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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Gives Event Horizon vibes

Foreboding, dark sphere surrounded by a concentric ring of lights, from the 1997 horror movie Event Horizon

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is this the film that could be mistaken for a warhammer 40k prequel?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Yup. Feels very much like Warp Travel pre-Gellar field if you put that lens on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ha, I never thought of it that way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Also, actual black hole event horizon vibes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm so afraid of this movie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The dread and despair is so real.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ahhh you fear the same things I do

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I still remember when i watched as a teen. It was airing on TV and I was like "sweet, a sci fi space movie!". I was really enjoying it but then the horror starts... I was so freaked out but couldnt stop watching.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Omg right!

Have you read Sphere?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, tell me more!

Currently read the Dune series, just finished Children of Dune and will start God Emperor of Dune tonight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Without spoiling, it challenges your entire conception about what consciousness and life are. It's definitely an Event Horizon kind of horror mind fuck that sucks you in. (Except it's a book so that feeling continues for days lol)

I never read any Dune. Always wanted to. My mom picked up the first one for me, used, somewhere, when I was little, and I stared at it on the shelf for decades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Will put it on the list to read after!

Dune seems tricky to read as a child/teenager, it starts to get philosophical as the story goes on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I was into that as a kid. Into the Evil Empire analogies

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

why is there a black vertical bar in the bottom image. who takes seperate photos like that?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are four ~~lights~~ images

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I'll never understand why people worship Picard, when he couldn't even count

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I once looked into the eyes of a Mountain Gorilla in the wild. He stared back at me with a gaze slicing right through my soul. It felt old, wise and above all, very intelligent. He was on to me. It made me feel small.

If you’ve ever experienced that, you’ll never question that gorillas and humans are very close cousins indeed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That gorilla had a reverse Bigfoot sighting that he still tells the story of to anyone who will listen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"saw the ugliest fucking thing yesterday, it was like a person but tall and lanky and it was like all its hair went to the head! scared the shit out of me, but i just looked that motherfucker right in the eye and they eventually scurried off, thank god"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will. But if I know not even the tail of this whale, how understand his head? much more, how comprehend his face, when face he has none? Thou shalt see my back parts, my tail, he seems to say, but my face shall not be seen. But I cannot completely make out his back parts; and hint what he will about his face, I say again he has no face.

-Moby Dick, Chap. 86: The Tail

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Looks like an AI generated picure.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

More likely it's edited to shit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Beautiful pictures but a sad story. She (the whale) was killed by a boat a few days after the pictures in the op and article were taken

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's exactly what an AI would say...