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Sci-fi writer Andy Weir breaks down the logic of his 'Project Hail Mary' universe. Learn about the origin of all life in the story and the specific reasons why Ryland Grace's and Rocky's species are the only ones at the center of the interstellar crisis.
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00:00These are just two creatures with suns, you know?
00:03I mean, the implication is there's so many creatures out there with suns that they need to save, you know?
00:07Was this going through your head in the process and did you have to boil it down to deciding on
00:12Rocky?
00:12Well, I mean, I decided that there are probably other alien species around
00:18because I established that all life originated at Tau Ceti and there was a panspermia event that seeded other planets.
00:26So it's likely that there are other planets with life on it and the characters speculate about that.
00:30But these are the two intelligent life forms that have enough technology to build a ship and go to Tau
00:37Ceti
00:38but not enough technology to just simply solve the problem locally in their own star system.
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