this is EXACTLY the kind of thing I think about and should be written about

From the Wikipedia page about the Fermi Paradox: Given the high scientific probability for alien existence, why can we find no evidence of their existence whatsoever?

the creature dies, bereft of nutritious stone to eat, in less than a month; we are all ignorant of how much luck we spent in that, in its starved wanderings, the lefthand basilisk never departed from its old forest, onto the white, flat plains beyond, and never saw, with its sharp yellow eyes, the mountains on the horizon

American visionary Howard Finsters painting “And the moon became as blood”

Picnic (Shunji Iwai, 1996)

~ Spiral finger ring. Period: Hellenistic Medium: Gold

The radiating sun. Carte astronomique de l'Univers. 1878. Map detail.

long story made short: you will probably only be vored by Roko’s Basilisk if you’re into that sort of thing

Emil Schumacher (German, 1912-1999), Paripa, 1961. Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via quotemadness)

Silent Hill (1999) for PlayStation

Fallen Angels (1995)

The Topeka Daily Capital, Kansas, January 4, 1903