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[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 12 points 21 hours ago

If we get a signal from space telling us not to do something, we're gonna fucking do it.

[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At least we got to live 100 years of true life in peace, that’s more than in our entire history :)

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I'd take that deal.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why does the last panel suggest it’s a trick? Wouldn’t it make more sense for the message to have originated from the now purged creators of the bots?

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 day ago

My interpretation is, they sent the message to prevent the creation of anything that could plausibly be a threat to them and ensure the success of their invasion

[–] RampageDon@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't this basically the premise to the "3 Body Problem"

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago

In which reguard?

The Trisolarians actively blocked humanities scientific progress in order to avoid further advancement during the 400 years it would take their fleet to get to Sol. Humanity didn't choose to slow down or even regress.

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The San-Ti were more honest about it.

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, sort of, they asked for help with their problem, then hamstrung Earth's progress by deceit so that they could make it over in time.

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do not remember there being such a gap between book and show but at least in the book it's earth reaching out while the one good guy on Trisolaris tells them not to.

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

That does sound familiar; I think I read it eight years ago so my memory is very patchy (to the extent I used the show to cover what I thought happened!).

Amused me greatly that the Romulans didn't see this coming. Okay, who am I kidding? I liked them before all that and seeing the flaw in their take multiple episodes before the big reveal kinda pissed me off.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's basically how the Tal Shiar duped themselves and their entire civilization.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Only if you want to regard one of the worse NuTrek series as canon.

In TNG Data is known about in both the Klingon and Romulan empire, and throughout TNG the impression that Dr. Soong was a genius who's work is nearly impossible to replicate was really high. So the Romulan just couldn't make someone like Data.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 hours ago

You're confusing active suppression for inability. The Romulans aren't idiots, nor short on genius, they're deluded at their core, to the point that their intelligence alone explains the long-term survival of their civilization. The Picard series didn't invent that about them, and the stable 8-star-star-system believed to have been created by super-tech in Romulan space is old lore as well.