![]() ![]() “All scientists are that handsome-and beautiful,” he says.įor all that moviegoers are falling in love with Matt Damon the botanist, Meghna Sachdev writes in Science magazine, “the story’s real heartthrob is, well, science.” Withers knows all about that. Whatever liberties the movie may have taken with scientific reality, he says, it nails the scientists. An expert on Mars and its weather, Withers recently saw The Martian. Are scientists in real life always that cool and funny?Ībsolutely, says Paul Withers, a Boston University College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) assistant professor of astronomy. ![]() Let’s leave aside, for the moment, the plausibility of that opening sandstorm. “I’m the greatest botanist on the planet,” he announces to a totally deserted Mars. Watney survives through scientific derring-do, figuring out, for instance, how to grow potatoes with his own human waste. In the new Ridley Scott sci-fi blockbuster The Martian, Matt Damon plays botanist Mark Watney, who gets stranded on Mars after a ferocious sandstorm forces his crew to abort their mission and blast off for Earth. ![]()
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