Another video clip discussing the ideas found in Cixin Liu´s trilogy “Remembrance of Earth´s Past”, probably better known as “The Three-Body Problem Series” (after the first novel).
This clip is shorter than the one I linked to before. Note the terrifying implications of the “shooter hypothesis” and above all “the farmer hypothesis”.
Does the Moon eats people
after all…?
The ideas expounded upon in this video are interesting, but I never read the science fiction trilogy they are extracted from, known as “Remembrance of Earth´s Past” or "The Three-Body Problem Series". Judging from Wikipedia, it´s a standard science fiction story with an extremely complex plot, but it doesn´t sound particularly “Lovecraftian”.
But sure, maybe Wiki´s entry writer didn´t get it?
Some kind of ecological concerns have also been woven into the story, which is interestingly enough authored by a Chinese writer, Liu Cixin (for some reason called Cixin Liu in the English-speaking world).
But, as I said, the speculations in this little
YouTube clip (made by a devoted fan of the novels) are worth pondering in their
own right…
An entertaining speculation about Fermi´s paradox.
Of course, the real solution to the "paradox" is that alien intelligent life exists, but can´t reach us due to the vastness of space, and that all intelligent life naturally disappears after a couple of million years, which isn´t enough to develop long-distance space travel due to resource constraints. And - again - the sheer vastness of the universe.
However, this rather obvious solution is anathema to the scy fy true believers, so they constantly have to come up with ad hoc explanations for why we don´t see the advanced aliens which simply *must* be there. The hiddenness of God has been replaced by the hiddenness of (semi-divine )aliens...
Go figure.
