1 00:00:08,310 --> 00:00:04,710 as a writer of fiction i have to often 2 00:00:09,910 --> 00:00:08,320 humanize the aliens in a way that 3 00:00:12,470 --> 00:00:09,920 actually would take them further from 4 00:00:14,789 --> 00:00:12,480 what i as a person would imagine an 5 00:00:17,269 --> 00:00:14,799 alien creature would be left to my own 6 00:00:19,349 --> 00:00:17,279 devices i can think of some genuinely 7 00:00:21,830 --> 00:00:19,359 alien aliens now i just have to write a 8 00:00:24,150 --> 00:00:21,840 story in which genuinely alien aliens 9 00:00:26,870 --> 00:00:24,160 are part of the whole uh the narrative 10 00:00:29,429 --> 00:00:26,880 like for example a story where 11 00:00:31,830 --> 00:00:29,439 humans have colonized for some reason a 12 00:00:34,630 --> 00:00:31,840 gas giant right and one of the ways that 13 00:00:35,990 --> 00:00:34,640 we imagine that uh intelligence would 14 00:00:37,510 --> 00:00:36,000 happen in a gas giant would you 15 00:00:40,709 --> 00:00:37,520 basically you would have these 16 00:00:42,549 --> 00:00:40,719 jellyfish-like creatures who float in a 17 00:00:45,590 --> 00:00:42,559 strata of the atmosphere that's 18 00:00:47,910 --> 00:00:45,600 basically uh oxygenated and able to you 19 00:00:49,830 --> 00:00:47,920 know exist within that one bound and 20 00:00:52,389 --> 00:00:49,840 then the question becomes are humans in 21 00:00:54,470 --> 00:00:52,399 fact coexisting with them or are humans 22 00:00:57,110 --> 00:00:54,480 gonna do what humans gonna do every time