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I wonder what they smell like.

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨in4aPenny@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • considine@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Richard Stanley was hired to direct “The Island of Doctor Moreau” but was replaced by John Frankenheimer after a few days of shooting. However, Stanley considered the film to be his baby (he co-wrote the script) and didn’t want to leave. So he disguised himself as one of the mutants and secretly remained on the shoot.

    You can watch the documentary about the shooting of this B-movie and it’s full of weird details like that. It’s called “Lost Soul: the doomed journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Doctor Moreau”

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    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He also directed The Color out of Space with Nicholas Cage recently.

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      • considine@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Good film. One of the few good Lovecraft adaptations, IMHO.

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      • red@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Having enjoyed that truly good but weird movie, this story suddenly makes more sense

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  • CountVon@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They smell like plastic, metal, complex hydrocarbons, and death.

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    • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To be fair, they only develop that hint of death just the once.

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  • scbasteve7@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People may think he’s crazy, but part of psychedelics is hypersensitivity. I doubt he could actually see in the dark and smell landmines, but his brain probably recognized very small details and fabricated hallucinations based on what little he did pick up on.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I sort of believe the seeing-in-the-dark thing. I was at an LSD party with my friends one night and we took a black frisbee out onto an unlit field (no moon) and threw it around without once dropping it. We just knew where everybody else was and where the disc was at all times. I dunno, maybe we could smell the frisbee.

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      • elfin8er@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Your pupils get massive when you’re on LSD, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re able to let in more light to let you see better.

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      • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Was anybody smoking? We always take a drag when we want the disc in the dark, bright cherry gets the toss

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      • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s super cool

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Contrast in the dark is far better on psychedelics, I assume because of the massive pupil dilation

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      • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No expertise here, but I wonder if neurons are more excitable on LSD. If every cell in your retina and optic nerve is trigger happy, you’d see more in the dark. More noise, too, I suppose.

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    • lemonSqueezy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe the elevated brain energy along with the will to survive or to avoid imminent death might coerce other areas of the brain to align with survival.

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      • scbasteve7@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is essentially the point I was trying to make across, but worded better.

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  • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Petition for OP to crop the horizontal image from the vertical borders.

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    • aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you add a section to eviscerate those erroneous commas, I will sign that petition.

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  • cholesterol@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wonder if his memory of ‘seeing in the dark’ stemmed from his pupils being extremely dilated.

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    • SirDerpy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes. But, I’m sure the visuals didn’t help.

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      • tourist@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        To be fair they didn’t specifically say what he saw in the dark.

        Night patrol or machine elves. He saw what he saw.

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  • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let’s pause for a moment and focus on that intent:
    I’m going to take LSD in a war zone.

    It’s like the psychedelic revolution smashed right into The Right Stuff test pilot daredevil attitude. Some people truly seem to be made different than you and me.

    That said, it probably wasn’t one of those legendary “heroic doses”, as a certain low-to-medium range (which varies from person to person) does sharpen awareness of things we normally filter out automatically.

    If this guy did LSD in a war zone, he’s probably done it many times before, is familiar with its’ effects, a medium dose for him might be a heavy one for the rest of us… mere mortals.

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dude read about Dock Ellis’s no hitter and said hold my beer and watch this

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      • in4aPenny@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I love that story.

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    • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dude went full Dennis Hopper for real.

      Image

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  • ryan213@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pretty sure that’s Harlan Williams.

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    • Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right?

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    • aport@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      See ya later, pups!

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  • Zozano@lemy.lol ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not saying he could smell landmines, but apparently elephants and rats can.

    Though I’m assuming their snouts are fairly close to the ground.

    Who knows, maybe LSD unlocks the part of our brain which can smell landmines, and he was spiderman walking in front of the camera crew, sniffing around like a TSA dog.

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    • Deebster@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Rats definitely can (also for TB), and you can sponsor them to do so: apopo.org

      Magawa was a famous example: time.com/6138994/magawa-dies-landmines-cambodia/

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  • DMBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe somewhere in the DoD, someone is thinking of setting up an experiment on this.

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    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Already done

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      • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That video is one of the best and oldest I can remember, from back when you saved videos to the cool videos folder because YouTube didn’t exist yet. Poor guy in the beginning having a bad trip. The soldier throwing the headphones down like “I can’t fucking do this”, cord stretched across the tree, while absolutely laughing his ass off always gets me. I wonder how many micrograms they were dosed with.

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      • blackluster117@possumpat.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Holy shit they gave them bazookas. Mad lads, the lot of 'em.

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      • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Limmy: “It was not long thereafter that O had to be sedated”

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  • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait, you guys can’t smell landmines? I thought everyone could do that!

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wish I couldn’t. It’s extremely distracting as I’m trying to go about my daily routine.

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  • stepan@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cool but please crop it next time, it’s annoying on mobile.

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not stupid, if it works.

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  • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shortly after that he made Hardware, a pefect Christmas movie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_9tKss2_oU

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    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think he’s dead jim

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    • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i loved that movie, way ahead of its time.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Almonds. Explosives smell like almonds. Or cow shit. Depends on the kind.

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    • Carlo@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One time, we pried the backs off some claymores, and daisy-chained them together with det cord. Smelled like a new can of tennis balls. Plasticizer off-gassing, I gather.

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Probably. I was just trying to set up a poop joke but no one took the bait.

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  • Towerofpain11@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What a lad

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  • BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    lol!! This crazy ass. He just got lucky af.

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe but it would not be the first time to theorize that light doses of psychedelics may increase environmental awareness.

      Stoned ape theory has hunter gatherers discover a benefit to grains with trace amounts of ergot i

      Not comparable to tripping oc and the experience of smelling mines is far out but maybe there is more to it then just dumb luck.

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  • TwinkleToes@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plastercine and cheap cookware. Kind of like the used pots aisle of a Goodwill

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  • h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuggin’ goat!

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  • rarbg@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yahoo.com/…/ios-17-lets-crop-photos-073146402.htm…

    https://support.google.com/photos/thread/223840042?hl=en&msgid=223842957

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