Nick Chia

It's brilliant.

Yeah.

I mean, if you have that vehicle for just at will deciding, I want energy now, I want mass now, and directing it, right?

They also show they know how to direct it.

It's not just energy.

It's that they can direct that energy where they want.

Then you can solve so many problems, right?

Just like they use in the movie.

No, it's actually one of the things that I think in the field we work very hard at is to try to make sure we imagine realistic scenarios and we're not just sort of scenario adjacent to ourselves, right?

Yeah.

And that's one of the wonderful things.

I don't want to give away the movie, geez, but there's another alien species.

Very cool.

The details they leave about in the book come from, as far as I can tell, theories about other types of chemistry that could drive the energetics of life.

He's from a world that thrives on a reducing chemistry.

We're an oxygen chemistry, right?

It's the difference between donating our electrons to gain energy and accepting electrons to gain energy.

And Rocky's from a completely opposite chemical spectrum.

His energetics work in an opposite way.

And we know this, and I won't say why we know this.