[dennyabraham]

This reminds me of another deep sea mystery trace, Paleodictyon[1]. Once an unconnected set of geometric fossils and modern hole patterns, it's been discovered that this phenomenon has occurred in a consistent form for half a billion years up to the present day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleodictyon

[ThisIsMyAltFace]

There's a nice PBS video about them with footage of the holes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1fccY3S84

[yosito]

That Paleodictyon is clearly a fossilized chickenwire fence. Source: grew up on a chicken farm.

[SnowHill9902]

Anybody else repulsed by that pattern? I don’t know why but I am.

[jaxomlotus]

Others linked it, but I believe trypophobia was an evolutionary advantage genetic instinctive trait that kept early human carriers repulsed and therefore safely avoidant of infestations (contagious disease welts/boils, harmful insect hives, and the like).

[roywiggins]

"trypophobia" ("fear of holes") is a phenomenon where some people find similar patterns to that disturbing or repellant, might be the same thing. Of course Googling that will give you lots of similar images that you might find similarly repellant.

[giantrobot]

Trypophobia. I won't link to Wikipedia, if such a thing bothers you I'm not going to try to trigger it.

[dclowd9901]

Yes and no. I’m repulsed when it’s used as some sort of horror imagery superimposed on someone’s skin. But otherwise it’s a fairly pleasing pattern. Unfortunately it’s hard to understand grotesque imagery.

[stormdennis]

i had an old encloypaedia when I was a kid. It had been published in the 1960s. In it under the computer section it had a colour photo of a processor or something and it was this incredibly dense criss-cross pattern of what looked like wiring. I never knew why but that picture used to give me a funny feeling in my brain that I didn't like.

[flippinburgers]

I don't even recall if it was legit - being early days internet - but I remember (and cannot un-remember) the image of a frog that would give birth to tadpoles, or maybe tiny frogs, out of its back. Horrifying.

[bamboozled]

Yes but more scared than repulsed. It made me feel scared for some reason.

[etc-hosts]

Immediately not clicking.