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Comments (4)
Sgt. Apone lives on! Seems an appropriate use, though there's no colonists to rescue....
--Mithramuse
The Azinarsi seems to be reminded of home?
or something worse. Their shaking is not a good sign when it comes to tropes...
I don't think it's supposed to be shaking but just significant motion - note that he changed positions from the previous frame, either moving forward quite a bit or perhaps standing up suddenly.
The ultra-organic look of this installation really gives a creepy vibe.
H.R.Giger has not lived in vain.
And yes...thats looks like a giant version of endoscopy...
[Double Negative Siren goes off]
[team members start to grope everything]
Nobody is touching nothing already.
Every single one of them is touching the floor. No problem to be solved.
[channeling my chemistry teacher of way-back-when]
Technically, they all are touching only the inside of their suits ...
(His question "what do I hold in my hand?" invariably had someone answer "hydrochloric acid", which gave him the opportunity to correct them "no, a bottle of HA. [pours] Now i hold HA in my hand!")
By that logic, the only people touching nothing are naked and floating in a vacuum.
Those kind of people don't stay people very long - they become corpses *extremely* quickly.