can you identify this sci-fi story?

[negativ]

I know, it's a shot in the dark, but maybe someone knows.


There is a sci-fi story about an astronaut who sees a global nuclear war break out, and his radio goes dead, and so as long as his oxygen holds out he starts broadcasting to the stars, everything he can think of. The last whisper before he dies is a Knock-Knock joke.



It sounds sort of familiar to me, but I have no idea why. I don't know if it's a written story, a Twilight Zone episode, or what.

Any ideas?

[Piscivore]

No, but if someone thinks of it I'm going to look for it.

[Denver]

This doesn't exactly match your description but "Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)" had a stranded astronaut, a radio, various explosions going off on the horizon, and an oxygen depletion issue.

[bruto]

I know, it's a shot in the dark, but maybe someone knows.






It sounds sort of familiar to me, but I have no idea why. I don't know if it's a written story, a Twilight Zone episode, or what.

Any ideas?It sounds terribly familiar to me too. I hope you get an answer.

[Silly Green Monkey]

I read something recently like that in an anthology, with Heinlein and Asimov and other contemporaries. An astronaut is wandering the moon, slowly going crazy as he runs out of air, having killed his buddy when he went crazy. When he sees the earth, it's glowing red with radioactivity but he's still trying to contact it.

[bruto]

I don't know why, but I keep thinking it might be Murray Leinster.

[MG1962]

I don't know why, but I keep thinking it might be Murray Leinster.

Funny, because I keep thinking Ray Bradury. Though the absudity of the resolution is right up Leinster's alley

[blobru]

Funny, because I keep thinking Ray Bradury. ...


Are you thinking of Bradbury's story "Kaleidoscope"? (astronauts bail out before meteor impact [ship malfunction?]; still in radio contact as they drift apart and their oxygen runs out; beautiful, sentimental ending)

[MG1962]

Are you thinking of Bradbury's story "Kaleidoscope"? (astronauts bail out before meteor impact; still in radio contact as they drift apart and their oxygen runs out; beautiful, sentimental ending)

Yeah, by joves I think you are right. Great story by the way