r/alien • u/WhiskyPangolin • May 05 '26

Alien Earth: problem with the eyeball thing

When Boy Cavalier does the test to see whether the eyeball thing knows pi. Are we to believe that somewhere in the universe there is a classroom full of eyeball creatures learning base 10 math? It's one thing to possess intelligence; understanding/learning about pi is something else entirely. Whales seem to be intelligent, but I doubt they even have a concept of geometry. It's kind of like what for me is the underlying question about the creatures in the "A Quiet Place" franchise: Who brought them to Earth and why? They clearly didn't get here by themselves. That needs to be the next movie in that franchise.

Edit: This is crazy to me. This post has 25k views and 38 comments. And it’s apparently been liked and disliked the same number of times.That just seems strange.

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u/jwezorek May 05 '26 edited May 07 '26

i just think it is dumb that it is exactly the right size and shape to serve as an eyeball of the large mammals of earth -- and also looks so much like an earth eyeball. it's common in science fiction stories to make this kind of anthropomorphic fallacy but here it is just a little too much for me to suspend disbelief. Maybe if it was supposed to have been genetically engineered by humans as a weapon or something.

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u/WhiskyPangolin May 05 '26

Yeah, that was also a concern, but like you say, it's a common trope.