No matter how biased and hyperbolic that essay is, the basic reality its referring to is legit.
Morality has nothing to do with it, and America has its own history of genocide and mass slaughter.If "morality has nothing to do with it", then why bring up America's moral failings?
Morality has nothing to do with it, and America has its own history of genocide and mass slaughter.If "morality has nothing to do with it", then why bring up America's moral failings?
Morality has nothing to do with it, and America has its own history of genocide and mass slaughter.If "morality has nothing to do with it", then why bring up America's moral failings?
You're being kind there, Beard - more like America's criminal history. And I love America, some great things about living here, but our violent/criminal history is awful
Oooh this is awesome. Three-Body Problem rivals Blindsight as one of my favorite SF novels ever and also one of the most enlightening/frightening explorations of how alien contact could go south in ways totally unexpected and unrelated to "aliens are bad and just wanna kill everybody". In fact Three-Body Problem maybe even more-so than Blindsight, as the issues potentially stemming from relativity are ones that are basically inevitable if mankind is ever to colonize interstellar space. Don't even need the aliens for shit to get real hairy right off the bat.
Isn't the premise in that series something like "guys our own solar system sucks so we invade yours, gl hf phaggots lol we also hijacked your technological development" ? Is it worth reading?It's worth reading, yes:
Isn't the premise in that series something like "guys our own solar system sucks so we invade yours, gl hf phaggots lol we also hijacked your technological development" ? Is it worth reading?
Assuming First Contact will ever happenI mean, I think the question says "if" lol. the whole thing is a hypothetical, so yeah, we're assuming that the hypothetical hypothetically happens, in this hypothetical scenario.
Assuming First Contact will ever happenMaybe it's not that far off... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852
http://i.imgur.com/7x44VOd.jpgAlso, broadcasting our location to the cosmos is fucking stupid.
Assuming First Contact will ever happenMaybe it's not that far off... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852
Anyway, if first contact happens I hope this is what the aliens will seeQuotehttp://i.imgur.com/7x44VOd.jpgAlso, broadcasting our location to the cosmos is fucking stupid.
I liked how Sagan dealt with communication in Contact. Otherwise, while there are a number of hypotheses, obviously, it's easy to think that communication/recognition between species would be impossible.
I suppose that would make an interesting thread, in and of itself.
I liked how Sagan dealt with communication in Contact. Otherwise, while there are a number of hypotheses, obviously, it's easy to think that communication/recognition between species would be impossible.
I suppose that would make an interesting thread, in and of itself.
Don't forget, more recently, Arrival and the issue of communication presented there, as it relates to a fundamentally different ways of conceptualizing language and time.
I liked how Sagan dealt with communication in Contact. Otherwise, while there are a number of hypotheses, obviously, it's easy to think that communication/recognition between species would be impossible.
I suppose that would make an interesting thread, in and of itself.
Don't forget, more recently, Arrival and the issue of communication presented there, as it relates to a fundamentally different ways of conceptualizing language and time.
Blindsight...
Arrival, while conceptually interesting, was still sci-fi.I liked how Sagan dealt with communication in Contact. Otherwise, while there are a number of hypotheses, obviously, it's easy to think that communication/recognition between species would be impossible.
I suppose that would make an interesting thread, in and of itself.
Don't forget, more recently, Arrival and the issue of communication presented there, as it relates to a fundamentally different ways of conceptualizing language and time.
Decent adaptation, though I still find Story of Your Life a much better suited medium.
Even there though, some hypotheses suggest that it is comically unlikely that anything resembling recognizable communication might possibly occur between interstellar species.Blindsight...(click to show/hide)
It's hard to envision how we might communicate with a truly alien race since we cannot envision such a race.
Liu Cixin’s next U.S. release is Ball Lightning, a Tesla-evoking cautionary novel of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against a push to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences.
Only peripherally related but for BFK (https://www.tor.com/2017/11/30/barack-obama-liu-cixin-next-book), based on a conversation he and Wilshire were having in Quorum:Very cool, Madness! August 2018 release date, so a bit of a wait.QuoteLiu Cixin’s next U.S. release is Ball Lightning, a Tesla-evoking cautionary novel of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against a push to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences.
I haven't read the books but hasn't Stephen Hawking said pretty much the same thing for years?Only peripherally related but for BFK (https://www.tor.com/2017/11/30/barack-obama-liu-cixin-next-book), based on a conversation he and Wilshire were having in Quorum:Very cool, Madness! August 2018 release date, so a bit of a wait.QuoteLiu Cixin’s next U.S. release is Ball Lightning, a Tesla-evoking cautionary novel of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against a push to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences.
I am very curious as to what President Obama thinks about dark-forest strategy, if he got that far in the trilogy. It's the polar opposite of the optimistic view familiar from Star Trek. Hide well, cleanse well......
I haven't read the books but hasn't Stephen Hawking said pretty much the same thing for years?
You had your high ground. It was a good 243 years.
It's screwing with us Americans big time, but it's time to accept there's another power who will make massive contributions to civilization beyond our country. Of course, many other countries are contributing awesome stuff every day, but Americans feel we're the overall leader of world progress. It simply is not a big deal ( in the sense it's a detriment to America ) if China "hears" first and whats more, it's a contribution to humanity that they've built this thing. Its high time for America to recede our paranoia of others encroaching on our self-perceived world dominance and welcome and cherish other nations' contributions
You had your high ground. It was a good 243 years.
Same we had our time before that.
It'd be so cool if there was an education race, or a clean energy race, like there was the space race of old. Or a 'find the alien' race. Whatever, something that focused the collective will on for 10 years. So much could be accomplished.
Did Scotland ever really have "its time" ;)?