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Re:China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon by dempseye on Thursday January 03, 2019 @04:27AM (#18813873)
The trisolarian plot in Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem also seems to have borrowed from this myth.
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Re:China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon by sthomas1618 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @11:35AM (#18816366)
Having read (and enjoyed) that trilogy, I'm not making the connection. Which part?
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Re:China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon by nitrogen on Thursday January 03, 2019 @11:56AM (#18816618)
There is a 3-star system that causes periodic droughts on a planet in the system based on which star(s) the planet's semi-stable orbit crosses.
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Re:China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon by headsupftw on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:00PM (#18817308)
In the novel, the three-body civilization would go extinct if there are two or three suns in the sky.
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