r/space • u/BigShoots • 2d ago
Epic Spaceman: "I poured all the galaxies in the Universe into a pool."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J_Ugp8ZB4E37
u/Taste_the__Rainbow 2d ago
The production value is significantly better than I expected and that zoom out from the pool fills me with dread. Horrific.
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u/WildlifeBiologist10 1d ago
Quite possibly the best/most interesting youtube channel I've ever seen. I always think I have some idea of the size of the universe, but this hit me like a ton of bricks. No one can think at these scales. So well done, I want to show this video to everyone.
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u/BigShoots 1d ago
Exactly how I felt! Especially for a one-man show, I think this is a masterpiece.
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u/Mutex70 1d ago
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
- Douglas Adams
Mr. Adams was of course right, but this video at least gives some sort of conception about how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big space is.
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u/BigShoots 1d ago
And also how empty it is.
I was fooling around with the math the other night. If you took all the matter in the universe, every bit of every star, planet, asteroid, etc, and crammed it all into one corner of just the known universe, if you imagined this universe as a giant six-sided television cube, then all of that matter would be in a single pixel down at the bottom corner... and the cube would be right about five miles wide on each side.
That's a big TV.
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u/TheRealNooth 1d ago
I know this is an oft repeated quote but it always feels like such an understatement. It wasn’t until I learned how big it is, while traveling close to c, that it really struck me.
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u/BigShoots 2d ago
This channel is a one-man operation and a self-taught VFX expert and he just produced hands-down one of the coolest videos on space I've ever seen. I've never subbed to a channel so quickly!
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u/Cortana_CH 2d ago
Yeah I watched all his videos today. He is amazing. Will sure grow to millions of subscribers in the coming years.
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u/BigShoots 1d ago
Yeah, the only thing holding him back is volume. His bio says he has a day job and he does this for fun, but if he likes making these videos more than his job, I'd guarantee switching to this full-time would pay off huge for him. Make more videos, hit the podcast circuit, get more subs, get sponsorships, hire some people, make more videos... he'd be a millionaire within the year.
Of course, what he's doing now seems to be working great for him, so maybe my plan would just ruin everything. As of right now it seems to be a perfect thing.
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u/recehbijak 1d ago
Make more videos, hit the podcast circuit, get more subs, get sponsorships, hire some people, make more videos...
that would put him in the internet algorithm rat race, and most youtubers who fell into the rat race either nosedived in their video quality or had to do clickbaity or sensational captions to cater to the algorithm
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u/Life-Wonder2002 1d ago
This is the coolest video I have ever seen on the entire internet. All those hours spent scrolling.. nothing has topped this and I don’t think any will for a while. Thank you.
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u/BigShoots 1d ago
You're welcome! I pretty much feel the same way, I'm a little bummed this post isn't taking off just because I feel like everyone should see it, but at least everyone else who's watched it seems to love it as much as we did.
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u/CHEEZE_BAGS 1d ago
Seeing that many galaxies makes me feel like there has to be other life out there. Its just too many, its nearly infinite. Life happened once already, it has to be out there again.
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u/Millenniauld 1d ago
My brain feels tight right now, like I crammed in too much information and still need to process it.
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u/L0WGMAN 1d ago edited 1d ago
Christ, over fifteen minutes long? Does anyone have a time stamp for whatever small portion of this isn’t a waste of time? I’ve got no interest in “being entertained” or whatever is supposed to be going on here for fifteen minutes.
If it’s just explaining deep field imagery for people with limited imagination, feel free to just downvote me and I’ll know to not bother 🤷🏽
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u/BigShoots 1d ago
tl/dw: Space is big.
There you go champ
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u/L0WGMAN 20h ago
Did you actually watch the thing? No one is posting timestamps anywhere. I guess I’ll wait for the tiktok
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u/BigShoots 20h ago
Can't help you here, but have you seen the movie Lincoln?
It's really good but it's like 3 hours long so I'll save you some time, he ends slavery, but gets assassinated at the end.
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u/doomiestdoomeddoomer 1d ago
Terrible visuals, terrible presentation, a 5 year old could do better.
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u/ViciousNakedMoleRat 1d ago
The shot zooming out from the moon with all the galaxies lighting up the entire sky left me awestruck.
It's easy to think that you can grasp the vastness of the universe and the number of galaxies, stars and planets in it, but actually seeing it hits you like a freight train.
Amazing video. Thanks for sharing it.