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[The Martian] Could the entire crew have survived if they decided to wait out the storm?

Lets say the crew listens to Mark and wait out the storm on Mars. Communication is still dead and the rocket home is knocked over, could the entire crew survive until rescue? if the entire crew cant survive, how many could? which group would have the best chances of survival and which  astronauts would just be dead weight?
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Not a chance.  The MAV was tipping over without a doubt, so the whole team would have been stranded.

Watney survived as long as he did because he could take 6 people’s worth of food and have them all to himself, rationed down to make them last.  And he supplemented that with his homegrown potatoes - when he left Mars he had something like a dozen potatoes left between him and starvation.   On top of the fact that he had to use lots of the water that would ordinarily be split among crew members in order to grow the potatoes in the first place.

And of course, Watney had to travel halfway across Mars in a stitched-together trailer without the room to put another person.  He was saved by a combination of using resources meant for six people and redundant systems sent by NASA.  As the team’s engineer and botanist, I’m not sure any others on the team would have had the know-how to handle all of the issues that popped up for Watney over his year-and-change on Mars.