I Low-key Love The Fact That Sci-fi Has So Conditioned Us To Expect To Be Hanging Out With A Bunch Of

I low-key love the fact that sci-fi has so conditioned us to expect to be hanging out with a bunch of cool space aliens, that legitimate, actual scientists keep proposing the most bizarre, three-blunts-into-the-rotation "theories" to explain the fact we're not.

Some of my favourites include:

Zoo Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they're not talking to us because of the Prime Directive from Star Trek? (Or because they're doing experiments on us???)

Dark Forest Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they all hate us and each other so they're all just waiting with a shotgun pointed at the door, ready to open fire on anything that moves?

Planetarium Theory: What if there's at least one alien with mastery over light and matter that's just making it seem to us that the universe is empty to us as, like, a joke?

Berserker Theory: What if there were loads of aliens, but one of them made infinite killer robots that murdered everyone and are coming for us next?!!

Like, the universe is at least 13,700,000,000 years old and 46,000,000,000 light years big. We have had the ability to transmit and receive signals for, what, 100 years, and our signals have so far travelled 200 light years?

The fact is biological life almost certainly has, does, or will develop elsewhere in the universe, and it's not impossible that a tiny amount of it has, does, or will develop in a way that we would understand as "intelligent". But, like, we're realistically never going to know because of the scale of the things involved.

So I'm proposing my own hypothesis. I call it the "Fool in a Field" hypothesis. It goes like this:

Humanity is a guy standing in the middle of a field at midnight. It's pitch black, he can't move, and he's been standing there for ages. He's just had the thought to swing his arms. He swings one of his arms, once, and does not hit another person. "Oh no!" He says. "Robots have killed them all!"

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biomechanicalbastard

1 year ago

Death Stranding maybe? Has a lot of lore paralels with Rain world. First of all the post apocalyptic worlds and the deadly rain (though the rain is dangerous in different ways but it could work I think)

And also the lingering spirits of people who couldn't cross over into the afterlife (echoes and BTs respectively).

The plot of Death Stranding could also probably be altered slightly, and would fit with Rain World basically perfectly. Maybe with a slugcat being tasked to connect iterators to a communication network? Maybe Rubicon could be the parallel of the beach? Or maybe the depths idk. just makes me think of Sam as a slugcat lol. I might actually draw this now.

Anyway that was just my ramblings because I've been playing Death Stranding recently, and the plot is so batshit insane and I cannot stop thinking about it.

Wonder what other medias that can totally crossover rain world with, be it lore paralels or just cool for them to be in that setting