How is that not great for me? Setting up a colony must be hard work and all around pretty horrible.
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That's another solution to the Fermi paradox. FTL travel is impossible, but can't actually be proven to be impossible, so no one wants to be the sucker.
Don’t have to fll. Just have to be a third faster to give them 1000 years head start
FTL isn't possible, ERBs would pastafy any matter passing through them and there is no way to control the other end, and take Kardashev scale 3 civ at least (and that's even pretending the Kardashev scale isn't the purest daydream fantasy)
Not only that, but 3000 years into the future, language has changed so much that the plural of SHEEP is now SHOOP
That's right, androids do dream of electric SHOOP
Shit's wild yo
Shoop da whoop?
1000 years alone is a wildly long time for language. Granted, written language and education are more accessible than ever, so I imagine language evolution will be significantly slower than it once was, but still I found this short of English over the past 1000 years to be really interesting
Have you seen how fast slang is evolving currently? I can't even imagine translating something like "chat, am I cooked?" to my grandma.
Also on a side note; have you noticed the rise in lisps?
I can't even imagine translating something like "chat, am I cooked?" to my grandma.
"Hey folks, am I in trouble?"
True! Fad based language spreads like wildfire with modern tech! At the same time, I feel like trends like that fall out of favour just as fast. It's definitely a wild time for language evolution.
It's also possible that audio recording being a thing that exists will slow changes in language as well.
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3000 years is insanely long for language. Consider that the mother fucking alphabet was invented around 1000 BC*, and basically no languages that anyone still speaks existed in their modern forms. Homer hadn't written the Illiad and the Odyssey yet, and the standard Greek that came to be defined by these works had also yet to develop. If you went back to 1000 BC you'd have no idea what was going on.
*Although previous alphabets existed, the Phoenician alphabet that became the basis for pretty much all modern writing systems in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia was invented around 1100 BC
Dude, listen to 1000 CE English. It's 90% jibberish even at that point.
so are tiktok comment sections, your point?
Call that one a win.
Take risk of signing up for a 3000 year hyper-sleep trip.
Reap the rewards of being a pioneer without having to do any of the hard work.
As if that future civilization would treat you as anything but a zoo specimen
Damn, you make it sound better and better. Just sent me out already!
join intergalactic ship pilgrimage hoping to be a pioneer to a new world
Land to late stage capitalism and the same oppression you were just trying to escape.
Id shoot myself immediately.
A mission in starfield (shit game but honestly decent writing at the very least) included just this. A generation ship finally arrived at its destination long after FTL travel was invented to find that the intended colony planet was already a fancy resort planet. You have to broker some kind of agreement between the parties.
It's a couple of Star Trek episodes too. Similar idea is how they found Khan.
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Oops we forgot something. Sends him back.
Also can someone check if I turned off the stove? Thx
3 Body Problem has an interesting take on this. Faster than light travel is not possible but communication is, meaning we’re anxiously preparing for an alien war that won’t happen for 400 years but they can see everything we do in real time thanks to quantum entanglement.
FTL coms are a concession to the story, it would have been terrible without it
IRL quantum entanglement can't ever provide causality breaking info. In very simple terms, you need correlation to know when the data stream began as just observing the resulting spins still seem just as random before and after the event.
In even more simple terms: Whatever message they can send even if pre-agreed on seems like random heat results until you know the exact moment the transmission began, as confirmed by a light lagged message.
In less simple terms, the misunderstanding comes from treating the metaphor of 'flipping the spin north switch' as a literal thing instead of a less-than ideal 'lies to children' of what is actually happening to particles that experience spin transition, and the meaning of 'entangled' is both less and more strange than people understand.
But again, 3 body problem would have been a terrible story without it,t hat's why it's science fiction
Which version of the series is better to watch? The American version or the Chinese version?
From what I've heard the Chinese version is rather literal to the books to a fault.
Having read the books I enjoyed the Netflix series, but understand they made some changes to both adapt it to a series (fine) and made a lot of characters westen (a bit unnecessary maybe).
I am excited for season 2
Aren't they the same but just dubbed in english? I picked the english one as I didn't want to read subtitles
Two different shows
Well the Chinese version on Prime doesn't have any English subtitles so I guess it depends on if you can speak Mandarin
It does have English subtitles though...?
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