabulous read.

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            38 months ago

            You’ll love it even the second time around. It’s a great production.