Annihilation of the solar system

After a month of staring, the data returned by the urgently modified "Webb", "Yangjian" and X-band detection satellites were analyzed and processed and gathered at the IAU headquarters in Brussels. Authoritative scientists from major countries in the world gathered in

Therefore, a long period of rigorous proof and logical derivation was conducted on the gaze data.

In the end, hundreds of the world's top scientists came to a cruel and desperate conclusion. Although everyone devoted their life's learning to falsify that conclusion, no one could do it.

The unprecedented academic seminar ended quietly in darkness. The scientists rushed back to their home countries with the results of the discussion to report to the leaders. No matter when the leaders arrived, they were meeting foreign guests, dealing with state affairs or spending time with their families.

Having dinner.

Xia Lan stood in front of the lectern on the rostrum of the Great Hall. Between her and the seats below was a large unlit display screen facing the seats. There was also a strange-looking camera on the screen.

Facing the podium.

"Dear leaders, in order to facilitate understanding, I will do a few experiments."

Xia Lan told dozens of national leaders, including the heads of state, about the results of the "Gaze Project" in the audience. She signaled the staff to turn off the lights, and the venue suddenly became invisible.

"Now the leaders can no longer see me and the situation on the rostrum. This is because the visible light band that the human eye can detect no longer produces radiation." Xia Lan continued to talk in the darkness.

Then the display screen lit up, and what was displayed was Xia Lan on the rostrum. But the image he saw was not a regular image. It was a picture composed of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Among them, Xia Lan showed orange.

Red, the lectern and some wooden decorations appear cyan, and the ground and the wall behind the podium appear blue-purple.

"The picture that leaders see is a thermal radiation image taken by an infrared imaging camera. All objects radiate different amounts of heat according to different temperatures. The 'Webb' infrared space telescope uses this principle to image Europa

and high-precision infrared imaging of Titan.”

Then, the lights came on again. The staff moved the screen. At the same time, a projection screen hung behind Xia Lan, and an infrared imaging photo of Europa appeared on it.

"Europa is a planet covered with thick ice. Under the ice, there is more than twice the amount of liquid water in the Earth's oceans. Under normal circumstances, Europa should look like this when we observe it through infrared imaging.

."

Xia Lan pointed to the huge photo behind her, which looked like a pure blue plate.

"Even if we take into account the existence of natural life in Europa's ocean, there will be no obvious changes in thermal imaging photos of this scale."

Then, a picture changed on the screen. Europa on the top looked like a blue billiard ball covered with dense yellow and green stains.

"This is an infrared photo of Europa taken by the Webb. The mottled yellow-green small groups above are unknown heat sources. The branches are almost all over the ocean under the ice sheet. The temperature of these small spots should be 10-20

It's about Celsius, and the size should be equivalent to a large city on Earth. This can't be a natural creature."

In the Oval Office of the White House, Professor Sully was watching silently as a science adviser explained a photo to President Isaac. It was a photo of Europa emitting a huge jet from near the North Pole.

"Why does it spurt out so much...er...liquid water you said?" President Isaac asked.

"Mr. President, you know that tides are caused by the moon's gravity. Jupiter will also have a tidal effect on Europa, but this tidal force is much greater than the moon's tidal force on the Earth. Europa's ice shell will therefore periodically

It's squeezed, deformed, and broken. Just like if you pinch a lemon with a broken peel, the juice will spurt out." the scientific consultant explained.

"But, what does this have to do with alien civilization?" President Isaac asked again.

The scientific advisor took out another computer-rendered photo, which was a close-up of the jet of water. Only the color became colorful.

"Mr. President, this is a photo we made based on the visible spectrum analysis of Yang Jian. The colors above represent various compounds and elements. These colors show that there are a large number of organic compounds and other elements in the water of Europa.

.The concentration far exceeds the concentration that may be produced by metabolism in the natural ecosystem.”

President Isaac looked at the adviser with a puzzled expression, and then looked at Professor Sally who was silent.

"You can accurately analyze the composition of chemical elements based on photos?"

Professor Sally seemed to have guessed the question of the famously cautious Republican president. He stood up, took out a prism from his handbag and placed it on the table illuminated by a ray of sunlight. A colorful rainbow was projected onto the white

On the wall. He then took out a spray can from his bag, and when he sprayed the gas at the position where the sunlight was incident on the prism, he said:

"See those black lines?"

President Isaac, with the help of his scientific advisor, struggled to find the unobvious black line hidden in the seven-color rainbow. Professor Sally put the spray can and prism back into the bag.

