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Watch Astronaut Walk Up ISS Wall in '2001: A Space Odyssey' Grip Shoes -  CNET
From 2001: A Space Odyssey. A recent rewatch surely helped inspire this essay.

This summer at a party I asked the ultimate mood-killing question. It wasn’t on purpose. I wasn’t trying to be edgy or philosophical. I just wanted to survey the room: Do you ever lie awake at night paralyzed by the fear of your own mortality? The resounding answer was sometim…

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