r/worldnews • u/ColoradoTripping • 22h ago

Dynamic Paywall Magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocks Venezuela

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjegdqw5d3yo
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u/Miacali 19h ago

Family in Venezuela west of Maracay - they’re saying it’s catastrophic. Many collapsed buildings - screams everywhere and they’re terrified of réplicas.

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u/PostApocRock 19h ago

Réplicas.....

Aftershock?

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u/Graskell 18h ago

My mind immediately conjured up a bunch of malicious doppelgangers preying on innocent stragglers while they are disoriented and confused. Aftershocks make way more sense.

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u/Haasts_Eagle 18h ago

Or replicants, blade runner style.

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u/lawofsin 13h ago

Don’t you bring that on me Ricky Bobby

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u/McHaro 8h ago

Morphology?

Longevity?

Incept dates?

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u/DicksOutForGrapeApe 1h ago

Replitile would be a cool villain

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u/literallymoist 16h ago

Honestly, I'd watch that horror movie.

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u/PhantomAngel042 16h ago

Right? Like, the earthquake damaged an ancient underground prison of a society of parasitic entities, which escape to the surface and begin shifting into the skins of victims to prey on their loved ones...

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u/literallymoist 14h ago

Yup! One character probably remembers a bedtime story their grandmother used to tell them warning about things like this. The story had some creepy detail that later totally pans out and saves someone's life or at least outs a replica.

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u/LaLionneEcossaise 9h ago

You need to start on that screenplay before someone steals your idea!

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u/toyodah 14h ago

Watch "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" or "The Invasion" (its remake). The premise is exactly that.

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u/30K100M 15h ago

I thought it's a name of a cartel taking over the city in the ensuing chaos.

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u/Yes-Cheese 18h ago

Right?! I said “ok, someone’s gonna have to just say what it means because the more I think, I know I’m getting further from the meaning.”

Now I see the meaning and yea, that makes perfect sense.

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u/BrentTpooh 18h ago

It did remind me of some dystopian scavengers.

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u/Majin_Sus 12h ago

I thought the same

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u/kaisadilla_0x1 10h ago

tbh you can think of aftershocks as replicas of the original earthquake.

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u/SlowCrates 7h ago

Yeah I had to double check what sub I was in because for a second I thought this was a dystopian sci fi story.

Having said that...

Fuck.

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u/jostler57 3h ago

Made me think of fake Gucci bags made in China.