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I mean, just as we assume all life must be carbon based, they may assume all life is mechanical so petrification only coats them from the toxic oxygen that degrades their physical form. In fact, it does the same to us, but on a different scale. Oxidation is, after all, the cause of free radicals which are harmful to the human body. Then again, they did mention that the most intelligent examples of the petrified host species are the first to break out of petrification and them they are grateful for the chance at eternal life, and that they were partially slow to break out. I don't see how intelligence correlates to randomly being exposed to nitric acid to undo the petrification. What I did find as farfetched was the thing they said about headdress feathers serving as antennas to amplify the sound of polishing rocks so it arrived to the moon as radio waves.

I don't see how intelligence correlates to randomly being exposed to nitric acid to undo the petrification. It has been mentioned since season one that staying awake and thinking "consumes" the petrification so that only nitric acid is required to undo it, instead of the more chemically complex revival fluid. By that logic, it's safe to assume that an even higher and more intense brain activity would undo the petrification faster and without even the nitric acid.

I think that could be it in a way. I think the expected progression is the parasite finds an intelligent species, petrifies them all, then waits for the smartest to naturally unpetrify. Then the intelligent species finds out how this leads to immortality and decides to petrify themselves willingly forever, existing as an immobile but thinking being. Like Senku though, I am curious on what the plan is to help the parasite maintain itself. I guess not everyone has to petrify themselves all at once. But man, for a species/creation so advanced, how do they not think of direct communication? They know English and Japanese. They know measurements of time and distance. Why not announce their whole plan to a target civilization and let them take it?

But man, for a species/creation so advanced, how do they not think of direct communication? They know English and Japanese. They know measurements of time and distance. Why not announce their whole plan to a target civilization and let them take it? They see it as a very self-evident truth. To them the mass petrification is a sale's pitch. They show their "product" and then suddenly every last member of the host species is 100% dedicated to creating more Medusas and maintaining those which exist. Really the biggest issue seems to be that human brains leave a lot to be desired when compared to the "average" intelligent species so instead of a short while it took millennia for even our greatest minds to unpetrify.

I assumed someone froze the people on earth to protect them from some sort of catastrophe/threat since freeze people then do nothing didn't make much sense. Why Man was some basic AI overseer program that was on low battery that was struggling to cover the unexpected, like it was too soon to start unpetrifying people. Basically trying to communicate "Why are you unpetrifying you're going to get yourselves killed.", but wasn't programmed to communicate so it did it badly. Still left a lot of unexplained though since they could have just repetrified the earth with a single medusa.

The petrification = immortality thing is interesting because while petrified you can still think. So technically speaking it is a form of immortality. Theoretically not even breaking a statue would cause permanent death if they stay awake. Death is only confirmed when they are unpetrified and if all their pieces are not in the correct places to support flesh and blood life. But for humans communicating and collaboration is so intrinsically linked to being alive and advancement that petrification is the next closest thing to death. Which Whyman didn’t understand. They were looking for a lifeform that would be content to live in their own head for eternity. So that when they worked through the petrification process naturally (like Senku and Xeno did), they would immediately try to seek to be re-petrified again. And would create and maintain more medusas in the process.

I think that's what "different" about other intelligent lifeforms and humans. I suppose the other ones that why-man-chans have come across are individually more intelligent, their societies are based on individual effort and they may have lifespans more than we can ever imagine. While the human society is more "passing down". That's why a more intelligent life may prefer living in their own head for forever and for us its literal torture

Aliens was definitely in my cards but actually seeing it and reaching this point feels surreal. And seeing their actions that affected this whole show throughout was kinda insane too. I had similar thoughts as Chrome at first, thinking they’re some sort of conservation tool from other alien race to stop us killing ourselves. But pretty ironic now that the mechanical beings are afraid of dying while the organic being is basically immortal. But still, being mechanical may imply they have creators somewhere out there. Curious to know what Senku wants. My basic guess is knowledge. Surely they know things much more advanced. Even the petri-beam we don’t know how it works and exactly what it does. But again, pretty surreal how we’re reaching the end of this series. How many episodes are left ? I remember trying this series out right as it aired

