Stranded On An Alien World
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Importance of Being Humanoid
Athena is not aiming to take over this planet or be worshiped as a god after all. She knows the transmitter in her pod is broken because it says so along with how it's running out of power and she has no idea how to fix that any better than most of us would if the camera on our phone was clearly smashed. Her best chance might be to guide and teach these primitives into becoming a technological culture and letting them poke at the pod in several centuries when they get there. Not sure if the pod would still be useful by then or if she would still be functioning. He doesn't really look like the locals who are humanoid but not much more similar appearance beyond that
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