He proposes that the best way to handle long-term space travel is by artificially prolonging the infantile developmental stage of humans to mimic the cicada's lifespan.

“i think the way to do this is you prolong the time we are infants in a long space journey because why waste time in space as an adult when you want to have the fully developed adult brain for when you land and you want to investigate”

Jessica Ware characterizes the emergence of periodical cicadas as a positive and enthusiastic event for the environment and people.

“well i mean this is the solution this is not the problem this is the solution to having a bad year is that there's these periodical cicadas that are coming out to bring us some enthusiasm so bring us some pep to our day”