It annoyed me that Senku was using idiomatic expressions, words and phrases whose meaning is primarily cultural. It's the difference between "connotation" and "denotation" in nerd speak, with the former being "scoring an own goal" and the latter being "why did you sabotage yourself?" One requires knowledge of soccer and an understanding that sportsball speak is used in general conversation outside of any game, and the other is what you are actually trying to communicate. Whenever you are negotiating with someone from a different cultural, particularly one that doesn't even share your native language, you have to be very careful to prune these "colorful" sayings out of your speech. Because even if a Chinese businessman you are trying to strike a deal with can speak perfect English, they might take offense if you say something like "this is a no-brainer!" "No-brain? Is he saying I'm stupid for suggesting this plan?" Idioms are all culturally rooted, and there are far more of them than we typically realize: they are just "normal" to the native speaker, but confuse outsiders who aren't familiar with them. The truth is, there are so many layers to any given conversation that we largely take for granted. The show has been very careful with the science-talk, but less so with the greater details (the main cast are all superhuman.) But this is ultimately just a work of fiction, for entertainment, so I can just barely let it slide.

Because even if a Chinese businessman you are trying to strike a deal with can speak perfect English, they might take offense if you say something like "this is a no-brainer!" "No-brain? Is he saying I'm stupid for suggesting this plan?" Idioms are all culturally rooted, and there are far more of them than we typically realize: they are just "normal" to the native speaker, but confuse outsiders who aren't familiar with them. Unfortunately, that level of self-awareness for anything related to language requires a nice amount of critical thinking, much more commonly found in people whose professions demand high linguistic awareness, law, translation, interpretation, etc. If aliens ever make worldwide contact with us, we'd make a blunder by bringing politicians or average scientists who don't have strong communication skills. Senku badly needed a wordsmith there.

If aliens ever make worldwide contact with us, we'd make a blunder by bringing politicians or average scientists who don't have strong communication skills. Senku badly needed a wordsmith there. cough Gen cough The author did have some awareness of this, as Gen did coach Senku into approaching Why-Man. Solid advice, at that, as Gen pointed out that an exchange of gifts is universally customary in diplomatic situations... Which likely gave Senku the last piece of the puzzle to suggest offering the diamonds and jump starting negotiations. But then Senku proceeded to ignore everything else Gen tried to say. Basically, the above (linguistic awareness for high-level diplomacy) was invoked only to be immediately discarded, for comedic effect. Which is a large part of why it rubs me the wrong way.

I have watched bunch of anime but they are mostly battle shonen, they don't necessarily have to be action oriented as i have enjoyed vinland saga season 2 and frieren, i am not a slice of life fan either but i really enjoyed spy x family and kaguya sama so i guess i have a mixed taste. From years now i have been watching anime weekly season to season, there alway have been something that have keep me occupied in last 4 years but it looks like that's gonna change since final 6 month of 2025 looks dry af (only thing i will be watching that will be airing is rezero after it comes back from break.) That said i already have few ideas to keep me occupied, I am not alway kept up with every seasonal anime, i have heard good things about sentenced to be hero, witch hatlier (i am butchering that name) and there is a anime called daemon or something written by fmab author, all of these are recent anime i have missed so i will probably watch these to fill space.

In terms of non-sequel action series, some notable ones next season are The Ghost in the Shell remake, Black Torch and Recommendation from Iwamoto-senpai. Sparks of Tomorrow, A Witch in Mongolia, Though I Am an Inept Villainess, Sayonara Lara and World Is Dancing will probably all be great. final 6 month of 2025 well, we barely know anything about fall shows so don't rule it out just yet. and there is a anime called daemon or something written by fmab author It's called Daemons of the Shadow Realm. It's is actually 2 cours, so it'll continue until the end of summer.

