The Cold Equations — The Most Brutal Moral Dilemma in Science Fiction
Tonight on Chesterton Radio Storycraft, we explore one of the most haunting stories ever broadcast during the golden age of radio.
From the legendary NBC science fiction series X Minus One, The Cold Equations tells the story of a routine emergency space mission that turns into an impossible moral crisis. When a young stowaway is discovered aboard a tiny dispatch ship, the pilot realizes that her extra weight makes the mission physically impossible to complete.
The ship carries life-saving medicine to a distant colony.
And the laws of physics do not negotiate.
In this episode, our hosts dive…
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