Waterdrop :the fans movie of The three-body problem

the book《 The three body problem》by liu cixin
hope U like the movie and the book
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[@charlottez7989]

Liu Cixin himself once said in an interview, that this video showed exactly how he would portray the Waterdrop. He absolutely loved this video, and the team did a fantastic job.

[@user-tk1ev9ph8n]

Charlotte Z liu

[@sunovn.]

yes

[@kylanevan3909]

i know it's quite off topic but does anyone know of a good site to watch new series online ?

[@d_ruggs]

Any idea which interview?

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

I was hoping halfway through that we were actually looking at the teardrop itself, but what we were seeing wasn't the smallest discernable scale of it's own makeup, but that of the observing instrument, because the teardrop is such an exquisitely complete reflecting body. Videos like this are thoroughly welcomed gems.

[@Devan-he4kr]

Seems like a really nice waterdrop. Sure it would never hurt anyone.

[@N1ghtH4wk86]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@speedstriker]

Yeah! Superior aesthetics denote superior morality! What could go wrong? :DDD

[@ensaladadepapaya8511]

Such a gift for humanity

[@taikisaruwatari5148]

Look at our spacefleet, they must be scared! It surely is a gift for peace'

[@georgsgrants9925]

@@taikisaruwatari5148 the worst thing is, from all they knew they really were that powerful. They couldn’t have known trisolaris had the capability to make strong interaction material. They couldn’t possibly imagine it

[@davionhuang9660]

Lots of people including those who have read the book several times might not understand what the video means. The filmmaker wanted to depict the fact that the water-drop whose every particle is connected by strong force is beyond human understanding. However, it's possible but not adequate to show the process of magnifying and seeing the same thing.So the maker strategically used the rule that the smallest detail a mirror can show is the density of itself. And then, starts from the basic structure of metal to the particles , from the nail on the human spaceship to the weapon, from the whole navy to the solar system, everything is shown on the waterdrop, which destroyed the whole navy later, with the lines and sounds in the movie, it shows the motto in the book :' weakness and ignorance is not what killed the human. Pride is.'

[@user-le4kq3kr7w]

+hz d 超结构

[@JohnVance]

You're exactly right. The person who made this video understood perfectly what was happening, including all the nuance.

[@exiaax]

hz d I can't like your comment enough

[@museluvr]

Never heard of this and stumbled on it trying to find a song.. but what an intriguing thing this is. Add your comment gave insight in.. now I need to find the book.

[@nortonz3767]

精彩的解释，通过水滴表面的镜面反射，人类自认为无敌的宇宙舰队的粗糙表面被一览无遗，看似强大其实脆弱，而水滴却正好相反

[@WORLDCRUSHER9000]

"The human race did not have the slightest psychological preparation for what was about to happen."

[@iamo0]

Some people had it, like Zhan Beihai.

[@jimmylavc561]

When you read for the first time you know that its not going to be a victory for humanity but Liu really captured what it must have felt like to be that overconfident and then have all your expectations shattered so completely.

[@speedstriker]

The sense of absolute despair and hopelessness conveyed by Liu Cixin's description of that damned massacre of a battle absolutely floored me. It's incredible how Liu was able to pile despair upon despair with such clear language that conveyed not only the cold cruelty of the situation, but also the desperation felt by individual humans, even as their lives faded into the brilliant lights of nuclear fusion.

[@nowseemefly]

Your description of the remarkable feeling conveyed in the story is also beautiful

[@laisensei6984]

On top of that, Liu was able to demonstrate both the preciousness and powerlessness of human emotions and morality when facing such kind of despair.

[@speedstriker]

@@laisensei6984 Liu is way too good at that. The guy does not pull punches, especially in the third book.

[@peppermintgal4302]

"If I destroy you... what business of it is yours? Run, run you fools, run!"

[@AdamantineAxe]

Nothing more dangerous then a cornered animal with nothing to lose. We just nuke the entire surface of the earth and moon before they arrive. You guys sure are far from home. Have fun with your new paradise world.

[@granudisimo]

The screams..., the screams of the millions of crew members being murdered in barely an instant, while not even their combat assessment supercomputer has the slightest idea of what's going on.

[@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim]

Terrifying

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

They can't even scream bruh

[@granudisimo]

@@HYDROCARBON_XD You must be so much fun at parties...

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

@@granudisimo no but if you're literally contradicting yourself it doesn't even make sense,how can you scream if you die instantly

[@granudisimo]

@@HYDROCARBON_XD I take it back good sir, because you are not just fun at parties, you must be the soul of every single one you've ever attended.

[@quinsutton7097]

Truly chilling. It took me a bit to realize that the thing being shown was the reflection of ship on the droplet, perfect to the atomic scale.

