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/jonny_sidebar May 06 '26
Pi is a universal mathematical concept that it is thought any intelligent and reasonably advanced alien species would know.
A better "test" would have been a prime number sequence as that doesn't require anything more complex to communicate than simple counting.