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  • Опубликовано: 26 мар 2024
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Комментарии • 137

  • @Volvith
    @Volvith 2 месяца назад +282

    _"Since it was extremely risky, it took a couple seconds before volunteers flooded the sign-up stations."_
    That got a laugh out of me.
    Nothing says Human like being asked to do something extremely stupid and dangerous, and answering with the utmost excitement and glee, damn near demanding participation.

  • @jokermorningstar5816
    @jokermorningstar5816 2 месяца назад +434

    so technically we have an hive mind on the internets, yes we´re constantly bickering and hating on each other, but may god have mercy on your soul because the Internet hasn´t if it finds out you´re commiting something like animal cruelty

    • @martinxy1291
      @martinxy1291 2 месяца назад +43

      Once a dark ass corner of this place gets spotted, it gets dogged on in mass.
      Even if the parties involved say they're done, the internet can't hear the bell and frankly it doesn't care

    • @thermal84
      @thermal84 2 месяца назад +9

      Country borders and politicians are the worst thing that ever happened to mankind.

    • @GrigoriZhukov
      @GrigoriZhukov 2 месяца назад +2

      Ain't no god/s.

    • @jewwinfrey6460
      @jewwinfrey6460 2 месяца назад +3

      That’s not the definition of a hive mind

    • @nematrec1
      @nematrec1 2 месяца назад

      That's more of an egalimind.

  • @edgeldine3499
    @edgeldine3499 2 месяца назад +71

    Humans can understand what a hive mind is as we have that on earth. Could a hive mind comprehend individuality?

    • @oliverdh
      @oliverdh 2 месяца назад +13

      There are hive minds on earth. Likewise, there may be individual minds on the aliens' planet.

    • @BurakkuHishou
      @BurakkuHishou 2 месяца назад +10

      This seems to be less of a case of individuality but more of a role-based structure. The alien more than likely has to learn to do everything themselves while humans specialize and then combine resources. Each human cannot understand the entirety, but understand enough of the highly specifics and then make operation easy for everyone else.

    • @jfast8256
      @jfast8256 2 месяца назад

      @@BurakkuHishou More than likely the alien does not. That is what a hive mind is, a shared intelligence controlled by 1 omega or "queen". A true hive mind doesn't actually exist as far as we have ever seen on our planet. Characteristics of a hive mind have been displayed especially in birds and ants. However, an actual hive mind is total science fiction and is generally desc..... wait..... forgive me..... you know what? Since actual hive mind is science fiction, it's whatever you want it to be. Most science fiction "more likely the alien does not." But maybe in your science fiction the alien DOES have to learn to do everything themselves.

    • @ShadOoWma
      @ShadOoWma Месяц назад +3

      Yes because a hive mind can conceive of itself as an individual to imagine how the concept works

    • @anelbegic2780
      @anelbegic2780 Месяц назад

      ​@@ShadOoWma
      But then what? A have mind always has a connection to other many other voices sharing opinions or all the information they know through biological or artificial means somehow.
      Have you ever seen what happeneds when you draw a circle around an ant, I imagine a hive mind species trying underatand individuality is something like that. It only goes so far before there is no way to communicate or know what to do anymore on it'a own.

  • @bossshun9
    @bossshun9 2 месяца назад +24

    Aliens: "You don't have a hive? How do you function?"
    Us: "We function just as you see us now. We stand together."
    This is hilarious, and I like how it is told. Bravo! 😎😎

    • @Enderwave22
      @Enderwave22 27 дней назад +3

      Aliens: *Millennia long buffering*

  • @mardus_ee
    @mardus_ee 2 месяца назад +107

    Diplomats are usually trained to hide their emotions, and show a mask. Having heard how the human diplomat is too emotional, and speaks in a very unguarded fashion, this human woman would not necessarily be fit for first contact.

    • @kazedcat
      @kazedcat 2 месяца назад +27

      It was considered a suicide mission and she was pick from human volunteers not a career diplomat.

    • @SovietReunionYT
      @SovietReunionYT 2 месяца назад +41

      This is first contact, not negotiations with an enemy country. The duplicity of career diplomats is why they're generally poorly regarded, much like lawyers. In this scenario humans are trying to make a good first impression, so it makes sense to send someone who inspires trust. The poker-faced diplomats are for when you want to scam your enemy during negotiations.