[@demenos3502]

Chinese translations: 1:15 Dear audience: the day which we have been looking forward to has finally arrived. At the moment, Earth International and Fleet International shall accompany the human race into a new era that will excite people. The neighbor we have been observing - the outpost detector of the Trisolaris Fleet - just arrived the Solar System. Let us give them our sincerest greetings. 10:17 Its quietness, peacefulness, loneliness, fragility, is what makes it unique and moves us. We can not imagine a civilization that has been destroyed dozens of times can still be so calm and serene. Lastly, let us all pray that we can witness the contact of the two great civilizations.

[@weiminma88]

The creators of this video are genius. If the movie can achieve the same effect, it would be the greatest achievement of SF movie in human history.

[@desperadoshao9733]

its sister movie is already on screen, go to see the wondering earth. oh but most of the Western cinemas dont imported it. well

[@exiaax]

Desperado Shao it is going to be made available on Netflix

[@RationalAnimations]

@@desperadoshao9733 The Wandering Earth movie was extremely disappointing.

[@blodkjeks]

yeah..keep yer panties on, sport

[@jetbrown3085]

Oingo Boingo they made too many changes in it...

[@magicameraman]

This should be mandatory viewing for anybody attempting to adapt the book to TV.

[@nikolaanicic3944]

Abso-fucking-lutely.

[@aaronottermann5824]

Agree 100%. This captured the essence of the books so well, far beyond just visualizing a thing or scene from them.

[@darkblaze373]

WHAT DO THE CHINESE TRANSLATIONS SAY IN THE VID

[@SnakeWasRight]

"If I destroy you, what business is it of yours?"

[@djoverkin]

The original quote, "If I love you..." evokes such sadness and futility on part of the originator. Changing just one verb flips doubly flips the meaning, dread, helplessness, futility, but this time not on the originator's part, but the target's. This was one of Liu's master strokes.

[@AC-iz7eh]

That last image is especially haunting, decades worth of preparation and all hope of humanity to be destroyed in a matter of minutes

[@user-Loki-young0515]

The perfect smoothness of the droplet reflects every details of the ships

[@ryana5435]

Glad to see TBP related videos get newcomers and more views after Netflix version released

[@tianxialiuyiwang505]

three-body novel is a gift to all the SF fans

[@zomgneedaname]

The true successor to Asimov and Clarke

[@djoverkin]

it's a gift to Earth

[@CuttingEdges]

The beauty of this fan movie is that within the perfect reflection of the Droplet, all surfaces created by humans are imperfect. Humanity's weakness is captured in the Trisolaran's superior gaze. Edit: To the people in the replies: yes we know.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Eh, it's just a few hundred years head start in technology

[@tacoblude8208]

Actually humanity without the interference would be more advanced than the triolsolarians and would’ve easily defeated them. I can only imagine what that would be like.

[@joeking5679]

In the books, humanity was only a few months (or years, I forget) away from possessing technology that could defeat droplets, so without the Sophon interference they would have won.

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

Without siphons we would have decimated the trisolarans

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

No they’re not,also the droplet is meant to be smooth,the human ships aren’t

[@alex1989060]

human: I wonder what kind of laser beam will the aliens shoot at us? alien: did I just hit something with my windshield?

[@JG-cx1xd]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@coloradobrad6779]

Exactly, I get so tired of nuclear warheads. I mean in the future there’d be this. Or the 2 d filament later on. No way to fight.

[@bryanreidsands6854]

I like the scene in Mars Attacks! when we fire nukes at ‘em. They detonate it, capture the blast, load it into a bong and take a big draw. It only makes their voices a bit higher like helium does for us. Broadcast on live TV too.

[@Alcinos]

I have no words. It portrait perfectly the feeling of void while reading this scene in the second book. So beautiful yet so terrifying

[@LordTelperion]

The Droplet is basically neutronium, material bound by the strong nuclear force via gravity that composes neutron stars, sans the gravity. Fascinating indeed.

[@tomli9793]

Not accurate

[@tomli9793]

It is composed of strong nuclear force materials. Strong nuclear force binds the quarks in protons and neutrons together, and the protons and neutrons in atoms together. The molecular structure of general matter is maintained by electromagnetic force. If the molecules are magnified to the size of the earth, the distance between the molecules will be farther than the distance from the sun to the earth. The aliens found a way to use the strong nuclear force and made the shell of water droplets with it

[@OverG88]

No it's not. They'd definitely knew if it was neutronium. The Droplet was described as absolutely flat having 0 K temperature. Neutronium would be gaseous or undergo Bose-Einstein condensate at absolute zero and normal pressure. Also, while hit with hammer (as described in the book), neutronium would diffuse with it and not bounce off.

[@exiaax]

If at least 30% of the movie could be as deeply understanding of the book as this fanmovie, it will become a blockbuster in both western movie scene and eastern. EDIT: So the netflix season 1 adaptation came out, and even though they clearly cut things out and changed a few other things, I'm like 85% happy with it, so I count that as a win. They will surely do this scene justice, according to the interviews.

