Reading Laika's Wikipedia article has ruined me. "Before the launch one of the mission scientists took Laika home to play with his children. In a book chronicling the story of Soviet space medicine, Vladimir Yazdovsky wrote, 'Laika was quiet and charming ... I wanted to do something nice for her: She had so little time left to live.'" "One of the technicians preparing the capsule before final liftoff: 'After placing Laika in the container and before closing the hatch, we kissed her nose and wished her bon voyage, knowing that she would not survive the flight.'" "In 1998, after the collapse of the Soviet regime, Oleg Gazenko, one of the scientists responsible for sending Laika into space, expressed regret for allowing her to die: 'Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We shouldn't have done it ... We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog.'"

That ending reminds me a line/story from one of the Billy the Kid movies. "Three men are playing cards when the apocalypse begins. The first man says hes going to the Church to pray, the second man that hes going to spend all the money he has on women and alcohol, and party until the end comes. The third man calmly states "i shall finish the game.""

The most terrifying aspect of space is how deafeningly silent it is, despite all the mind boggling stuff going on out there.

Deep Sea and Deep Space are truly sisters in how they frighten us in much of the same ways: dark, cold, quiet, vast and void, humans floating almost helplessly when placed in them. Truly twins separated from birth.

I don’t know why, but even though No Man’s Sky is by no means a scary game, just looking out into the abyss, it always gives me chills.

The idea of being confronted with the unknown of an endless universe and feeling so insignificant you become desperate to hang onto memories of people, places, or things in your life that gave you meaning and making the most of a seemingly meaningless existence while you can knowing it's all in vain never fails to make me cry. The concept has so much potential for angst, tragedy, and hope.

"What scares us about space?" You and Kurtzgesagt endlessly making nightmarefuel essays does.

19:18 Fun fact: Jules Verne's calculations for reaching the Moon were actually pretty accurate, which surprised many NASA scientists.

It IS pretty wild to think that if somebody ever were to actually stumble across Voyager, it's almost guaranteed that it will be long after humanity is but a memory.

After you brought up outer wilds, i had to think about the countless hours i spent playing No Man's Sky with my family. We play on a shared save file that is four years old, since this game has true multiplayer. In those four years, we accomplished a lot. Our "home" bases are in the 239th Galaxy, but we have countless others, discovered thousands of star systems. But when i zoom out of the galaxy map and see the tiny pixels which are our clusters, not even the individual systems, it also shows how little we accomplished. Combined ~3000 hours of four people reduced to maybe 10 tiny pixels on a 4K screen. No one will ever find our large bases we built. No one will ever find our amazing rare paradise planets. No one will ever find our resource hotspots. Despite them all being saved on a giant server with many people. I don't know if there ever was another player traveling nearby and almost made contact with us. In those four years, there were only two instances of a stranger visiting our base and they only did after seeing them on the galactic teleporter of the anomaly and randomly chose them. It's a 1 in a Billion chance.

The way my heart sunk into my stomach when you told the story of the Laika... I just pictured myself in her position, frightened confused... betrayed.... she looked soo excited. the poor thing could never imagine in centuries of evolution what was going to happen to her. With no way to conceptualize what was happening, all that remained was primal fear. This is going to keep me up. All that said, your growth as a creator on this platform is just inspiring to watch. You are an incredible storyteller.

Ultron: "They're doomed." Vision: "Yes. But a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts."

Outer Space: tries to suck everything out of you. Deep Sea: tries to cram everything into you. Do the math.

7:23 "Should she forgive us?" That is the most heartbreaking sentence I have ever heard on youtube. I am a 23yo adult who just cried to that.

outer wilds is that one game, that is over those fears and make you feels "life is beautiful, enjoy that you are alive, you have feelings, you can hear music" that game and the Film Soul, are so deep in me

The story of Lyka is so heartbreaking. Every single clip or picture of her, she looked SO happy to be involved.... 😢😢😢

Since the age of 11, I've actually dreamed about exploring the Deep Space all alone with a computer that helps me to analyze what I found or didn't find. This is oddly comforting ( ๑>ᴗ<๑ ) And when I die, I eventually become one with the universe again - atom for atom.

Love this channel man - it’s so nice to encounter material that’s narrated by a real person, and someone quite clearly into what they’re talking about. Really well put together.

For some reason, I've never been scared by the vastness of space. It's big, it's vast, and to me it's inviting. Anything could be out there, and that is amazing to me.

This concept doesn't fill me with fear as much as contempt and frustration. It amplifies my ordinary resentment that things are the way they are and can't be changed. It's an anxiety-inducing reminder that the universe beyond our planet is as indifferent to us as life on this planet is. We can rage and build and burn all we want, but society, the planet, and the universe don't care. Reality is elastic and always returns to its previous form. Ultimately every action and decision is meaningless, because none of it has any impact on anything. That's not frightening as much as it's infuriating.