Eridian Encounters
The material Rocky's ship is made of.
What is Xenonite?
The chemical compound Astrophage require for breeding.
What is carbon dioxide?
Ryland's earthly occupation. Bonus: Ryland's original occupation, for which he was selected for Project Hail Mary.
What is junior high science teacher?
Bonus: What is a (speculative extraterrestrial) biologist studying anhydrous life.
The name of the phenomenon in space, visible in the IR spectrum, that prompted Project Hail Mary.
What is the Petrova line?
The name Ryland gives to Rocky's ship, inspired by how he first noticed it.
What is Blip-A?
The gas breathed by Eridians which Ryland smells upon initial contact.
What is radiation?
The chemical that kills the Astrophage predator?
What is nitrogen?
Ryland's earthly locale.
San Francisco.
Where the Astrophage go to breed in our solar system.
What is Venus?
Collectively, the four unmanned probes, named for legendary artists, sent with Ryland to return collected data to Earth.
What are The Beetles?
The killer of Rocky's other crewmates.
Bonus: The reason Rocky was not effected.
What is radiation?
What is his location in the workshop (near the Astrophage)?
The Astrophage predator discovered at Tau Ceti.
What is Taumoeba?
The actor set to play our guy RG in the upcoming "Project Hail Mary" movie.
Who is Ryan Gosling?
The name of the star that Ryland and Rocky have traveled to.
What is Tau Ceti.
The nickname of Rocky's mate on his home planet.
What is Adrian?
The first concept Ryland and Rocky establish after "yes" and "no".
Bonus: The gesture established between Ryland and Rocky to mean "yes".
What is time?
Bonus: What are jazz hands?
After many trials to determine what Astrophage is made of, including infrared wavelength, ultraviolet, x-ray, and Cesium-137, the method he used to finally find an answer.
What is poke it with a stick?
The leader of the Petrova Taskforce who recruited and worked with Ryland on Earth.
Bonus: The country they were from.
Who is Dr. Eva Stratt?
What is the Netherlands? (Dutch)
The name of Rocky's home star.
What is 40 Eridani?
The meat Ryland eats on Erid, made from human meat cloned by Eridians, as named by Ryland.
What are meburgers?
What is a laptop computer?
The astrophage-powered propulsion system used on Hail Mary.
What is the spin drive?
The home countries of Ryland's deceased crewmates.
Bonus: The names of the deceased crewmates.
What are China and Russia?
What are Yao or Ilyukhina?
Where the Astrophage go to breed in Rocky's home solar system?
What is Threeworld.
The names Ryland gave to his three original astrophage samples, inspired by a famous comedic trio. Bonus: The name he gave their offspring.
What are Larry, Curly, and Moe? Bonus: What is Shemp?