Launched on March 21 on Netflix, the science fiction series The 3-Body Problem – by the creators of Game of Thrones in collaboration with Alexander Woo – features a group of scientists who must face a major threat: a alien invasion in 400 years and in the meantime, real hacking and sabotage of our technology.
A favorite subject of science fiction, the extraterrestrial invasion is the object of many fantasies and sometimes even many fears. So AlloCiné spoke with Hervé Cottin, astrochemist at LISA (Inter-university Laboratory of Atmospheric Systems) and UPEC (Paris-Est Créteil University). In the video above, he delivers his analysis of The Three-Body Problem.
This meeting is also an opportunity to discover a discipline little known to the general public but nevertheless fascinating, exobiology.
What is exobiology?
Hervé Cottin gives us a detailed answer: “Exobiology is an interdisciplinary field that addresses the question of life in the universe. On the one hand, we will of course think of extraterrestrial life, but to scientifically search for life elsewhere than on Earth and to know where it could have appeared, we must ask ourselves the question of the appearance of life on Earth. So, exobiology is both looking for life elsewhere and understanding how life appeared on Earth.
And so, for that, we need chemists who will try…
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