[@trauty666]

sadly it wont most likely. the topic of the books is far too complex for ordinary viewer who expect only action and more action. take blade runner 2049 for example. excellent scifi but most ordinary viewers found it boring 3 body problem would need to be made differently for the purpose of film in order to be captivating for mainstream and therefore profitable enough to justify creating it in the first place. the movie would most likely ignore 60s era from book and focus on present time of the book solely

[@drak_iaji7227]

@@trauty666 Even with a considerable degree of compromise, Blade Runner 2049 was not a commercial success.😭

[@dontroublejoy3187]

I went to the theatre 3 times to watch Blade Runner. It was the only movie that moved me to tears over and over again. But my boyfriend found it boring and stupid.

[@quixotiq]

Yes!

[@DummyFace123]

They never do sadly, Fan movies are all about passion and movies are more about marketing and money

[@jebnordost7487]

I really love the human spaceships in this. Their shape is so Alien and incomprehensible, even though I saw it i couldnt realy describe what it looks like.

[@fanyujie5209]

She is so beautiful, like mother's tear. Please treat it gently, it looks so fragile.

[@fansteven6621]

the background music does really fit the circumstances and gives me goose pump once i realize what destruction lies ahead. Gosh, someone please make film of this novel.

[@jaellenwarren1895]

There are two on the way

[@bobo096]

Converting this masterpiece into a film will be an extremely challenging task.

[@bat51]

on my third re-read of remembrance of earth’s past and the droplet attack remains one of the most magnificent moments in the history of science fiction.

[@lukegriffiths4333]

The implication is that all of our technology, our entire conception of the world, fits inside the image held by theirs curved away from our world, because the resolution they're operating at is that many orders of magnitude higher.

[@laisensei6984]

2021, and this video is still aging like a fine wine.

[@rorschachgotnicemask9449]

8 years past, still the best version. Someone hire him pls! @Tencent

[@MrTrouserpants101]

netflix's season 2 NEEDS to have an opener similar in tone to this. it perfectly conveys the feeling to the audience that we are seeing everything from the trisolaran's perspective. EDIT: this video was also made by an AI. so you can just steal it, no one actually made this.

[@testtube9423]

The Amazon Prime Chinese version is so much better. I had the highest hopes for the Netflix one but it's just not up to the Quality that the book provides.

[@itobin2957]

If I was the writer of season 2, I would straight up steal this video's concept

[@MrTrouserpants101]

@@itobin2957 i will make sure to manifest this idea with the thermodynamic power of thought

[@wacchi_lorie]

nf is never get this series great if they continue making aliens as fools, this may work for some other marvel series, but not for three body. Fear and ignorance are only true feelings that human got from trisomies

[@Rewind-xq6xs]

Fuck Netflix’s Three Body Problem, the only good it did to me is to help me vomiting my fucking dinner.

[@franzfrikadelli6074]

i really hope D&D saw this video and took some inspiration for the new show.

[@cyc20976]

showing from the dense molecular structure of the droplet, while zooming out you can even see the reflection detail of the defensive fleet, this video is pure genius! 11:05

[@impromptu3155]

In fact the dense molecular structure is from human spaceship, this is the reflection on the infinitely smooth surface of droplet.

[@Dumb-Comment]

the waterdrop is perfect, it doesnt have the defects shown, it was a reflection of the human spaceships

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

@@Dumb-Commentnot perfect but almost

[@tomgattis8577]

Touching the waterdrop, or sitting down to watch the Netflix adaptation of the books; I don't know which scares me more.

[@merrittanimation7721]

This is the best adaptation of this book that I think there can be.

[@exodus8202]

Many of the dialogues here are quoted from the broadcasted discussion among Dr.Hawking, Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clark. If you haven’t watched the whole thing, do yourself a favor.

[@ryana5435]

From which timestamp to which timestamp? I’m very curious about the sources of these voices

[@FighTThePower.]

Netflix better get this scene right thats all that matters

[@tsukasa1608]

I think Tencent will get this right rather than Netflix, cuz Tencent hired a bunch of hardcore fans that worship the books, you can tell by watching the Tencent series, also they don't shy away from the sciences, nothing was dumbed down, as for Netflix's, 24 episodes for the whole trilogy just wasn't enough.

[@bat51]

yeah but tencents budget is so small they’re probably going to be severely limited on what they can actually show whereas say what you will about the writing, the huge amount of money they’re spending on the special effects on netflix show will mean that visually it should hopefully be pretty spectacular

[@alMadzhar1]

the initial scene is a reflection on the surface of the waterdrop of a Philips screw in one of the human fleet!!!

[@khantutan825]

For those who are not familiar with the story, the best way to understand this video is to watch it backward.

