hitoner - Ch. 6 - The Hito Symposium Part 2

[DanielBR555]

I bet Hitoshi is so insistent on the regulations in order to avoid whatever happened to the Earth

 

[NotSomeone]

Love that they're like "wow, what could've made the Hito keep working on these rockets if they faced every single setback we also faced?"
War, the answer was war again, It's always fucking war.

 

[Chizan]

Love that they're like "wow, what could've made the Hito keep working on these rockets if they faced every single setback we also faced?"
War, the answer was war again, It's always fucking war.

And a leader not eager to cut anything and everything 'sciencey' they deem waste of tax money...

 

[Joviper]

I wonder what other kind of technological advancements were held back because everyone is a furry on that planet.

 

[HORRIOR]

I wonder what other kind of technological advancements were held back because everyone is a furry on that planet.

Probably indoor plumbing. Everything gets clogged by hair and I imagine they all have their own ways of dealing when the nature calls.

 

[Njin]

Unrelated to the chapter, but my headcanon is going to the direction that this story is a Planet of the Ape situation.

Honestly, I think the same. How high are the odds that there isn't just a planet hospitable to human life, but one that is comprised of exactly the same stuff? And they have stories about humans...
It's also simpler to assume Hitoshi has always been up there in orbit rather than travelling an absurd amount of light years without some kind of technical failure.
I think it might be earth after global warming or a planetary calamity wrecked human civilization. Hitoshi was sent to space to hibernate until the planet cooled down and life began again, with the AI sending him down once there was another sufficiently advanced civilization.
It's still odd that Hitoshi seemingly signed on for what appeared to be a suicide mission - even if we found another hospitable planet far away, most of us wouldn't be willing to leave behind our life and loved ones for the ghost of chance of reaching it, so Hitoshis life was either pretty bleak or there was a pressing reason.

Who knows... the Kemo might be the result of some kind of uplifting, with a focus on breeding out aggression, so they wouldn't go down the same path humanity did.

 

[Hermann]

Honestly, I think the same. How high are the odds that there isn't just a planet hospitable to human life, but one that is comprised of exactly the same stuff? And they have stories about humans...
It's also simpler to assume Hitoshi has always been up there in orbit rather than travelling an absurd amount of light years without some kind of technical failure.
I think it might be earth after global warming or a planetary calamity wrecked human civilization. Hitoshi was sent to space to hibernate until the planet cooled down and life began again, with the AI sending him down once there was another sufficiently advanced civilization.
It's still odd that Hitoshi seemingly signed on for what appeared to be a suicide mission - even if we found another hospitable planet far away, most of us wouldn't be willing to leave behind our life and loved ones for the ghost of chance of reaching it, so Hitoshis life was either pretty bleak or there was a pressing reason.

Who knows... the Kemo might be the result of some kind of uplifting, with a focus on breeding out aggression, so they wouldn't go down the same path humanity did.

Another theory that just came to me is that Hitoshi was maybe sent across the Milky Way to the other end of the galaxy, like through near the middle (where super massive black hole apparently resides). And well... that would take a very long time, but the galaxy also rotates in the mean time too. The time it would take for Hitoshi to reach the other side, perhaps it would be enough time for the galaxy to rotate and have the solar system end as his destination.
We're talking millions of years here, and enough for Kemos to evolve?

This came to me when I was reminded of this trivia that our solar system during the era of the dinosaurs was on the other side of our galaxy relative to us, today.

 

[chrno_12]

I didn't get the joke here...

 

[NotSomeone]

And a leader not eager to cut anything and everything 'sciencey' they deem waste of tax money...

It was just a dick measuring contest between US and USSR, science was just a bonus

 

[Xelarion]

I feel like the core message here is to not let someone else's tomorrow stop you from making today's important progress.
We won't see or reach a future with species that are not human if we cannot do so.

 

[Nemo2342]

Ah, so the kemo got their hands paws/claws/hooves/tentacles/hands again?/etc. on their very own Wernher von Braun?

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun

 

[kingarthur020500]

Surely if our boy can understand furry language and their ears can hear every sound within our vocal range they should be able to communicate without the paper. He's already learned their language they just have to learn something from our planet. They don't need to be able to speak it to understand it. The paper feels unnecessary.

 

[fight2live]

so the kemo haven't been super-obsessed with "how can i throw things even faster" like humans, huh? that's why they don't have firearms or propulsion engines