    • @maniacalanxiety
      @maniacalanxiety 2 месяца назад +20

      Adding to the comments above me, even if they were a career diplomat, they’d be stressed by alien first contact.

    • @Bbobsillypants
      @Bbobsillypants 2 месяца назад +2

      Basic speculative science fiction should be required reading for all interstellar diplomats profesional or not

    • @TemperateGreenBananaClassic
      @TemperateGreenBananaClassic Месяц назад

      yah she sucks

  • @ERBanmech
    @ERBanmech 2 месяца назад +82

    Oh I’ve heard this one, it’s super good and does really well to establish just how alien extraterrestrial life would be. Biology isn’t even the half of it the differences are on a deep conceptual level too.

  • @Ripsaw17
    @Ripsaw17 2 месяца назад +142

    The story was on another Channel they did two chapters of it and then they never finished it I hope you guys do more than two chapters cuz it's a really good story

    • @kortaykokturk9563
      @kortaykokturk9563 2 месяца назад +2

      what channel is that? Only channel I know that tells stories is this and I am looking for more.

    • @jj003333
      @jj003333 2 месяца назад +12

      ​​@kortaykokturk9563
      Agro squirrel narrates
      Net narrator
      .
      Both of these read their own story with real voices and they're both really good and very active.
      One of them is fresh out of voice surgery so his uploads are unpause but he's the better of the readers

    • @kortaykokturk9563
      @kortaykokturk9563 2 месяца назад +2

      @@jj003333you are the legend

    • @CherubielOne
      @CherubielOne 2 месяца назад

      @@kortaykokturk9563 You want to try Feathered Voices VA. They just did the first part of this series (among other HFY stuff) and it's the best narration you will find by a long shot.

    • @proudarmedreadytobugaloode6295
      @proudarmedreadytobugaloode6295 2 месяца назад

      Try a search of sci fi audiobooks

  • @Bespelled22
    @Bespelled22 2 месяца назад +46

    This reminds me of a story by CJ Cherryh involving a communication between species with very different ways of perceiving their own identities, sexuality, and individuality.

  • @baneblackguard584
    @baneblackguard584 2 месяца назад +113

    when we first meet an intelligent space-faring species, the main source of confusion, and wonder on the part of them, will boil down to one question: "how can you have learned so much about electro-magnetism and sub-atomic structures yet still be so confused about gravity that you think mass attracts other mass? "

    • @Attaxalotl
      @Attaxalotl 2 месяца назад +35

      We're the most brilliant dumbasses to ever crawl out of our pot of primordial soup is how.

    • @ordinaryfellow9093
      @ordinaryfellow9093 2 месяца назад +9

      @@Attaxalotl even more lucky to become the only intelligent species on earth alone, heck, we shouldn't even be the only sentient species in this planet.

    • @jfast8256
      @jfast8256 2 месяца назад +2

      @@ordinaryfellow9093 I don't think you meant to use the word "sentient". Basically you aren't alive if you're not sentient. I think what you meant is that humans are the only species on the planet that has a function in their brain that clearly formulates language so we can pass down ideas. We also weren't the only species to have that ability. We just happened to be the most bloodthirsty and war driven of all of the species that had that ability. We killed off every other species that could.
      I'm not anti-human btw. I know what I said comes off like some left wing environmentalist who wants to commit genocide on the entire human race, but I swear I'm not and that I just value truth. Even dark truth. We are lucky our ancestors were the way they were or else we wouldn't be here today.

    • @iamcurious9541
      @iamcurious9541 2 месяца назад +3

      ​@@ordinaryfellow9093 Are we, though? There are plenty of other species on our planets we know are extremely intelligent. Even ones that can communicate complex thoughts and can teach others.
      The only thing that really sets us apart is how good we are at making and using weapons.

    • @teoballo2947
      @teoballo2947 Месяц назад

      Lefties generally won't say a word like "we" so it doesn't look like that, that kind of word assumes an amount of responsibility even if small, they tend to offload everything bad to the privileged class, like their neighbor who worked hard running a small business... Uh before "the lockdown" came, which put them out of business, But yeah if not for them... Uh perpetuating the patriarchy! And being all racist and sexist and evil, everyone could be living luxuriously within nature in harmony with talking vegan animals, intermingling and the like while drinking starbucks, and getting paid (with something I guess) to take liberal arts courses... Ah all irrelevant... I hate canada

  • @rnojr11
    @rnojr11 2 месяца назад +6

    Brain big, size intelligence...
    "When are aliens and humans ever going to learn 'size don't matter'?"