Noted, thank you for the recommedation, i have heard good things about classic the ghost in the shell anime and i have alway wanted to check it out, i will try it out before watching the remake later on, i will also check the rest out eventually. Yes it was Daemons of the Shadow Realm, that was the one, it has interested me but i haven't had the time to check it out, it's good to know that it still going on, i will try to pick it up in the next few week and catch up to weekly schedule for it if i can.

We assumed they're technologically more advanced, but that just doesn't seem to be true other than their mineral body. They didn't bring any outside technology outside of their inherent ability to petrify. They have 2000+ years to wait, but they didn't develop anything. Meanwhile it took 10 years-ish for human to build rocket from scratch. You said that human is practically immortal, but whymen could live in space for thousand of years. The reason they died was only due to oxygen or if their diamond deteriorate or broken. According to other redditor, it could take million of years to deteriorate.

Even then, while petrified, you can't protect yourself from a chaotic world. I'm honestly surprised so many statues 'survived,' as what happens when a tree falls on top of you? Or the building you are in collapses? Or an avalanche? Earthquake? Etc. etc. etc. Even on a stable environment like the Moon, there are meteorite impacts. There is no atmosphere to burn up the little meteors, and as mentioned in the show, the Moon acts as a bit of a meteor magnet catching strays that were originally pulled towards the Earth. While petrified, life is technically eternal, but it is also eternally at the mercy of it's chaotic environment.

I'm honestly surprised so many statues 'survived,' Eh, there's still like 8 billion+ people before the petrification device (due to the modern setting), and I'm pretty sure around a million people have been de-petrified or maybe less, since the anime never showed them making an automated or sprinkler type de-petrification device. So you its pretty much assumed that they had a bottle of the de-petrification serum that was used to de-petrify everyone to this point. And I know that hoses are shown in the show, but I feel like them making one for the de-petrification serum would at least have its own scene to tell the viewer.

Thats kinda the point, tho, the petrification heals so much , and they dont age , could be a "plot hole" but maybe they dont think of aging as something that needs fix , but they should ? , or maybe the petrification is slowing or stoping aging for some time? like a petrification every couple years keeps you at your current age. But also as humans being petrified is not living and well, clearly the point the author points on this episode.

Yes and no. "Aging" is actually believed to be DNA degradation. It's not just the cumulation of mutations over the course of your lifetime (most are pruned out, but occasionally some fall through the cracks of your immune system and are preserved), but the corruption of the "caps" to our chromosomes, the telomeres, that make copying themselves harder and harder. So to truly prevent age-related deaths would be to heal the telomeres. If that can be done, further decay can be prevented and life becomes largely eternal... except for the mutations I mentioned. And it's not just a few. Over the course of 70 years, a person will accumulate around ~2,000 mutations, largely from accidents that happen during cell division that aren't immediately 'caught' by your immune system. Cancer is the main killer here, but this is also why having kids at a later age is more "dangerous." Most mutations are in bodily cells, but you also accumulate mutations in your junk. Well, men do, at least, as a women are born with all the sex cells they'll ever have. Sperm is constantly produced, and the sperm of a 90 year old man is going to be loaded with more mutations that can affect the viability of his offspring. So what happens when a 1,000 year old ma, constantly rejuvenated by the Medusa, has a kid? Plus, women and reproduction... is the petrification going to replace her full set of sex cells she had at birth? That would mean an old woman that was awakened from petrification would get her period again... and potentially have some more kids with grandpa. At what point do the cumulative mutations just break someone down completely? To repair the "dna damage," you'd need to have a baseline snapshot of someone's DNA to reset all the mutations. And if that was possible, then natural evolution would largely break down. EXISTING genes could be reshuffled, but no new genes would be 'created.' Evolution would be largely artificial and controlled via laboratory settings. But I seriously doubt we were supposed to look that deep into this cartoon comedy (forgive the alliteration, my fellow weebs!) about parasitic alien machine intelligences.

