Re: Three Body Problem

Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 8/16/2024 1:26 PM, BCFD 36 wrote:

Awhile back, The Three Body Problem was mentioned. In that thread, there was no mention of the current Netflix version. Was this mentioned somewhere else and I just missed it? Google groups is of no help any more.
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I have just started the series and I am intrigued, so far. Just two episodes. My wife is rather "meh" about it, but she said the same thing about Star Trek 1 which in reality she HATED so I may be watching it after she goes to bed.
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Dave Scruggs
Senior Software Engineer - Lockheed Martin, et. al (mostly Retired)
Captain - Boulder Creek Fire (Retired)
Board of Directors - Boulder Creek Fire Protection District (What was I thinking?)

 I did not like the Netflix version, have yet to read the book.  Too much time spent on the China Cultural Revolution and their violence against the educated.  Felt like a Children of the Corn mini series.  I gave up after two episodes.

I've known several people whose lives were damaged by that event.  And these were the lucky ones, who made it to the west.

 

One scientist I knew never got over it, especially the abuse suffered by her mother.  One might have expected her father, an educated man who had lived in the West and still had children living there to be as big a target. But he was left alone, she said, because he was a renowned gerontologist and  the Party leadership was getting older.
Another distinguished scientist told me he reached the last year of secondary education only to realize that he'd learned absolutely nothing owing to the constant meetings and demonstrations.  Ignoring his teachers, he packed four years of school into one.  Judging by his subsequent career, he kept up that level of effort for  the next few decades.
William Hyde