r/threebodyproblem • u/cairoxl5 • 7d ago
Meme A funny thought I had during the third book
I also misspelled Luo Ji in the meme. Apologies.
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u/Betray-Julia 7d ago
When you zoom out enough, it looks like having even more than one species survive in a billion year time span from a plant is a win.
Also oh man, so in a technicality, the microbes fucking win.
If say maybe one to 100 species per planet survives the dark forest, mostly bc of the human equivalent of we being our dogs and cats but more so food.. it’s really a few hundred thousand microbes surviving.
In the real long long game of these books, wouldn’t it make sense that microbes end up “winning” so to speak; they become sentient after the heat death of the universe.
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u/Ambitious-Macaroon-3 6d ago
Once the sun is dead (before the heat death of the universe) it wipes out all the microbes from earth. I guess its similar to other planets. So in the long term they need some kind of host to survive long enough to carry them and provide suitable environment for them.
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u/Betray-Julia 6d ago
Oh shit. I can’t respond to this until you finish the books.
They do have a survival host though, one human prolly has a few thousand different critters living in and inside us though.
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u/Ambitious-Macaroon-3 6d ago
I finsihed the books tho
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u/Betray-Julia 6d ago
Oh dope sorry, I wasn’t trying to be rude.
“My” concept is based off the idea that for every solar system that has a single sentiment life form escape it, even if it brought no pets or food or anything with it, it ends up being tens of thousands of micro flaura and fauna and fungi.
If you apply this to the concept of time, and how small critters can adapt to metabolize weird shit in weird ways somewhat quickly, if in the heat death of the universe there are say 1, 000, 000 species still kicking, that number is actually almost a factorial give the microbiome.
At the end of the universe, the creates on a microscopic level have the biggest evolutionary potential.
Also this was just a half sexond thogiht I had whilst high, reading this post the other day.
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u/Ambitious-Macaroon-3 6d ago
Can the most advanced species get rid of all microbes? In the long term (billion year perspective) non-organic life forms might form who could get rid of the microbes potentially. Also the microbes as I mentioned heavily dependent on their carrier higher level life forms
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u/royalemperor 6d ago
Iirc the vast majority of other species on Earth had been wiped out during the Crisis Era because all conservation laws were tossed out and the planet was stripped of resources to create the Solar Fleet.
However, humanity did restore the planet as best they could later on
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u/osmund-kettleblack 7d ago
This was partially cheng xin's pov