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lumpenproletariat quokk.au Deceptichum@quokk.au
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Entertainmeonly (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Henry...

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Emi ani.social Emi@ani.social
Joined: 2023-08-24
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Just go bit deeper into the ocean and you'll get alien like life.

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TropicalDingdong lemmy.world TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-29
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mMMmmm RAMBUTAN

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spicy pancake lemmy.zip janus2@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-06-27
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lol which white guy is that

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damnthefilibuster lemmy.world damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-05
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lol which white guy is that

Superman. The alien.

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spicy pancake lemmy.zip janus2@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-06-27
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Superman. The alien.

LMAO

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whotookkarl lemmy.dbzer0.com whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-07-12
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Just go bit deeper into the ocean and you'll get alien like life.

Or smaller/microscopic

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Klear quokk.au Klear@quokk.au
Joined: 2025-08-14
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LMAO

AYY

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Remember_the_tooth lemmy.world Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-23
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Sometimes I think about how there's probably not life at this scale for very many light years in every direction.

I'm not actually superstitious, but if I wrote a fantasy about this idea, it would be that The Garden of Eden was prophetic rather than historical or legendary/mythological. I really hope we don't get kicked out of Earth for eating all it's fruit and cast into a galaxy of relative hardship (or worse).

Anyway, I'm going to go touch some grass, pet a dog, and feel gratitude for the experience.

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juliorapido discuss.tchncs.de juliorapido@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-24
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Henry...

They are all named Henry…

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burgermeister sh.itjust.works burgermeister@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-10
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Henry is a beautiful man

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Sunsofold lemmings.world Sunsofold@lemmings.world
Joined: 2025-01-08
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Are you trying to say earth life is a cheap knock off of alien life?

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MnemonicBump lemmy.dbzer0.com MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-05-11
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16 different Henrys?

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lumpenproletariat quokk.au Deceptichum@quokk.au
Joined: 2025-06-09
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16 different Henrys?

British Monarchy in shambles.

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OpenStars piefed.social OpenStars@piefed.social
Joined: 2024-10-24
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Are you trying to say earth life is a cheap knock off of alien life?

NOOOOO

~(yes)~

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lumpenproletariat quokk.au Deceptichum@quokk.au
Joined: 2025-06-09
#17 · (edited) Quote Reply

AYY

👽

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AeronMelon lemmy.world aeronmelon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-26
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Or smaller/microscopic

[angry megalodon noises]

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FuglyDuck lemmy.world FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-15
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Just go bit deeper into the ocean and you'll get alien like life.

what and hang with all the lovecraftian horrors?

Well. can't be any worse than certain humans.

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AeronMelon lemmy.world aeronmelon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-26
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This is one of the more confusing Captchas.

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AeronMelon lemmy.world aeronmelon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-26
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Are you trying to say earth life is a cheap knock off of alien life?

“Humans are space orcs.”

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pedz lemmy.ca pedz@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-08-07
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This is interesting as a language quirk. Alien can just mean "different" in English. It doesn't need to come from space. But English also has extraterrestrial.

As a non native speaker, I had to pause and wonder a bit about "alien".

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Kairos lemmy.today LodeMike@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-12-26
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This is interesting as a language quirk. Alien can just mean "different" in English. It doesn't need to come from space. But English also has extraterrestrial. As a non native speaker, I had to pause and wonder a bit about "alien".

Every language is like this. Any given word can mean multiple things.

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sartalon lemmy.world sartalon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-15
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You had me at Cavill.

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Shrubbery piefed.social Shrubbery@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-03-14
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You had me at Cavill.

They didn't warn me that the aliens would be sexy.

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JoShmoe ani.social JoShmoe@ani.social
Joined: 2023-09-12
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Lol because he’s spiderman

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cymbal_king lemmy.world cymbal_king@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-06
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Just go bit deeper into the ocean and you'll get alien like life.

Shout out to cuttlefish

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Ech lemmy.ca ech@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-06-25
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“Humans are space orcs.”

can we talk about how pursuit predation is terrifying?

They made a fantastic movie about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Follows

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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot lemmy.world WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-10
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Lol because he’s spiderman

This guy?

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SolarMonkey slrpnk.net SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2024-07-12
#30 · (edited) Quote Reply

Or smaller/microscopic

Am I a joke to you?

