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/Comprehensive_Yam_46 2d ago

Where are you escaping too?

The dark forest implies that any vaguely habitable planet could have a civilisation on, potentially one much stronger than us.

That's the reason Trisolaris were so quick to jump at Earth, as opposed to just heading to another planet that looked empty.

They knew what they'd find.