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Is this a real picture?! Wild!
Yes, but I don't know the context, octopus are normally not agressive to divers, like squids are. Bigger squids are agressive and dangerous sons of a removed, but octopus not. Probably on the photo is only because curiousity.
https://www.iflscience.com/friendly-giant-pacific-octopus-gives-diver-a-big-tentacley-hug-66148
The picture is real, but the diver and octopus are fake. It's from Undersea Gardens in Oregon. Here's a zoomed out picture from TripAdvisor.
I think these are natural examples of cellular automata
holy shit this one literally has sierpinski triangles on it!
These clams probably came first.
wrong, that'd be your mom
Neat, so it's like nature's own little Conway's Game of Life.
This is more like e-mail from Cthulhu. Hmm, or e-snail...
Snail-mail?
this is the kind of thing that evolves in a world with magic, and the runes makes it literally indestructible
Hmmm most unwise
the top right image look like lambda diagrams and that scared the shit out of me 😭
!cropbot
Why does the clam have runes on it?
There are no runes on the clam. The runes are in your eyes.
why not?
'It says... no tresspassing?'
Giving me substrate vibes.
(apt-get install xscreensaver , for more)
That version is probably too old and will complain
(Only partly /s)
Aklu the Unspeakable, the Razor and the Hook!
Tap for spoiler
Shards of Earth book trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Disappointed its not whale bone.