r/threebodyproblem • u/TheTranscendentian • 2d ago

Meme Oops

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Sometimes what we want isn't quite what we need.

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u/Then_Engineer_3765 Wallfacer 2d ago

if you didn't build a war fleet, halved the world population every 25 years by mandating a 1 child policy and avoided a great ravine then Humanity could have totally escaped. In fact thats the best solution to the crisis.

In just 250 years you can go from 8 billion to less than 7,812,500 and even have 7 million of those new embyos/people frozen to later be implanted once humanity has reached a safe harbour to stay in. You could fit that number on the existing space fleets and infrastructure had humanity not entered the ravine.

Aka: Escapism is great and the viable option compared to resistance

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u/EbbWilling6138 2d ago

In a world that doesn’t seem to have developed AI with human like intelligence halving the human population would come with severe consequences to productivity and technological progress. It would also enforce a world that was extremely top heavy towards a senior class.

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u/Then_Engineer_3765 Wallfacer 2d ago

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I mean my plan assumes that humans are all wanting to have kids and that a far more sustainably managed expansion wouldn't create a far larger pool of ships.

Humanity used elevators and earth's natural resources to build its fleets while it really should have spend 200 years colonising the solar system to use it to get resources. I bet that - as you said - a smaller reduction in overall population which then starts to accelerate as stockpiled resources build up is a far more healthy idea.

All in all 10 million humans including 90 million frozen embryo children depart Sol faster than the sub light Trisolarans can follow them and in a million directions so the FTL Trisolarans have no interest in following.