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This shows why I've long said, "Put not your faith in stock options."

Like it or not, options are basically Monopoly money. You can't get your landlord to accept them, or the grocery store, or the credit card companies.

Coming down on its jets, the way God and Robert Heinlein intended!

That's like the British joke about which three football teams have swear words in their names: Arsenal, Scunthorpe, and MANCHESTER FUCKING UNITED. :-D

"Profanity is the one language that all programmers know best." - Troutman's Sixth Programming Postulate

PG-13 movies are allowed two uses of the word "fuck." The Martian had Matt Damon use them fairly early on, first, when Watney yanks the piece of the antenna out of himself ("FUCK!"), and second, when he makes up his mind to survive ("Fuck you, Mars"). They allude to its use in many other places, though, such as the memorable shot from outside the Rover where you can clearly see his lips saying "What the fuck? What the fuck?" Then there was some "censored" text in the chat logs, a reference to Watney telling the botanists to "have sex with themselves," and so forth.

Or, as Raymond Chen puts it (quoting Douglas Adams), "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway."

Where she ought to end up is in jail for fraud, but that's probably wishful thinking.

And now Pathfinder is just sitting there, waiting for Mark Watney to come along and salvage it to use to contact Earth...