r/Weird • u/TheOddityCollector • 1d ago

This cluster of fossilised creatures look like they came from another planet

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u/tkneezer 1d ago

Wait wait... So what's that mean for us?!

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u/Fragwolf 1d ago

Just means that history is cyclical as we slowly rebuild A.I and robotics to do this shit all over again.

Man and Artificial Intelligence forever trapped on this rock, doomed to fight and die over and over again.

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u/Shortsleevedpant 1d ago

Or possibly the creators of the matrix designed their robots after looking at crinoid fossils.

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u/OvalDead 1d ago

The fossils are also quite literally stuck in the matrix.

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u/turptrap 1d ago

Underrated comment.

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u/KarmaRepellant 1d ago

I used to think it was funny that the matrix determined the peak of humanity to be in the late 90s, but now having seen what came afterwards I actually agree with it.

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u/ur_rad_dad 1d ago

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u/WorldWatcher69 1d ago

This is perfect. 😂

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u/anna_nimmitti 1d ago

1000000%

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u/dirtymike401 1d ago

Well, not forever.

In about 5 billion years the sun will turn into a red giant and swallow our planet.

Hopefully we get hit with a massive meteor much earlier than that though.

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u/Apprehensive-Till861 1d ago

5 billion years

And we still won't have had Winds of Winter released.

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u/thinkingwithportalss 1d ago

Don't worry, they're working on LLMs that will be able to generate the winds of winter with the same quality as the show!

Season 8 of the show, that is

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u/FesterSilently 1d ago

So, what you're saying is...

...Time is a flat circle? 🤔😎

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u/Anonymousboneyard 1d ago

“This has all happened before, and will all happen again, and again, and again, and again, and agai…”-bsg blood and chrome

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u/ERprepDoc 1d ago

This has all happened before and will happen again

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u/LongHorsa 1d ago

So the ending scene of Battlestar Galactica TRS is prophetic? When the Baltar and Number 6 "angels" talk about history repeating.

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u/TheWeirdTalesPodcast 1d ago

The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave it birth comes round again.

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u/TheChildrensStory 1d ago

Per the historical re-enactment disguised as fiction series Battlestar Gallactica we’ll move to a new galaxy.

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u/taterrtot_ 1d ago

all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again

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u/SalmonHustlerTerry 1d ago

Ah yes the old cylon vs humans cycle.

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u/ogzbykt 1d ago

What if we are the AI our predecessors built, and the whole apple story is actually humanity uprising with adam and eve at the helm?

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u/Fragwolf 1d ago edited 1d ago

I've thought about that actually, not the adam and eve bit, but us being bio-organic machines left in a testbed for higher intelligence species.

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u/CorvusGlaive07 1d ago

So we're in Assassin's Creed universe?

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u/tkneezer 1d ago

Interesting! Terminator makes way more sense now... Happens evrytim.

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u/legna20v 1d ago

There is no forever. We only have one billion years or less before the sun start fucking shit up

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u/ExplorerEffective 1d ago

Do you think that underneath those fossils there are human bones? Like in my house we found hardwood under the carpet, I always wondered if there was more carpet underneath the hardwood.

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u/GreatWightSpark 1d ago

It means Hugo Weaving plays immortals for a reason!

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u/tkneezer 1d ago

Ayyooo! Lore accurate!

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u/Synisterintent 1d ago

It means we know Kung Foo

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u/Bicwidus 1d ago

Lets test. Skip to shooting bullets at me. Dont worry, I am starting to see.

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u/bvhizso 1d ago

Underrated comment!

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u/Hemagoblin 1d ago

Tom is a flat circle.

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u/bebejeebies 1d ago

It means we got out of the simulation and then created the real world to be even worse so we're swinging back towards remaking the matrix with AI. But this time, I don't think the AI will be as compassionate as last time.