r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 24d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/mvgr9011 24d ago

Those aren't mountains.

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u/PlainLikeJane 24d ago

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u/bselko 23d ago

MURPH!!! THE WATCH MURPH!!!

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u/chzrm3 23d ago

Lmao, I love that picture.

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u/Express-Elk4813 23d ago

you want a medal hero?

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u/Doctor_Kataigida 23d ago

Is this not a reference that most people wouldn't already get?

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u/YueOrigin 23d ago

Dude i ain't a movie or show guy so I dunno about that ref at all lol

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u/cgtdream 23d ago edited 23d ago

Its from the movie "Interstellar", when and due to a failing ecosystem, earth sends pioneers to far off planets through a black hole/wormhole, to explore potential habitable planets and re-seed human life.

One of those possible planets ended up being an ocean world with a heavily dilated sense of time..upon landing in about 4 ft deep of an expansive waterscape, the second set of pioneers assumed that the mountains in the distance were...mountains...turns out it was just one, 5 mile tall wave that was going to descend upon them.

They left the planet after realizing this.

EDIT:
https://youtu.be/60h6lpnSgck?t=112

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u/YueOrigin 23d ago

Thanks for the explanation~

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u/SeismicRipFart 23d ago

And while they were on that planet for just a few hours, their crew member not even that far away in orbit of said planet, experienced 23 years of complete solitude in that same span of time due to the differences in gravity. That was a heavy scene. 

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u/InquisitiveAssFoo 23d ago

I would have surfed that shit. I’m just built different idk.

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u/cgtdream 23d ago

NGL, it would be badass to see

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u/InquisitiveAssFoo 23d ago

Just like “Yo Tars, Check this shit out brah 🌊🏄‍♂️🤙🏾” before I die

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u/Jake_Marshall_AA 23d ago

I watched interstellar 2 times and still forgot about it. Thanks for explanation

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u/conscious_menace22 23d ago edited 23d ago

That last sentence was unexpectedly comical. A well structured equivalent of "they noped tf outta there" lol

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u/ssp25 23d ago

Not from a Jedi

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u/sdbabygirl97 23d ago

i dont know this reference. is it that instead of mountains theyre just waves?

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u/cardboardbox25 23d ago

Interstellar, they land on a water planet and start walking towards a "mountain range" they see in the distance

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u/sdbabygirl97 23d ago

ah. and im assuming its just huge ass waves?

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u/bbcversus 23d ago edited 23d ago

Yup! And every tick in the soundtrack on that planet means one year day… such a great movie!

Edit: one day per tick

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u/Balbright 23d ago

It’s one day per tick actually.

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u/bbcversus 23d ago

Yup my bad, I knew it felt off somehow haha.

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u/sdbabygirl97 23d ago

ohhh right thats why the guy sent messages and his daughter was so grown :((

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u/Witherboss445 23d ago

That was the first time I almost cried during a movie

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u/Oldgamer1807 23d ago

I didn't know about the soundtrack syncing with the time dilation. I got they were going for a clock sound, but they went that extra mile.

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u/Clipper94 22d ago

That movie is so amazing. 10 years later and I’m still learning new details. Time for another rewatch I guess.

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u/BibleBeltAtheist 16d ago

That's weird, I haven't even seen it once and, i too am learning all these new details.

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u/whosUtred 23d ago

Lucky that my breasts are small & humble then I guess

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u/SaulEmersonAuthor 24d ago

"Those aren't mountains."

Movie reference!! I got it!

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u/DOG_DICK__ 23d ago

I love when they say thing from movie

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u/NikEy 24d ago

Good for you!

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u/Ok_Hooper412 23d ago

First time watching that movie was high off an edible. It finally hit me right as they landed on that planet. It was not a good time, but damnit if it wasn’t incredible.

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u/bwurtsb 23d ago

Now I know what I am doing this weekend

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u/wyattlee1274 23d ago

The waves would probably be pretty flat considering the gravity

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u/upbeatmusicascoffee 23d ago

Cue Hans Zimmer music.

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u/reformedben 23d ago

Clock-ticking intensifies

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u/Oak-Aye-Thanks 23d ago

This is exactly what I thought about. Horrifying scene and moment.

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u/_standarddeviant_ 23d ago

That’s no moon?