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I've briefly looked it up and it's interesting. You've obviously focused a lot on world-building, so kudos to that.
What I'm not seeing is an interesting developement: there are many directions the plot could go, but you need to choose one and explore that.
I don't know much about the literary trope of the last man on Earth, but it's interesting that the protagonist might not be the last man, but the last sane man, akin to "I am legend".
Will there be any kind of conflict? How do you plan the story to end?

I've briefly looked it up and it's interesting. You've obviously focused a lot on world-building, so kudos to that.

And I'm still building. I neglected some numbers in the rocket design, and now it looks like I have to rebuild the whole idea from scratch.

What I'm not seeing is an interesting developement: there are many directions the plot could go, but you need to choose one and explore that.

I can see that. To me, the most interesting idea so far is that when the risk of gathering new information is that high, the correct decision to be made may b... (read more)