From how they were surprised that humanity took thousands of years to unpetrify we can assume it is much faster for other alien species they've encountered right? If so then most other species probably don't lose conciousness which means they'll probably de-petrify semi-regularly on their own. That would mean they continue to think and whenever they de-petrify they can do whatever tasks are needed to keep their industrial civilization going. If said tasks only take a small amount of time and petrification cures aging then they would be functionally immortal.

The plot hole is moreso just the medusas' greatly overestimating humans. Since they were thinking humans would somehow be able to break out of petrification a lot sooner. But then again, I'm sure even they didn't know the use of nitric acid would be needed to get out. Or maybe it takes an insanely smart individual to passively create brainwaves in order to break out themselves (like rivaling Dr.Who or Rick Sanchez brain waves).

The scene where "Senku" asks Kohaku to release the Medusa then suddenly Stanley grabs her hand with a panicked look on his eyes was actually a pretty terrifying scene. It made me wish the mystery of Why-Man lasted a little bit more until the end of the episode. So it turns out that Why-Man is actually the Medusa itself . And it's not just a single entity; they're a cluster of mechanical parasites who wanted to use humans to help them propagate in exchange for eternal life, aka the petrification beam. But it sounds like they overestimated humanity and thought we were advanced enough to understand what they were trying to do, and were so confused at humanity's response to the petrification beam. That explains the "Why?" message they initially got. Damn. So, in the end, the entire thing is just a massive misunderstanding between two species? Honestly? Fair. If an armada of UFOs arrived on Earth today, we'd struggle to understand them. It's even more difficult with the Why-Men since they're mechanical creatures that defy our science. This meeting of two alien species was doomed from the start. I don't know what Senku will try to do , but I hope he can convince the Why-Men to leave and find a new host.

If an armada of UFOs arrived on Earth today, we'd struggle to understand them. I'd like to believe that any sufficiently advanced enough species to traverse the cosmos understands the immense value of scouting and intel gathering first. They would decode our languages, study deeply our history and realize that we're too fragmented as a species, so they should change their approach for contact. Contacting individual govs wouldn't be good if they're shrewd. Either make a worldwide declaration so no one can hide the info, or infiltrate slowly by talking to individuals and not institutions.

I mean, the whole concept of diplomacy, tactful approach, governments and institutions is very very human, and not necessarily a condition for "intelligence", whatever the definition of intelligence is to aliens. If we assume intelligent thought being reduced, only to purely logical endeavours around resource management, for the preservation and expansion of a species, including the technological development required for such endeavors (like knowledge about electromagnetic phenomena), then showing the petrification outright, is like shoving a fridge to a group of cavemen: The finite resource that is life, like food, can now be put in the fridge for preservation.

If we assume intelligent thought being reduced, only to purely logical endeavours around resource management, for the preservation and expansion of a species, including the technological development required for such endeavors (like knowledge about electromagnetic phenomena), then showing the petrification outright, is like shoving a fridge to a group of cavemen: Instead they didn't show the fridge, they put the cavemen into one. Like I don't see a reason why the couldn't have went the fragmented approach like they did with the second try on the island from the start. If just a couple thousand random people got petrified the collective humanity would've figure it out way faster.

Perhaps they themselves aren't that much advanced, but used to seeing general behavior of intelligence species. Humans fall quite low or someone said, outliers, in the spectrum. I mean if they're themselves intelligent, they'd have figure out to do more things than they can't, limbs and stuffs, extraction and develop diamonds themselves. They're called parasites as literally parasites behave, leach off other beings. Though we give them a degree of some level of intelligence for they can communicate and radio waves, a sign of intelligence ig. PS: It's just how much capable is of their own intelligence? Or could it be that the more intelligent you are, you miss out the average etiquettes?

But it sounds like they overestimated humanity and thought we were advanced enough to understand what they were trying to do, and were so confused at humanity's response to the petrification beam. That explains the "Why?" message they initially got. I think that essentially they were wrong, it's not that we wouldn't understand them, it's just that we think uhhh "too slow" to undo the petrification on our own in a timely fashion. If they had just shot radio waves from the Moon and told the modern age scientists what their deal was first, nobody would be in this mess.