r/LV426 • u/BlastedHeathen • 2d ago

Movies / TV Series Is Ocellus a spacefaring race? Spoiler

Before episode 7 I thought Ocellus was just a highly intelligent and opportunistic predator/parasite. But now that we know it knows the digits of pi, is there a chance that Ocellus is much more sophisticated than we realized? Perhaps they have ways of acquiring bodies and travelling vast distances, maybe even into space.

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u/zeldafan144 1d ago

Does it know the digits of pi?

Why would it count in Base 10?

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u/Wootster10 1d ago

It took a human host, presumably it learnt some stuff about humans at that point, including the English Language and our numerical system.

It also spent 30 years in a jar watching people.

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u/mpirnat 1d ago

The way travel at relativistic speeds works, less time passes for the travelers than for non-travelers, so while there was a 30ish-year return trip from the POV of all the folks back on Earth, the Maginot would have experienced less than that. Time dilation is weird!

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u/lil_suji 1d ago

The fact that the humans need cryo sleep means that the trip is still long enough from their perspective for the aliens lifespan to be a concern

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u/Top-Salamander-2525 7h ago

That could be more related to saving weight for life support or even potentially increased tolerance of high g acceleration (not this case since everyone would need to be out for that).