Bigfin Squid

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Smoogs lemmy.world Smoogs@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-22
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So is each picture the Henry cavil of each species?

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stupidcasey lemmy.world stupidcasey@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
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But mom it will all be dead by time we get back.

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stringere sh.itjust.works stringere@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-15
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42

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Lemminary lemmy.world Lemminary@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-13
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42

I'm starting to think that super computer hallucinated, and that the real number was in the millions of species.

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pedz lemmy.ca pedz@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-08-07
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Every language is like this. Any given word can mean multiple things.

AFAIK there's no equivalent word for alien in French. The concept is different. Everything coming from space is automatically extraterrestrial. If it's coming from earth, it's just a strange/different species or a different form of life. The vagueness of alien doesn't translate well in French, unless we use the word 'alien'.

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Spacehooks reddthat.com Spacehooks@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-07-05
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Sengi always looked a bit alien to me

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Kratzkopf discuss.tchncs.de Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-17
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can we talk about how pursuit predation is terrifying? They made a fantastic movie about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Follows

I think you ment to link this trailer.

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zqwzzle lemmy.ca zqwzzle@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-07
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So is each picture the Henry cavil of each species?

Yes the cheetahs name is Henry Catvil

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MonkderVierte lemmy.zip MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-05-30
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12 Weird Fruits From Around The World

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Evil Kitty europe.pub Una@europe.pub
Joined: 2025-04-11
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This little furry is closely related to elephants! A picture of a hyrax on a rock.

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Malgas beehaw.org Malgas@beehaw.org
Joined: 2023-06-09
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AFAIK there's no equivalent word for alien in French. The concept is different. Everything coming from space is automatically extraterrestrial. If it's coming from earth, it's just a strange/different species or a different form of life. The vagueness of alien doesn't translate well in French, unless we use the word 'alien'.

Which is ironic, because while the modern French word was borrowed from English, the English word is from Old French.

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maccentric sh.itjust.works maccentric@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-20
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Am I a joke to you? Bigfin Squid

Too bad they cropped out the puppet below

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wonderingwanderer sopuli.xyz wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-12-31
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This feels like the montage at the end of the film that showcases all of life's beauty that we took for granted in one final feel-good moment as the earth proceeds to get ripped apart and destroyed by completely avoidable and human-originated causes...

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wonderingwanderer sopuli.xyz wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-12-31
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Sometimes I think about how there's probably not life at this scale for very many light years in every direction. I'm not actually superstitious, but if I wrote a fantasy about this idea, it would be that The Garden of Eden was prophetic rather than historical or legendary/mythological. I really hope we don't get kicked out of Earth for eating all it's fruit and cast into a galaxy of relative h...

Proxima Centauri is only a handful of lightyears away, and it has planets in inhabitable zones.

Doesn't mean there is life there, but it's promising. A space probe sent there, once it arrives, could still fathomably send signals back to earth that could be conceivably used by human researchers.

Of course, if fusion-based acceleration becomes feasible in the next few decades, it would arrive long before any probe we try sending now. So there's the trade-off...

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33550336 lemmy.world 33550336@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-22
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Well, the world seems not so bad

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wonderingwanderer sopuli.xyz wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-12-31
#46 · (edited) Quote Reply

can we talk about how pursuit predation is terrifying? They made a fantastic movie about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Follows

I spent days in my youth contemplating how I would evade that thing.

Ultimately, I determined that my best bet was to fly halfway around the world and have sex with a prostitute. Then fly back home.

The thing would start by following me around the world, which would take a long time for it to catch up. But ordinarily that would just give me enough time to grow complacent and let my guard down.

But by having sex with a sex worker, not only do I get the thing off my back, allowing me to travel back home, but the sex worker would also have sex with other customers, meaning the thing would go after them, or anyone that the other customer has sex with before it reaches them. And even if it managed to get everyone all the way back up that chain, chances are in that time the sex worker would have sex with someone else and the process would start anew. Especially if it's in a sex tourism location, where clients come and go from around the world.

Based on the time it takes for that thing to go to and from all the various locations, it think it's safe enough to let my guard down and forget about it and just hope that it never comes back to me. At least as long as that sex worker lives.

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danhab99 programming.dev danhab99@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-07-03
#47 · Quote Reply

I mean if you really want "we have life on earth"

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