Nacarbac [any]

It’s a typo, they meant Zetan. The Zetan male busy flying their little UFO, stealing cows, because they’re on such a high level their actions are incomprehensible to mere pyramid-males.

I don’t know necessarily that a tree is actually sentient but if we seriously consider it, perhaps that might lead to better environmental conservation practices as a matter of ethics.

They most likely are not sentient, as we currently understand or can perceive, though the complexity of the networks formed within a forest might, might, allow for something like it in aggregate. Consciousness is deeply strange, for something that should be so familiar.

But as Angel says, here it’s just a paralytic deflection. Like saying that eating plants is stealing from the animals that could eat them, therefore we’re already sinners, therefore we might as well sin some more.

I guess they finally decided to go harder on the Earth Defence Force angle.

I think the text is misrepresenting - he didn’t specify humanoid in the quote. But running with it to try and speculate, hm, a humanoid bodyplan would be compatible with (the few) existing technologies and infrastructure - and as long as it isn’t limited to following human functionality for the limbs (especially in space or underwater) then it’s just a multiarmed drone that happens to fit in an acceleration couch or whatever. Not sure that’s enough of a benefit unless you intend actual humans to follow after.

I guess it’d also be a good visual stunt to have a humanoid do stuff? At least for orbital and underwater stuff it could even be teleoperated in an immersive VR style - signal lag would make it a bit dreamlike, but having a humanoid automata build a sandcastle on the Moon or explore a habitat being printed by specialised drones would be extremely cool.

I remember Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t being a good channel. A person who got really into botany in jail, wandering around showcasing local flora and often discussing the social collapse and poor urban planning in evidence.