Pluribus [Drama, Sci-Fi] (Page 2 of 4)

What was all that at the beginning about the ice place?  Sleeping on a bed mad eof ice?  Really?

Instead of right getting to the point with "Shorty" they could've just used a couple of minutes of airtime for her to ask some random stuff as fan service.
  from simple stuff like
"What do you eat?" (is it like a Matrix situation with the "bowl of snot" or normal food)
  to edgy stuff like
"Do you procreate?" (I mean, c'mon - but jokes aside, humanity would end otherwise)
  or the most important question (to me)
"how did they reach all the people?" (all we got was "we acted quickly" or something like that, which is not satisfactory since the only clue for infection so far is by bodily fluids....)

Same when she stole the drugs. The doctor guy said they have many people in the hospital suffering from drug addiction - immediately a couple new questions she could've asked:
- Can't the Joining help them recover?

- If one of them takes drugs, what do the others feel?.... IMPORTANT question, especially considering what she was planning and what happened the first time she got angry at Pirate Lady...what if everyone of them would've collapsed again??

I know addiciton is not just the mind but also the body, but still...some relieve should be possible with the Joining.

Ethics is a two legged ones invention, reprogram the meat CPU a bit (for example, with a virus) and it will vanish the same as appeared.

To broadcast RNA as such already is close to zero chance, unless the broadcaster also has it - but to broadcast virus that affects specifically humans in a certain way has a chance of infinitely reaching zero. Actually to even broadcast anything to us and in a form we would understand, already is super far from a trivial adventure (closest spot from where potentially somebody could broadcast something is so far away that it would take 4+ years for that signal just to travel, but there are also tiny variables that you need to hit in the right timespan so that humans actually already are on this rock and still are here, are advanced enough to receive, decode and act on it - and that signal also could travel for hundreds of thousands of years to us, meaning the sender can long be extinct).

Anyway, it's a half comedy with hand grenades, nukes and lesbians drama.

P.S. Actually what is more likely is that the signal has no intelligent origin, just some cosmic fart with what the human stupidity won a lottery. That's way more plausible

Yeah, the only reason ethics enter this discussion at all is because it's still a collective of those same two legged ones who still seem to care about that.

When RNA needs to be encoded and sent somewhere (on Earth), it's usually done using a massive chain of 4 letters (A, U, G and C) which represent each of the chemical components of the RNA. Since the molecule itself is basically just a long series of those 4 in varying orders, that actually works. The transmission they received on the show was actually four different signals on different frequencies that, together, formed a repeating pattern. What they did then was to check which letter/chemical should be assigned to which frequency, probably by trying all combinations, and then creating the resulting virus.

They also said that the signal wasn't coming from anywhere nearby, it was probably sent a very long time ago, probably before humans even existed. More a "send to all" and not a message directed at Earth at all.

But yeah, you are right: it's basically impossible to design a virus that works on a species that you cannot know anything about, because it does not even exist yet. So, unless time travel is involved, I don't think we are getting that answer.

Their ethics firmware actually is upgraded, in their interests would be to eliminate the problem. That's 100% what the old humans version would do. Or their survival instincts and ego modules are disabled and the majority vote ended up with this version of ethics.

Something like this is on what I bet how AGI will take us out A few DNA mods and done - we even have already tried similar stuff on the same poor mice.

But even broadcast to all should be extremely lucky - that would mean that the other civilization should exist (or the broadcast finally reach us) in the overlapping ~50 years of our ability to do something with it. It's a very narrow window in 14 billion years. And difference imo could not be more than some million years. So they would either need to teleport from Earth with RNA blueprints and send that signal or evolve the same in +/- the same time frame. A bit off and they would be broadcasting to dinosaurs.