    • @SpaceFics
      @SpaceFics Месяц назад +1

      it matters to a degree, right when it stops mattering

    • @ShortsLover692
      @ShortsLover692 14 дней назад

      That's what she said....

    • @rnojr11
      @rnojr11 14 дней назад

      @@ShortsLover692 hehe, I did walk into that one...

    • @ShortsLover692
      @ShortsLover692 14 дней назад

      @@rnojr11 Yep you sure did.....

  • @HashbrownMashup
    @HashbrownMashup 2 месяца назад +20

    Ender's Game but it ends nicely lol.

    • @docogg50
      @docogg50 2 месяца назад +2

      I was thinking more like Children of Time. That one dug deeper into the problem of communication

    • @HashbrownMashup
      @HashbrownMashup 2 месяца назад +1

      @@docogg50 I was thinking more like the Formic Wars never happened but yeah

  • @Shadow.Dragon
    @Shadow.Dragon 2 месяца назад +72

    Great episode! It highlights the difficulty in communicating with an alien species. Star Trek: Next Generation had an episode ("Darmok") that demonstrated this difficulty. I'm looking forward to more episodes in this story!

  • @918Boyz
    @918Boyz 2 месяца назад +22

    This should become a series

    • @luther0013
      @luther0013 27 дней назад

      It is on Reddit’s r/hfy there are multiple chapters.

  • @jeffjames4064
    @jeffjames4064 2 месяца назад +24

    It seems the alien never heard of Amazon.

  • @shushantodas7746
    @shushantodas7746 2 месяца назад +3

    How the hell they selected the said ambassador 😂😂😂

  • @FurryEskimo
    @FurryEskimo 2 месяца назад +7

    I'm confused. This was already posted, but was re-uploaded? Part 2 seems to have been removed too.
    The humans improve the translator, it was malfunctioning because the alien says many things at once. The alien is a bit taken back, then scared because her ancestors were threatened by creatures that are small and many. Her species is also one to a planet, to give them time to learn.

    • @Enkidu659
      @Enkidu659 2 месяца назад +3

      Yeah RUclips removed it because other channels had the same story. Im glad its back here, it has the best text to speech ive seen.

  • @heramaaroricon4738
    @heramaaroricon4738 2 месяца назад +38

    Funny how this Ambassador is so unqualified for their job.
    Like WHAT THE HELL? Any questions asked by the Alien would be easily understandable. How smart is that Ambassador? 60IQ?

    • @xCoNa14
      @xCoNa14 2 месяца назад +8

      Likely a mix of shock and awe.
      Even a simple nerve-racking interaction in daily life can make you do silly things, so imagine one to this scale.
      Add in that the translator was having trouble putting together their thoughts and vice versa, on top of the massive difference in perspective and that the average person isn't too smart to begin with, then you've got a massive mess of an interaction on your hands.

    • @oblivion_rose1889
      @oblivion_rose1889 2 месяца назад

      @@xCoNa14 Not to mention the clearly different thought process for either species. Humans can´t know everything, but can specialise and cooperate. The alien on the other hand knows everything their species knows through the hive mind, but seems unable to even understand the concept of specializing in one specific area/task as a career/way of life. Basically, it's the difference between a team of specialists and a jack of all trades

    • @ShortsLover692
      @ShortsLover692 14 дней назад

      She is an average Jane, not a politician. Why they hired her?

    • @heramaaroricon4738
      @heramaaroricon4738 14 дней назад +1

      @@xCoNa14 All valid reasons. She still acts like a completely untrained ambassador.
      Like she got sent in day 1 when she applied for academy.

  • @iamcurious9541
    @iamcurious9541 2 месяца назад +3

    This is good! Usually the aliens are unrealistically human-like.

  • @bumblegummy
    @bumblegummy 2 месяца назад +15

    Please make a part 2! The alien is cute

  • @utubeaddict29
    @utubeaddict29 2 месяца назад +13

    I feel like some inspiration was drawn from Project Hail Mary, great story would love to hear the series

  • @neurofiber2406
    @neurofiber2406 2 месяца назад +8

    Okay, this is interesting...

