http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/techno...er-ending-vr-escalator-journey-and-other-news
1:18 in, or the last item. Dosen't really explain it well.
Was there a sci-fi short story about a crew that docks with an alien vessel, starts exploring the "Arrival Lounge" and finds it goes on forever...
Or was that reality?
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Not familiar with that story, although it reminds me of sitting in a government office waiting to get my driver's license renewed...
But there was a short story I read years ago about a guy who had squandered all his money, ripped off his creditors and family, and was now loading up his credit cards with no intention of paying anybody back.
With a bag of groceries and other stuff he goes to leave the shopping center via the down escalator leading to a subway station. He gets to a landing, and starts down another flight; lost in his thoughts he repeats this several times before he senses something is wrong. He has gone down way deeper than he remembered the station being, and hasn't seen another soul in several minutes. After going down a few more flights, he panics and tries to go back up, but the effort is too tiring and so he descends again, hoping to find the bottom soon along with the way out, but of course he just keeps going and going.
The story ends a couple of days later. His groceries expended and the rest of his ill-gotten goods abandoned somewhere along the way as he ran down the escalators in a panic, he is doomed to forever ride down lighted escalator shafts for all eternity, hungry and alone.
I wish I could remember the name of the story or its author, fantastic Rod Serling-style "get what they deserved" writing.