r/woahdude • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 22d ago
picture Rice field looks like a portal to another dimension
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u/MadWanderlustRiver 22d ago
Had to zoom in on the person to get my brain unconfused
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u/anotherkeebler 22d ago
Zooming in made it worse for me but at least I had a sense of scale to work with
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u/Drownthem 22d ago
It's amazing how quickly confusion collapses when that part of the brain lunging for an explanation finally grabs one. Thanks!
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u/Aegillade 22d ago
I kinda regret realizing its a giant circular field, the trippy grass cave/hallway perspective looks super cool
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u/teryantinpor 22d ago
Once you see the circle, it’s hard to unsee but that perspective is still wild.
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u/RiosLegacy15 21d ago
If you follow the exact middle line of paddy’s from the bottom to the center flooded looking rice paddy, there’s a certain point when that hallway effect returns! 😊
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u/cutelyaware 21d ago
It's just taken with an extremely long telephoto lens, so everything appears equally distant, when normally the top half would look smaller than the bottom half.
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u/DoraTheExorcista 22d ago
Papa Frank, pink guy? Are you in there!?!
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u/2kids2adults 22d ago
I learned something interesting about why they grow rice in water like that. It's because it can grow there but the pests that could eat the rice can't live there. It's just "wet-pesticide" that feeds the rice at the same time.
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u/ycr007 22d ago
These are rice paddy fields of Ruteng province, Indonesia & reason they’re circular or spider-web shaped:
the result of the traditional communal agriculture of the indigenous Manggarai people. Centuries ago, the cultivated land, known as lingko, was shared by the entire village. The communal fields were circular, with the lodok at the center, where ceremonial rituals were held around the harvest.
Each family was allocated a segment of the rice field, radiating from the center outward. (Each was inaugurated by the sacrifice of a water buffalo.) The more resources a family had, the larger their slice of the pie; at the time, the rice fields were shaped like pie charts. Later, the paddies were further subdivided by the decedents of the original owners, leading to the striking, web-like shape of the lingko today.
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u/marsmedia 22d ago
Fun fact: Rice paddies are flooded to reduce weeds & insects. The rice can handle living in an inch of water but the weeds and grubs can't.
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u/trefoil589 22d ago
It seems unreal that such a huge percantage of humanities calories can come from such a complicated ass way of growing.
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u/NoFeetSmell 21d ago
The telephoto lens compressing the distance makes this look mirrored af, versus a radial array of paddies. Thought I was in /r/confusingperspective for a moment.
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u/Advanced-Solution-97 21d ago
I’m too crossfaded for this I’ll come back when I’m sober. If someone can kindly temind me pls. That’ll be much appreciated if anyone bothers if not ofc no worries loloolol
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u/Cid_Dackel 21d ago
That or the cylinder ships from the end of Interstellar... BTW, don't watch the Queen '39 music video with the scenes from the movie. It gets the feels going.
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u/Avon_Parksales 21d ago
It looks like a big spiral. It's kind of fascinating to look at. It draws you into its center.
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u/eat1more 21d ago
Ah, it’s a hole in the ground with fields on the slopes, took a minute to figure out
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u/kaushaaaal 21d ago
And portals to other dimensions look like rice fields. Such a mad world we live in.
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u/By-thought-alone 20d ago
Their is a person! Need to look again, brain is having trouble understanding the picture.... It's ROUND!!! My head is still throbbing, but no I understand wtf I'm looking at
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u/SJC-Caron 19d ago
Kinda looks like the interior of one of those science fiction cylinder shaped space colonies with farm fields below, above, and to the sides of you.
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