The Three-Body Problem (The Three-Body Problem Series, 1)

It's called The Three Body Problem by a Chinese science fiction writer named Liu. And it's a trilogy. In book one, humanity encounters a faroff existential threat to human life on the planet. And the level of planning and coordination they do to stop it, I've been thinking about it nonstop since I saw Don't Look Up because I'm like, wow, he really has a different view of how things function.

have you guys read The Three-Body Problem? Yeah. Or--okay. I never read it. Very brief synopsis, but, you know, aliens are threatening Earth and basically all of humanity comes together at some point and develops technology to get rid of the aliens.

have you guys read The Three-Body Problem? Yeah. Or--okay. I never read it.

I recently watched the Three Body Problem, a science fiction, an adaptation on Netflix of a science fiction novel, a novel of which I kind of enjoyed.

And it was really interesting because the heroes were hard driving physicists, all of whom were women. And the men were all these kind of slightly neurotic, passive support staff.

And I was watching this and going, I guess this is why they call it fantasy in science fiction, because that's not really what the world looks like.

I recently watched the three body problem, a science fiction, an adaptation on Netflix of a science fiction novel, a novel of which I kind of enjoyed.

I recently watched the three body problem, a science fiction, an adaptation on Netflix of a science fiction novel, a novel of which I kind of enjoyed.

And it was really interesting because the heroes were hard driving physicists, all of whom were women.

And the men were all these kind of slightly neurotic, passive, you know, support staff.

And I was watching this and going, I guess this is why they call it fantasy in science fiction, because that's not really what the world looks like.

the Netflix adaptation of Three-Body Problem starts with this very vivid recreation of a Maoist era, communist Chinese struggle session.

Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Baby Driver, Three-Body Problem, Ambulance, Bloodshot...

Three Body Problem was one of the most challenging jobs I've ever had.

My personal favorite, if anybody wants to know is, uh, the three body problem that the book out of China, which to me, that one actually kind of nailed. Um, the way that I think some of this might all go down, but who knows, we absolutely have no idea.

One of the trilogies that I read this year was, or last year, was The Three-Body Problem.

So everybody, the three-body problem is complicated where you have the sun and the earth and then you're a spacecraft. How do you keep track of the gravity of all three objects or the moon?

which was using all of the earth's nuclear missiles to explode behind a solar sail, or not a solar sail, but a sail to propel a very small package at near light speed.

I read a lot of speculative science fiction and one of the trilogies that I read this year was, or last year, was The Three-Body Problem.

So everybody, the three-body problem is complicated where you have the sun and the earth and then you're a spacecraft.

which was using all of the earth's nuclear missiles to explode behind a solar sail, or not a solar sail, but a sail to propel a very small package at near light speed.

Yeah, it makes me think of the three body problem. I don't want to spoil it too much, but there's a position that's created within that world. It's called a what is it? A wall. The wall facers, the wall facers, people who specifically develop plans in the darkened room that is their brain.

They don't tell anybody about those plans and their ideas, but they develop these things in their own mind. And eventually those plans are spilled and get deployed, right?

So I just, I finished recently this three book series by a Chinese science fiction writer named Liu Cixin. It begins with a book called The Three-Body Problem.

I tried to read those books and I couldn't get into them. Did you love them? You know what I'm talking about. Oh my God. I totally fell into it. I mean, the characters- I love the title, The Three-Body Problem. I was really drawn to that. Right.

The characters are unbelievably cardboard. Like, you know, they have no depth whatsoever. But part of what was, it has this extraordinary scale of time, partly because, you know, yes, the three-body problem is this other planetary system which has three suns and this planet is captured by the gravity of each of those suns. And so every day you're never sure when the sun is going to come up, what the temperature is going to be, whether it's going to be, you know, 300 degrees or minus 300 degrees, and how long the day will last, all those things. And will it be a habitable climate or not? And the creatures will dehydrate, you know, when it becomes terrible. And then when water appears again, they rehydrate and then continue civilization.

But the span of this book, because it's all about the idea that a message passes from this three-body planetary system to Earth and what the consequences of that are. But, you know, even our earthling lives in that book, they unfold over thousands of years. And he describes what happens over those thousands of years.

And it pushes the questions because what he's imagining is the extinction of human beings, but the continuance of other forms of life and how wide our imaginations go towards bringing those in and making them feel that they are part of our chain of being. Can you have a chain of being that feels connected to people, not even people, these sentient creatures that can communicate with you who are in the fourth dimension or look nothing like us? And, you know, can we have a chain of being that goes on 15 billion years that go beyond, you know, Earth is extinguished and humanity is extinguished, but we still feel there's spirit in some way. I don't know. It made me think of that.