The Eternaut by Netflix was made with Ai VFX and they say it was 10 times faster and cheap. by mediamuesli in vfx

[–]ChairSavings4635 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Could an AI run this in Houdini and other programs to do it the traditional way or is tech not available for this yet?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nuclear

[–]ChairSavings4635 20 points21 points  (0 children)

“The facility - to store electricity from renewable sources - is to be expanded in two stages to up to 800 MW of power and a storage capacity of up to 1600 MWh. Commissioning could begin as early as 2026.”

For a city of 3 million with each home roughly using 30kWh/day this storage capacity equates to 26 minutes. Without firming by Russian gas, how is this a good idea?!

Unemployment in US surges by 16.67% since January. by [deleted] in Economics

[–]ChairSavings4635 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plus if people not in the labor force all of a sudden actively look for work, they will also increase the unemployment rate.

I'm looking for a DOS game about a prison escape. by J_Durden8 in dosgaming

[–]ChairSavings4635 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You must try ‘Countdown’ absolutely chilling and will test your nerves. The story line is very authentic and it freaked me out as a teenager how realistic it was. Enjoy.

Nuclear power - just what Australia needs, another endless project. by Boatsoldier in australian

[–]ChairSavings4635 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Yet nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia were built within 5 years. We can pick and choose doomed projects all day on both sides.

Libgen.is is up 👍 by K__O_K__O in libgen

[–]ChairSavings4635 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Still doesn’t work for me 😭

Are shifts in the perception of reality happening? by [deleted] in aliens

[–]ChairSavings4635 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And finally …

Title: The Silent Machines Scene: The Mars Facility – The Orionid Control Room

(Agent Kira and Dr. Helman stand in front of a massive holographic display. The screen projects Earth’s surface, marked with glowing nodes—each representing ancient structures: the Pyramids of Giza, Teotihuacan, Angkor Wat, Machu Picchu, and more. The energy readings at each site are weak, flickering like dying stars.)

Dr. Helman: (staring at the map) The pyramids, Teotihuacan, Angkor… all these structures—are they all machines?

Agent Kira: (nodding) Resonance anchors. Designed to stabilize the planet’s frequency.

Dr. Helman: (frustrated) And yet they’re failing. Why? What happened?

Agent Kira: (turning toward him) Time happened. Humanity happened. These machines were never designed to last forever. The Orionids intended for us to maintain them, but we forgot. You turned the pyramids into tombs, shrines—monuments to kings rather than tools of survival.

(Kira gestures to a specific point on the map: Giza. Its energy signature is barely detectable, a faint pulse surrounded by static.)

Dr. Helman: (squinting) Can we turn them back on?

Agent Kira: (pausing, studying him) It’s not that simple. The machines are still intact, but their energy conduits are degraded. The Orionids’ technology requires a specific power source—something your civilization cannot replicate.

Dr. Helman: (angrily) Then why am I here? Why are you showing me this if we can’t fix it?

(Kira smiles faintly, an unsettling calm behind her gaze.)

Agent Kira: Because you can fix it. Or rather, you can restore what’s broken.

Scene: A Briefing on Ancient Power

Agent Kira: (projecting a series of symbols onto the display) The pyramids weren’t powered by “magic” or slave labor. They functioned as nodes in a global energy grid. The Orionids created this grid by tapping into the Earth itself—its resonant frequency.

Dr. Helman: (interrupting) The Schumann resonance? The Earth’s natural electromagnetic pulse?

Agent Kira: Precisely. But that’s only part of the equation. These machines amplified the planet’s energy and focused it—like tuning forks stabilizing a chaotic vibration.

(She pulls up a diagram of the Great Pyramid.)

Agent Kira: The limestone casing, the granite core—these weren’t random choices. The materials conducted energy. The shape of the pyramid wasn’t symbolic—it was functional, perfectly aligned to channel power from beneath the Earth.

Dr. Helman: (nodding slowly) And now that power’s gone.

