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kitd
2681 days ago
One amazing story about this is that the film 'No Highway in the Sky' [1], which (almost) predicts this exact problem, was made a couple of years
before
these actual events took place.
[1]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043859/
1 comments
garethrees
2681 days ago
The film was based on the novel "No Highway" (1948) by Nevil Shute, who had worked as an aeronautical engineer at De Havilland.
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arethuza
2681 days ago
It's good that not all of Nevil Shute's predictions were so accurate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)
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enriquto
2681 days ago
How do you know? As far as it goes, this novel might be actually an accurate prediction (except for the year).
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