the one huge and quite funny flaw with that idea is that queens have absolutely jackshit power over a colony, if anything the queen of a colony is basically a slave that gets constantly pampered and directed by the workers with no free will whatsoever.
If we met an alien hive-mind species it’d probably be much like interacting with a military, just much more tightly integrated and profoundly devoid of corruption, imagine HAL 9000 but made up of a million people working together to run the computations.
So they’d likely work tirelessly to figure out what precisely we are, if they determine we’re a threat they’d attack without mercy, and if they determine they can benefit from cooperation with us they’d be the best ally we could ever imagine albeit extremely manipulative.
frezik@midwest.social 8 months ago
It’s fine, we’ll train a ten year old prodigy to kill their entire race.
kautau@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I just want to state on the record that the book is a short read and extremely better than the movie and that anyone here who hasn’t read Enders Game, should do so.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 months ago
I thought the movie did a pretty good job tbh. It’s just that Ender’s internal monologue is so important to the novel that it’s hard to translate that into a film.
Of course, I also blame Ender’s Game for every shitty YA series having a War Academy arc, so I just don’t care about its legacy that much.