[@ppmi6]

Still couldn't understand wth is going on

[@theglitch312]

⁠@@ppmi6 The silver ‘droplet’ you’re seeing at the end of the video @13:00 is an alien probe meeting hundreds of human ships (the dots in a perfect grid in the distance) face to face @13:30. However, what humans don’t expect, is just how advanced and capable this alien droplet space ship is. This thing is extremely dense. So dense, that it’s a near perfect reflector. In the beginning of the video, you’re seeing the atoms of the alien ship itself @0:15. They’re almost impossibly close to each other and perfectly aligned in a grid. Then, slowly zooming out, you’re seeing the REFLECTION of the nano scale structures of the human space ships miles away in the perfect mirror of the droplet space ship @1:40. Zooming out until you see larger structures reflected. For example, this is a reflection of one of the millions of screw on the human massive human space ships 6:06. Zooming out further, until you see the reflection of an entire human ship @10:00. And hundreds of human ships lined up in a grid formation @11:15 as tiny black dots reflected on the droplet’s surface. Ironically matching the perfection of the droplet’s subatomic structure. Just at a scale that reflects (haha pun) the technological difference between the aliens and us. Zooming out further, we see the droplet itself @12:00. When the camera pans, you see the actual human ships, no longer reflected in the droplet itself. Humans think it’s a gift of the aliens because it’s so pretty. Like how we think super venomous animals are beautiful and harmless since they’re so pretty and bright. Shortly after that. The droplet kind of wipes them all out like they’re a bunch of ants by ramming them. One by one. And due to its incredible density, it just goes through them like a superheated katana through room temperature butter.

[@joshuawall2590]

​@@ppmi6the metal teardrop at the end is an alien weapon. It is made of indedtructible material that is perfectly reflective. You can infinitely zoom into its surface. The video is our perspective zooming out from that surface. The material you see right before the end is the atoms of earth space ships reflected onto it. It destroys a thousand ships by ramming through them.

[@sharojak9401]

@@ppmi6 The droplet is held together by strong interaction and perfectly smooth to a subatomic level. It is also a perfect reflector. The first images of those grids of balls is it’s own structure. The rest is it’s surface mirroring the human fleet to a subatomic level, showing all of their ships imperfections to that level, while the droplet has no such imperfections. The humans were arrogant because despite the aliens being capable of blocking their scientific advancement they achieved way faster ships and extremely powerful weapons. But that didn’t matter because the droplet alone is a hundred times stornier than any material humanity ever produced.

[@khantutan825]

@@sharojak9401 Well said.

[@patrickleitzen9752]

I just finished the whole series and, oh man... I can't stop thinking about these books.

[@CytotoxinK]

In 2212, the human race captured the first extraterrestrial object. It was named the Waterdrop. There were no survivors.

[@Dr._Atom]

Nope, 60,000 survived

[@joewulf7378]

nah, the human fleets were surrounded by the Waterdrop

[@adityaadit2004]

Bro forgot about Lantian and Bronze Age

[@edgarb.6187]

So what we are seeing is not the composition of the tear drop but the near perfect reflection of the spaceships and fleet on the surface of the tear drop. And because it is nearly perfect reflection you can zoom in to see the atoms that make up the spaceships. Right?

[@saucevc8353]

Yes, except for the atoms at the beginning. The fact that they are perfectly stacked side by side implies that they are not the atoms of the ship, but the atoms of the droplet itself, bolted into perfect formation by the strong nuclear force. This makes sense, as pure light waves are too large to see atoms themselves so that part could not be a result of reflection.

[@zeroneutral]

Yes.

[@CHIPSSALTY]

Humans "We are aware that we are but a small part of this universe." Truth: "You are not a small part. You are not even bugs nor pests. You are nothing. Soon you won't even exist and no one will blink an eye."

[@zone8848]

This story is not about the Chinese saving the earth, it's a world wide effort done by the entire human race, just that the Chinese are telling the story.

[@chagothegreat]

@@bambarby no, I do not agree with that. Society in the end was the doom of it all, society became complacent.

[@grant7988]

The story is about Chinese culture revolution destroyed the entire world...

[@2200zy]

@@grant7988 you are pathetic

[@finnegansx4423]

@@grant7988 no the story is ab cultural evolution destrying the whole universe and the communists saving it

[@NN-do6ze]

Which means marvellous in Sci Fi

[@kingerz]

heartbreaking to see the human ships in formation...

[@LazyScoutJace]

That was absolutely beautiful and terrifying at the same time. I'm about halfway into Death's End. Gahhh!

[@donlyemanuel]

@ Did you really think such a cheap childish trick as a craddle system connected to a few nukes would stop the Lord forever? *_GET READY FOR AUSTRALIA, BUG!_*

[@zomgneedaname]

Saw this video, had no idea what it was about but loved the art direction. So went and read the book in 3 days, came back and rewatched the video. Worth it.

[@eardwulf785]

Four years on and it's just been announced that the trilogy is going to be adapted for Netflix. The depth and complexity of this great sf masterpiece surely will be a real challenge to adapt to the screen. Hope they don't ruin it.

[@8749236]

Only if they really understand the book and not monetize it with Hollywood styled hero vs villain theme.

[@eddywong6688]

i just wish netflix cancel the project because i dont want them to ruin the entire novel.

[@eardwulf785]

@@eddywong6688 Totally agree Eddy. Also feel exactly the same about Dune

[@vincefinney722]

@@eddywong6688 I have faith because the author is apart of the creative team

[@quixotiq]

The Tencent trailer looks better

[@tomkostura4282]

Absolutely stunning. Yearning badly for a epic cinematic take on the series. This was so well done.

[@pastiche4497]

Are you ready?

[@MissMisnomer_]

I don't know if this was intentional or not, but at 12:00, the reflections make the waterdrop looks a cell undergoing mitosis, which I think is incredibly poetic: every human being, every multi-cellular organism on earth begins the exact same way in a process that we believe ourselves to have fully documented and understand, but when you get down to it, we do not truly know where "life" comes from. And in the same way, we cannot begin to understand the complexities of our universe. All life begins the same way, and in the face of this unstoppable weapon from the emptiness of space, all of these human lives are about to end. I dunno, I just think it's a neat, if altogether unintentional visual metaphor.

[@krisonveloc25]

Beautiful, what life means is the intelligence organism that will try anything to survive in the cruellest competitive world since they born

[@briansmithbeta]

I found this immediately after reading this scene in the The Dark Forest. I wanted to see if anyone had made a video depicting the scene. I'm glad this is the video I found, and not a video of what happens next. This is better by far. I agree with other commentators: This is utterly brilliant in both concept and execution. Note:I watched it without sound the first time (scrubbing through it a few seconds at a time), then again later with sound in its entirety. Excellent in both cases.

[@AlfRentgen]

So did I today.

[@TL-fe9si]

If you play this clip backwards, it is how the waterdrop penetrates the spaceships.

[@SnakeWasRight]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3bEmKmAa5mJjZI this is a pretty good depiction of what comes next, though not as terrifying as this video

[@josevalero3543]

I would love to see a movie that could reflect this part so well as this fan movie, even if abstract for many, totally in line with the book (or even better) to the later "hollywood fireworks" and chaos that start just after this video ends, the book is amazing in the way that describes the subsequent chaos.

[@lukegriffiths4333]

It would take some cojones to sell a 15-minute bass-drop leadup to the action scene (something like infected mushroom during the attack could be good), but it would blow people's minds and sell tickets like crazy

[@josevalero3543]

@@lukegriffiths4333 indeed haha

[@ryana5435]

Glad to see TBP related videos get newcomers and more views after Netflix version released

[@Keegah]

Utterly terrifying, but in a very subtle way. Just like the book. Looking forward to getting started on The Dark Forest.

[@brandx01]

I finished The Dark Forest yesterday. I am awed by the mind that can create such a masterpiece!!

[@Justin-vt7wk]

This video is better after reading the Dark Forest as it is more related to it.

[@estellechan8811]

Dark Forest is my favourite of the trilogy

[@kylexu7222]

Masterpiece. A water drop, looks so fragile, can reflect infinte details of menmade spacecrate. The whole human world shows nothing but imperfection to the waterdrop.

[@JsJdv]

It's clearly not a water drop but a remote controlled projectile. It's not that deep.

[@jotchua33547]

@@JsJdv If that's the only thing you were able to pull from the book about the Droplet then I feel genuine pity for you.

[@JsJdv]

@@jotchua33547 No, I pity you for having thought that the droplet was a revolutionary idea. But then again, you probably don't read a lot.

[@jotchua33547]

@@JsJdv "Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is." I hope you have a good day.

[@JsJdv]

@@jotchua33547 You too. And wear your helmet on your way out.

[@Jaydee-wd7wr]

That’s such an excellent trick, you start off assuming that’s the fleet, but then it just zooms out and out and out.

[@eurybaric]

Jesus Christ this feels like the best audiovisual adaptation since 2001:!

[@circeowaggles]

What was the best one of 2001?

[@lucyc5844]

@@circeowaggles I think they were referring to 2001: A Space Odyssey lol

[@quinsutton7097]

Are you telling me that the trisolarans could figure out how to make this, but up and die when their planet gets a smidge too toasty?

[@muddygun]

Well, you're not wrong in your thought. BUT, in spirit of the book there was already knowledge of another race out there in the galaxy and it was very close to theirs. It would make sense to send your civilization to deal with it. So, there is that part, but they also did not send their whole civilization. It was seen as a packing up and moving out kind of scenario because the technology to make their system stable was too hard I am sure. Moving a star/planet is a lot harder than making some teardrop I am sure. Also, they were developing technology as their journey was going on. They invented light speed travel earlier than the original date of arriving as well.

[@binac]

After Liu Cixin watching this micro film, he post on a forum, said this is the Three Body Problem movie in his heart, and if the movie would be made like this, he 死也瞑目(a Chinese idiom literally means closing one's eyes after his/her death, implying Liu's extremely satisfied).

[@robb9777]

Absolutely fantastic. Shows the terror and also the beauty of the droplet in such a fascinating way!

