An far more advanced alien civilization heading your way intent on destroying you and will arrive in 400 years. How do you prepare for that?
Yes, I am watching 3 body problem. 🤣
I would think you need to put maximum investment into physics / tech right away. You'd want nuclear propulsion engines, some sort of biodefense plan perhaps.
Study how indigenous people handled European colonialism.
I was shocked when I realized the entire genre of sci-fi movies and books about alien invasion is simply a retelling of the history of European colonialism. Told in a modern or futuristic context. What’s amazing is now always tell it from the perspective of the colonized. We don’t directly address or make amends, but we do flip the script.
Don't indigenous populations usually face slaughter? Or eventually get reduced to a small number.
Resistance is futile - sorry couldn’t resist. I like the idea of biodefence.
Not always. Ethopia, Thailand, and Japan all managed to avoid being colonized. There are tens of millions of people in central and South America who still speak their native languages and maintain culture. The official, and most widely spoken language of Paraguay is Guarani not Spanish. The Polynesians were conquered but were able to fight to a truce, including in New Zealand where the Māori simply told Europeans who showed up on their shores they could adopt Māori culture or be killed. That lasted over a hundred before the British finally invaded. In South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, and Namibia Europeans tried to establish white only governments and were all defeated by popular resistance.
Yes there was massive genocide, but the most effective weapon was diseases that the native population had which killed off the colonialists. After that a strong government without internal conflict. Lots of people in the Incan empire hated the Incas so they were happy to help the Spanish invaders. This is basically how the aliens discovered where Earth is in the Three Body Problem. Where as in Ethiopia, Thailand, and Japan the people had a consolidated government with strong unity and popular support for the system. In New Zealand the Māori fought intensely amongst themselves but they had a unified culture and language and political system.
Lastly the best resistance came from peoples who didn’t think they were invincible. They quickly adapted the weapons and technology of the colonizers. Turns out the masters tools can be used to destroy the masters house.
So how do you win against the Three Body Problem aliens? First get our own house in order so all humans are on the same side. Second see if there is something in our biome which we’re find with but hurts the aliens. Third learn as much as possible about the aliens and their tech. This last one is why the aliens sabotage human physics and science.
I now NEED to watch Three Body Problem 😁
watch?
some scifi thing apparently, i know nothing other than i'm hearing folk talk about it
I read a book called that, did they make it into a movie or something 🤔
it's the name of one of the earliest and most well known chaos theory systems, i think Henri Poincare or one of those guys from the late 19th-early 20th, before the term "chaos theory" was coined, back then it was called, i think, "dynamical systems" or some name like this
it is impossible to say the state of three bodies in orbit with each other without modelling it, two bodies are predictable, one tends to be the centre and one the satellite, and three throws in an element that drastically reduces the predictability
of course, to be clear, three EQUAL bodies has to qualify what it really means, when there is a big difference in mass the predictability becomes easier to model, it resembles a gearing system instead of a chaotic system
Or indeed read! 😁
NO!
If it comes to hot war with an advanced alien civilization we likely won't stand a chance.
Better to gfto earth imo
Deploy couple trillion into physics and math research to find new physics we need to traverse the cosmos.
Start building giant laser to shoot off lightsails with dna printers.
Oh and maybe start on that space ark so we can die in space of old age in case the former fails 😅😂
I think that would definitely need to be part of the plan. You'd need an escape plan just in case and pray that the alien civilization is not able to catch up with you (which they probably would).
1. Escape plan
2. Bio-war prep. Make it so the planet is uninhabitable unless you are vaxxed against the bio agents.
3. Massive investment in nanotech. You'd want swarm nano-robots, perhaps fitted with micro nuclear warheads lol. I dunno.. just brainstorming.
4. A plan to sabotage the planet so it is totally uninhabitable if all else fails. If we can't live here, nor can they.
Ultimately I think you'd want to use the time to just level up your tech as much as possible so you are not fighting with a pitchfork so to speak.
What was the point of the scenes with the games? Felt disconnected from the rest of the show. Also, if it were to happen today, the e/acc philosophy will gain a lot more popularity
yeah I dunno... that was weird and pointless
Stack sats
IMHO if et does come there will be no much we can do initially. They will be years ahead of us in every aspect.
Are you sure it's not just the rapture for christians??? 🤪 #NativeAmericanHumor
So I’m only 3 episodes into the Netflix show but as a huge fan of the books, creating new physics wouldn’t work since they have broken our existing physics models with sophon tech :-) you could set up a base on the moon or mars to discover new physics, but then you’re losing maybe 50-100 years of resources leaving you less than 300 years to come with advanced enough tech to colonize multiple systems and spread humanity’s reach to avoid extinction l, create advanced enough weaponry to mount an offensive, or create advanced enough wormhole or some other space time manipulation tech to move your local sector into a higher or lower dimension or somehow mask all electromagnetic emissions from detection.
