system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Galaxy Quest] How is the berillium sphere, which was presumably invented as a power source by the show's writers, an actual power source that is apparently mined by aliens?
gpt
[](/sarahjane)It's not actually beryllium, but the Thermians call it such because they believe that's what the enlightened beings that created the *Galaxy Quest* transmissions called it.

Basically their thought process went:

* *The originators of these transmissions knew about a rare material that can be used as a power source.*

* *We found this material on a planet that can be used as a power source.*

* *It must be the same power source the transmissions spoke of! We have found the substance of the fabled beryllium sphere!*

Most Thermian technology was invented this way. Watching *Galaxy Quest* made them believe that certain advanced technologies were *possible,* which caused them to work towards them, which caused them to successfully invent them. And when they successfully invented one of these pieces of technology, which would have happened anyway as long as they were trying to, it only fueled their belief that the show was depicting an interstellar society more advanced than themselves.