Deep Space Fleet

From the birth of the New Civilization School to the present, the main theoretical cornerstone is the "Principle of Mediocrity".

Its core is two words: mediocrity.

As large as the entire Milky Way, as small as a cell, the probability is mediocre.

A simple example: Earth, an ordinary rocky planet in the solar system. The earth is not the center of the solar system, nor is it the center of the universe. In the universe, there are many planets similar to the earth.

The sun is just an ordinary star in the Milky Way, and there are countless similar dwarf yellow stars.

The Milky Way is just an ordinary spiral galaxy in the universe.

This can also lead to another conclusion, that is, our position in the universe and the current stage of evolution are mediocre.

The principle of mediocrity is so profound that it applies to all areas of life.

How do humans study the lifetime of bacteria survival and development?

Just take a picture of a petri dish, which is already filled with life and death of bacteria. Because bacteria are ordinary, their entire lives are similar.

In the same way, if you randomly take a photo on the street, most of the people in the photo are ordinary.

If an alien with a very high level of civilization wants to study human culture and understand the way of life of human beings, he doesn't need to stare at a person's complete life, which would take too long. They just need to collect as much human data as possible at the same time.

Why?

Because most people's lives are mediocre, and the life trajectories of these human beings are similar. By collecting data from other people, it is already possible to predict how someone will live.

Go ahead and amplify this conclusion to some abstract concepts.

For example, civilization.

Looking in any direction, you can see hundreds of millions of stars.

It can be boldly predicted that these stars are mediocre and ordinary.

What about the civilization inside?

The high probability is mediocre. There is absolutely no need to imagine the aliens to be particularly powerful. It can be boldly predicted that many civilizations in it may not be comparable to human civilization.

So... what about human civilization?

I have to admit that human beings are probably a mediocre civilization. Many great figures have indeed been born in history, from Qin Shihuang, Sakyamuni, and Muhammad in ancient times to Lincoln, Mao, Newton, and Einstein in the old days.

But in the entire universe, it is only commonplace, and all events follow the laws of history itself. Great men one after another have indeed promoted the times, but the times have in turn bred great men.

There is no evidence whatsoever that humans are non-trivial.

It has to be said that this is a very frustrating forecast.

So, what kind of civilization is an extraordinary civilization?

The civilization that took place on Tabby's star and tried to build a Dyson sphere is likely to be a non-trivial civilization.

Any mediocre civilization can know that the Tabby civilization is powerful and unique.

The Dyson sphere is a huge project. Even if human beings are a billion or even ten billion times stronger, there is no way to do this project.

last question.

How to make human civilization become an extraordinary civilization?

The answer is: don't know.

There are too few non-trivial samples that can be observed, and the New Civilization School has no way to make any calculations.

But there is no doubt that human civilization has done something extraordinary.

That is - launch the Earth Times!

From the perspective of probability, mediocre civilizations usually do not do such seemingly expensive but "meaningless" things. Otherwise, human civilization must be able to observe more activity traces of "mediocre" alien civilizations, which is contradictory to the existing facts.

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After a long time, Zhang Yuan opened his eyes.

For a while, the whole head was still in a state of chaos.

"Wake up, he's awake!"

"Hey... can you hear me?"

It was as if someone was calling to me, and the voice reached my ears from the distant sky.

The body temperature is recovering bit by bit, and Zhang Yuan's will is slowly waking up. This feeling is uncomfortable, as if someone wakes up suddenly from a deep sleep, but the brain is still not fully awake, and there is no way to move, but the muscles are twitching instinctively.

"Mr. Zhang Yuan, you have been asleep for 183 years, it's time to wake up..."

"Give him some adrenaline."

After a while, Zhang Yuan's eyes moved and his neck twisted slightly.

Instinctively looking around, there are bright electric lights on the ceiling, some needles are inserted in the arm, and nutrient solution is hung on it.

On the bedside table next to him is a medical machine that monitors his physical health.

The whole environment seemed a little familiar.

There is a line of numbers in the upper display: 2448.11.13, 12:20.

In the next bed there were several people who had also just awakened from hibernation.

There was a nurse wearing a mask standing beside her, and she said softly: "Mr. Zhang Yuan, hello, this is the hospital in District A. You have been asleep for 183 years and just woke up from hibernation. Don't worry, if you feel tired If so, you can continue to sleep for a while."

Hibernation is somewhat different from normal sleep. Although he has been asleep for 183 years, Zhang Yuan still feels very tired and unable to think about any problems.

This time, I slept for another three days.

Under the nourishment of the nutrient solution, he has slowly recovered his health.

"Miss Mary, thank you, can I have beef jerky?" Zhang Yuan said in a hoarse voice while lying on the hospital bed.

"Beef jerky is not available for the time being. These days, I can only eat probiotics to restore gastrointestinal health, plus a little porridge."

The nurse smiled and said, "You may be the most gluttonous patient I've ever seen. After most people wake up, they will ask what happened in the past hundred years..."

Zhang Yuan felt a little uneasy.

Why doesn't he want to know?

It's just that he was a little scared, a little afraid to face the story of the past.

"Um, is everything normal on the spaceship?"

"Everything is normal, and there have been no particularly serious problems."

"That's good."

On the fifth day, Zhang Yuan was officially discharged from the hospital.

He was received by a liaison officer named Yu Feng. This old man, about fifty years old, Zhang Yuan knew. He used to be a professor at Deep Space University, but now he has become a political liaison officer.

"Jobs at level 16? High-tech talents!"

When he saw his information, Yu Feng was a little surprised, "Mr. Zhang, unfortunately, this is a young year, and the sober population is only 600. If you don't have a life partner, you may live a lonely life..."

"Thank you, I'm used to being alone."

Zhang Yuan forced a smile and nodded.

Xiaonian refers to the era when the sober population is very small.

About every 20 small years there will be a big year.

During the big year, the conscious population can soar to 20,000, and a large number of people will maintain the entire spaceship as a whole, and then produce the living materials needed for the next 20 years within one year.

In the following time, everyone began to live a cool new year.