@gchavez101 Hard to believe someone other than the guy in the video would have hiked deep into the dangerous jungle just in order to place a fake sphere.
@gchavez101@jaimemaussan1 100% except it was nighttime and the couple didn't see a Buga-type sphere but a brightly glowing orb, which seems to demonstrate that these numerous metallic spheres can and do glow like classic orbs. A fascinating new wrinkle!
@peez Mine would be Project Hail Mary. Everybody just ADORES this film, so I've felt lonesome. I had many problems with it, chief among them being that Rocky is MUCH too human and fuzzy-wuzzy. A being from another star system would come at us with a strangeness, a deep otherness, that would make genuine communion a fascinating uphill climb. Instead, Rocky's thinking and communication maps onto English perfectly word-for-word, and all of his motivations and values also perfectly align. Extremely simplistic, sappy, and emotionally. So much more powerful if the relationship were forged across a genuine epistemic divide. The hard-won points of contact would then pack a far greater punch than this mind meld with an entity just exactly and facilely like us except for being rock-based instead of water-based. Lazy concept and storytelling.