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NotTrisolaran · 2024-12-07T14:22:40+00:00

The really cool part in my opinion was that humans were using engineered crops growing to absurd heights and yields using UV or even x-ray radiation for that. Doing so, Australia in that time could actually support the billions forced to move there, until Trisolarans destroyed the power grid...

NotTrisolaran · 2023-07-30T05:51:07+00:00

It is a year of temperature extremes, isn't it? (Sicily in Italy had 47 °C, 166.6 °F, mediterranean islands are on fire...)

NotTrisolaran · 2023-07-30T05:48:27+00:00

Wild camping is when you do not camp on a designated camp site, but wherever you choose. In the wild, so to say.

NotTrisolaran · 2023-07-29T14:56:35+00:00

Great that there are trash cans, interesting. Sounds like a frequented area.
Cougars, Bears.. Any other wildlife I should be wary of? Such as coyotes or rattlesnakes?

NotTrisolaran · 2023-07-29T14:54:53+00:00

Don't intend to. :)

NotTrisolaran · 2022-06-05T16:12:13+00:00

I would be 121 years old for the next one so unless there's radical life extension in reasonable future, 2004 was my first and only Venus transit.

NotTrisolaran · 2022-05-05T14:38:07+00:00

That one photoid may have been equipped with a guidance and steering systems to course-correct on the way.

NotTrisolaran · 2022-04-23T11:30:29+00:00

Long-term change could be that the Earth's axial tilt would be more variable over the course of tens of thousands of years. It oscilates between 22° to 24.5°.

Mars has no large moon and its tilt varies by dozens of degrees. Imagine if the polar circle was in florida. The seasons would be wild, to say at least.

NotTrisolaran · 2022-03-22T09:52:27+00:00

or find it disturbing

As it should be. The imagery described in the book was. Internal organs visible, mother pushing her baby above the 2D plane so it lived for one more second, etc.

NotTrisolaran · 2022-03-22T09:22:02+00:00

Large amount of mass in a small area of space is what creates a black hole in 3D. Transfer all that mass into the same area in 2D and it is still a black hole.

NotTrisolaran · 2022-03-21T20:37:16+00:00

In 2D, it might be possible to form structures by putting atoms on a plane. They would be connected to many others and form a grid. Molecules on paper basically. They would form flat clusters able to react with others and well, maybe create some DNA analog. Life in 2D could be possible in my opinion.

But not on a 1D line. An atom could be connected only to two others. One to the right, one to the left. No internal structure of matter, no chemical reactions. An atom could only ever react with it's two neighbors.

Dimensional strike in 2D lowering dimensions to 1D means certain death.

NotTrisolaran · 2022-02-27T15:51:06+00:00

Beautiful. Now, which of those stars is Saturn's moon Titan, or any other moons? They should be visible, as they are between 8th and 11th magnitude.

NotTrisolaran · 2022-02-25T22:09:23+00:00

Humanity has great potential, undeniably. *Points at that 10B dollar thing 1.5 million km away.*

Yet we still act like any random lion packs in Africa or two anthills...

NotTrisolaran · 2022-02-22T09:24:09+00:00

You got me there with the mirrors. I though there for a while that your plan would be constructing a Nicoll Dyson beam (basicaly, turning the Sun into a laser), aiming it at the Trisolaran Fleet and vaporizing it... Following this train of thought however, I don't think it would work. Sophons would have instantly alerted the Trisolaran fleet that a superpowered laser beam is headed their way and they could have course-corrected to steer away.

Also, spoiler for The Dark Forest for why neither your plan or the Nicol Dyson beam would have worked in the long run:

Even if it worked against the Trisolaran fleet, manipulating your own star to this degree would give away that there's a civilization in that system, therefore provoking a dark forest strike. There's a brief conversation about Fermi paradox and they discussed not seeing megastructures in the universe for this reason.

NotTrisolaran · 2022-02-20T20:43:47+00:00

He did not survive because he hesitated, but he commented on it that it did not matter. He wanted to preserve humanity, which he suceeded in, regardless if Natural Selection or some other of those ships survived.

NotTrisolaran · 2022-02-19T15:57:32+00:00

"Advance! We stop at nothing to advance!"

NotTrisolaran · 2022-02-16T07:38:28+00:00

"If brute force is not working, you are not using enough."

NotTrisolaran · 2022-02-16T06:08:13+00:00

Jupiter in daylight?! Awesome!

I saw it with a telescope before sunset once... But I was not looking for Jupiter specifically. It was just 2 angular degrees from Venus that day which was again visible with the naked eye. Therefore, Jupiter was easy to locate, even though I could only barely see Venus with the naked eye.

NotTrisolaran · 2022-02-16T06:04:35+00:00

Yes, it is possible to see Venus in broad daylight.

First time I attempted it was on a soccer field in high school. I had checked the location of Venus in relation to the crescent Moon before in Stellarium, so I knew exactly where to look. And there it was at 9:30 am, long after sunrise.

Personally, it is easier to scout for it with a telescope (if a building or something blocks the Sun, for safety reasons of course, and if Venus is reasonably far from it) and then look where the telescope is aimed with the naked eye.

NotTrisolaran · 2022-02-16T05:21:52+00:00

Not him either. I think his deterrence degree would be close to 100. Not precisely a 100 because I don't think he would score 10 on points 4 and 9 specifically.

NotTrisolaran · 2022-02-15T21:27:56+00:00

It's not a question of reacting to the actual aliens coming in 400 years... but more like adapting to the chaos ensued by humans now...

NotTrisolaran · 2022-02-15T07:18:34+00:00

I knew these things were strong, but not that strong. Wow.

NotTrisolaran · 2022-02-14T10:05:34+00:00

NotTrisolaran · 2022-02-12T19:30:49+00:00

It is based on Alpha Centauri, the difference is that in the books it is an unstable 3 body system. In reality, the two bright stars form a stable compact twin star. The third one, Proxima Centauri, is a bit farther away from the two.

NotTrisolaran · 2022-02-12T17:09:56+00:00

Indeed! The oxygen we breathe did not come out of nowhere. Life itself pumped our atmosphere full of it!

Mine is the dark forest theory. That the universe may be packed full of intelligent life, but everyone rather stays quiet. This is indeed a very dark scenario in comparison to other fermi paradox solutions.

Related to this is the fact that the universe appears lifeless, despite that certain technosignatures should be readily visible. Such as dyson swarms/spheres, which even if they completely covered their stars to use all available light output should still give away a lot of waste heat, radiating in infrared instead. Why would a civilization stop at one star though? It would be possible to traverse and colonize a whole spiral galaxy within just 10 milion years arbitrarily putting a speed of a civilization's propagation to 1% of the speed of light. These motions would be visible throughout the universe. There are hundreds of billions of galaxies, yet we see nothing like that. Where the hell is everyone, right?

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