Ams feeling conflicted.
In Three Body Problem (the novel anyway, I haven’t seen the adaptations)
The aliens are worried about the rate of science and technology advancement of earth civilization. They fear by the time their fleet arrives in the solar system, they’d be facing a civilization equally or more advanced than them.
The arrival is approximately 450 years from the present (in the book, it’s in the early 2010s). Which means the aliens were somewhat optimistic that we could hit a Kardashev scale of between 1 to 2 and achieve interplanetary if not interstellar travel in less than five centuries.
They are that worried, to the point of actively sabotaging earth’s science and progress by killing scientists through human proxies and followers, in order to keep tech level as low as possible.
‘S good to know them ayys got more trust in our progress than I do.
I personally think we peaked, or at least, gonna be in a plateau in my lifetime. I don’t expect we’re gonna achieve total power harness in five centuries
‘Slong as we aint solved the energy problem, I don’t see us moving out of this rock anytime soon.
Science bros and speculative fiction fans and writers of derpibooru what you think? You think one of your descendants fifty generations from now gonna be out there the fixing some broken pipes of a bathroom of a spaceship hovering over Jupiter?