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Do you ever see faces in the Nebula?

No way. you're just tripping
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YES ! SCARY SKULLS!
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Ghosts in the Nebula
Do you see faces?

I swear i see evil looking skulls and dead faces looking at me.  :shaking:

 

Offline Hades

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Re: Ghosts in the Nebula
I see shadows in the nebula dark shadows of death.....
[22:29] <sigtau> Hello, #hard-light?  I'm trying to tell a girl she looks really good for someone who doesn't exercise.  How do I word that non-offensively?
[22:29] <RangerKarl|AtWork> "you look like a big tasty muffin"
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<batwota> wouldn’t that mean that it’s prepared to kiss your ass if you flank it :p
<batwota> wow
<batwota> KILL

 

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Offline Polpolion

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Re: Ghosts in the Nebula
No way. you're just tripping

 
Re: Ghosts in the Nebula
I'm usually too busy trying to pick targets out in the fog to take copious amounts of hallucinogens in the middle of a mission.  Could explain Kappa wing's navigation problems, though....  Shivans?  My hairy, white ass, Shivans!  Damn hippies....

 

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Re: Ghosts in the Nebula


Chinchillas in the Mist.....

 

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Re: Ghosts in the Nebula
 :eek2: Hahaha that is what got KappaWing. :P
[22:29] <sigtau> Hello, #hard-light?  I'm trying to tell a girl she looks really good for someone who doesn't exercise.  How do I word that non-offensively?
[22:29] <RangerKarl|AtWork> "you look like a big tasty muffin"
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<batwota> wouldn’t that mean that it’s prepared to kiss your ass if you flank it :p
<batwota> wow
<batwota> KILL

 

Offline CP5670

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Re: Ghosts in the Nebula
Put a picture of Derek Smart there instead. :D

 

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Re: Ghosts in the Nebula
"Dereck Smart Will Devour You(And your soul)." :P
[22:29] <sigtau> Hello, #hard-light?  I'm trying to tell a girl she looks really good for someone who doesn't exercise.  How do I word that non-offensively?
[22:29] <RangerKarl|AtWork> "you look like a big tasty muffin"
----
<batwota> wouldn’t that mean that it’s prepared to kiss your ass if you flank it :p
<batwota> wow
<batwota> KILL

 

Offline Flipside

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Re: Ghosts in the Nebula
Hmmm... Maybe it should be Munster in the Mist...


 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Ghosts in the Nebula
Chinchillas in the Mist.....

God I needed that laugh, thank you.
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Re: Ghosts in the Nebula
Flipside, you're incredible.

 :wakka:

Just  :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

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Re: Ghosts in the Nebula
hi,
no i hadnt any experience with drugs, but i can swear, if anybody try to imagination a drugsflash, then the nebular are very smiliar.

and yes there are somthing out thiere  :nervous:

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Re: Ghosts in the Nebula
There IS something in the mist...that nebula..I SWEAR I was missles heading towards me! And shivans! SHIVANS I TELL YOU!!!! No, I'm not crazy! No, NO PILLS! NO INJECTIONS! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Offline Snail

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Re: Ghosts in the Nebula
TrashMan, no one's trying to give you pills. No one is trying to give you injections. It's all in your imagination. Calm down. We can help you. We can help you.

 

Offline Herra Tohtori

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Re: Ghosts in the Nebula
What, you mean they aren't supposed to be there?

 :shaking:


...anyway, it's a rather interesting experience when you're doing a watch shift in a cold and rather dark forest - not too dark, just so that you can't really make much of what you see but not pitch black either. After a couple hours you actually start seeing movements and almsot-human-shapes in the forest. And that's a fact, no kidding (no [additional] chemical stimulus either). You just need to wait for long enough for the visual system to start throwing some kicks in the mix to break up the monotony, and they do such fabulous job that it's sometimes a bit disconcerting. Not exactly scary after you know what goes on in the back of your head, but not exactly pleasant either.

Try it, you'll love it.

The scientific explanation is basically just that. Human brain - especially when it comes to eyesight - tends to make out patterns from where there are none. And since human shapes and especially faces take a *lot* of processing area on visual cortex (and beyond), the random activity in cases when there's nothing to see will cause you to think you see some shapes, and the face recognition part of visual processing area being a big one, those shapes pop out quite fast in cases like this.

Like, for example, does this look much like a face to you? :) It's a yellow ball with two dots and a curve on it, it's not much of a face. But people still register it as a face. Hell, even if the line's not curved you'll accociate it to a face. You'll even think you can see some emotion on the face, like boredom.  :blah:

Even more interestingly, people can correctly identify the owner of a face from surprizingly little amount of information.



Squint your eyes a bit or step back, look at the picture and take a guess who it is.

Spoiler:
It's obviously Sean Connery.



Ummm... where was I?

Oh yeah... so, there will definitely be moments when the nebula thingamaroos align themselves to resemble something like faces. Whether you register it or not is the question. In a moment of boring escort flying it's more likely than in the heat of the dogfight I'd guess.
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Re: Ghosts in the Nebula
I SEE DEAD PEOPLE!


*Like Kappa 3..... :lol:
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Jeez...Nebulaes are scary then. Can we get an example somehow VC?


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I do see faces in the nebula, but that's usually just my imagination or afterimage.

 
I saw Skulls...
They were SOC Skull Squadrons...
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