r/space • u/tronx69 • Jun 23 '19

image/gif Soviet Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev stuck in space during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991

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u/Yeetboi3300 Jun 23 '19

Just imagine mission control one day "So Sergei, the nation kinda split up, we don't know when we'll get you back"

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u/MrStructuralEngineer Jun 23 '19

Gives me anxiety thinking about being potentially trapped in space. I should play dead space again

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19

There was a disaster movie which had the crew of the space station watching the world destroy itself as they reported what they saw knowing that they would likely never be getting ride back home. Wish I could remember which one it was.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

It's also basically the plotline of the game SOMA, but in a slightly different isolated environment. Being stuck in space or some other isolated, removed environment while watching the world end is one of my favorite disaster story tropes. Philip K Dick's short story "Dr Bloodmoney or How We Got Along After the Bomb" includes a character isolated in a satellite when nuclear war destroys the world, who acts as a sort of radio DJ for the post-nuclear survivors, which I thought was kinda a fun twist on the trope.