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* SunkenCity: After surviving their hell night as the solar storm impacts the Earth, Sam and Leslie awake to find that the apartment building they're in is basically now an island as the entire city has flooded up to at least about fourth-story level.
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* MonumentalDamage: Professor Stan Hurst imagines UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, with the UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty and the World Trade Center in full view, being destroyed as a result of UsefulNotes/TheSun going nova.

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* MonumentalDamage: Professor Stan Hurst imagines UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, with the UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty Art/StatueOfLiberty and the World Trade Center in full view, being destroyed as a result of UsefulNotes/TheSun going nova.
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* SolarFlareDisaster: On the Earth's night side, the first sign that something has happened to the Sun is that the Moon is shining far brighter than normal. Hurst initially believes that the Sun has gone nova and [[MistakenForApocalypse that they have only five hours to live before the entire planet is destroyed]]. As such, it's a relief when it turns out to "just" be a massive solar flare... though the reprieve means they have to start thinking about a tomorrow again. At the end of the episode, there is extreme flooding but the scale of the disaster is not made clear.[[note]]In the original Niven short story, most if not all of humanity in the Eastern Hemisphere is presumed dead, but there are at least some survivors in North America.[[/note]]

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* SolarFlareDisaster: On the Earth's night side, the first sign that something has happened to the Sun is that the Moon is shining far brighter than normal. Hurst initially believes that the Sun has gone nova and [[MistakenForApocalypse that they have only five hours to live before the entire planet is destroyed]]. As such, it's a relief when it turns out to "just" be a massive solar flare... though the reprieve means they have to start thinking about a tomorrow again. At the end of the episode, there is extreme flooding but the scale of the disaster is not made clear.[[note]]In the original Niven short story, most if not all of humanity in the Eastern Hemisphere is presumed dead, but there are at least some survivors in North America.[[/note]][[/note]]
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Suspecting that the sun has gone nova, a professor attempts to woo a woman he had always loved.

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Suspecting that the sun has gone nova, a professor attempts to woo a woman he had always loved.
loved. Based on a short story by Creator/LarryNiven.
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* SnowMeansLove: Professor Hurst, believing the sun has gone nova and burned off half the Earth's atmosphere (and will soon destroy the rest), tries to distract his longtime love interest with a walk downtown. The erratic weather causes a romantic snowfall.

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* SnowMeansLove: Professor Hurst, believing the sun has gone nova and burned off half the Earth's atmosphere (and will soon destroy the rest), Hurst tries to distract his longtime love interest with a walk downtown. The erratic weather causes a romantic snowfall.
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* SnowMeansLove: Professor Hurst believing the sun has gone nova and burned off half the Earth's atmosphere tries to distract his longtime love interest by walking downtown. The erratic weather causes a romantic snowfall.
* SolarFlareDisaster: Earth is struck by a massive solar flare and the resulting extreme heat causes the Moon to look far brighter than is normal. The physics professor Stan Hurst initially thought that the Sun had gone nova and [[MistakenForApocalypse that they had only five hours to live before the entire planet was destroyed]]. As such, this episode treats Earth "merely" being hit by a solar flare as preferable. At the end of the episode, there is extreme flooding but the scale of the disaster is not made clear.[[note]]In the original Niven short story, at least, most if not all of humanity in the Eastern Hemisphere was presumed dead, but there's at least some survivors in North America.[[/note]]

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* SnowMeansLove: Professor Hurst Hurst, believing the sun has gone nova and burned off half the Earth's atmosphere (and will soon destroy the rest), tries to distract his longtime love interest by walking with a walk downtown. The erratic weather causes a romantic snowfall.
* SolarFlareDisaster: Earth is struck by a massive solar flare and On the resulting extreme heat causes Earth's night side, the first sign that something has happened to the Sun is that the Moon to look is shining far brighter than is normal. The physics professor Stan Hurst initially thought believes that the Sun had has gone nova and [[MistakenForApocalypse that they had have only five hours to live before the entire planet was is destroyed]]. As such, this episode treats Earth "merely" being hit by it's a relief when it turns out to "just" be a massive solar flare as preferable.flare... though the reprieve means they have to start thinking about a tomorrow again. At the end of the episode, there is extreme flooding but the scale of the disaster is not made clear.[[note]]In the original Niven short story, at least, most if not all of humanity in the Eastern Hemisphere was is presumed dead, but there's there are at least some survivors in North America.[[/note]]
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* SolarFlareDisaster: Earth is struck by a massive solar flare and the resulting extreme heat causes the Moon to look far brighter than is normal. The physics professor Stan Hurst initially thought that the Sun had gone nova and [[MistakenForApocalypse that they had only five hours to live before the entire planet was destroyed]]. As such, this episode treats Earth "merely" being hit by a solar flare as preferable. At the end of the episode, there is extreme flooding but the scale of the disaster is not made clear.

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* SolarFlareDisaster: Earth is struck by a massive solar flare and the resulting extreme heat causes the Moon to look far brighter than is normal. The physics professor Stan Hurst initially thought that the Sun had gone nova and [[MistakenForApocalypse that they had only five hours to live before the entire planet was destroyed]]. As such, this episode treats Earth "merely" being hit by a solar flare as preferable. At the end of the episode, there is extreme flooding but the scale of the disaster is not made clear.[[note]]In the original Niven short story, at least, most if not all of humanity in the Eastern Hemisphere was presumed dead, but there's at least some survivors in North America.[[/note]]
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' Moonlight can drive man to madness and lovers to swoon, but this night, for one last and glorious moment, it shines bright as a grim harbinger of dawn.


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-->'''The Control Voice:''' Perhaps, how we face death is not as important as how we face life. To live each day with hope, with courage and with love... as if it were our last.
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* MonumentalDamage: Professor Stan Hurst imagines UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, with the UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty and the World Trade Center in full view, being destroyed as a result of UsefulNotes/TheSun going nova.
* SnowMeansLove: Professor Hurst believing the sun has gone nova and burned off half the Earth's atmosphere tries to distract his longtime love interest by walking downtown. The erratic weather causes a romantic snowfall.
* SolarFlareDisaster: Earth is struck by a massive solar flare and the resulting extreme heat causes the Moon to look far brighter than is normal. The physics professor Stan Hurst initially thought that the Sun had gone nova and [[MistakenForApocalypse that they had only five hours to live before the entire planet was destroyed]]. As such, this episode treats Earth "merely" being hit by a solar flare as preferable. At the end of the episode, there is extreme flooding but the scale of the disaster is not made clear.
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