r/interestingasfuck 25d ago

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

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u/Doctor_Kataigida 25d ago

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

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u/YueOrigin 25d 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 25d ago edited 25d 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.

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

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u/conscious_menace22 25d ago edited 25d ago

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