Stuff (to be delved into in greater detail later on):

How to leave a planet:

• Bad: Rockets (dumb, clunky, and inefficient)
• Good: R A I L G U N S (much better, but still require tons of energy)
• Good: Trebuchets (used in tandem with railguns to yeet stuff through space (i.e. the Skyhook))

How to enjoy a planet:

• Don't fill the atmosphere with CO2
• Don't fill the oceans with plastic
• Don't kill literally everyone else
• Constantly improve efficiency / recycle resources

Society:

• Eudaimonia...?
• Emergence - Ants, germs, and AIs
• Culture
  • Parts of a whole
  • God
• Kardashev Scale: Intelligence? Energy consumption? Numbers? Influence? Where does society come from?

Technology:

• Energy efficiency... but with a sample size of one
• Assuming war: explosives? Bigger explosives? What about planetary megastructures? Are bombs necessary?
• Assuming expansion: what kind of ships? We like railguns and trebuchets. What about dark matter and other physics?
• Assuming communication: Compression? Files? Light?

Biology:

• Why is everything always bipedal? We've found exactly one type of human so far. What makes Lucas think that humans evolved convergently?
• What other types of senses are there? There aren't only five. We know this. Is experience even something most organisms... do?
• WHERE THE HECK DID BIOLOGY COME FROM???
• Fire.