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What can Spore teach us about alien civilizations? A journey from hunter-gatherers to a galaxy-spanning empire (Part I: youtu.be/mJB5lWclm5g).
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How much of civilization is shaped by our biology? How might our cities, transportation, and technology look different if we weren’t a group of nearly hairless primates? The video game Spore has the answers. Okay, well, maybe not the answers — but Spore does offer an interesting case study into the fundamentals of how a speculative lifeform might build a society.
In our first Spore episode, we followed a lifeform from a microscopic organism to the intelligent Curiousus Sapiens. In this episode, we’ll witness the ascent of their civilization, and explore how the unique biology of an alien like Curiousus Sapiens would affect things like the design of clothing, the schematics of vehicles, and shapes of buildings in unexpected ways. We’ll begin with Tribal Stage and go all the way to Space, completing the multi-billion-year-tale of Curiousus Sapiens
So, let’s return to Planet Curious, and discover the finale of the story of life...
0:00 Aliens and Intelligence
1:09 Early Tools
2:38 Alien Clothing
4:38 War and Peace
7:31 Animal Domestication
9:27 Fires of Industry
11:40 A United World
13:53 Indistinguishable from Magic
16:57 Onward Towards Infinity
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I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners.
♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com):
Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Thunderbird, Bittersweet, Floating Cities
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#CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #Spore
What can Spore teach us about alien civilizations? A journey from hunter-gatherers to a galaxy-spanning empire (Part I: youtu.be/mJB5lWclm5g).
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How much of civilization is shaped by our biology? How might our cities, transportation, and technology look different if we weren’t a group of nearly hairless primates? The video game Spore has the answers. Okay, well, maybe not the answers — but Spore does offer an interesting case study into the fundamentals of how a speculative lifeform might build a society.
In our first Spore episode, we followed a lifeform from a microscopic organism to the intelligent Curiousus Sapiens. In this episode, we’ll witness the ascent of their civilization, and explore how the unique biology of an alien like Curiousus Sapiens would affect things like the design of clothing, the schematics of vehicles, and shapes of buildings in unexpected ways. We’ll begin with Tribal Stage and go all the way to Space, completing the multi-billion-year-tale of Curiousus Sapiens
So, let’s return to Planet Curious, and discover the finale of the story of life...
0:00 Aliens and Intelligence
1:09 Early Tools
2:38 Alien Clothing
4:38 War and Peace
7:31 Animal Domestication
9:27 Fires of Industry
11:40 A United World
13:53 Indistinguishable from Magic
16:57 Onward Towards Infinity
Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary.
I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners.
♫ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com):
Beauty Flow, Firesong, Impact Lento, Majestic Hills, Thunderbird, Bittersweet, Floating Cities
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
#CuriousArchive #SpeculativeBiology #Spore
