• EvilFonzy@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    He’s asking how young the girls in space are, and they’re thinking about all of the Sci-Fi movies where the Earth blows up and astronauts have to watch it go.

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        6 hours ago

        That’s literally the plot of The Shining. It’s in Stanley Kubrick’s hidden messages from the fake moon that he invented or something.

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        12 hours ago

        I have a book sort of like this. SevenEves by Niel Stephenson.

        The book blows up (or gets hit or something). The dist will make earth uninhabitable within a few years. I want to say Seven Years. I remeber the SevenEves title has many possible “meanings” and I think years to collapse was one.

        They basically work to get as many people as they can, which isn’t many, into space working with the small crew of a (larger than ISS but not huge) space station. Including all of the logistics of food and housing.

        They also have to manage it in a way as not to cause a panic because billions of people, will die. Because they literally cannot send everyone.

        The first two thirds are pretty good, the lattwr third jump to the future and fallout and I hated that part, but the first part is good.

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        13 hours ago

        I.S.S. is based on that, there was a Cloverfield spin off that was pretty similar, too. I’m sure there are a bunch more, and I’d be interested to see them, too.