You speaking techno language?

Mona the monkey is proving herself to be a valuable crew member.

Just attempting to add a bit of verisimilitude to the proceedings.
For those to whom 'techno' language is too hard to follow,
'acclimating' (American English) = ACCLIMATISING, for goodness sake.
condenser - device that uses evaporation to collect water vapour from the (admittely thin) atmosphere.

That Martian bladder wrack the monkey was scoffing seems more palateable than the Terran kind.

I wish she worked at the library with me

And of course she is female - so we do have a female in the film, if not a female human.

I have to say that if I were shipwrecked on a desert planet, inventing the bagpipe would not be high on my agenda.

You'd make an ace teacher

I have to say that if I were shipwrecked on a desert planet, inventing the bagpipe would not be high on my agenda.

Life!

Of course, the original Man Friday was being hunted too.

Zabriskie point death valley mostly.

That stuff they're covered in looks horrible. What an actor does for his art!

For the money, you mean?

It's probably impossible to write a story about someone being marooned somewhere without it having some throwback to RC, if only in the reader's mind.

The Woolly Monkey? What kind of a name is that? Does she sign her autograph T. W. Monkey ?

Well, that was OK. Ending was a bit sudden. But a nice study in space survival. Must remember that when I go to Mars.

Well, that was OK. Ending was a bit sudden. But a nice study in space survival. Must remember that when I go to Mars.

The Martian is a better one for the survival stuff, if equally far-fetched in other bits.

Don't forget to take a monkey with you, so that it can show you how to survive.