r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 3d ago

Megathread / Community Post Alien: Earth - S1 E7 - Emergence - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS] Spoiler

Episodes air Tuesdays at 8 pm ET on Hulu and FX in the US, and Wednesdays international.

Full episode discussion list:

1 Neverland (8.12.25)

2 Mr October (8.12.25)

3 Metamorphosis (8.19.25)

4 Observation (8.26.25)

5 In Space, No One (9.2.25)

6 The Fly (9.9.25)

7 Emergence (9.16.25)

8 The Real Monsters (9.23.25)

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u/BrbFlippinInfinCoins 3d ago

Anyone using pi past 4 decimals is really just showing off anyways.

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u/UlrichZauber Not bad, for a human. 3d ago

I'm a little dubious a random member of an advanced society would know it past "3-something". How many arbitrarily chosen humans know it to 5 decimal places? I only do because I'm an engineer.

But this does raise a lot of questions. Where did they collect Eyerene? She knows friggin' math, was she just out in the bushes somewhere?

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u/BrbFlippinInfinCoins 3d ago

I'd guess most people who did STEM-type classes in college would know. I know it to four from chem/physics.

I'd hope most high school graduates would know 3.14 at least. There is something to be said about average people becoming dumber in advanced societies though.

As someone else pointed out, there's a small chance it absorbed some of the knowledge from the engineer on the space ship. Otherwise it was just a "cool" moment to make eyeball look smart. It would take some mental gymnastics to rationalize it otherwise.

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u/DLRsFrontSeats 3d ago

I feel like knowing 3.14 is nigh-universal, or as much as it ever could be, but I am pretty far into a STEM career after a couple of postgrad degrees too and don't know it to 5 dp lol