{"id":233802,"date":"2026-03-21T23:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-speculative-evolution-of-project-hail-mary"},"modified":"2026-03-21T23:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:03:36","slug":"the-speculative-evolution-of-project-hail-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-speculative-evolution-of-project-hail-mary","title":{"rendered":"The Speculative Evolution of Project Hail Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5K_rucrFBuQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Project Hail Mary, a story by Andy Weir (author of The Martian), features some of the most creative speculative evolution scenarios in modern science fiction. With the release of the film adaptation starring Ryan Gosling, now seemed like a great time to explore the speculative biology of the aliens in this story: the Astrophage and the Eridians (Rocky\u2019s species).<\/p>\n<p>The Artists:<br \/> Wyatt Andrews Workshop: \/ wyatt_andrews_workshop.<br \/> Corax. Lara \/ Corax. Corvid: \/ corax.lara.<br \/> \/ corax.corvid.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 Subscribe to 7 Days of Science: \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7daysofscience\">@7daysofscience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc55 Visit our merch store: <a href=\"https:\/\/ben-g-thomas-shop.fourthwall.com\">https:\/\/ben-g-thomas-shop.fourthwall.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50 Become a Channel Member or support us on Patreon for behind-the-scenes, bloopers, extra adventures and more!<br \/> Become a Member: \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bengthomas\">@bengthomas<\/a>.<br \/> Join the 7 Days of Science Patreon: \/ 7daysofscience.<\/p>\n<p>Join our Discord server: \/ discord.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-speculative-evolution-of-project-hail-mary\">Continue reading \u201cThe Speculative Evolution of Project Hail Mary\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Hail Mary, a story by Andy Weir (author of The Martian), features some of the most creative speculative evolution scenarios in modern science fiction. With the release of the film adaptation starring Ryan Gosling, now seemed like a great time to explore the speculative biology of the aliens in this story: the Astrophage and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}