In fact, there might be some branch now where the people aboard the International Space Station are now the last surviving humans.
Destruction by strangelet or black hole would probably be violent enough to destroy the ISS...
...still, that’s the most disturbing idea I’ve encountered in a while. Congratulations.
TV Tropes currently has a page about that scenario under “But What About The Astronauts?”, but the plausible connection to real life does add extra disturbance.
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Destruction by strangelet or black hole would probably be violent enough to destroy the ISS...
...still, that’s the most disturbing idea I’ve encountered in a while. Congratulations.
TV Tropes currently has a page about that scenario under “But What About The Astronauts?”, but the plausible connection to real life does add extra disturbance.