re: 3 Body Problem - Netflix

But they didn’t have to “not lie”. They created a helmet specifically to bring them into the game and explain what their intent was. All they had to do was do nothing at all. Nobody was asking them at that point.

Only a few people even knew that aliens existed at that point. And even fewer had an idea of the intent. If the aliens just went silent, how many people would even be thinking about them in 400 years when they arrived?

Especially if they just messed with the science for centuries.