Just what the hell is going on here? A piece of candy under the microscope? An oil slick? Are we all on drugs right now? No — well, maybe you are — but this picture isn’t the result. It’s from spaaa-aaace.
Is this a particularly early batch of Christmas of cookies? No, that’s not it. Maybe a microscopic view of bacteria or — no, not that either. Oh, it’s probably a snowy group of polar islands. But where?
Is it a still from Transformers 4: Megan Fox Returns? Maybe an artist’s interpretation of the world splitting apart? Or HOLY CRAP is the world really splitting apart?! Sort of but not quite.
It’s not a flower. Maybe it’s part of a making-of documentary of a famous tub-based shock site. Actually, it does involve body modification, but it’s in the service of science, not human debasement.
This is more than a moment captured in time. These are several moments, three to four seconds to be precise, and what they depict is a hellish scene that men far braver than I will ever be experienced over France.
Is this an image of some horrible irradiated wasteland? Maybe this is what happens when Lindsay Lohan wades into the ocean at night? No, it’s actually a celebration, not cause for a full-body acid wash.
A white Rubik’s cube? Square snow flakes? Some sort of stress ball? Not quite. The answer is a spoilerishly interesting theory for the upcoming movie Super 8.
My guess: An alien beacon recently discovered at Llano Chajnantor, 16,450-feet high in the Chilean Atacama desert, 50 kilometers to the east of San Pedro de Atacama. In reality, its name is APEX, and it’s a galactic vacuum cleaner.
I thought this was some kind of weapons system, an awesomely massive gun battery hidden in the ground, ready to take on enemy fighters. I read too many comic books. This thing doesn’t fire bullets.
