#giger's alien

u/swannsonite via r/space : 

C33 Veil Nebula. I see a face can't decide of what. 3 2HR Seestar s50 Images AI denoised and manually lined up with GIMP.

Centipede trees. They filter toxins and purify the water, but then they add a bunch of their own poisons to it, so. : /

I'm assuming these have a bit of lobopod and philodendron in them. In some possible alternate universe, this is also kinda how I envision the native "vegetation" of the Alien's homeworld, assuming the Aliens are naturally evolved organisms rather than fabricated biomechanical constructs.

Cosmic Indifferentism is the philosophy that “human beings are often subject to powerful beings and other cosmic forces, but these forces are not so much malevolent as they are indifferent toward humanity.”

This was always, to me, the power of Alien (1979). And it was also, strangely, the comfort that it provided to me:

It’s not that bad things happen because you deserved it, or because anything bears you any ill will.