[@edcatt9196]

The three books that comprise the trilogy (the first one called The Three Body Problem) made me reevaluate my former (I think naive) attitude towards 'contact' with an advanced alien species. Maybe we should listen quietly for others out there, and be careful should we decide to say 'Hello!' But, we've already said 'Hello' in various ways...so, hopefully, no one who may be listening will bother to reply? The Dark Forrest program seems the more sensible.

[@calebblack1420]

The Jimmy Neutron movie covered this all pretty extensively

[@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim]

Yeah. I think we should focus on improving planet earth and society rather than tryna become Instagram friends with unknown foreign entities

[@georgsgrants9925]

If dark forest theory was true, then no aliens exist in the milky way. We would never have even existed. A stellar civilization could launch probes to every star in the galaxy and destroy all life, before it could even begin to develop intelligence and pose a threat. The technology gaps between species would be immense. I think this really makes it mostly pointless to develop pre emptive defenses against potential antagonists. Either they’re more primitive, in which case preparations aren’t really needed since we would have highly superior technology, or they’re more advanced, in which case, goodbye, universe. There will not be an “independence day” type of thing. There will not be resisting something that much more advanced. The “why are we here” for dark forest also applies to the second scenario here. I think this makes it desirable to contact extraterrestrial species. Avoiding contact is either prolonging the inevitable or missing out on great gain

[@MilkonDvD]

Just finished the second book and it's just as addicting as the first book even if I got lost a few times, this scene gave me chills

[@calomonte4764]

I also see from the first detail an allegory for how infinitely small we are in the cosmic scale of things and just how little about this we really know. As you'll note the image progresses to scales imaging Galaxies, Galactic neighbourhoods through all manner of states of scale. It shows that even at the most massive of scales in the video those too shrink into a naval of nothingness compared to what engulfs it. We as humans not only cannot understand the details of the waterdrop, we barely even understand the colossal detail of the cosmos. Our finite existence forces us to view the cosmos in a finite way. We refer to the "big bang" and "observable universe" with what may appear as scientifically powerful knowledge to us, but may be nothing more than the blabbering coohs of newborns further up the fractal. WE KNOW NOTHING.

[@arimat5193]

Amazing - and horrifying, given what happened in the novel.

[@Zz7722zZ]

Towards the end of the video, my inner Gandalf was screaming to to Fleet International: Fly you Fools!!!

[@merrittanimation7721]

Don't get too close to the crazy alien probe! This never ends well!

[@KevinHuangPhasorQuantaG]

"Stupid children. Run!"

[@HiDesert004]

@@KevinHuangPhasorQuantaG “Run where?”

[@tomli9793]

​@@HiDesert004 Out of the solar system

[@bryanreidsands6854]

Netflix: 3 Body Problem team, y’all should just buy this clip or give those guys jobs. 15 minutes with no dialogue won’t kill you if it’s like this. I’ve watched season 1 and I was really getting tired of the non-stop prattle from the actors. Give it a rest! Give us some fantastic visuals without words for a bit. I won’t fault you for looking a bit “2001-ish”. c’mon.

[@xiangzhimeng8496]

Man, the water drop is still a Mirror at the molecular level.

[@luma.cabral]

This is one of the best things I’ve seen in my entire life. I’m a huge fan of Cixin Liu and his history and I’m thrilled. Thanks for that! Amazing work (only saying amazing because I don’t have vocabulary enough to express what I’m thinking on my mother language). Cheers from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@jameshuihui1983]

This will be a best work as an opening for the full movie I think.

[@MissMisnomer_]

This was a religious experience, and my god, Sigur Ros took me there

[@quixotiq]

Cool! Having read all three books finally, I think it's a work of literary genius.

[@McJaews]

Who would win: The combined space armada of all the nations of Earth, brought about through centuries of accelerated scientific development. Capable of mass deployment of high powered lasers and hydrogen bombs on the scale of 100's of megatons yield. or One Droppy Boi

[@paterah]

I love the eerily soothing music as it's on its way to destroy the human fleet 😃

[@josevalero3543]

Love it! GREAT WORK, just finished the Dark Forest!

[@hero7289]

After knowing what happens all I have to say is "Damn we really going in super slow-mo to see it travel"

[@m3tsla629]

If the "3 body" ever be made into movie, it should be made into the only greatest sci-fi movie of the whole human kind, which far beyond all the greatest sci-fi movies like star wars , aliens, terminator etc. combined. Because the original novel is by far unsurpassable.

[@deltalima9640]

netflix is doing a series. launch 21st of may 2024

[@德川家康·薛定谔]

@@deltalima9640 The Nexflix version is bullsXXt, I recommand the Tencent version。

[@joeking5679]

There is a Chinese Tencent TV adaptation which is basically faithful to the first book chapter by chapter. 30 episodes

[@brandx01]

Awesome...both this and the books. The books are a masterpiece so please oh please oh please do the books justice if made into a movie.

[@billderby1527]

Netflix next year

[@yichuli9866]

I am just wondering why there's only 3 comments...this sets a high bar to the possible movie in the future

[@user-le4kq3kr7w]

+Bill Li 中国人的呗

[@kerbodynamicx472]

3 comments for three suns!

