Unfortunately, I Cannot See The Milky Way From My Backyard Because Of Light Pollution.

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3 BODY 三体 :  Posters (1)

based on the award-winning science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, starring Feng Shao Feng, Zhang Jingchu, Wu Gang, Tang Yan, Zhang Han, etc. set to be released in summer 2016.

Scientists are working on those replicators.

The protein is created from water, electricity and carbon dioxide and the Finnish researcher believes “the price can be pushed to 1 euro per kg”. Creating food this way doesn’t require the right humidity and soil and doesn’t take up the vast acreage otherwise required for growing soy beans for example. 

Potentially all that is required is solar power - making it possible to feed people in deserts. Commercial use is hopefully 10 years away. 

Famine solved! No more starving! Our Star Trek future is here!

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Cixin Liu [x]

“Oh, heavens! Starry Sky!” AA cried out.

Cheng Xin knew that she was referring to Van Gogh’s  painting. True, the universe really did look like the painting. The painting in her memory was almost a perfect copy of the two-dimensional Solar System before her eyes. Giant planets filled space, the areas of the planets seeming to exceed even the gaps between them. But the immensity of the planets did not give them any sense of substantiality. Rather, they looked like whirlpools in space-time. In the universe, every part of space flowed, churned, trembled between madness and horror like fiery flames that emitted only frost. The Sun and the planets and all substance and existence seemed to be only hallucinations produced by the turbulence of space-time. 

Cheng Xin now recalled the strange feeling she had experienced each time she had looked at Van Gogh’s painting. Everything else in the painting - the trees that seemed to be on fire, and the village and mountains at night - showed perspective and depth, but the starry sky above had no three-dimensionality at all, like a painting hanging in space. 

Because the starry night was two-dimensional.

How could Van Gogh have painted such a thing in 1889? Did he, having suffered a second breakdown, truly leap across five centuries and see the sight before them using only his spirit and delirious consciousness? Or, maybe it was the opposite: He had seen the future, and the sight of this Last Judgment had caused his breakdown and eventual suicide.

Death’s End (p. 529), Cixin Liu

This interminable wave was an abstract view of the universe: one end connected to the endless past, the other to the endless future, and in the middle only the ups and downs of random chance—without life, without pattern, the peaks and valleys at different heights like uneven grains of sand lined up in a row, lonely, desolate, so long that it was intolerable. You could follow it and go forward or backward as long as you liked, but you’d never find the end.

Cixin Liu, “The Three-Body Problem”

http://ebooksession.com/book/MThmM2M1eA~~/The-Wandering-Earth#.VBxzvDwtD4g

Didn’t guess this one, either. And I don’t remember any orbital tethers in that story, or antennae. Plumes of plasma fire, maybe, but not tethers.

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The Three-body Problem——Sword Holder