I’m watching #3bodyproblem and reading EE Doc Smith’s Skylark at the same time. And the similarities are striking, even if the timescales are a less realistic in the century old books. #scifi#bookstodon@bookstodon
Wie viel Wissenschaft steckt in der Netflix-SciFi-Serie "3 Body Problem"? Darüber habe ich gestern Abend drei Stunden lange mit Dr. Lisa Ringena von IsoQuant Heidelberg & @nawik und Cedric Engels aka Doktor Whatson bei ARTE #Couchwissen gesprochen.
Trisolar Music: Each Star gets a 3-note tune (major, minor and diminished chord I think)
The planet playes the closest star, pitchproximity, pacespeed.
I haven't been sucessfull in integrating JMusic into my Project so far (never used external libraries before)
Meanwhile @kandid brought my attention to soundification and I did succeed at multithreading! One thread does the gravity sim while the other soundifies it: Pitch increases the closer the planet gets to the star. The pace changes with the planets speed
I've been staying up too late reading the second book in the 3 Body series.
Although the concepts in the first book are epic, the second book feels more action-packed and exciting. It's not all talking characters, but stuff is happening. It makes me want to keep reading to find out more.
Chinese science fiction history shapes Netflix's '3 Body Problem' influence - FRIDAY ANALYSIS
I don’t often get to indulge my appreciation of Sinology, i.e., the study of Chinese history and culture, but Netflix’s new science fiction series “3 Body Problem” has piqued the curiosity of many people unaware of the country’s expansive Sci-Fi connections.
After watching the first episode, last night, I'm finally getting off my metaphorical butt and starting to read the Three Body trilogy. It's only been sitting on my hard drive for...just under 10(!) years.
Book 3 was a bit of a let down after Dark Forest. I had to take a little break after the fairy tales & the 4-dimensional bubble discovery. I enjoyed most of the individual sections; but, as a whole...eh.
After the first two books, it seemed, to me, like a bunch of deus ex machinas being flung around(which was kinda of funny in a meta way), in an effort wrap things up.
“Was that E.T. or was it not E.T.? Nobody knows,” Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, tells Astronomy. “Nobody has ever found another explanation for what that might have been. It’s like you hear chains rattling in your attic and you think ‘My god, ghosts are real.’ But then you never hear them again, so what do you think?”
@filmeundserien Und dass das nicht frustrierend genug wäre: Aus irgendeinem mir völlig unbekannten Grund waren die Folgen bei mir auch noch falsch sortiert. So begann die Serie mit der tatsächlichen Folge 2, und nach der tatsächlichen Folge 8 schloss sich die tatsächliche Folge 1 an. Oh, eine Rückblick-Folge, dachte ich. Die erklärt ja einiges. Und jetzt kommt die Auflösung? Aber da war nix mehr... #3BodyProblem
One of the lesser main characters used a bike in the first episode. No bicycle was used ever again.
In the second(?) episode he was told that he's still a child. So, was his use of a bike ment to be one of the indicators showing him to still be childlike? Not sure, but that would be the typical way bikes are used in culture. But since I'm not sure this isn't the worst, I guess.
I finished #3BodyProblem last night. It's dogshit. 0/10 I hate it. If you're a fan of the books watch #ThreeBody on Prime instead. It's a very good representation of the books. If you just like random Game of Thrones actors doing their best with a god awful script that is tangentially related to the books, I guess sure check out 3BP, I'm not your dad.
What's your favorite reviews of "Three body problem"? Especially ones that focus on discussing the physics - both in terms of depiction of physics and physicists and in terms of how correct the books are?
Preferably of the Netflix series, but I'll also accept those for the books if especially good on discussing the physics.
@muellerwhh@jni@vicgrinberg Among the problems with "Three Body" and "Dark Forest"; Liu Cixin did not inform himself that well about how people do radar astronomy and radio astronomy or about how people have imagined SETI over the past 60 years now.
In the scenario he set up; any of a long list of current radio telescopes (military as well as civilian) could be set to track the galactic plane at any time and run hot, ready to transmit within seconds - and some of them would be.
What ever happened to nanotechnology? Seems like it disappeared.
Most are probably too young to remember but nanotechnology was supposed to be the most super amazing thing ever.