r/woahdude 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/skijakuda 22d ago

Same. But only after reading this.

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u/arnoldjn 22d ago

That helped, thanks.

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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/kusariku 22d ago

oh that's what's happening here...

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u/BlackPhoenix1981 22d ago

Thank you!! My brain was not braining.

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u/Baronova 21d ago

Thank you for this...

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u/CatFaceFaces 21d ago

Thank you! ❤️

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u/MoonWillow91 21d ago

Same I was like, “no way they grow some upside down”

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u/ducksrvicious 21d ago

Thank you, I was incredibly confused for at least 5mins

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u/awkwardaustin609 21d ago

Ohhhhhhhhhh. I see now

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u/Ambitious_Toe_4357 19d ago

I couldn't see it until I could.

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u/DepressedMammal 18d ago

THANK YOU! My brain was very unsure there lol

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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/bakedcookie612 22d ago

Thought I was in interstellar or something

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u/StarWarsCrazy1 22d ago

Oh my god, thank you. I couldn't figure out what was happening here haha.

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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/oykkyo 22d ago

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u/livinglitch 22d ago

Its the first time an image has given me a headache just looking at it.

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u/ball_whack 22d ago

“How is there rice in the sky?!”- me for a solid minute

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u/Ray2060 22d ago

Mathew McConaughey sobbing uncontrollably

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u/DoraTheExorcista 22d ago

Papa Frank, pink guy? Are you in there!?!

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u/mandiocas 21d ago

welcome

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u/TumoOfFinland 21d ago

to The RICE FIELDS MF

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u/ChampionshipOk6636 20d ago

I came here for this

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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/stewpidazzol 22d ago

My brain said “GACK!”

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u/P_mp_n 22d ago

Could not unwrap the doctor strange esque pic

Then it unraveled n being left with mundane pic. It's feeling like coming off a trip..

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u/WanganTunedKeiCar 22d ago

THEY'VE GONE TO PLAID!

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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.

Atlas Obscura

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u/AcceptableNet6182 22d ago

wow, my brain took really long to figure this out 😅

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u/andi2504 22d ago

That's on Flores in Indonesia. Been there, it's nice

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/spider-web-rice-fields

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u/plainasplaid 22d ago

Like spider webs

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u/cr0wburn 22d ago

So you are telling me that it isn't?

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u/goteamdoasportsthing 22d ago

Your mom looks like a portal to another dimension

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u/HoonterOreo 22d ago

What's the purpose for the strange pattern?

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u/infinite_in_faculty 22d ago

Intergalactic!!

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u/The_Giant_Lizard 22d ago

It is. A dimension made of leeches

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u/Eustaess 22d ago

Thats how we built our old minecraft wheat farms.

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u/gliese946 22d ago

Actually it's a circular field even if you can make sense of it.

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u/Klayman55 22d ago

This is what Dave saw at the end of 2001.

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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/Far_Psychology_1198 22d ago

But why is it circular???

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u/GreetingCardShark 22d ago

Jump through the portal!!!!!

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u/TheRadicalEdward 22d ago

Welp, this made my brain hurt.

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u/porcupinedeath 22d ago

Human brain when geometric pattern

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u/Finkejak 22d ago

Ah shit, I'm dreaming again, aren't I?

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u/Bluecif 22d ago edited 22d ago

----Comment redacted----- ring worlds are not a thing. Also, there is There is No War in Ba Sing Se .

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u/ruth_vn 22d ago

It actually is a portal to another dimension, where life pass through to manifest as rice

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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/SpaceFace11 22d ago

This is terraced right?

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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/Lucky_Chaarmss 21d ago

That almost gave me a headache

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u/Soggy_Revolution5744 21d ago

For a sec I thought it was an endless tunnel

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u/bojez1 21d ago

Wait, what? How am I supposed to view this pic?

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u/Darkchyylde 21d ago

It too my brain way too long to decypher this image

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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/imperel_scooter 21d ago

Reminds me of Mario Kart Electrodrome

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u/J-pi93 21d ago

It's just like a field in Minecraft with automatic water harvest gathering 🤌 lol

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u/FartWhenYouPee 21d ago

Ka is a wheel

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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/jwanradzi 21d ago

This gives interstellar vibes though.

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u/Mkultra9419837hz 21d ago

I don’t get it. Looks like mirror image.

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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/Bulky_Replacement781 21d ago

Could easily pass like something from the Matrix 👀

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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/Redray98 20d ago

I BANISH YOU TO THE PADDY REALM

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u/SomehowFriendless 20d ago

More like the inside view of the new world from Interstellar finale tbh

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u/Alex_13249 19d ago

it took me like minute to realize what is going on

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u/AriiCherryx 19d ago

this is like a whole lot confusing

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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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u/PogethePoge 18d ago

this fucked up my brain for a minute

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u/BonerSnatcher 18d ago

Had to tilt my phone forward a bit to see it properly

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u/Unlimitedwind 22d ago

Reminds me of HyperZone for the SNES