[@vincentduhamel7037]

Look now

[@necronlord8274]

Common person: I want some grimdark space horror Herbert Wells: "War of the worlds" Lovecraft: *NUFF SAID* Bungie: "Halo"/ *FLOOD* Bioware: "Mass Effect" / *REAPERS* GW: "Warhammer 40k" Some Chinese: Ha-ha-ha... I will cook 10-dimensional horror! Hold my rice soup!

[@Shadoefax760]

This is a massive undertaking to bring to Netflix as a show, it's hopelessly & immensely complicated & intricate, the first book alone is ridiculously complicated with so much going on so fast & only gets faster with each book. It'll be impossible even with game of thrones' show runners.

[@wastelifetakenotes]

not only that, i’m afraid they’d whitewash the hell out of it.

[@Shadoefax760]

@@wastelifetakenotes yeah probably, but to even make a show of this magnitude seems impossible to me. It's just to massive & far more technologically advanced to put to television & be convincing ya know. It's either gonna be great with great effects of its gonna suck, there is no gray area with this. They shouldn't even try in my opinion.

[@xoreign]

Lol come on guys. I absolutely love sci fi, and this book series, but it's not some impossible to understand story. The very fact that the books made it understandable to you and me, two people that probably arent physicists, shows it's not some completely abstract thing. It's a great book series but don't try and act high and mighty for liking it / understanding it.

[@Bapman2099]

Writer Director who made Knives Out is a producer too. Critics loved his Star War movie. I wonder if he'll help with the representation. He did create Rose Tico & Purple Hair Admiral.

[@jdterrell]

the 4d scenes 😂

[@jameschen7822]

weakness and ignorance is not what killed the human. Pride is

[@norml8665]

Arrogance to be exact.

[@ricozhou3937]

额...就不能用对词么

[@joeking5679]

I guess they should have ran after all.

[@DesignatedVictim]

I feel satisfied as an individual in the universe, yet horrified and desperate as a human being. Great book. Greet movie.

[@user-vb8mj9iv8z]

For whom find it difficult to understand, watch this clip reversely.

[@Fen1kz]

How do I do that?

[@Seaxuan]

“The wandering earth” is the threshold for future Chinese sci-fi blockbuster

[@speedstriker]

At least. The Three Body movies must be at least the times better than Wandering Earth. Otherwise it's a waste of time and money.

[@dseanm21]

I've been watching Quinn ideas explanations of this Book. It's insane.

[@thecaricarlitos]

Masterpiece. Oh!, and the books too

[@kristian_goddard]

I’ll keep watching this instead of the Netflix show. Thank you!

[@user-bk9fu6gk6m]

这段影片很好的展示了人类舰队的粗糙和水滴的绝对光滑。根本没有任何可比性，水滴是用强相互作用材料制作的，这对人类来说就像是神迹

[@billderby1527]

Just started book two. This was a great video and I surely hope Netflix does this series just as well next year. I'm hyped.

[@mdi5684]

The droplet ruined star wars for me

[@charliew2924]

看到第一个钉子就感觉大事不妙……

[@user-hi9vz1zw8d]

一直猜这是什么，每分钟都被打脸

[@igorruste1187]

Just a molecularly perfect peace offering 😅

[@mikame1997]

this is how a film/ serial adaptation should open

[@mrbeltr5833]

About to finish dark forest and omg how can something be so beautiful yet so deadly. When the scientist examined it and said that it was like the atoms where bolted I couldn’t wrap my head around it. But this video satisfied all my wondering of what it would look like.

[@Syuvinya]

I was like "why can I see the atoms Lol", and then it clicked.

[@dars5229]

Halfway through the third book and I'm starting to think humanity in this series has a fear problem. This video is nicely scary, and I'm not getting the sense that humanity in these books are adequately terrified. There's lots of anger, despair, hubris, hatred and madness. Not enough fear. The Trisolarans have the sense to be afraid of us. And the sense to not try to take us in a fair fight. But so far I'm finding that humanity in these books doesn't have the sense to be properly afraid and to use that fear.

[@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim]

Agreed.

[@TL-fe9si]

the books emphasize the arrogance of humanity more than fears. e.g., "ignorance is not a sin, arrogance is"

[@sfa-8157]

我的观点是，三体人不傲慢，所以他们不会因为人类弱小而轻视人类，所以他们不会给我们公平竞争的机会。书中表达了一个观点，人类很傲慢，这就是为什么你会认为三体人害怕我们的原因

[@noaaahhhhhh9420]

The trisolarans say: humanity thinks it has an entitlement to life

[@gulasch2700]

I'm from China, I'm not a christian, not even finish reading the Bible, but I remember there is a passage: " Fear (of the lord) is the beginning of the wisdom", Trisolarians have better civilization, therefore they have more fear

[@garychap8384]

I, for one, welcome our tiny Trisolarian overlords!

[@speedstriker]

Mike please.

