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Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars by donpdonp on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @04:21PM (#13823917)
I know, I saw Matt Daemon grow potatoes on Mars in an in-flight documentary called "The Martian".
Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars by pklausler on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @04:30PM (#13823996)
/sbin/mattd
Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars by Waterluvian on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @05:57PM (#13824751)
Can I get in on the joke? :)
Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars by tarmstrong on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @06:00PM (#13824791)
They're making a joke about the misspelling of Matt Damon. "Daemon" is a computing term [0] and /sbin/ is a folder that you might want to put a Matt Daemon in. (Also, daemons are often named with a "d" at the end, like "etcd" or "mattd".)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)

Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars by LeifCarrotson on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @06:01PM (#13824795)
The actor is Matt Damon. Parent spelled it Matt Daemon, as in a hypothetical *nix process at /sbin/mattd
Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars by kbenson on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @07:00PM (#13825213)
If this were Reddit we could keep this going until we had a meme about Matt Damon running in the background of movies, and a whole corpus of images where he's been photoshopped to be doing just that.

Now I'm kind of regretting this conversation isn't on Reddit.

Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars by taneq on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @10:02PM (#13826566)
You can fix that, you know.
Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars by kbenson on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @11:40PM (#13827033)
Yeah, but I'm not one to force conversations. Maybe I can gently steer it the next time a Matt Damon relevant post comes up in gifs, assuming I get there before it's swamped in comments.

In the meantime, I guess I could make some gifs. Because that's a much better use of my time than research, learning, or taxes...

Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars by cortesoft on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @07:26PM (#13825404)
Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars by komali2 on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @05:08PM (#13824334)
I definitely read an article after that movie came out about confused moviegoers that thought it was based on a true story.
Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars by enraged_camel on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @05:31PM (#13824548)
On one end of the spectrum, you have people who doubt that we landed a man on the Moon. On the other end, you have people who think we had a man grow potatoes on Mars.

What a time to be alive.

Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars by startupdiscuss on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @06:39PM (#13825082)
I bet you anything that there is some (however tiny) overlap between the two populations.
Re:Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars by jazzyb on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @06:57PM (#13825194)
Relevant Mitchell and Webb Look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw