• 4:45 —

  • There were no summer Olympic Games in 2007
  • Olympic flame
  • Renmin University of China
  • Oh, they mean the 2008 Summer Olympics
• 7:15 — Snake (video game genre), although I don’t recognize that particular instance.
• 9:30 — Invite him out onto your balcony.
• 11:45 — Battle command
• 13:45 — Nanomaterials
• 15:00 — Śarīra
• 16:30 — Gadayork University appears to be fictional.
• 17:00 — They all have screens but are referring to paperwork..

• 21:45 — Most weren’t members? It seems interesting to investigate why some of them weren’t.

  • s01e02 @3:00 — Yeah, that.
• 33:15 — Did they not have a native English speaker on board? There was one right there in that very scene..
• 36:45 — Triazolam Tablets

• 3:00 —
• 5:15 — Names I’m not going to note.
• 5:45 — Pool

• 9:15 —

  • Archimedes’ principle
  • String theory
• 10:00 — Asimov
• 11:00 — In consistencies just mean you don’t have enough data or your perspective is wrong.

• 13:30 — What’s with that odd effect?

  • 13:45 — Now I see it was from the window (for some reason), but it looked terrible.
• 16:30 — God, all this flashback oddity is so jarring.
• 19:00 — Quantum entanglement

• 22:15 — I forgot to mention

  • Sharpshooter
  • Turkey (bird)
  • Thanksgiving
• 32:15 — Leica Camera
• 37:30 — Photographic processing

• 6:30 — It didn’t represent his vision as nearsighted.
• 13:00 — Did he take any pictures without looking through the viewfinder?
• 14:45 — Wang Miao is a great name.
• 16:15 — An appropriately-placed loading spinner.
• 17:15 — He’s looking through glasses, which are also lenses.
• 25:00 — He didn’t look left and right; it was reversed.
• 27:15 — Floater
• 39:00 — Is anyone going to explain the back-in-time military base red button push thing?

• 15:45 —

  • http://tfos.org.cn/morse
  • Morse code
• 21:45 — Eczema
• 23:45 — I forgot to mention cosmic microwave background.
• 28:00 — Madame Curie
• 31:00 — Fucking sexism.
• 31:45 — Urumqi Observatory
• 33:30 — Ginseng tea
• 36:15 — So is this set in 2008?

• 8:00 — I guess for the Planck satellite, see https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/
• 17:45 — Beijing Planetarium
• 21:00 — He should have been recording video..

• 4:15 — Buddhism
• 13:00 — Is she a bossgirl who gets things done? Is she unnecessarily awesome for no justified reason?

• 21:45 —

  • Copernicus
  • On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
  • Bruno
  • Cecco d’Ascoli
• 24:30 — He’s wearing an OBEY print.
• 34:45 — Did she have to be so snotty?
• 38:45 — Rooster-cam.

• 7:00 — Pepsi
• 10:30 — www.3body.com is expired, but has a very long history.

• 14:15 —

  • Virtual reality
  • Haptic suit
• 29:45 — “Adapt”.. he was tricked.

• 33:30 — Pyramid

  • But why not just live underground?
  • Were they just let in? To get an audience with a king?
• 37:00 — This shit is so fucking boring..

• 3:30 — Why would he leave the pyramid to venture out? Where did he find that travelling companion? I thought the guy died in the lava..
• 4:30 — It wasn’t awe-inspiring, it was fucking stupid.
• 19:00 — It’s China.. they black bag random people all the time; they’re communists.
• 20:45 — Lungfish
• 29:15 — It’s really rich to hear talk about devastation and pollution coming from a Chinese show..
• 33:00 — Various names.

(no notes were taken)

• 28:00 —

  • Silent Spring – (1962 book), by Rachel Carson
  • Pesticides
  • The environment
• 32:30 — Miasma

• 4:00 — She has strange makeup..
• 19:00 — What’s going on, why should I care, and what does this have to do with the actual main plot?
• 21:45 — What’s that “stove” going to do to a room?
• 23:15 — minacious (threatening)
• 28:00 — All of this pollution thing is contemporary-China trying to blame past-China for their problems.

• 13:00 —

  • Egyptian pyramids
  • Mesoamerican pyramids
    — See also Aztec architecture
• 14:45 — Confucius

• 28:00 — If he’s speeding up time, then what about the other players in the game?

God this show is getting tedious..

• 11:30 —

  • Meteoroid
  • Fixed stars
  • Orbital period
• 24:45 — Was that guy riding an electric scooter-cart?
• 31:30 — Holy shit get her a hat..
• 33:30 — Why wouldn’t they close the door?

• 36:30 — Why would there be bats up there?

  • 37:15 — Sparrows? Those were not sparrows. Well, they wouldn’t mind if they were: Four Pests campaign
• 41:45 — It’s no wonder her daughter is so fucked up; she herself is stone.

• 1:45 — Oh my god it’s more of this. I don’t fucking care about this motherfucking side-story whatever about some other character whose interest hasn’t been established.
• 12:45 — Close the damned door.
• 23:00 — Either Cadre (military) or Cadre (politics), and more likely the latter; see Cadre system of the Chinese Communist Party
• 26:00 — They have electric scooter-carts but not other tech?
• 28:45 — Microwave oven

• 6:00 —

  • Copernicus
  • Heliocentrism

• 6:30 —

  • Aristotle
  • Galileo
• 10:00 — Three-body problem
• 11:15 — Leonardo da Vinci

• 12:30 —

  • Giordano Bruno
  • Cosmic pluralism
• 13:00 — Retinal scan, which could be defeated.
• 14:30 — That was a Doom sound
• 15:45 — Are they going to have a three-universe multiverse?
• 16:15 — Yes writers, we were there for the first explanation; fuck off.
• 17:15 — Is she showing emotions now? Is this acting?
• 19:00 — Yes writers, we were there for the first explanation; fuck off.

• 24:15 —

  • Calculus
  • Isaac Newton
  • Leibniz
• 25:30 — von Neumann
• 26:00 — Computer, which is a person.
• 26:45 — Sichuan
• 27:30 — Qin Shi Huang
• 31:45 — Logic gate
• 33:15 — MIT

• 8:30 —

  • International Mathematical Olympiad
  • 5-14 July 1982 – Budapest – Hungary
  • Fudan University
• 12:45 — Syzygy (astronomy)

• 13:00 —

  • Kepler
  • Herschel
• 22:30 — Bridge
• 22:45 — Maybe ask what his interest is in all that?
• 23:30 — Hadza
• 32:00 — This is just like the United States and their portrayal of how the whole world amasses around them for things.

• 10:45 — Tower of Babel
• 19:00 — If she’s on speakerphone, then she can hear the train can’t she?
• 22:00 — The detritus of communism.
• 26:00 — Wasn’t it she who said that no message is still a message?
• 29:00 — Aren’t they 10 hours ahead of schedule, because they were on the train for that long?
• 32:15 — Where’s that water dripping from?
• 34:30 — We were there. We don’t care; get on with it. I don’t need to see multiple versions of the same fucking odd side-story.
• 36:00 — The stairs? The rickety old stairs up how high? At her age?
• 36:30 — That’s a well-oiled door.

• 9:30 —

  • Hydrogen atom – Hydrogen line (1,420 MHz)
  • Hydroxyl (1,667 mhz)
    — Megamaser
  • Water – Electromagnetic absorption by water
• 12:15 — As before, why doesn’t she shut the door?
• 14:45 — Who in the audience would give a flying fuck about anything but the true purpose of red whatever base thingy project? Get on with it!
• 16:00 — Get on with it!
• 18:15 — Search for extraterrestrial intelligence

• 18:45 —

  • NATO
  • Project Ozma
  • NRAO
  • Arecibo Observatory – Arecibo Telescope

• 21:00 —

  • Chinese
  • Esperanto
• 21:30 — Cold War
• 22:00 — That’s right, as an astrophysicist.. why the fuck was she being tasked to do anything with mathematics and language?

• 22:15 —

  • Black hole
  • Antimatter
  • Nuclear weapon
• 23:15 — Maser
• 23:45 — Liquid helium
• 26:00 — Okay, so they are trying to communicate what with such extreme complexity? Fuck off.

• 30:00 —

  • Nikolai Kardashev
  • Kardashev scale
• 31:30 — See also The Drake Equation is bullshit
• 39:00 — Did neither of them remember to bring up the reason he said he wanted to meet her in purpose, before he asked about the base?

• 7:00 — Am I supposed to know who that guy is?
• 8:15 — Stefan Zweig
• 10:45 — What? The world has never been a harmonious, prosperous, and/or sinless world..
• 14:15 — (push)

• 16:00 — “Bill Mathers’s contact as symbol theory” is fictional.

  • See https://www.rand.org/pubs/articles/2021/where-chinese-science-fiction-and-rand-history-meet.html
• 20:30 — They’d use a radio signal because that’s low-tech and would reach the a broad ability of listener.
• 22:00 — I don’t know what “Black and White Death Envoys” is a reference to.
• 22:34 — Fermi paradox – Again, see The Drake Equation is bullshit
• 25:15 — Wave–particle duality
• 25:30 — One Hundred Thousand Whys – (1960 book), by many contributors
• 28:30 — Where’d he get the booze from?
• 31:30 — There’s an Indian mathematician who had the same talent/issue.
• 38:15 — When I want to sleep, I watch this show..
• 43:45 — So what does that story have to do with someone threatening him? Is this going to be multi-episode boredom?

• 21:45 — Oh my god make this boredom stop.
• 28:00 — Roche limit
• 29:00 — How did any of this knowledge survive that event?

• 25:15 — Okay, this ends.