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Pluribus is disappointing (Season 1 spoilers)
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this is some rationalist BS, you don't even know there's a third planet with life, or that the signal would be detected by a compatible life form, or that they would be careless enough to synthesize the dna and have it break containment like the people in the lab fucking up on protocol.
Its not rationalist BS. When you decide to have a "sci-fi" show like this, making the zombie virus even attempt to spread via interspace transmission means it's a malevolent force.
There are no more arguments in support of the plurb. They will virtually all die out, consume most of their energy on transmitting a virus that wipes human-like specieses out and then stagnate endlessly or go extinct. Its why the show ends on a triumphant cliffhanger where carol teams up with manousos to "save the world" with an atom bomb.
This show is about zombies not a hivemind (or is it a zombie hivemind?)
If there can be 2 it's pretty likely that there's 3 (and by extension, an arbitrarily large amount). The difficult thing is figuring out what the odds are that planet 3 wasn't already reached by planet 1, because that's the narrow slice that you can actually affect by stopping the plurbs.
I think that from Manousos POV it makes sense to do this though. If humans have souls that make us have value, and the souls are taken away by joining, what value is there in the lifeform of the plurbs that ought to be considered? There's not really any value to them because he sees them as soulless.