Christmas fruit punch is an infusion that is consumed in Mexico, traditionally in December during the posadas and on Christmas Eve, although there are also people who start consuming it from September for the national holidays and from November during the eve of the day of the dead (mainly in Mexico City and its metropolitan area).
It is prepared by boiling the ingredients in large quantities to be served during typical Christmas and winter gatherings. Traditionally, it is served very hot in individual clay pots with portions of fruit, and may or may not contain a spirit (often rum), which is added after boiling to prevent evaporation. One of the main ingredients, which gives it its blood-red color, is hibiscus water (made by boiling hibiscus flowers in water to release their red coloring). The basic fruits are apple, guava, and tejocote (Mexican hawthorn).
Mexican ponche may or may not contain alcohol and is served hot. The version with alcohol is called "ponche con piquete" (spiked ponche) because it has a "piquete" (spike) of tequila, rum, whiskey, red wine, or champagne, presented as a traditional hot infusion or as a cocktail.
This drink is commonly found at street fairs set up outside churches, where it can be enjoyed with buñuelos (fritters) or tamales. It is also sold at Christmas markets in Mexico during the famous Guadalupe-Reyes Marathon.
It is also traditionally consumed in Guatemala, even before the holidays. Fruits such as papaya, melon, and apple are used, along with sweeteners like sugar, honey, and/or cinnamon.}
Recipe from the Goverment of Mexico
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I'm watching Pluribus and I have a lot of thinks
I have a problem with sci-fi where I have the most fun trying to figure out how the sci-fi elements are supposed to work, so all I have are questions:
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Who was patient zero? Was it that doctor who got bit by a mouse? Because days before that, there's one scene of a big quiet lab of people working and smiling. Moreover I'm a little curious what they thought they were working on? The male doctor says they think its a sequence that encodes for a lysogenic virus which is a little, idk, underwhelming? Probably they really just don't have a clue what it is and they're just spending so much time on it because its an apparent gene sequence from outer space.How did the takeover work? Making sure that you control every person on nuclear submarines sounds logistically difficult
While I fully expect alien life forms would have something akin to DNA for encoding genetic information, I doubt it would be so similar in structure to have the exact same four nucleotides we have on Earth (unless they came from a very similar planet). But maybe this suggests that the "senders" had some prior knowledge of Earth life and crafted this specifically?
What is the speed of hivemind communication? And what is the medium?
What is the goal of the hivemind? Probably to create more interstellar antennae and broadcast the information to spread more?
Can they infect other animals? Closely related species like chimpanzees?
Imagine the shit you could ask this hivemind though: who killed Kennedy? Who else was on Epstein's island that we don't know about? Who is Satoshi (the Bitcoin founder, multi-billionaire, possible intelligence asset)? You could learn about every secret war crime, the truth to every conspiracy, etc.
They're just trying to build the sequence, probably as part of the same program that discovered the signal to begin with.
Since they were able to do the big takeover all at once apparently by dropping some kind of aerosol, I think it's pretty likely they just had to infiltrate high ranking military officials in every nuclear armed country (pretty quick since you can exploit anyone who has any proximity to someone with higher ranking, which is everyone) to find out where all the nuclear submarines are, then put the aerosol in their ventilation. The difficulty is in how often nuclear submarines surface to resupply; I don't know the details there, but it does require every nuclear submarine to surface and be joined before the hivemind is found.
That's a good observation; I think life has to be carbon based but I don't know enough about biochemistry and genetics to know if our four nucleotides are the only possible thing that can carry genetic information, or if something different could also fulfill that function. I hope someone else knows!
I speculate that it's not instant, but I think the best piece of information we've seen that could clarify this is in episode 2 when Carol asks for the other 5 English speakers and their responses take a while. Since they were from all over the planet, and the responses trickled in, maybe you could estimate something from that? But obviously it doesn't account for the part where these are humans that took some time to make a small choice.
I think so, yeah. I think it's a meme (since it's more idea than organism, what with spreading as a signal) that is trying to self replicate and spread. That's why it describe joining as a biological imperative. However, the fact that it refuses to kill or lie might imply that it was engineered by an intelligent species. Maybe it will turn out to have been designed by a species who was trying to send itself across the stars ethically?