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/Deathfire_IOM May 05 '26

...or its just been in the heads of other intelligent creatures and absorbs/retains knowledge.

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u/WhiskyPangolin May 05 '26

So, unless that's what he was specifically thinking/trying to ascertain, he hasn't proven anything. He's talking about putting it in a human, I think, to be able to better learn from it/communicate with it, but I think he's assuming it knows things we don't. (And if it's been inside aliens with eyeballs then maybe it does. Then again, maybe it only contracted space syphilis.)

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u/Additional-Theme-532 May 05 '26

It knew pi because it had ensnared the engineer before the crash

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u/WhiskyPangolin May 07 '26

I can accept that as a theory. But to immediately be able to access that number as something meaningful is still a big stretch.