黑暗森林 - 三体 第二集, 2011

LAPL: Ch L7815 v.2

The Dark Forest--Book II of the Three Body Problem, 2015

LAPL: SF

Author： 劉慈欣 Cixin Liu

• In the primeval time, the only rule was the “law of the jungle”.

• The tens of thousands of years of human civilization on Earth is nothing but a flash in the billions of years of the Universe. Thus in the vast Universe, it is probably still a “jungle” out there. There may be far more advanced civilizations out there which look upon the earthlings just like how earthlings look upon the “civilized” world of ants.

• What would those far more advanced civilizations in the Universe do to us humans on Earth--once we are discovered? It’s hard to say. They may ignore us, or study us, if we are lucky. Or they may choose to trample upon us humans--just like we have trampled on ants without second thought.

• Knowingly or unknowingly, humans have tried to make contact with alien civilizations beyond Earth. In this Book II of the “Three Body Problem”, the author told a horror story of this imminent danger that was to come for sure because we discovered that were discovered. 

• What would human do to counter this danger in order to maintain its civilization and existence?