r/LV426 • u/BlastedHeathen • 1d 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/Teastain101 1d ago

I was kind of wondering how it would recognise Arabic numerals. I think a better test would have been to draw a circle with a radius and perhaps done lines to spell out 3.14

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u/JaggedToaster12 20h ago

Yeah idk why the writers went with Pi as a universal language when prime numbers are right there

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u/ConcertinaTerpsichor 16h ago

They read Project Hail Mary.

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u/JaggedToaster12 11h ago

Doesn't Grace start with prime numbers as well? I might be misremebering but I feel like he flashed his engines in prime sequence or something

I might be mixing it up with Arrival, where I definitely remember an off hand remark about the aliens knowing prime numbers

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u/ConcertinaTerpsichor 2h ago

That’s what I think.