  • @JohnTheRaeder-xf5sh
    @JohnTheRaeder-xf5sh 2 месяца назад +15

    ..... Oh shit here we go again.

  • @DariusT32
    @DariusT32 2 месяца назад +10

    I want more of this story

  • @ireallyreallyhategoogle
    @ireallyreallyhategoogle 2 месяца назад +75

    First contact misunderstandings based on preconceived notions.

    • @chaomatic5328
      @chaomatic5328 2 месяца назад +9

      You'd be surprised how much more accepting a person becomes once they've lived abroad. The alien's pent up frustration is almost childish, in some way.

    • @vegvisirskald2172
      @vegvisirskald2172 2 месяца назад +1

      That's how all communication with someone new works.

    • @ireallyreallyhategoogle
      @ireallyreallyhategoogle 2 месяца назад

      @@vegvisirskald2172 Not to the same extent when the people have a common language, species and physical reality.

    • @vegvisirskald2172
      @vegvisirskald2172 2 месяца назад

      @@ireallyreallyhategoogle exactly the same. When you meet someone for the first time two things occur in your primal brain and within a fraction of a second. Whether or not the person before you is a threat, and then if you can breed with them. This is a biological fact. Everything outside of that by today's standards are results of whatever information a person has based on race, culture, and so forth for the first time. I've studied a lot of anthropology. White folks were seen as ghosts, angels, gods, and devils when other colored variations of the same damn species. Those are preconceived notions that you can still here uttered to this day. I hate when folks try to break apart nonsense over the guttural sounds we undulate as being something special. They are as special as a bird call, or a lion roar. Nothing more and nothing less. You are an animal, I am an animal. We already have identified several sentient species right here on the planet, we have identified a common background of emotions throughout just about all life on the planet, and we eat most of them and use the rest. Personally, if i was an alien looking down upon humanity as we are right now, i would have nothing to do with the species. You are butchers of everything including each other. Constantly robbing each other of life, freedom, and so forth.

  • @fearme_tv820
    @fearme_tv820 2 месяца назад +8

    This is funny. A well written story.

  • @JorneDeSmedt
    @JorneDeSmedt 2 месяца назад +7

    Is there a part 2?

  • @nealrcn
    @nealrcn 5 дней назад

    I defiantly feel there should be a part 2

  • @FuzzyWuzzy98
    @FuzzyWuzzy98 2 месяца назад

    I really liked this story as I think this is a pretty realistic way for a peaceful first contact to go.

  • @asialsky
    @asialsky 2 месяца назад +1

    "They were stupid."
    ...yeah? Were you expecting Einstein?

  • @kermanp
    @kermanp 2 месяца назад +4

    This is a series... Now when do we get the next part? 😊

  • @Spacefloop
    @Spacefloop Месяц назад +1

    Aw noooooo I want more 😭

  • @erikkennedy8725
    @erikkennedy8725 2 месяца назад +8

    Awesome and too short. I'm going to track down the story to be able to read the rest- thanks for bringing such good fiction to my attention!

    • @scifistories1977
      @scifistories1977  2 месяца назад +4

      The link to the story is in the description. When I chatted to the author, there were more parts, but he didn't number them, so I'll check with him for the order and get a few more parts added.

  • @oliverstianhugaas7493
    @oliverstianhugaas7493 2 месяца назад +1

    Wow our ambassador is not really good at her job, just indulge the aliens without revealing military or trade secrets.

  • @zom-b-bunny2565
    @zom-b-bunny2565 2 месяца назад +1

    I wish we had minor hive mind or a sorta genetic memory for survival stuff

  • @9LiveEmpire
    @9LiveEmpire Месяц назад

    i really like this kind of interaction, frustration caused by misunderstanding due to the vast cultural and biological difference of two alien species
    we, as human are like specialized neurons... when you rub two together it does things...
    ...
    ..
    yeah

  • @Enkidu659
    @Enkidu659 2 месяца назад

    Any chance youll upload the following parts?

  • @rafaelsodre_eachday
    @rafaelsodre_eachday 2 месяца назад +3

    Is there a continuation to this story or it ends like so?

    • @concepts6460
      @concepts6460 2 месяца назад +3

      Its a book called Synchronizing Minds: First Contact. It used to be a collection of reddit stories

    • @cjxgraphics
      @cjxgraphics 2 месяца назад +2

      I hate how all these stories end with an upward voice inflection. I guess it’s an AI reading it, but they always sound like they’re ending on a question or incomplete thought.

