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.