r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 21h ago

Meme needing explanation I’m genuinely mystified

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u/epicredditdude1 21h ago

She’s an insane hippy that does insane hippy stuff on social media for attention.

The joke is, imagine if it was all actually real and she alerted aliens to our location so they vaporized us with their advanced weapons.

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u/Mood-Rising 21h ago

I’m amused that the weapon is a relativistic slab of
Tungsten. Whoever made this is either into hard Sci Fi or a fan of Universe Sandbox.

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u/CuntyBallsJohnson 21h ago

It's basically the plot of three body problem where a crazy lady exposes the earth's location because she's uhh... Pregnant

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u/Gravitational_Torque 20h ago

Except not tungsten, but a droplet made of atoms held together by the strong nuclear force

And also two-dimensional weapons that spread out from a singularity and change three dimensions into two

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u/Pliskkenn_D 19h ago

That sounds insane, I should get round to reading Three Body Problem from the sounds of it. 

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u/Gravitational_Torque 19h ago

There's lots of cool things. Like assassinating leaders of an industry because its goals don't align with the best hope of humanity; and doing it in space, with bullets made out of meteorite, so it looks like an accident.

Three body problem is the best science fiction I've ever read. But for people who are accustomed to western literature, it will be jarring at first. There are a lot of characters, and none of them are really 'main characters" nor are they heroes (or villains) in a traditional sense.

It's more like an epic, than a novel series. Think it has 2/3rds the word count of the bible, between all three books.

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u/Pliskkenn_D 19h ago

That's so interesting. And that word count doesn't seem too much either. 

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u/Broad-Bath-8408 4h ago

I think all atoms are held together by the strong nuclear force.

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u/klawz86 20h ago

I think the Dark Forest Hypothesis was an answer to the Fermi Paradox before Liu wrote his books, but he paints a good picture of the concept and I think he coined the rather fantastic name.

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u/gafonid 19h ago

I mean, her dad got killed brutally during the cultural revolution and in general that entire time would make you pretty damn nihilist

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u/CuntyBallsJohnson 19h ago

I hate this argument cause plenty of people have had worse lives and didn't do nearly as much evil

She's like super giga Hitler

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u/gafonid 19h ago

Her later shit is definitely wild, but the initial decision in the moment of "everything fucking sucks come save us" I think a lot of people can relate to

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u/Yojimboroll 15h ago

She didn't heed the warning. It was malicious

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u/CuntyBallsJohnson 19h ago

I think the fact that the first response says don't reply if you reply we are going to come and kill you all should have put a pretty quick stop to that... How entitled do you have to be to think you can reach a solution with aliens who told you they'd kill your species. Or her intent was to wipe humanity in the first place because she felt wronged by the actions of 0.0001% of humanity

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u/Recent_Revival934235 2h ago

No doubt - she's evil.

Hitler was (physically) abused as a child and endured a brutal war. Doesn't excuse him for what he did.

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u/Recent_Revival934235 2h ago

Not just pregnant. Mao's revolutionaries killed her father, brainwashed her sister and mother, and probably killed the father of her child as well (I don't remember that part).

Mao does not get enough hate. I don't care how much he's gotten, it is not enough.