"I sprayed helium, and the black lines are the energy level transitions of electrons in the outer layer of helium atoms due to the impact of photons. The electrons absorb light of a specific wavelength during the transition, so you can see those black lines. Every element

The photons absorbed by the outer electron transitions all have different wavelengths, so we can know what's in those jets based on the spectrum."

In the presidential office in the Kremlin, President Sakalov had just asked his assistants to take away all the tableware immediately. The dean of science handed over two photos. The disks in the photos were both dark gray. If you look carefully, you can see

It can be seen that there are countless small dots on those photos that look like needlepoints. These are photos taken by three X-band detection satellites.

"Mr. President, you must have taken X-rays during your physical examination," the scientific adviser asked respectfully.

President Sakalov wiped his mouth.

"Yes, of course. X-ray is a very penetrating ray. It can see through the skin to see if there is any problem with our internal organs."

The dean of science showed a pleased smile:

"Then what I am going to say next will be easy for you to understand. X-rays will only appear in extreme astronomical phenomena or artificial radioactive sources and minerals with natural radioactive decay. But the natural divisions of this mineral are very rare.

It is impossible for extreme astronomical phenomena to occur on those two satellites."

"Then you mean that these X-ray sources are from alien civilizations?"

The smile of the dean of science disappeared and he nodded solemnly.

The screen behind Xia Lan displayed infrared imaging photos of Europa and Titan.

"From these two photos, we can see that there are a large number of clusters with a size similar to our cities on both satellites. They are currently judged to be organic organisms. The reason for the judgment is that the temperature is significantly higher than the surrounding environment.

Huge amounts of metabolizing organic molecules."

Then, she superimposed X-band imaging photos on those two photos.

"In this way, we can see that the area where the X-ray radiation source gathers highly overlaps with the local area of ​​the organic life clusters. We have reason to believe that alien civilization is doing something to the organic life clusters. In other words, those clusters are

Made or modified by alien civilization."

There was silence in the venue, without any noise. Finally, Xia Lan showed the spectral analysis and rendering image of Europa's jets and Titan's atmosphere.

"Based on these two photos, we analyzed the water environment of Europa and the atmospheric environment of Titan. According to the formula of life and our research results on the response of organisms to environmental stress, the ecological environment on the two satellites is on the verge of collapse.

. We speculate that due to the transformation behavior of alien civilizations, the production of a large number of harmful compounds has reached the limit of primitive ecology."

A leader in the audience raised his hand, and Xia Lan temporarily stopped reporting.

"Dr. Xia Lan, what consequences will the environmental collapse you mentioned have on those two satellites?"

"Let me give you an example. 95% of the carbon on the earth is stored in rocks, and 0.5% is in the atmosphere. If the carbon in the atmosphere is changed to 0.2%, then our whole world will be twice as cold as Antarctica. If 95% of the carbon in rocks is

If 25% of carbon is put into the atmosphere, the surface of the earth will be as high as 400 degrees like the surface of Venus. This will be devastating to living things."

"But if they collapse the ecosystem on those two satellites, wouldn't that be a good thing for us?" the leader asked.

Xia Lan pulled up a blurry photo on the computer screen.

"This is a photo taken when the Huygens probe crashed into Europa."

More than half of that photo is the surface of Europa's ravaged ice sheet. If it weren't for the fact that it came from the Huygens probe, most people would have thought it was a photo of Antarctic glaciers in the last century.

In that photo, there is a long black shadow running through the ravines. If you don't look carefully, you would think it is a mountain range.

Xia Lan pointed at the "mountain range" with a laser pointer:

"According to our analysis, this mountain-like thing should be some kind of organic organism. That is, it is probably something made by alien civilization. Combined with the analysis of thermal imaging images, we also discovered this kind of thing that is smaller than this one.

Tissues, that is to say, they are still growing. According to this speculation, in the next three to four years, even if we do not use specially modified telescopes, we may find obvious anomalies with detectors such as 'Huygens' alone

."

There was a small discussion at the venue.

After a while, the voice gradually became quieter, and the chief said in a heavy tone:

"Strategically speaking, when an opponent who has been hiding for a long time feels that there is no need to hide anymore, it may be time to attack."

The chief's usually calm and kind face showed a rare hesitation and cloud:

“What do you, the scientific community, think?”

Xia Lan said with a heavy heart:

"Based on the above data and inferences, and considering that all recent observation records are based on a 12-year cycle, we make a bold guess that they will collect the objects on Europa and Titan in the next 3-4 years.

Perform orbital transfer and then reach Earth orbit through a 7-8-year transfer orbit flight."

The venue was silent. Everyone knew that this was the most logical inference made by hundreds of top scientists in the world, and it was almost irrefutable.

No one can doubt the fact that they are coming!