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The Biggest Challenge for Every Space Movie

Get Nebula for a year, or for infinity: https://go.nebula.tv/lsoo Watch "The Space Game Paradox" on Nebula: [link pending] Help me make more videos! Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LikeStoriesofOld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.vd.linden Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO About this video essay: Examining the varying ways in which space movies try to capture and understand the unfathomable scale of the universe, and exploring the existential dread and wonder that arise from the effort. Listen to my podcast, Cinema of Meaning: Video: https://nebula.tv/watchcinemaofmeaning Audio: https://nebula.tv/cinemaofmeaning Further Reading: Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list 10 Books that changed my life: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life 10 More books that inspired my thinking: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-more-books-that-inspired-my-thinking My Camera Gear: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/my-travel-camera-gear Business inquiries: lsoo@standard.tv Say hi: likestoriesofold@gmail.com Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: https://fm.pxf.io/c/3532571/1347628/16252

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Julie Arp

Wonderful, Tom. Films about the universe have been a part of my life from childhood. I recall the awe of seeing 2001 for the first time.

James Williams

I remember looking into a textbook at the library, and was puzzled when the left margin of the page had been coloured in black, top to bottom. Then I read the text, and it said that this is how big the Sun would be, if the Earth were the size of the full stop at the end of this sentence. Then I looked closer at the margin of this A4-sized page, and could *just* see the slightest of curves...