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by 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/

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The film was based on the novel "No Highway" (1948) by Nevil Shute, who had worked as an aeronautical engineer at De Havilland.
It's good that not all of Nevil Shute's predictions were so accurate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)

How do you know? As far as it goes, this novel might be actually an accurate prediction (except for the year).