The specifics of what he was doing aren’t important. (He had been trying to break an encrypted password-equivalent to the flight control computer, and had just entered in what he believed to be the solution, when the computer was destroyed, leaving him facing certain death.)
I just like the idea that what upset him most about dying was that he wouldn’t be able to finish the problem he was working on.
“Now I’ll never know if I was right.”
-- final words of Adric, in Dr. Who, “Earthshock”, on realizing that he’s about to crash into the Earth
I think that might need some context—was his prediction that he would die on crashing or something?
The specifics of what he was doing aren’t important. (He had been trying to break an encrypted password-equivalent to the flight control computer, and had just entered in what he believed to be the solution, when the computer was destroyed, leaving him facing certain death.)
I just like the idea that what upset him most about dying was that he wouldn’t be able to finish the problem he was working on.