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Odysseus is acting out the fictional short story "A Walk in the Sun" [0] where a girl crash lands on the moon and has to keep walking west to stay in the sunlig
by andirk 3y ago
Odysseus is acting out the fictional short story "A Walk in the Sun" [0] where a girl crash lands on the moon and has to keep walking west to stay in the sunlight so she doesn't freeze to death.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Walk_in_the_Sun_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Walk_in_the_Sun_(short_story...
- nytesky 3y agoFuturama writers must have read that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Series_Has_Landed?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Series_Has_Landed?wprov=sf...
- kvemkon 3y ago> has to keep walking west to stay in the sunlight so she doesn't freeze to death. Reminds me of the opposite problem we can see in "The Chronicles of Riddick" (2004). Keep running to stay in the night side of the planet to survive the sunrise. With great music "The Chronicles of Riddick | Outrunning the Sun" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGihB0gxgko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGihB0gxgko
- decafninja 3y agoOne of the earliest Star Wars novels (now part of the noncanonical “extended universe”) featured a walking mining colony that walked across a planet to stay in its night side.
- ericbarrett 3y agoThe story: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0671878522/0671878522___1.htm https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0671878522/0671878522___1.htm
- angiosperm 3y agoA slightly smarter protagonist would have headed slantwise for the nearest pole. 200 miles/day is a pretty hard slog, but close enough to a pole, you might get along on just one. Being at the crash site so rescuers can find you, besides, would be hard to calibrate.