"A radio transmission arrives from a planet 600 light years away, and the message turns out to be RNA code for an alien virus. Some fool synthesizes it, and it infects almost everyone on Earth, causing them to act as one entity-a hive mind with common goals, values, knowledge, everything. The show's title comes from the old US motto " E pluribus unum "-out of many, one."
"Only 13 people remain immune, including Carol Sturka, an ornery romance novelist who's intent on keeping her individuality, against all efforts by the collective to absorb her. We don't know for sure how the hive mind works, but it seems that the plurbs (the infected people) commune with each other unconsciously through radio waves. Talk to one of them and you talk to all of them."
"Now, radio waves are electromagnetic (EM) waves. That means they consist of oscillating electric and magnetic fields. In other words, they're a type of light, along with visible light, infrared, microwaves, x-rays, and so on, which differ only in frequency and wavelength. Radio waves are on one end of the EM spectrum, with the lowest frequencies and longest wavelengths. That makes them"
A radio transmission from a planet 600 light years away encodes RNA that becomes an alien virus when synthesized and infects almost everyone on Earth, converting hosts into a single hive mind with shared goals, values, knowledge and behavior. Thirteen people remain immune, including Carol Sturka, who resists absorption. The infected, called plurbs, appear to commune unconsciously via radio-frequency electromagnetic signals so that interacting with one affects the whole collective. The collective eliminates personal privacy and individuality while offering collective conveniences. Radio waves are electromagnetic oscillations occupying low frequencies and long wavelengths on the EM spectrum, used for AM and FM broadcasting.
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