r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/dream_monkey • 21h ago

Meme needing explanation I’m genuinely mystified

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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.