  • @Hlevi87
    @Hlevi87 2 месяца назад +1

    Good story. Loved it. I'd love to hear more of these.

  • @gonzalez83
    @gonzalez83 2 месяца назад

    Part 2 please

  • @Paul-A01
    @Paul-A01 2 месяца назад +6

    Is this a redo?

    • @apcervanaku
      @apcervanaku 2 месяца назад

      Nope theft from icefiction look it up yourself...

  • @wojciechj7653
    @wojciechj7653 2 месяца назад +1

    OMG! it ended with 'TELL ME MORE'.... tell me more of this story! whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy did you stop here ? :- (((

  • @Auueiw4-
    @Auueiw4- Месяц назад

    Basically enders game

  • @user-jr6bl9ih3e
    @user-jr6bl9ih3e 2 месяца назад

    A picture is worth a thousand words ... perhaps a video montage to explain things would be more effective ... for example of how something is made from start to finish.

  • @exz1tar
    @exz1tar 2 месяца назад +1

    Why not finish the other chapters

  • @NubianNemesisArise
    @NubianNemesisArise 2 месяца назад

    🔥🎉

  • @UR-bv2bv
    @UR-bv2bv 2 месяца назад

    Part 2

  • @AlbiDartanan
    @AlbiDartanan 2 месяца назад

    Docm77 have a Hive Mind XD ...

  • @lotmyle5465
    @lotmyle5465 2 месяца назад +3

    cheers

  • @jacobmosovich
    @jacobmosovich 2 месяца назад

    Part 2! Where is part 2?! Aaaaahhhh it cut off right at the good part!!!

    • @Enkidu659
      @Enkidu659 2 месяца назад

      Yeah this is the best text to speech software for these ive found so far.

  • @fullzombieinc4034
    @fullzombieinc4034 Месяц назад

    the image is a a praying mantis, described as sapien and then described a snake. wtf

  • @MyrdinAnnoth
    @MyrdinAnnoth 2 месяца назад +2

    Good story for the most part, but the part of the human ambassador could have been written better. Then again "randomly selecting" some turd to go represent all of humanity was kinda idiotic plot in and of itself. If not for that, I would not really have much to complain about.

  • @kiwiofnazarick6455
    @kiwiofnazarick6455 2 месяца назад +3

    really nice channel but why put only 2 to 3 words on the screen when you can put the complete sentence? this is a bit annoying 😅

  • @luisduron2722
    @luisduron2722 Месяц назад

    Ok

  • @sarahdabardayan7465
    @sarahdabardayan7465 2 месяца назад +1

    Thanks!

  • @samueltrusik3251
    @samueltrusik3251 2 месяца назад +1

    "Short".
    It is a whole book by now.

    • @JokeofAllButts
      @JokeofAllButts 2 месяца назад +2

      tell me you dont read books without telling me you dont read books :O

    • @Incadazant01
      @Incadazant01 2 месяца назад

      ​@JokeofAllButts The author combined this story with 3 others, and posted the book on Amazon.
      There's a link in the description to the original story, and from there, an A/N that points to the sequel stories (they seem to be chapters, essentially), and an Amazon link to the book.

  • @Le_Flamby
    @Le_Flamby 2 месяца назад +3

    This is literrally a Human propaganda channel.... and i love it lol

  • @PropellerSteve
    @PropellerSteve 2 месяца назад

    very good.

  • @davidlindsay131
    @davidlindsay131 Месяц назад

    WHO READS THESE?

  • @BC-vl4rn
    @BC-vl4rn 2 месяца назад +5

    why pUt picture of nantis? its destroying our imagination

    • @touieg1211
      @touieg1211 2 месяца назад +1

      It helps people who struggle imagining beings, or gives an easy frame of reference. I have a good imagination, so I just close my eyes and listen.

    • @Necrotechian
      @Necrotechian 2 месяца назад

      thats like claiming that showing us a picture of a dog would make us unable to imagine a cat cause they are somewhat same looking...

    • @dilaleo1855
      @dilaleo1855 2 месяца назад +2

      I think its because we usually associate Hive minds with insect like creature

    • @KD-_-
      @KD-_- 2 месяца назад

      It's AI