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Stranded On An Alien World

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Athena's Choices

She doesn't speak their language and actually doesn't have all the right hardware to do so, as it appears to be a mix of yips, barks and high-tempo leg-tapping but signs and gestures work a bit. In practice, she is assuming her fleet's home base is eventually going to send an investigation out but she's not sure if anyone else survived or just happened to have had the good luck to land on this planet. She can't even tell them yet that she's not a god and she's not so sure she should try. They might assume she's a demon instead and they're not really philosophically advanced enough to have a former theology on what

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