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  • stringere@leminal.spacetoScience Memes@mander.xyzScallops
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    8 months ago

    we are seeing multidimensional cross sections of them, which give them such an otherworldly appearance

    Accurate or not I’ve always liked Vonnegut’s description of the viewpoint from the 4th dimension to the 3rd:

    “The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don’t see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes—“with babies’ legs at one end and old people’s legs at the other,” says Billy Pilgrim.

    • Slautherhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut