Oblique reference to 2010: Odyssey two, also known as: Coco the gorilla draws Mona Lisa’s best friend Agnes.

So....Emmerich is getting his movie ideas from stupid question trolls on Quora...either that or he was brainstorming Space:1999 and came up with “what if the Moon fell toward the earth instead of flying away?”

Lets review:

hmmm... just realized not really a happy movie. Damn. Well the bots are friendly anyway.

Need more of these:

I’m afraid upsidaisy (above)(curse her wit) is correct. We are in a Kardashian type 1 civilization. It’s a mass psychosis, celebrity culture projecting our personal lives onto those who are living the life.

seriously. you’re fucking with my head. That’s twice now. I must examine my life. or my eyes.

This has been around for awhile. Dillon Baker’s film spectrum by average frame color.

No, emphasis on “a level NEAR contemporary terestrial civilization...”. type 1 civ means control of fusion power sources to achieve high sustainable energy production....the large scale application of fusion. We’ve got 100-200 years to get to that point.

we’re already a type 1 Kardashian civilization.

...type 1 kardashian civilization isn’t good enough...

Easy peasy for a type 1 civ.

The source article talks quite a bit about the lack of global magnetic field, missing from this Giz article, just like Venus.

Yes. And, the liberal news media.

what would happen if we were to smash a relatively large comet or two into Venus?

Major asteroid strikes sent in screaming at the precise angle is the only hope of fixing this

...“city” is really pushing it. The most popular theory is...

derp.

3700 BC: start of Sumerian city culture...
...about 4000 years after Göbelki Tepi (9000 BC).

Any reasonably intelligent species would realize that incompetance in leadership is reflective of same for general population.