dema33alya
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It's sci-fi and takes place on a planet that has 2 suns, so they never experience darkness. The time frame there is I imagine late 40s, early 50s.. they have cars but are just now grasping astronomy, archeology, and building rollercoaster rides.
The rollercoaster ride was a small train that ran through a hill and was pitch black, causing anyone who rode it to go into hysterics (they were humans who had never known dark, and darkness caused intense anxiety at best and absolute depravement at worse).
You cut between an archeological site where they are digging into a ravine and discover that every thousand or years or so ancient people rise up, become technological, and then are wiped out by fire. This is curious to the archeologists.
You cut to an astronomy professor who is studying why the suns behave the way they do and him and his team are trying to break away from the religon there that all but has a monopoly on everyone.
Then A comet comes, I think.. for some reason right before it happens the astronomers figure it out and try to prepare a few for the coming eclipse, the total darkness that lasts a day or 2. It doesn't work and the religious fanatics throw up cries that the end is near, and there is mass hysteria.
A few take refuge with the priests and it is eventally revealed that the religious knew this would happen and have been aware of this for over a millenia, passing down the knowledge of what to do when the sky goes dark, and using religion as a way to both control the people but also rebuild during the times of darkness. The people don't know this of course, but a few of the scientists do.
The rollercoaster ride was a small train that ran through a hill and was pitch black, causing anyone who rode it to go into hysterics (they were humans who had never known dark, and darkness caused intense anxiety at best and absolute depravement at worse).
You cut between an archeological site where they are digging into a ravine and discover that every thousand or years or so ancient people rise up, become technological, and then are wiped out by fire. This is curious to the archeologists.
You cut to an astronomy professor who is studying why the suns behave the way they do and him and his team are trying to break away from the religon there that all but has a monopoly on everyone.
Then A comet comes, I think.. for some reason right before it happens the astronomers figure it out and try to prepare a few for the coming eclipse, the total darkness that lasts a day or 2. It doesn't work and the religious fanatics throw up cries that the end is near, and there is mass hysteria.
A few take refuge with the priests and it is eventally revealed that the religious knew this would happen and have been aware of this for over a millenia, passing down the knowledge of what to do when the sky goes dark, and using religion as a way to both control the people but also rebuild during the times of darkness. The people don't know this of course, but a few of the scientists do.
