I wonder if the latest Jurassic Park: Rebirth film drew from this?
There is a reference to global warming that is similar to the poem. That the world will heat up, and humanity will die, and the earth will continue on as it has for a million years. The film mentioned the “the earth will shake us off, like a summer cold”.
This seems fairly comparable to the soft rains poem in this piece.
water-data-dude 32 minutes ago [-]
For most of my life it's felt like we've been moving away from this scenario, but lately it's felt like we're sliding back towards it
kibwen 24 minutes ago [-]
The great sleight-of-hand of the 20th century is that it never went away, we all just collectively decided to stop thinking about the fact that at every given moment for the rest of human history we'll never be more than thirty minutes away from total nuclear annihilation.
pmg101 4 hours ago [-]
Today is August 4, 2026
purple-leafy 49 minutes ago [-]
Ray Bradbury has some great ideas, but I hate his writing style. It’s far too flowery, he’s on a spectrum that contains Hemingway at one extreme, and Bradbury near the other.
I prefer Hemingway. Writing style at least.
squigz 42 minutes ago [-]
Interestingly, I had the exact opposite reaction - I enjoyed the writing itself, but didn't find the premise all that interesting.
purple-leafy 41 minutes ago [-]
My friend, we exist at opposite ends of a spectrum ha
squigz 38 minutes ago [-]
Honestly I'm just tired of the doom and gloom. I should probably keep in mind this was written in 1950.
purple-leafy 33 minutes ago [-]
Try some Arthur C Clarke, less doom and gloom
andai 1 hours ago [-]
This story was adapted into a short animated film in 1987:
My one complaint: it's rarely revealed when a story was published, and it took me far, far, far too long to realise that many of my favourites were many decades old.
That said, hearing a story read and acted by a skilled player is its own joy. I'm a good reader, but I'm not that level of good, and a few decades of listening to Shorts has improved my own inner-reading voice.
Available as a podcast, though the back-catalogue is parlous brief, largely due to copyright, I suspect. Still worth following.
There is a reference to global warming that is similar to the poem. That the world will heat up, and humanity will die, and the earth will continue on as it has for a million years. The film mentioned the “the earth will shake us off, like a summer cold”.
This seems fairly comparable to the soft rains poem in this piece.
I prefer Hemingway. Writing style at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNHYz89sNc
(Russian, with subtitles.)
https://open.spotify.com/track/0DflgiMYRQP3UXtZ47NBus?si=XGR...
Haunting.
Yetide Badaki's marvelous reading begins at 3:50
My one complaint: it's rarely revealed when a story was published, and it took me far, far, far too long to realise that many of my favourites were many decades old.
That said, hearing a story read and acted by a skilled player is its own joy. I'm a good reader, but I'm not that level of good, and a few decades of listening to Shorts has improved my own inner-reading voice.
Available as a podcast, though the back-catalogue is parlous brief, largely due to copyright, I suspect. Still worth following.
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847297 - Feb 2026 (52 comments)
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