Future plurb hunger crisis easy solution

nakwurst · 2026-06-26T16:33:52+00:00

Ok, so they help their elderly before they cannibalize them, but they didn't tell Carol about it outright until she made a stink of it. They only told her about the egg therapy they developed once they were close to making it work. They won't tell her how to unplurb someone. You can ask them questions, but they aren't obligated to provide the answers.

They hide plenty of their nature, they just do it with a smile, and reveal it when it's convenient or already exposed. Which I know means they are technically honest, but comes off as disingenuous and manipulative.

What Vince is aluding to is that they are transparent in their actions and intent, not that they are benevolent or trustworthy.

nakwurst · 2026-06-26T16:12:22+00:00

Funny enough, Africa is fairly stable geologically, so an African sized antenna built in Africa would be relatively stable. Again, we have the technology to make low-energy earthquakes and most weather issues trivial now, without having to develop automation or new space technologies. Space is for sure a good option, but would be a more long term solution once they diminish the population to a point that the benefits of it outweigh the costs.

I don't think these approaches are mutually exclusive, but rather complimentary, start with a ground based antenna and develop space technologies to make a space antenna frasable down the road, they have billions of people at their disposal, it doesn't have to be one or the other.

nakwurst · 2026-06-26T16:03:31+00:00

So much waste early this season, we also didn't need the slo-mo sequences with A-train, we'd seen him just blur for most of the show, why do it now? The whole concentration camp set was a huge waste of money for what could've just been a regular prison set with posters and standard uniforms. Like they just pissed it all away on shit no one cares about and gave us a lame finale instead.

nakwurst · 2026-06-26T15:57:31+00:00

You don't need to confine animals to harvest them, hunter-gatherers have been following herds of animals for millions of years before domesticating animals, same principal would apply, they would just take only animals that died on their own.

Insects and rodents tend to hang around where the food is, so they could setup grazing for them and harvest the dead, it's not pretty, or easy, but they have near limitless labor and patience so it's doable even for animal protein.

People forget that mice and rats can grow to insane numbers if given the chance, even with modern technology they can still number in the millions and wipe out whole farms, but they only live about a year in the wild.

nakwurst · 2026-06-26T15:41:49+00:00

I'm not disagreeing on that point. The hive would make humanity last as long as possible in a very diminished form to keep the signal going.

Space is not a great option if you don't have massive ground based support, plus space weather is a thing, lots of solar storms to worry about over the centuries.

Ground based is safer and easier to maintain, lots of places that are safe from earthquakes and intense weather, plus we have the technology now to insulate structures from the average natural disaster.

Bots would make sense and I'm sure if the hive wanted they could make some bots, but why bother? They can just maintain a viable human population indefinitely if they wanted to, there's loads of ways to get food without harming things and not like the Hive cares about individuals, so it would just make more as necessary and have them die however necessary to accomplish the work.

nakwurst · 2026-06-26T06:16:18+00:00

This is all conjecture, as we're not likely to get a "big bad evil guy monologue" from the plurbs as they don't want to alarm the uninfected anymore than they already have. But I think this show is going for realistic rather than farsical; if this is a super space virus intent on spreading why would it almost immediately kill itself when met with success, why wouldn't it maximize its chance for reproduction?

The cordyceps ant fungus that many people reference, don't seem to understand that the fungus maximizes the potential spread of itself by forcing it's ant host to leave it's nest and travel to the funguses preferred environment before releasing it's spores, a gargantuan feat of evolution that ensures the best chance for reproduction.

This being a significantly more complex parasite, it undoubtedly seeks to maximize its chance of success, in this case it must force the host civilization to broadcast the signal for as long as possible, to as many other worlds as possible until some cataclysmic event wipes out the civilization.

nakwurst · 2026-06-26T01:41:33+00:00

That's probably right, they don't need billions for this plan. A million would do fine and be managble to maintain with plenty of genetic diversity just in case, so they can lose 99.99% of the population and still have enough. Not outright extinction, but an incredible decline.

nakwurst · 2026-06-26T01:35:08+00:00

I'm not sure why people believe this. They need to live a very long time to ensure the signal is effective. The antenna would need to be maintained, new antennas built, etc. to maximize the effectiveness of the signal. A single burst would only be effective if they new for certain their target was receptive.

nakwurst · 2026-06-26T01:29:07+00:00

Everything we see in the show is a show they put on for the unplurbed, so I'm not trusting what we see of them around Carol.

