On 2024-03-24 18:09, Peter Moylan wrote:
> On 25/03/24 10:56, bertitaylor wrote:
>
>> 3 body problem is a Netflix serial.
>> It is about the possible extinction of our species by aliens.
>> Apparently we deserve to be extinct as we cannot be trusted, as we lie.
>> Are such aliens autistic?
>
> Is this from the novel by Liu Cixin? After reading the first few
> chapters, I decided not to read anything else by that author.

One of my nephews mentioned this series on the weekend. After reading a
synopsis of them, my first though was to wonder if the author used any
ideas from a Fredric Brown short story called /Placet is a Crazy Place/.

I've always enjoyed Fredric Browns stuff.

--
I know man both ept and ert.
Not intro or extro.
Just a vert.
- paraphrased from David McCord.

Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:

> On 25/03/24 10:56, bertitaylor wrote:
>
> > 3 body problem is a Netflix serial.
> > It is about the possible extinction of our species by aliens.
> > Apparently we deserve to be extinct as we cannot be trusted, as we lie.
> > Are such aliens autistic?
>
> Is this from the novel by Liu Cixin? After reading the first few
> chapters, I decided not to read anything else by that author.

Yes, and Me2,

Jan

bertitaylor wrote:

> 3 body problem is a Netflix serial.
> It is about the possible extinction of our species by aliens.
> Apparently we deserve to be extinct as we cannot be trusted, as we lie.
> Are such aliens autistic?

> bt

Autistic or not, they seem nasty.
The days when aliens with superior technology had superior moral values are gone! No more Vulcans to be found!
Communication happens with quantum entanglement, with four photons.
Two there and two here, the two here acting as supercomputers that disrupt electronics.
As there is quantum entanglement the information from Earth goes there to the aliens instantaneously.
However their physical presence here will take 400 years for they can come only at a small percentage of the speed of light. Einstein rules for them as well.
They think we are bugs.
Well at this stage we bugs know a thing or two and may learn some more within 400 years.
Like how to slice up a ship like a boiled egg with graphene wires.

bt

bertietaylor <bertietaylor@myyahoo.com> wrote:

> bertitaylor wrote:
>
> > 3 body problem is a Netflix serial.
> > It is about the possible extinction of our species by aliens.
> > Apparently we deserve to be extinct as we cannot be trusted, as we lie.
> > Are such aliens autistic?
>
> > bt
>
> Autistic or not, they seem nasty.
> The days when aliens with superior technology had superior moral values
> are gone! No more Vulcans to be found! Communication happens with quantum
> entanglement, with four photons. Two there and two here, the two here
> acting as supercomputers that disrupt electronics. As there is quantum
> entanglement the information from Earth goes there to the aliens
> instantaneously. However their physical presence here will take 400 years
> for they can come only at a small percentage of the speed of light.
> Einstein rules for them as well. They think we are bugs. Well at this
> stage we bugs know a thing or two and may learn some more within 400
> years. Like how to slice up a ship like a boiled egg with graphene wires.

How could we possibly have thought that they must be BEMs,
out to grab our blond long-legged scientist's daughters?

Jan

On 06-Apr-24 11:44, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> bertietaylor <bertietaylor@myyahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> bertitaylor wrote:
>>
>>> 3 body problem is a Netflix serial.
>>> It is about the possible extinction of our species by aliens.
>>> Apparently we deserve to be extinct as we cannot be trusted, as we lie.
>>> Are such aliens autistic?
>>
>>> bt
>>
>> Autistic or not, they seem nasty.
>> The days when aliens with superior technology had superior moral values
>> are gone! No more Vulcans to be found! Communication happens with quantum
>> entanglement, with four photons. Two there and two here, the two here
>> acting as supercomputers that disrupt electronics. As there is quantum
>> entanglement the information from Earth goes there to the aliens
>> instantaneously. However their physical presence here will take 400 years
>> for they can come only at a small percentage of the speed of light.
>> Einstein rules for them as well. They think we are bugs. Well at this
>> stage we bugs know a thing or two and may learn some more within 400
>> years. Like how to slice up a ship like a boiled egg with graphene wires.
>
> How could we possibly have thought that they must be BEMs,
> out to grab our blond long-legged scientist's daughters?

Is it important that the scientists should have long legs?
A vital plot point perhaps?

--
Sam Plusnet

Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

> On 06-Apr-24 11:44, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> > bertietaylor <bertietaylor@myyahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> bertitaylor wrote:
> >>
> >>> 3 body problem is a Netflix serial.
> >>> It is about the possible extinction of our species by aliens.
> >>> Apparently we deserve to be extinct as we cannot be trusted, as we lie.
> >>> Are such aliens autistic?
> >>
> >>> bt
> >>
> >> Autistic or not, they seem nasty.
> >> The days when aliens with superior technology had superior moral values
> >> are gone! No more Vulcans to be found! Communication happens with quantum
> >> entanglement, with four photons. Two there and two here, the two here
> >> acting as supercomputers that disrupt electronics. As there is quantum
> >> entanglement the information from Earth goes there to the aliens
> >> instantaneously. However their physical presence here will take 400 years
> >> for they can come only at a small percentage of the speed of light.
> >> Einstein rules for them as well. They think we are bugs. Well at this
> >> stage we bugs know a thing or two and may learn some more within 400
> >> years. Like how to slice up a ship like a boiled egg with graphene wires.
> >
> > How could we possibly have thought that they must be BEMs,
> > out to grab our blond long-legged scientist's daughters?
>
> Is it important that the scientists should have long legs?
> A vital plot point perhaps?

No plot point. The long legs appear on the magazine cover only,
making it immediately obvious who has them,

Jan