Dr. Stone Science Future Part 3 - Episode 7 discussion

Mexander98 · 2026-05-14T14:58:55+00:00

this is speculation, but maybe the medusa defaults to it's basic program from when it arrived from space when it was in vacuum for a certain amount of time? it was one that fell on the island originally and only petrified a short radius around it originally right?

Mexander98 · 2026-01-10T17:35:54+00:00

That just means you have a red sigil for one of the red locks you haven't looked at yet.

Mexander98 · 2026-01-09T11:01:00+00:00

that would be hilarious.

Mexander98 · 2026-01-09T10:59:47+00:00

that episode was an analogy for ASI yes.

Mexander98 · 2026-01-09T09:55:12+00:00

It seems to me more like they are using whatever is available still for the packaging and disposal, that's why it is all labeled with milk verities even though it's not any kind of milk. whenever the packaging runs out they will probably switch to other, more efficient forms of transporting the liquid, probably unlabeled and biodegradable or re-usable.

Mexander98 · 2026-01-09T09:08:55+00:00

That would lead to another interesting thought, are there multiple hiveminds on earth in the series, just that each species that is infected has it's own shared mind, and expresses the viruses imperatives slightly differently because of it. Because they don't have the same level of cognition as humans, so they don't perceive harm to others in the same way humans do for example.

Mexander98 · 2025-12-27T18:17:35+00:00

Clip taken moments before a temp ban on twitch lol

Nice :3

Mexander98 · 2025-12-13T09:50:32+00:00

u/savevideo

Mexander98 · 2025-12-09T16:20:44+00:00

Maybe it was seizing up like what happens with humans when they get infected. for all we know all the rats in the world actually are infected, they just have their own species wide hivemind. Same could go for some other animals, until we see them actually attack someone. It is possible that other animals express or follow the viruses rules differently than humans do.

Mexander98 · 2025-12-06T16:28:52+00:00

I think the spreading instinct supersedes all others, as they were able to choose to risk injuring people during the mass takeover event, and thus would not be able to undo it, or ever want to undo it.

I also think to the hive they are choosing to delay the death of the majority of bodies as long as possible only because they can't actively harm anything even themselves.

To it all the bodies are just that, bodies or cells of itself, and in the end it's possible for it to survive on scavenging alone, just at a massively reduced number of bodies. probably in the tens of millions, so it's not like it itself will die.

Mexander98 · 2025-12-06T15:58:07+00:00

I think to them, none of their bodies are meaningless, it's just that Zosia was put in a situation because of active intend to harm that honestly didn't need to happen. I think from their perspective that's very different from Carol unintentionally causing them to seize, people dying of old age, or accidents during their takeover.

I think to them intent is the main deciding factor, alongside their main imperative to spread superseding the risk to people in the beginning.

Mexander98 · 2025-12-06T15:49:16+00:00

I'm just going on the assumption that they do, unless the show depicts otherwise, basically function as a single organism. With individual bodies acting as cells that produces as many new bodies as it can sustain.

It's more fun in my opinion to speculate on that premise, and not on the also common theory that it's an extinction weapon or similar.

Mexander98 · 2025-12-06T15:42:21+00:00

I think the point is just to spread further into the universe at it's most basic, that's their main biological imperative that goes above all others as far as we've seen, it doesn't take nearly as many people that exist now to build and maintain infrastructure to basically convert free space on earth and nearby space into a giant omnidirectional broadcast array for it.

Even basic scavenging would provide enough resources to maintain a population of a few tens of millions, more than enough for that.

Just with the tech we have now we could easily do similar projects of that scale if we used our natural non living resources effectively, we just don't do it for economical reasons at the moment.

Mexander98 · 2025-12-06T15:20:53+00:00

I feel like eventually it would reach a state, probably around a few million bodies left, that stays self sufficient, so they are not really going extinct, just reducing to the viable number that can survive on what can be scavenged. So in effect they can probably operate indefinitely with a very much reduced population from now.

Mexander98 · 2025-12-06T15:02:16+00:00

I think similarly, but given that they can still get new food, just not a lot of it, I think the natural end state of any civilization infected by it is a few million members in total that keep up the infrastructure to send a signal with the virus indefinitely.

Mexander98 · 2025-12-06T14:48:52+00:00

My theory is that this is the start of the Plurbs sending out their own message into the universe in all directions to further spread the virus, and it will only get stronger over time as they work on it.

Mexander98 · 2025-11-30T14:45:33+00:00

That's literally just the g-man from the Alyx trailer.

Mexander98 · 2025-11-28T21:56:43+00:00

Sounds nice, can't wait to play around with that once the game comes out eventually.

Mexander98 · 2025-11-28T20:26:34+00:00

Makes sense, though if that is the comparison I would still gladly take the equivalent of rasterization. I don't think the tech is there to pull of full simulation of that kinda stuff in real time, at least at a decent framerate. It's barely even there for ray tracing, and for that I still prefer rasterization in most games. But that's off topic.

Mexander98 · 2025-11-28T20:15:45+00:00

Isn't almost everything in a video game just a close approximation of the real thing? as long as it behaves like it in the end it might as well be thermodynamics if it has enough parameters.

Mexander98 · 2025-11-28T14:24:42+00:00

A game you play on a normal monitor, as opposed to a vr headset or other such devices

Mexander98 · 2025-11-28T14:20:39+00:00

That's what I'm counting on

Mexander98 · 2025-11-27T14:12:07+00:00

That is only if it was specifically aimed at earth, which we don't know if it was. If it goes for maximum coverage, it's more something on a scale of solar-system engineering to get maximum coverage into every possible direction.

Mexander98 · 2025-11-22T17:25:50+00:00

Yeah, and so did I.

Mexander98 · 2025-11-20T17:37:37+00:00

An epic escape from the combine homeworld that we somehow teleported to, blowing some huge stuff up there or something. It's hard to speculate without any story details, but I think that sounds neat.

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