They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially colonized it. So I'm going to be taking a craft over in international waters without permission, which by definition. Nobody explicitly gave me permission to do this, and they can't until I'm on board the Ares IV. I'm about to leave for the Schiaparelli Crater where I'm going to commandeer the Ares IV lander. But the second I walk outside I'm in international waters. Now, NASA is an American non-military organization, it owns the Hab. By another treaty if you're not in any country's territory, maritime law applies. There's an international treaty saying that no country can lay claim to anything that's not on Earth. I've been thinking about laws on Mars. I don't want to come off as arrogant here, but I'm the greatest botanist on this planet. Look, the point is, I'm not cold anymore. I almost just said "Everything will be fine," out loud. And planted that flag so we would never be stupid enough to accidentally go near it again. no more humans, which is why we buried it when we arrived. Now, if I remember my training correctly, one of the lessons was titled: "Don't dig up the big box of plutonium, Mark." I get it RTGs are good for spacecraft, but if they rupture around humans. Bad news: it involves me digging up the radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Good news: I may have a solution to my heating problem. Luckily, in the history of humanity, nothing bad has ever happened from lighting hydrogen on fire. And then if I just direct the hydrogen into a small area and burn it. If I run the hydrazine over an iridium catalyst, it'll separate into N2 and H2. Now, I have hundreds of liters of unused hydrazine at the MDV. The good thing is, I know the recipe: You take hydrogen, you add oxygen, and you burn. In the face of overwhelming odds, I'm left with only one option: I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this. 
If none of those things happen, I'll eventually run out of food and starve to death. If the hab breaches, I'll just kind of implode. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate.I'm the first person to be alone on an entire planet.
Hi, I'm Mark Watney and I'm still alive.
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