Wed. 03/31 - Why All The Galaxy Carpets In 90s Movie Theaters?

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Why did every movie theater in the 90s install that galaxy-themed carpet? A mafia fugitive who got caught by authorities after starting a cooking channel on YouTube. And the theory that the remains of proto-planet Theia may still be residing deep inside the Earth. Sponsors: Gabi Insurance, gabi.com/kottke Ladder, ladderlife.com/kottke Links: If Y2K-Era Movie Theater Carpets Could Talk (A24) For years, a mafia fugitive hid from police. Then they spotted his Italian cooking videos on YouTube. (Washington Post) New theory suggests large blobs of material in Earth's mantle are remnants of protoplanet Theia (Phys.org) Remains of impact that created the Moon may lie deep within Earth (Science Mag) Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine highly effective in adolescents (The Verge) Photos: The Great Vaccination Campaign (The Atlantic) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.5	Why did every movie theater in the 90s install that galaxy-themed carpet?
1:04.1	A mafia fugitive who got caught by the authorities after starting a cooking channel on YouTube. And the theory that the remains
1:14.0	of Proto Planet Thea may still be residing deep inside the Earth. Here are some of the cool
1:20.9	things from the news today. I remember in 1997, when a new mall opened in my hometown, complete with an enormous, shiny new AMC movie theater.
1:35.7	Unlike the one movie theater we previously had in town, this one was immersively decorated.
1:41.2	Everything was space-themed.
1:43.9	Signs and door handles were all curved asymmetrically
1:47.1	in the general space-slash-60s hippie revival that was revving up in the years before the new
1:53.4	millennium. My friends and I used to hop from planet to planet on the carpet, following
1:58.1	neon-colored comet trails with our toes. At the time, I thought
2:02.1	the movie theater was just completely space-themed for some weird reason. But as time went on
2:07.6	and more movie theaters opened or renovated, they all slowly adopted the same vaguely space-esque decor,
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