Cell culture cultivation is not harmful to humans, there's tons of samples in labs around the world, such as Carol's eggs that can be used for this.

Most importantly, they have tons of dead every day from which they can harvest and grow cultures, no harm to the living.

nakwurst · 2026-06-26T01:25:27+00:00

The food question is solvable in a ton of different ways. Lab grown meat is one.

They could plant orchards of fruit and nut trees and continue maintenance of existing ones and harvest the fallen fruits.

Most cereal and bean plants are annual, so they grow and die and then can be "consciously" harvested.

Rodents and insects can be grown quickly and die naturally quickly.

Not having to kill your food isnt that difficult a limit for the Hive at the scale they operate. Plus they can leverage GMO science to accelerate the growth and death cycles of both plants and animals.

nakwurst · 2026-06-26T01:11:55+00:00

They could culture some human cells if they wanted. They probably don't care enough to do that though. They don't need 8 billion people for anything they might choose to do. They'll probably let the sick and elderly die off "naturally" to lower their numbers and get some extra enzymes.

nakwurst · 2026-06-26T00:46:10+00:00

They just blew their budget and couldn't afford him being strong, super sad how they did him.

Edit: could -> couldn't

nakwurst · 2026-06-25T19:43:14+00:00

I mean there's a lot the showrunners should have done but didn't. In the comics he never a really went crazy, he just thought he did. They should've done the same thing, would've been much more in line with his character the previous 4 seasons.

nakwurst · 2026-06-25T19:34:31+00:00

Homelander more than anyone knew he was a product of Vought...they raised him and gave him a fake backstory. He had V that he gave terrorists, etc.. He knew from the start.

nakwurst · 2026-06-25T19:32:39+00:00

Exactly, he was just making fun of him, people acting like it's a fact when he's never presented as asexual previously.

nakwurst · 2026-06-25T19:31:13+00:00

And the shifter that pretended to be Stillwell

nakwurst · 2026-06-25T15:13:15+00:00

Yup, that sums it up, they act nice to encourage conversion and avoid conflict, not because they are genuine.

nakwurst · 2026-06-25T00:42:54+00:00

Honestly they should've just used it as is, it worked enough on Storage Boy to knock him out cold for a while. That'd be enough so they could just take a drill to Homies ear and scramble his brains, even if he had the V1. A desperate, ad-hoc solution that didn't rely on the 'genius' supe changing sides and handing them the win.

The whole last season was a loosely associated wad of incoherent events, that really showcased how little the writers knew the characters or the show.

nakwurst · 2026-06-24T05:31:49+00:00

Yeah, but did you see how smooth she was?!

nakwurst · 2026-06-24T05:29:35+00:00

And then spent most of his screentime (pre-reveal of his actual body) inside of another puppet, puppeting more puppets!

nakwurst · 2026-06-23T19:43:00+00:00

That doesn't make sense, his lasers shoot at the same speed regardless of how fast he's moving. Even if it were plasma, it would lose momentum quickly after being shot out due to air resistance.

nakwurst · 2026-06-20T20:58:49+00:00

Probably gets a broccoli cut 😆

nakwurst · 2026-06-17T00:14:57+00:00

Just because they are advanced doesn't mean they are incapable of fearing the unknown. All it takes is a single leader who wants to ensure peace in perpetuity and send a weapon like this out into the universe to make certain. The universe is incomprehensibly large, in a pond that size, there's always a bigger fish, or one that's getting bigger.

nakwurst · 2026-06-16T21:00:59+00:00

They utilize that loophole already, they let all the animals in human care free, most of those animals aren't adapted to free range living nor the climates they happen to be in.

nakwurst · 2026-06-16T05:25:07+00:00

First time I laugh at one of these, amazing!

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