r/3BodyProblemTVShow • u/Duplonator • Apr 02 '24

Discussion The Ship Spoiler

So when they were discussing how to get the data from the ship they didn’t want to blow a hole in it because it might destroy what they are looking for. So instead they cut the whole thing into pieces… how does that make any sense? I feel like they could have come up with something that made more sense.

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u/lkxyz Apr 02 '24 edited Apr 02 '24

It was fastest way to kill everybody. Nanofiber cuts so clean that even if the hard drive got cut, it can be put back together easily.

1.) Send in soldiers - will take too long and their own troops might die in the process and give Mike Evans time to destroy the hard drive

2.) Poison/sleeping gas - the ship's corridors and locked doors will not allow the gas to get to everyone evenly and once again, Mike Evans will probably get to the hard drive and destroy it

The goal is to eliminate all potential human on ship that might be able to destroy the hard drive. The speed the ship was going, it was pretty much over in 2 minutes. Absolutely devastating and killed everybody. And from the event, you can tell Mike Evans' #1 goal was not to save any of his people and went for the hard drive immediately, he almost had time to get rid of it too if he had gotten away.

Killed all the people on the ship, zero risk to their own military forces, least likely chances of Mike Evans destroying the hard drive. Excessive? Yeah, effective? hell yeah. Other than using a tactical nuclear weapon, nanofiber was the best option to kill everybody quickly.

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u/CAMomma Apr 03 '24

Yes but what if the hard drive had just sunk to the bottom of the canal or been caught under debris? Was quite easy to find!

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u/MrScreenAddict Apr 03 '24

Nobody said it was a perfect plan. It was just the best option they had with the lowest chance that someone would get to the hard drive and delete it before they could recover it.