A telescope! strange shoes! and sandwiches!
2nd October 2023
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Hello!
I've always tried to make videos without padding — a video should be exactly as long as it needs to tell the story, and no longer. Well: this week's video is 29 minutes long, because that's how long it needed to be I got an invitation to Chile, to see the construction for the Extremely Large Telescope, and the result is this video about the largest telescope that will ever be built*. (The asterisk is important.)
I've always tried to make videos without padding — a video should be exactly as long as it needs to tell the story, and no longer. Well: this week's video is 29 minutes long, because that's how long it needed to be I got an invitation to Chile, to see the construction for the Extremely Large Telescope, and the result is this video about the largest telescope that will ever be built*. (The asterisk is important.)
I've no idea how an audience used to videos no longer than about five minutes will take to a nearly half-hour long-form piece. I used to make videos like this more often, but workloads and production deadlines mean they're generally not
possible right now. So this is the One Big Effort before the regular weekly videos finish at the end of this year!
And this week on Lateral: Toby Hendy, Matthew Schuchman and Julian O'Shea face questions about superlative streets, marine mutinies and blacked-out books.
Around the rest of YouTube this week:
- Beau Miles, who I've linked to before here, picks up 10,000 bottles and cans in the hope of redeeming them for a thousand Australian dollars. He has some problems. (Thanks to Alon for sending this over!)
- Grady from Practical Engineering, who did a guest video for my channel many years ago, has put together a wonderfully-animated video that runs explains every type of railcar.
- Drew Gooden bought the shoes that make you walk faster. (Some strong language.)
And from the rest of
the web, some interesting articles:
- Easily the best news article title I've seen in a while: More than a dozen public art pieces have vanished. Not a single person can say why.
- A 20th-century society on a ringworld is part of a genre of article I really enjoy: taking a sci-fi concept and really thinking it through. The sheer scale of a structure like that is really difficult to comprehend, but there are some great examples in here.
- Ten weird things you can buy online (and why you would) sounds like a low-rent listicle from years ago, but it's far better than that.
And finally, here's Wikipedia's list of notable sandwiches. Next week: if all goes well, there'll be a much shorter video.
All the best,
— Tom
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