[@wetteryan]

There is only one way I think this could be improved for a screen in an on-screen adaptation. It would be to start out just like this video of the perfectly aligned molecules of the droplet but then as it zooms out it transitions to the biological molecules of the inside of the retina of an eye of a human trying to observe the droplet from earth. As it zooms out you see the whole eye, then the whole face, than through the telescope the human is looking through, then to seeing the whole telescope with human looking in and then out to the whole town, the whole city, state, country, continent... Then onto seeing the entire planet earth then out to seeing the whole fleet international then all the way out to where the droplet is way out in space and then it reveals that the whole time we have been looking at a reflection off of the droplet as the camera continues to zoom out and show the entire droplet from the front as the view turns around to the tail of the droplet pointing towards earth just like the end of this video. I just think starting I'm the eyes of someone trying to observe the droplet from earth would be cool as fuck. Super cinematic. It would be a great reference to the amazing mirror reflection shot in the movie contacts which is perfect because contact is a movie based on a book about first contact with extraterrestrials just like three body is. Also the fact that contact was written by carl sagan and this scene uses audio of carl sagan speaking would be an awesome connection!

[@carolanestanley4030]

Great idea!!

[@ngrrplz]

First off, I wanna say that I like you're enthusiasm and I respect your mind as a fellow creative. The idea you have just laid out for us with would undoubtedly be a sight to behold.. If directed by you so we could see it how you do. Because, to me, what you have just described (and please excuse my honesty and blunt critique) sounds like the biggest most generically awful cliché that could possibly be done in order to film this scene for an on-screen adaption. I mean what I said about respecting your enthusiasm and creative vision and thats said with wholehearted earnestness.. That being said, I do hope that you don't take what I just said too personal.

[@wetteryan]

What I was describing is more or less execlty what was show in this video I just thought it would be cool to include the point of view traveling through a scientist and his telescope as he is observing the the object. Not sure why it would be cliche. The only similar shot I can think of in any movie would be the one I referenced in the original comment. Which was contact with the girl running through the house to get meds out of the bathroom medicine cabinet. And that scene is incredible. What I'm describing is just on a MUCH bigger scale. The author of the books has himself praised this video claiming it is exactly the kind of way he would want the droplet to be portrayed. So forgive me but I'm gonna go ahead and consider that opinion over yours. Seeing as he is the one that created the convept. I can respect differing opinions but calling someone's idea cliche and awful without explaining why or giving any examples of what makes it cliche is just being negative and mean spirited for no reason. Calling something played out without a single example of it being done before serves no purpose other than to tear someone down for no reason other than the fact that you personally don't like their idea. If you have any ideas of your own I would love to hear them. This trilogy of books is my absolute favorite work of sci-fi of all time and I could discuss it endlessly

[@gharm9129]

@@wetteryan His critique went over your head. What you described is nothing like the video lol but a typical generic hollywood cliché.

[@riley8939]

As cool as that is, I love how the scene goes in the book. All of the modern humans are in awe, totally convinced that it's a delicate gift of beauty by the Trisolarans while Ding Yi knows what's up and frantically trying to figure out what it is. His moment of realization sets the scene perfectly. And it's a great commentary about how humans adapt to their time+environment so quickly and forget the facts and history outside of that.

[@falsename7]

l must say this book taught me many physical knowledge

[@yrrep27]

0:00-12:29 I don't get it... 12:30 Oh shit, that's brilliant

[@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749]

I'm still lost

[@speedstriker]

Welcome to your first and last nuclear sunrise!

[@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749]

@@speedstriker oh my God I understand

[@Marc-io8qm]

@@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749 what does it mean?

[@outman6207]

@@Marc-io8qm if you can see reflection of elements from the Waterdrop surface, that means their technology are so much better than human race. And in the book, this Waterdrop was a good weapon indeed

[@sungjin-wade383]

I wonder how they will make it in the movie with the bidimensional weapon Tho it will be great for sure ✨ big up to the amazing mind who made this masterpiece

[@fansteven6621]

What's even more impressive. How would filmaker present the 4-dememsion sence? I think that would be true amazing. As Interstellar had once make such attemp.

[@supermankk1]

@@fansteven6621 it would be impossible, in Interstellar it's a 3 dimension+ time, so we can draw a matrix with each point a 3-dimension at certain time; the 4 demension in three body is a math pb without time factor involved, I've seen a video showing a super-cube 4-dimension, but cant understand it at all.....

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

The droplet is smooth but human ships aren’t because one is probably made by compressing a single part with nuclear force,while other is made of lots of natural rough metal parts which aren’t meant to be smooth

[@meowqaq2582]

绝了绝了绝了，我2014年读的三体三部曲，为什么现在才看到这部电影！

[@notani3533]

Oh look, it's making a contact with the entire earth fleet. I hope they didn't crash to each other.

[@peppermintgal4302]

Ha. Ha. Ha.

[@schneemann2612]

Absolutely phenomenal work! Hats off to you folks!