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spoilerIt's two Romulan warbirds. I'm sure someone else can back me up for the non-believers.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 13 points 6 months ago (5 children)

How do Fireworks in Space work again?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

They work by shut up and watch that's how.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Fireworks work by igniting metals and salts using gunpowder. All those components should work in a vacuum.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Usually the propellant and other combustion materials will include an oxidizer, so an atmosphere really isn't required.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I don't know how the Cardassians would do it, but Starfleet would just put colored gunpowder in a torpedo casing.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

How come the Sun stays lit even though there's no oxygen in space? O.o

[–] tinyVoltron@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You dumb b****, it’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat!

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

A schooner is a sailboat you dumbass!

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

No, that's a sailboat.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago
[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can't find the common frame of reference to let my eyes rest/lock on this one. Too much repetition. Being on mobile probably isn't helping.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I zoomed in just a tad on mobile.

Took a while to find "the lock", more than usually with these. (I spend hours looking at them as a kid.) Once I got it though, it stuck really well.

!The ship in the top right corner looks like an apple though, dk if its supposed to be a Borg sphere or what!<

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I will take your word for it lol. I just tried again a few times and now my eyes hurt.

And side note, spoiler tag syntax is different on Lemmy. Instead of

>!text!<

It's

Button text hidden text

Like this
I can't really think of anything witty right now... best I can come up with is "beef stew." I think my imagination is broken.

I'm not sure which apps or front ends support what. I use Voyager and that only got spoiler support recently.

(Unless the Lemmy markdown guidelines changed again, in which case ignore me, I'm behind)

[–] swab148@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

Boost still doesn't do spoilers 😕

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Thanks for reminding me I have astigmatism 😤

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago
[–] polarpear11@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is THAT why I've literally never been able to see these???

[–] Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

My astigmatism is pretty bad and I've never had any problem seeing these.

[–] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

How does that matter? I have astigmatism and can usually see these with literally no effort. The thing making this one difficult is the border.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think I’ve ever done a magic eye on a smartphone before.

Being able to zoom in and out adds a whole to dimension to it…

[–] Areldyb@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Same here. Had to zoom in to get a fix on it, and then zoom back out to see what I was looking at. I'm surprised at how well it worked!

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I have never, ever made one of these work, and I was there when the old magic was written.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YabW4B5Wjwk

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

These things never work for me

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Scaled down to fit a computer screen they get way worse.

But they are just a couple of Romulan ships.

[–] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

I can usually see it without even trying, but the border on this one really makes it difficult.

[–] Acedia@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Same. I was like 8 when they came out. Never fkn once

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you have extremely unbalanced vision in your eyes? Even with corrective lenses that can keep you from being able to stitch the images together properly for your brain to interpret the 3D image.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Yes I looked this up after commenting and that's why, I have astigmatism, and one eye is better than the other. So that's why they don't work on me

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

I remember people trying to do it as a kid by putting their noses in the books, and it confused the hell out of me. But then when I'd explain how to do it, they acted like I was muttering moon speak.

But what I do is just make repeating shapes overlap. Like, have you ever made your fingers overlap (by crossing your eyes)? Or played with the double images of things near your face while looking at something in the background?

You just do that so that neighbouring copies of image elements overlap.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ok, managed to see it properly for once. What's the 3rd object in the top right? Just a planet?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I think so. Honestly, I didn't even notice it until you pointed it out, I thought it was just part of the border.

[–] OrangeJoe@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Maybe a moon, there's actually also a larger planet just below the warbird on the right.

[–] april@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is this a parallel eyes one? I can only do crosseyed and couldn't see it.

I.e. I was looking in front of the screen but you need to look behind it for this one I think.

[–] Areldyb@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

If you look at it cross-eyed it should be the same image, just inverted (things that should be closer to you are further away instead).

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 months ago

This deserves the Tacocat song about these

https://youtu.be/4K_0ApvhvA8

[–] EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Normally I can get these easily but my eyes just can't work this one out

[–] OrangeJoe@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Nah you can't see them, they are cloaked.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I can see the thing, but I don't know what it is

[–] GarrulousBrevity@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm having a really hard time making out the one on the right, but the one on the left definitely is.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Somehow, my eyes just sort of do the magic eye thing naturally. Like it's never taken me any effort, I just have to move my eyes a certain way, like I was focusing on something, and they appear.

[–] GarrulousBrevity@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I got it eventually. I tend to put my nose right up to the screen to uncross my eyes enough, and slowly pull it away until it comes into focus, but the right one is harder because it's supposed to be closer, and therefore bigger.

Cross eye is easier for me, but these are never cross eyed.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I just cross and refocus my eyes, but then what I get is the inverse.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I'm unable to cross my eyes, so that may have something to do with it. They sort of go the opposite direction instead of crossing if I let them drift to see the magic eye picture.