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Episode 6 is titled (in English) HDP. I saw a lot of discussion on reddit (but not here) that this stands for Human Derived Protein. Another post showed that the translations always match this in the target language. But in Arabic it’s apparently harder to make acronyms. So it turns out they just used the whole words. I guess this confirms the theory.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/eab895f8-a5bb-49e4-8d49-ac51b14d9358.jpeg
Also, incidentally. The pH of your body is about 7.4. This stuff was 7.1. Apparently a brain is about 7.2. It’s a bit off but my guess is that she saw brains. Her delayed reaction means it can’t have been something too obvious.
Possibly, but a lot of plants want to be eaten, for lack of a better phrase. Most fruiting plants reproduce by being eaten. You’re not killing a strawberry plant by eating the berry, you’re helping it
Plus if people are just eating each other then we’d only last 33 months. I don’t think that makes a lot of sense for an alien virus. Consider that whatever sent the signal knew enough to know our DNA. I think it’s reasonable to assume it has an idea of how many people are on the planet. If you wanted to wipe us out there are more efficient diseases and who knows how long it was going to take us to get the first person infected. It just seems short sighted for something presumably very intelligent