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Project Hail Mary, the highly anticipated film adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, has arrived in theaters, and it's been widely praised as a great success. However, some viewers, particularly those with a technical background, have found the rapid communication between the main characters a little jarring.

In the film, schoolteacher Ryland Grace (played by Ryan Gosling) must forge a relationship and learn to communicate with an extraterrestrial named Rocky, and the two begin conversing in abstracts (concepts like