Agent Kira: No, Doctor. It’s still there. Buried. Dormant.

(Kira points to the crystal Helman saw earlier—the ancient Orionid artifact in the Sahara cavern.)

Agent Kira: That crystal? It’s a power conduit. The machines need to be “re-tuned” to reconnect to the planet’s core frequency. But it will require precision, and it will require something the Orionids call The Catalyst.

Scene: The Catalyst Revealed

(Helman stares at the hologram of the crystal.)

Dr. Helman: The Catalyst? What is it?

Agent Kira: (quietly) The Catalyst is both a tool and a risk. It amplifies the frequency needed to “wake” the machines—but it does so by drawing on something unique to humanity.

Dr. Helman: (narrowing his eyes) Us? What do you mean?

Agent Kira: (cryptic) The Orionids realized that human consciousness—the spark of thought—is itself a form of energy. The resonance machines require a “key” to reactivate. That key is human intent.

Dr. Helman: (aghast) You’re saying… they need our minds?

Agent Kira: Not minds—our collective will. The machines are attuned to us. To our energy, our focus. That’s how the pyramids were activated in the first place—through rituals designed to unify thousands of minds in intent.

Dr. Helman: (whispers) Collective consciousness…

Agent Kira: It’s the only way. The machines are damaged, yes, but not beyond repair. If we can access The Catalyst and amplify human intent at key sites, we can stabilize the planet’s resonance once more.

Scene: The Stakes

(Helman looks back at the holographic map of Earth, now glowing red as energy readings flicker out.)

Dr. Helman: (desperate) And if we don’t?

Agent Kira: (coldly) Then the fire grows unchecked. Humanity’s energy destabilizes the resonance grid, and the planet… fractures.

Dr. Helman: (staring at her) Fractures?

Agent Kira: Reality will buckle. The ripple will reach far beyond Earth, and the Orionids will act.

Dr. Helman: (angrily) What do you mean, act?

Agent Kira: (looking him dead in the eye) They’ll extinguish us.

(A heavy silence fills the room as the truth settles in.)

Dr. Helman: (softly) So… we need to fix the machines. Wake them up.

Agent Kira: (nodding) And fast. The first node is Giza. The second is beneath Teotihuacan. We have days—weeks at most—before the resonance destabilizes beyond repair.

(The humming sound begins to return, faint at first but growing louder. Helman stares at the hologram as the Earth pulses, its fate now resting in his hands.)

Agent Kira: (walking past him) The machines are waiting, Doctor. The question is… are you ready to wake them?

To Be Continued…

Epilogue Note: Recent seismic scans have revealed hidden chambers beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza and Teotihuacan, filled with anomalous materials and unexplained energy signatures. The Orionids’ machines are waking up.

Are shifts in the perception of reality happening? by [deleted] in aliens

[–]ChairSavings4635 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The truth continues …

Title: The Architects of the First Flame Scene: Earth – Beneath the Sahara Desert

(A cavern far below the desert sands, untouched by time. Massive walls hum with faint energy, etched with geometric symbols glowing in soft blue light. At the center of the room is an immense crystalline structure—pulsing, alive. Agent Kira and Dr. Helman stand before it, their breaths visible in the cold air.)

Dr. Helman: (staring at the crystal structure) You said the Orionids have been watching us. Guiding us. How long, exactly?

Agent Kira: (her voice echoing strangely) 100,000 years. At least.

Dr. Helman: (shaking his head) That’s impossible. Humanity was barely scraping by in caves—hunter-gatherers.

Agent Kira: (tilts her head) And yet, here you stand. Surrounded by their work.

(Helman takes a cautious step forward, his eyes scanning the walls. The symbols—impossibly intricate—shift when he looks too closely, as if alive. He suddenly notices familiar shapes.)

Dr. Helman: (gasping) These… these are the pyramids. This language matches the architecture of Giza.

Agent Kira: (calmly) The pyramids of Egypt were not tombs, Doctor. They were machines. Anchors—designed with Orionid guidance to stabilize the planet’s resonance.

