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[–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

What kills me. The smart person, call them a leader in molecular biology. That can suddenly fly a space ship. Operate everything in said space ship. Write a computer program, in excel, to translate an alien species. Like come on dawg. I get it. You’re smart and make a fun movie. But the whole 1 person that is a fucking the expert in literally everything that happens is just getting old.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    I feel like your calling out Project Hail Mary. Is this what you are referring to?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Yeah. That was the last movie I saw like this. Keep in mind, I love the book and movie. But watching the movie, I keep going β€œoh come on” how does he know how to program a translator in excel. Still a great movie.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Rocky, the alien, was doing the vast majority of the work in their communication - being careful to only use words already in the list recognised by the laptop, except when absolutely necessary to introduce a new word, and also saying the words in an order suitable for English grammar. The laptop was only doing single-word speech synthesis from Rocky's sounds, a fairly simple task.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    I only saw the movie, but I thought the same stuff for the most part. It would have helped if they were training him, but from what I remember he was only teaching his specific area and then thrown into having to do it with like almost no time for training. Yeah definitely not going to happen lol.

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