Hey ya'll. What the hell is this?

Author: Darth Bizarro
Date: 5-Aug-2011, 8:45 PM

Author: Darth Bizarro
Time: 5-Aug-2011 8:45 PM
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It's in every version of Empire I've seen. It looks like a planet that starts to fade in as the Falcon flies into the asteroid them *BOOM* wipe. It's been bothering me for years. Does anybody know the secret to this mystery?

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Author: rpvee
Time: 5-Aug-2011 9:11 PM (Edited)
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Weird. Maybe some kind of weird lens flare? You do see a smaller blue circle thing come in and out as the camera moves shortly before the one in your screenshot as if it is lens flare.

Author: skyjedi2005
Time: 5-Aug-2011 9:15 PM
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JJ Abrams traveled back in time and added a lens flare?

Or just more Lucash wankery and tweaking of the image with computers.

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Author: Ziggy Stardust
Time: 5-Aug-2011 9:31 PM
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^ Sigh.

Author: darth_ender
Time: 5-Aug-2011 9:33 PM
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To me it just looks like a point where the tunnel turns with some inexplicable light source coming from round the bend. Maybe the space slug produces a great deal of flammable methane deep in his guts that was ignited when he ate a spicy burrito. Who knows? Who cares, really?

Author: Bingowings
Time: 5-Aug-2011 9:41 PM
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It's a red circle.

You know...?

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Author: SilverWook
Time: 5-Aug-2011 9:48 PM
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Could it be a famous bit of space junk that fell in from another plane of existence? ;)

Where were you in '77?

Author: Ziggy Stardust
Time: 5-Aug-2011 10:26 PM
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Man, when I see a picture of 2001, I feel like watching it.

Author: Bingowings
Time: 5-Aug-2011 10:48 PM
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If you start to get bored play around with the side bar or the mouse wheel and you can make it wobble up and down and even left and right.

Check it out ;-D

Author: cthulhu1138
Time: 5-Aug-2011 10:55 PM
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skyjedi2005 said:

JJ Abrams traveled back in time and added a lens flare?

Or just more Lucash wankery and tweaking of the image with computers.

This is in every version. I always thought it was a just a special effects mistake.

Maybe as they were recording the falcon minature they caught something at the edge of the frame, then when they spliced it onto the asteroid background it carried over.

It looks like a small moon inside the asteroid.

of course it might not be a moon...

it could be a space station.

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Author: DuracellEnergizer
Time: 5-Aug-2011 11:38 PM
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It's a facehugger egg!

Author: Ziggy Stardust
Time: 5-Aug-2011 11:46 PM
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I don't know what it is, but I sorta like it.

Author: Bingowings
Time: 5-Aug-2011 11:51 PM
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Is it Ringo's or Joe Cocker's?

Author: greenpenguino
Time: 5-Aug-2011 11:57 PM
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Bingowings said:

Is it Ringo's or Joe Cocker's?

It's David Lynch's

Tee hee hee...

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Author: TV's Frink
Time: 6-Aug-2011 3:36 PM
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Ziggy Stardust said:

I don't know what it is, but I sorta like it.

Ask it out, Zig!

Author: captainsolo
Time: 6-Aug-2011 4:16 PM
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Could be a lens flare or some kind of light source that was starting to come in on the end of the pan. Or it could be a planet of some kind due to its round shape.

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Author: Ziggy Stardust
Time: 6-Aug-2011 4:51 PM
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TV's Frink said:

Ask it out, Zig!

I suppose so, but I'm so nervous!

(awkwardly walks up to it)

Me:

Hey uh, lens flare, uh, hi, uh, my name is- uh, Ziggy Stardust.

Would you-

Would you like a uh, cup of coffee or something?

Lens Flare Thing:

Sure!

Me:

Okay then!

(as lens flare thing grabs my phone number, I say something stupid)

I loved Star Trek! (under breath) Dammit!

Author: TV's Frink
Time: 6-Aug-2011 9:57 PM
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Well this is awkward...

Author: Darth Bizarro
Time: 6-Aug-2011 10:21 PM
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JJ Abrams to George Lucas:

Lucas, I'm really diggin' what you're doing with the whole outer space thing, but I gotta tell ya baby, I gotta have more Lens Flare.

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Author: TV's Frink
Time: 6-Aug-2011 10:36 PM
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JJ, Imma let you finish, but Lucas had the best lens flare of all time.

Author: Ziggy Stardust
Time: 7-Aug-2011 1:50 AM
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OMG! Me and the thing just had the best date!

We both share many of the same interests, like caves in worm stomachs, things that aren't entirely stable, and Eric Clapton!

She's really HOT too! Look at this sexy pic she let me take of her:

So hot...

Author: captainsolo
Time: 7-Aug-2011 2:00 AM
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I believe this is what you were looking for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIjhBcgwNac

Author: TV's Frink
Time: 7-Aug-2011 3:40 PM
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Ooh, I wonder if they will fight over Zig?

Author: Anchorhead
Time: 7-Aug-2011 4:53 PM
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Ziggy Stardust said:

Man, when I see a picture of 2001, I feel like watching it.

I'm the same way. I'm immediately transported back into the film, as though I never left.

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Author: Ziggy Stardust
Time: 7-Aug-2011 6:01 PM
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TV's Frink said:

Ooh, I wonder if they will fight over Zig?

Of course they will!

In fact, she/it is considering joining.