100 Things I Learned from Sunshine

1) Extreme light therapy makes your body a vessel for a homicidal god and gives you superhuman strength and some weird cloaking ability.

2) If your precious garden catches fire you weep like a baby.

3) Duct tapped insulation makes for one hell of an improvised space suit.

4) A rotating antenna array can't be shutdown (stopped from spinning) to prevent burning up outside of the sunshield's protection.

5) If there's a fire in a sealed room, you can't vent the oxygen to space put it out, but flooding the room with pure O2 will do the trick.

7) An advanced AI computer can't predict the trajectory of your payload beyond 45% accuracy.

8) Fissile material can restart fusion reaction in the Sun.

9) If you spend too much time in the video confession room, expect a beat down.

10) If you spend all your time focused on fuel loads and velocities you'll forget to adjust the sunshield and the only way to redeem such an offense is to hara-kiri yourself.

11) An advanced AI computer failed to parameter check the trajectory adjustments prior to applying them. And, it can't simply reorient the ship to lie in the shield shadow.

12) Waves make me peaceful.

19. Wearing a spacesuit even resembling Kenny in South Park will get you killed (you BASTARDS!)

Please, go...Stop smiling, it's not a joke. Please leave...The party's over. Get out.

Extreme light therapy makes your body a vessel for a homicidal god and gives you superhuman strength and some weird cloaking ability.

Wait....that's not entirely true. He was disfigured and burnt. How do you suppose he lived off for seven years in Icarus I when his supplies in his ship might have run out ?
What they witnessed was blurry and it could have been a hallucination.

If your precious garden catches fire you weep like a baby.

That precious garden was the source of food and oxygen.

Duct tapped insulation makes for one hell of an improvised space suit.

lol atleast that's what they came up with when they had no spare suits. Besides, it did protect the covered part of the body, didn't it?

An advanced AI computer can't predict the trajectory of your payload beyond 45% accuracy.

Maybe some sort of interference must have caused the distortion.


Fissile material can restart fusion reaction in the Sun.

I find that hard to believe. Yes, it helps sun to burn a little brighter for a little while....but birth of another star inside it is just unusual.


If you spend too much time in the video confession room, expect a beat down.

All these years in Space and they still havent become friends, they fight like children over a moment wasted to send a message.

An advanced AI computer failed to parameter check the trajectory adjustments prior to applying them. And, it can't simply reorient the ship to lie in the shield shadow.

The power blackout throughout the entire ship must have caused it. But it came back online and it depended on a manual trajectory setting.

Waves make me peaceful.

Yes , it calms me too. I like it in the beaches.

4% will blind you, but 3.1% is good for 30 seconds.

Now that's very accurate for Icarus II system which set the trajectory at 45% accuracy. 

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

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28. 8 years later Rose Byrne is still super cute.

29. 3% of something is way more than 1.5x 2%.
30. It makes total sense to make the reflective coating of space suits and heat shields out of gold instead of aluminium, even though gold sucks at reflecting all the shorter, high-energy wavelengths.
31. Whatever magic fissile material can restart a fusion reaction can not just be dropped into the sun but needs to be delivered there by a team of astronauts who will then depart shortly before whatever happens happens.
32. Making a stupid remark about the composition of dust back in your living room when entering a spaceship wrecked in an unknown disaster is both tasteful and helpful.
33. Coming to a halt and taking off again with a huge payload relative to an object that's in orbit around the sun when previously you've been moving towards the sun is somehow not a big deal.
34. Pessimists christened the first Icarus the Icarus I right from the beginning in case there might be the need for an Icarus II.
35. Declaring a vote unanimous beforehand doesn't mean you can't change it to a simple majority vote when you don't like the outcome.

37- a mission captain does not need to make any decisions about anything- or do anything else for that matter- all calculations will be done by his subordinates without him having to check them, and the most important decision about the mission diversion is also not his.

38- two chances are better than one. Apparently, zero chances to succeed if finding Icarus I fails is also better than one- not that anyone considered it.



In the beginning there was nothing, and it exploded.

39. Preparation for a follow-up mission to a first mission that failed for some unknown reason, does not include contingency planing for finding the ship from the first mission. Even if these missions are like the most important in the history of all of the world ... Figure it out as you go ... No big whoop.