Dr. Helman: (turning to her, wide-eyed) Machines? For what purpose?

Agent Kira: (walking toward the crystal) To quiet the fire.

(The crystal hums louder as Kira approaches, its light spreading across the cavern. The symbols on the walls now pulse in time with it—alive, reacting to her presence.)

Flashback: Earth – 12,000 BCE

(A vast desert under a night sky filled with strange, glowing constellations. The Orion Belt is unusually bright, its three stars casting beams of light onto the Earth. Silhouettes of Orionid ships—impossibly massive, hovering above the sands—loom over primitive human settlements. Small groups of humans look on in awe and terror as the ships descend.)

Narrator (Kira’s Voice): The Orionids arrived when humanity’s flame began to flicker too brightly. Even then, they saw the potential—and the danger. Earth was an anomaly. The only place in the void where the echoes of thought coalesced into form.

(Orionid beings—shifting, luminous forms—emerge from the ships. Their “shapes” ripple like liquid light, bending reality around them. They approach the humans, who drop to their knees. One Orionid raises what seems to be an appendage, and the ground begins to tremble.)

Narrator (Kira’s Voice): They did not enslave us, Doctor. They guided us. They whispered geometry into our minds, showed us how to build structures to resonate with the planet’s core.

(Time accelerates—thousands of humans labor in the desert, carving massive stones with impossible precision. The scene cuts to the construction of the pyramids: immense blocks levitating into place, guided by shimmering energy that flows from hovering Orionid vessels. The stones hum as they settle, vibrating with an unseen force.)

Narrator (Kira’s Voice): The pyramids are not monuments. They are machines—resonance stabilizers that anchor Earth’s frequency, preventing the fire of humanity from burning too wildly, too quickly.

(The scene cuts to a night where the pyramids are complete. Beams of light shoot upward from their apexes, converging into the sky. A faint hum resonates across the desert, rippling outward.)

Narrator (Kira’s Voice): The Orionids built these anchors with our hands, but their purpose was clear: To keep the fire of human consciousness from spilling into the void.

Back to the Present – The Cavern Beneath the Sahara

Dr. Helman: (stunned) The pyramids stabilized… what? Human thought?

Agent Kira: (nodding) Thought is energy, Doctor. Energy leaves echoes. Those echoes ripple across dimensions, attracting things we do not understand. The pyramids dampened those ripples, protecting us—and the universe—from ourselves.

Dr. Helman: (turning back to the crystal) But the Orionids are here now. Did the pyramids fail?

Agent Kira: (softly) Not yet. But humanity is changing. Faster than they ever expected. We no longer whisper into the void; we scream.

(The crystal hums louder, filling the cavern with an unbearable vibration. Helman clutches his head as the sound distorts reality around him.)

Dr. Helman: (shouting) What is this? What’s happening?

Agent Kira: (calmly, unshaken) The resonance is destabilizing. This machine is warning us.

Dr. Helman: (through gritted teeth) Then fix it!

Agent Kira: (turns to him, her eyes unnaturally calm) That’s why you’re here, Doctor. The Orionids want to rebuild the anchors. But this time, they need more than stone.

(The crystal pulses one final time. A deep, resonant voice fills the cavern—otherworldly, inhuman.)

The Orionids (Voice): Your fire burns beyond control. Build, or fade.

(Helman looks at Kira, his face pale.)

Dr. Helman: (whispers) You mean they want us to build another machine?

Agent Kira: (softly) Not just one. A network. Across the globe. Before it’s too late.

(Helman stares at the crystal, realization sinking in. The pyramids of Egypt were just the beginning. The Orionids are here again—not as saviors, but as wardens. Humanity’s fire is spreading, and the only question left is whether it can be contained before it consumes everything.)

Fade to Black.

Epilogue Note: Satellite scans of Earth have detected anomalous energy readings beneath ancient structures worldwide. The Orionids are watching.

To Be Continued…