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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (3 children)

In the 2009 Oscar-snubbed masterpiece Monsters vs Aliens, the alien mothership is defeated by a half-man, half-cockroach scientist doing DDR.

https://youtu.be/s7HirhI6Wjc

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

supernova, this is red dwarf. we actually have one! code nimoy! i repeat, CODE NIMOY!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh. Em. Gee. That's a movie brimming full of jokes that didn't stand the test of time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It's definitely a product of its time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I love that this is a real thing.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago

Futurama did it, in the 3rd act of "Reincarnation"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I've always thought that if telepathy was even remotely possible, it would just be communication via pheromones or through the use of technology to transmit brainwaves over the air.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

through the use of technology to transmit brainwaves over the air.

Explain to me how it's not REALLY telepathy just because you used a gizmo to make up for your own psychic shortcomings? Prosthetics are a thing.

[–] 0x0 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How would this technology differ from... the radio?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You wouldn't need to use your mouth. You see things where you can control a device "with your mind?" That, but used to talk to other people also wearing a goofy helmet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Adeptus Mechanicus tech-priests having a chant over the noosphere in binharic

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts just cut out the middleman and had Dubstep Bees. Great show, btw.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This show is great, and there's only two seasons: storyline ends. So you're not on the hook for15 seasons of B/S.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I understand Netflix didn't treat the creative team the best, with the usual penny-pinching season-splitting shenanigans, but they didn't pull the rug out from under them with the total number of episodes, so it tells a really good self-contained story and has a satisfying ending.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Psychic communication is nothing but pheromones with the medium of electromagnetic waves. Change my mind.jpeg

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

If you break down psychic communication into logistical components, you'd need some sort of organ for transmitting brainwaves, and some sort of organ for receiving brain waves, and you'd need parts of the brain for interpreting thoughts received, and likely a different area for converting thoughts into transmissible brain waves.

It's not that dissimilar to what you're describing with pheremones, but I'll do you one better because we already have all that on the electromagnetic spectrum. Sound waves are invisible energy put into the air by specialized organs that are encoded and decoded by different parts of the brain. To any species lacking auditory sensory organs, talking and hearing would be functionally identical to telepathy. We transmit complex thoughts through the air directly from one brain to another, or via telecommunications technology. To another species using telepathy, we would appear to them to be deaf and mute.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Maybe I already did?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

a movie about intensely organized alien race that mainly communicates via sick dance moves.

We already did that, it's called "Barbie" and it is art.

Why else did you think the Kens had that highly choreographed dance battle?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Finally a decent idea for a The Last Starfighter remake.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

don't mushrooms(fungus in general) have some kind of communication system that basically functions like a hive mind?

I think when you're thinking in terms of multiple cellular organisms sharing a singular information pathway there are many examples that fit the criteria that aren't necessarily the way humans would communicate with each other.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I think mushrooms are more of a singular organism with a vast nervous system spreading underground and occasionally popping up above to reproduce. Which kinda sorta fits, but still

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Pretty sure the best version is going to come out of Bollywood. I'll wait for the english dub.