strawman wrote:Yeah, it is kinda like an awkward LGBT product placement.
But beyond pointlessness, it raises the rather relevant question: if you are specifically aiming to populate the universe, sending LGBT's would be the ultimately stupid way to do it.
It was odd to me, initially. But I took the 'boy-girl' thing as aspect of the alien's extreme frankness and robot'esque 'data in' thought process. I also didn't think it necessarily implied homosexuality, as much as hermaphroditic / androgynous anatomy. Either way, it sounded like transformations were in store for survivors: the alien was capable of assuming human form, presumably through technology, and the reason adults weren't being transported is that they were too set in their ways. It could be a mission to grab humans less as prep for future 'repopulating' more as prep for physiological 'conversions.'
tbaker2500 wrote:But why, exactly, were the aliens teaching us how to survive and sending us to far away places? Is it because our infrastructure was knocked out?
I don't think there was an immediate apocalypse taking place; I understood the loss of electricity as a result of the transport laser being used. The grim view the alien held of humanity and future depopulation was (I'd assume) a projection based on our specie's lack of 'survival knowledge.' My takeaway was this was a calculated attempt at eugenics. Maybe the followup to historic panspermia.