There is no more evocative image, if we speak of loneliness, than that of an astronaut walking away at night when the umbilical cord that holds him to the ship breaks.
These castaways without islands, without Friday, flares or the possibility of rescue have been used in art to try to convey the insignificant and overwhelming of the human in the vastness of space.
David Bowie sang to his Major Tom, Stanley Kubrick used the survival instinct of a murderous HAL 9000 computer, Alfonso Cuarón sacrificed George Clooney in ...
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