kind of a miss - its from a fiction series by a Chinese author. But Americans do love to apply this specific case from a work of fiction to be universal.
eh - I wasn't the biggest fan of the series. I read and somewhat enjoyed three body problem, but the way that exposition was introduced with a VR video game was weird to me, and then he totally misrepresents the Alpha Centauri system. Alpha Centauri A/B are in a close binary and Proxima is so far out that there is still some discussion on if it's actually gravitationally bound to the system. It's a very stable stellar system and not at all like how it's depicted. I would've rather had the extrasolar system just be some unnamed trinary system rather than specifically saying it's A Cent but totally misrepresenting it. IMO it's on the level of depicting Australians as literally being upside down.
It kinda ruins the series as serious speculative work if they get well-known physics like that so wrong.
Also book two has a really weird start and I couldn't really get through his search for the perfect girl section before just putting the series down as a whole.
Also book two has a really weird start and I couldn’t really get through his search for the perfect girl section before just putting the series down as a whole.
There was a slim chance that homo sapient would die crossing the Indian Ocean or pacific, yet we're here. Intelligence means taking risks, we ought to take a leap of faith that others are friendly. In my pov, the risk is small because I don't think there are other intelligences out there that both a) have the ability to speak to us and b) have any reason to (and also c I don't think there are other intelligent species in our future light cone).
Colonizers love to come up with narratives about how genocide is actually inevitable
kind of a miss - its from a fiction series by a Chinese author. But Americans do love to apply this specific case from a work of fiction to be universal.
to be fair it was a really cool plot device in the story
eh - I wasn't the biggest fan of the series. I read and somewhat enjoyed three body problem, but the way that exposition was introduced with a VR video game was weird to me, and then he totally misrepresents the Alpha Centauri system. Alpha Centauri A/B are in a close binary and Proxima is so far out that there is still some discussion on if it's actually gravitationally bound to the system. It's a very stable stellar system and not at all like how it's depicted. I would've rather had the extrasolar system just be some unnamed trinary system rather than specifically saying it's A Cent but totally misrepresenting it. IMO it's on the level of depicting Australians as literally being upside down.
It kinda ruins the series as serious speculative work if they get well-known physics like that so wrong.
Also book two has a really weird start and I couldn't really get through his search for the perfect girl section before just putting the series down as a whole.
lmao this was also my experience with book 2
Well, the idea didn't really come from the book.
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There was a slim chance that homo sapient would die crossing the Indian Ocean or pacific, yet we're here. Intelligence means taking risks, we ought to take a leap of faith that others are friendly. In my pov, the risk is small because I don't think there are other intelligences out there that both a) have the ability to speak to us and b) have any reason to (and also c I don't think there are other intelligent species in our future light cone).
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