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<blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 9314182" data-attributes="member: 5889">Another oddity in the show. Consider the show is called &quot;the 3 body problem&quot;....the whole 3 bodies thing has very little to actually do with the plot of the show. It could have been any catastrophe and the story wouldn’t have changed I could buy your first theory if when the people entered the game they were immediately told “this is a simulation in which you will play blah blah blah”. But they are not, in fact figuring out what is going on is a key part of the game. The communication is never “total”Onto your nitpicks, ultimately we can accept that our knowledge of physics is incomplete, and so if aliens come around and go “um…yeah you totally can communicate FTL using quantum entanglement, you just first need to do XYZ”…that’s not crazy. Same with more dimensions, we don’t have evidence for their existence but maybe one day we will.So I never mind that aliens are able to bend the laws of physics in sci fi to a point. For me the break is when we learn of a property in the story and then it’s not properly used. The aliens cannot lie…fine. But they also use simulated worlds with made up characters, and can understand and use metaphor…um huh? Aliens can control our systems using super protons…fine. But the aliens then don’t immediately use them to stop their main enemies…huh?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stalker0, post: 9314182, member: 5889"] Another oddity in the show. Consider the show is called "the 3 body problem"....the whole 3 bodies thing has very little to actually do with the plot of the show. It could have been any catastrophe and the story wouldn’t have changed I could buy your first theory if when the people entered the game they were immediately told “this is a simulation in which you will play blah blah blah”. But they are not, in fact figuring out what is going on is a key part of the game. The communication is never “total” Onto your nitpicks, ultimately we can accept that our knowledge of physics is incomplete, and so if aliens come around and go “um…yeah you totally can communicate FTL using quantum entanglement, you just first need to do XYZ”…that’s not crazy. Same with more dimensions, we don’t have evidence for their existence but maybe one day we will. So I never mind that aliens are able to bend the laws of physics in sci fi to a point. For me the break is when we learn of a property in the story and then it’s not properly used. The aliens cannot lie…fine. But they also use simulated worlds with made up characters, and can understand and use metaphor…um huh? Aliens can control our systems using super protons…fine. But the aliens then don’t immediately use them to stop their main enemies…huh? [/QUOTE]

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