After Project Hail Mary, any alien in a serious sci fi film that’s any more humanoid than a worm on a string will be somewhat of a disappointment
The movie would be better if the guy just died and the movie just followed an anthropophagous sperm whale with nefarious motives the entire time
The old Morrison Planetarium projector is one of the coolest looking things ever. The absolute contraption
It’s been a while since the last “whale that kills people” movie. Excluding Moby Dick adaptations, when was the last one? Orca? I quite liked Orca
This beast was made in-house by @calacademy.bsky.social in the early 1950s and stayed in daily use until the end of 2003 - with nothing but the bulbs ever needing to be replaced. It weighed 8,000 pounds and could project 3,800 stars, which twinkled realistically
Major new paper for #paleoart by Terras et al. on extra-oral tissues (lips, cheeks etc.) in Triassic archosauromorphs. They conclude what a lot of us have been saying for a while now: lipped mouths should be the starting point for restoring fossil reptiles.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
“yeah i can tell it was AI generated. how? just vibes, yeah. it has that certain gen-AI sais quoi”