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The Great Ravine | Three Body Problem Series

2025-02-06 Entertainment
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In this video, we explore one of the most haunting and impactful moments in The Dark Forest, the Great Ravine. A time of devastation, starvation, and societal collapse, this event reshaped humanity, forcing civilizations underground and altering the very fabric of life. What caused the Great Ravine? How did it lead to the deaths of billions? How did humanity rebuild after the devastation? From economic collapse to environmental destruction, this period in The Three-Body Problem series by Liu Cixin serves as a chilling vision of a future where desperation pushes humanity to the brink. But even in the darkest times, civilization fought to survive. "Make time for civilization, for civilization won’t make time." If you're a fan of hard sci-fi, dystopian futures, or The Three-Body Problem, this discussion is for you! #ThreeBodyProblem #TheDarkForest #GreatRavine #SciFi #LiuCixin #HardSciFi #DystopianFuture 👽 Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ideasoficeandfire or PAYPAL - https://paypal.me/QuinnsIdeas?locale.x=en_US 🎨 Art: Thumbnail: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JvRgyR Other: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LRmawA 🎵 Music: https://www.youtube.com/@JamezDahlMusic 📚 Get These Books! Affiliate link* https://amzn.to/4jNn2Ht Quinn's Discord: https://discord.gg/uGx4WsjVCZ FOLLOW QUINN ON TWITTER: Twitter: https://twitter.com/IDEASOFICE_FIRE I NOW HAVE A SUBREDDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/IdeasofIceandFire/ Quinn's New Graphic Novel: https://www.quinnhoward.net/theliebehindthestar Buy Quinn's Comic Books: https://www.quinnhoward.net/shop Quinn's Website: https://www.quinnhoward.net Like me on Facebook!: https://www.facebook.com/IOIAF 🎥 Mentioned Videos 🎬 Other Playlist Three-Body Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUfIzEhovpQJ2ENiNvJoOD2A H.P. Lovecraft Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUcMoc_ZljrDbgrRi3x_CLYD Hyperion Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUfgKLf-CBr5VCC2xM0qX8Xh Dune Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUdsgN_vFaZmfjc6bXxPqajV Foundation Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUeQMsBkZJ72aIIG8nR-No6J Feel free to leave a comment like and subscribe! Thanks For Watching!

Top Comments (10)

@shmookins 2025-02-06

By the time Netflix releases the third season of this show, the Trisolarans would have already arrived.

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@TheInternetIsDeadToMe 2025-02-06

I find myself constantly coming back to the concepts in this series. It’s so refreshing to have new sci-fi ideas to think about. Especially with so many established tropes out there.

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@Anonymous-bc4dl 2025-02-06

REHYDRATE THE MASSES, new video dropped!

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@sepiar7682 2025-02-06

One of my favorite concepts in this series. I love that humanity decided to throw it all away, logically determined to focus solely on combatting the Trisolarans, and it set them back a hundred years. Then, once they decided to instead focus on themselves, they ended up advancing in leaps and bounds. I think it's a really interesting take on that, as I feel like a lot of other series lean in to needing to give humanity's all towards the fight, when here it was really giving people good lives and letting them pursue the technologies they wanted to that ultimately led to much more rapid advancement!

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@Lyonatan 2025-02-07

Honestly the main reason I come back to this channel even though im more of a horror reader and comic book nerd is because he doesnt use the trash AI voices like 95% of sci-fi youtubers.

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@88cryingwolf 2025-02-06

Really would have appreciated it if Cixin Lu had focused a little bit more on the great ravine. I guess I got that apocalypse itch scratched during the post deterrence era, but still I always felt it was a missed opportunity to explore the great ravine.

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@nunu-8yu 2025-02-06

Crazy how the story basically contains another complete independent story inside it. I could only imagine the complete apocalyptic, Mad Max-like world from the great Ravine. Top tier world building!

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@lbonts 2025-02-06

Quinn, I just want to say I’ve been following you for 8 years and I just saw you’re almost at 900k subs, well deserved and happy to see thoughtful speculative fiction analysis can still be popular

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@metaspherz 2025-02-06

Philosophic Science Fiction isn't about solving problems, it's about asking questions to avoid the problems in the first place.

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@spencerk5840 2025-02-06

I really liked how the great Ravine was contrasted to the great rip on trisolaris. In the end humans and the trisolarians should be sympathetic to each other

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