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Kniffty
Since: Jan, 2013
10th Oct, 2017 04:01:50 PM
Nevermind, I found it.
Yeah.
Synchronicity
MOD
(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
10th Oct, 2017 09:28:47 PM
It's actually the trope namer for Cold Equation.
I think it’s a short sci-fi story. About a girl who snuck onto a cargo ship filled with life-saving medicine to visit her family on the ship’s destination planet. However, the ship only has enough fuel to take its pilot and medicine all the way, and the girl’s added weight means that the ship won’t make it to its destination and there are no places it can stop and refuel or drop her off safely. If the ship doesn’t reach its destination, lots of people will die and only the pilot can fly it, so the pilot has no choice but to throw the girl out the airlock.