Earth Era

All unconventional navigation methods have one thing in common, which is that they are extremely costly, time-consuming and have extremely low returns. Just like the hibernation voyage used by Wei Feng in the Solitary Island Project, just sending one person to the Nanmen II system consumes 1.5% of the annual total economic output of human civilization. What about earnings? It can be said that the island plan has no substantial benefits.

If Wei Feng guessed correctly, President Keller should have seen this paradox at the beginning. The promotion of the isolated island plan might just be a way for President Keller to pave the way for subsequent larger-scale unconventional voyages out of the solar system. .

If this preparation is successful, then the subsequent heads of state may promote the expenditure of the same resources and adopt this unconventional navigation method to send a group of scientists and a group of observation instruments out of the solar system to obtain more knowledge.

But there is a problem with this solution. Not only is it time-consuming and costly, within a certain period of time - note, this may be as long as three to four thousand years - this plan will not bring any visible returns to human civilization. Its benefits may take three to four thousand years to be felt.

Because the efficiency of unconventional navigation is so low, it is extremely difficult to obtain knowledge through this method. The resources consumed to send enough scientific researchers and scientific instruments out of the solar system may be astronomical, which is likely to lower the average living standard of people in human civilization. And within three to four thousand years, these consumed resources will not bring any visible returns to human civilization, so this will form another deadlock.

Because the people are always short-sighted, no, not just the people, even the wise, their vision is probably not long enough to see the benefits after three or four thousand years. Then, attempts to break the deadlock through unconventional navigation methods will inevitably encounter extremely huge resistance.

Wei Feng thought of a way to break the knot, but Wei Feng immediately rejected this method. This method is really too difficult and cannot be accepted by anyone else. It's like telling the people who were still in the national era hundreds of years ago that they should starve for five hundred years. It takes ten generations to exchange for the prosperity of the country five hundred years later. Anyone who puts forward this statement will definitely be considered a lunatic.

Führer Keller may be such a madman. His vision is far-sighted enough to see things three or four thousand years into the future. And it began to pave the way for breaking the paradox three or four thousand years ago today. Perhaps it is because of this that the island plan was created and the Wei Feng drifting in the endless starry sky was created.

At this moment, Wei Feng suddenly thought that the death of Head of State Keller might be because of this incident. The Island Project consumed 1.5% of the total annual wealth of mankind at that time, and it was unknown how many people's interests were damaged. So... was it because of this reason that Head of State Keller was conspired to be killed?

Wei Feng felt that his heart was a little cold. If Head of State Keller really died for this reason, then the many heads of state who will take office next...will they still have the courage to be such lunatics? After all, the head of state will always step down and hand over power. Just because he is safe while in office does not mean that he will be safe after leaving office.

Even if the head of state is lifelong, the head of state must also consider the possibility of popular riots and violent overthrow of rule.

If this only way to break the paradox is not feasible...where should human civilization go? The development of science and technology is facing stagnation and has been trapped within the solar system. And then... just disappear into the universe quietly?

Chu Hai's letter was not finished yet. Wei Feng thought for a while and then continued reading.

"What we are facing is a dead end. Wei Feng. I thought of a question that has puzzled people from hundreds of years ago to today, that is. Where are the aliens? Now I think it might be like this. , it is true that there may be many civilizations in the universe, but these many civilizations are all locked by the paradox that plagues our human civilization today. They did not find a way to break the paradox until the civilization became extinct, and they could not find a way to break the paradox until the civilization became extinct. If it leaves its own galaxy, it will naturally not be found by our human civilization."

Wei Feng knows the question "Where are the aliens?" This question is called the Fermi Paradox. The Fermi Paradox is calculated according to the model. There should be many civilizations in this universe. The universe is more than 13 billion years old, while the solar system is only 5 billion years old. So. According to the model that the longer it exists, the more advanced its technology will be, there should be many civilizations with very advanced technology in this universe. But why has human civilization not noticed any signs of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations until now?

Chu Hai said that he believed the answer to the Fermi Paradox was that although there were many civilizations in the universe, no civilization could break the knot between "sailing speed" and "acquiring more knowledge", so they all perished. .

"I think our human civilization will eventually follow this path. Because we also have no way to open the dead knot. If we cannot open the dead knot, we can only become extinct."

By now, Wei Feng naturally knew about the existence of alien civilization. Because if alien civilization does not exist, then the high-tech metal fragments in the irregular asteroid cannot be explained. However, after learning about the knot between "sailing speed" and "acquiring more knowledge", Wei Feng had more ideas about the alien civilization that came to the solar system.

Since that alien civilization can come to the solar system and engage in a large-scale war in the solar system - although at this moment Wei Feng cannot be sure of the authenticity of the large-scale war because Wei Feng has not obtained more conclusive evidence. , but Wei Feng believes that this inference is very possible, because the probability of "accidentally discovering a fragment on an asteroid" is too low, and it is too far-fetched to explain it by coincidence - then it must be proved That alien civilization has the ability to travel between stars. And if this "dead knot" is a common problem faced by many civilizations in the universe, then this alien civilization has undoubtedly broken this knot.

Because it is obvious that only by breaking the deadlock can one obtain the ability to travel between stars. Likewise, since they have broken the deadlock, their technological level should be much higher than that of human civilization.

But...why is the technological content of that piece of metal not as high as expected? Wei Feng clearly remembered the performance parameters of the fragmented material. These parameters showed that although its scientific and technological content was higher than that of human civilization, the higher level was limited. According to the current speed of technological development of human civilization, it would only be no higher than that of human civilization. By one hundred years - of course, this is based on the current development speed of science and technology of human civilization. Wei Feng has no way to determine whether the speed of development of science and technology of human civilization will slow down or even slow down in the next hundred years. Stagnation.

But at least so far, Wei Feng has found no signs that the scientific and technological development of human civilization has stalled.

What does this mean? Does this mean that if the technology of human civilization develops for another hundred years, it will be able to break the deadlock and acquire the ability to travel between stars? Or does this dead end simply not exist? Or maybe it is only human civilization that is facing a deadlock, and alien civilizations are not troubled by this deadlock?

Wei Feng was not sure which of these three speculations was correct. Getting the answer to this question will take time.

Chu Hai's letter continued, "Wei Feng, I already have some bad premonitions about the fate of our human civilization. I don't know what we will face in the future. Our personal power is too small. Being unable to influence the entire human civilization is really a torture for us who have a long life. The only thing we can look forward to is... I hope that after a thousand years, we can get together again."

Chu Hai's letter ended here, and Wei Feng fell into thinking for a long time. But this thinking was destined to be fruitless. After thinking about it, Wei Feng became even more confused.

With a long sigh, Wei Feng gave up thinking and began to perform restorative training under Ye Luo's arrangement.

Life has returned to its calm state. The universe is always dark and empty, and life is always lonely and lonely. After a period of restorative training, Wei Feng recovered some physical strength, so he repaired all the faults in the spacecraft, and then eliminated some bugs accumulated during the operation of Ye Luo. It was two days later. months later.

"It's time for you to hibernate." Ye Luo said.

Wei Feng once again lay in the hibernation cabin. Before entering here, Wei Feng had ordered Ye Luo to search for possible fragments of unknown civilization's creations near the route, and granted Ye Luo the power to wake himself up urgently under certain circumstances.

"Ye Luo, goodbye." Wei Feng said this with a smile, and the door of the hibernation cabin began to slowly close.

Before losing consciousness, Wei Feng had this thought in his mind: "My report on the discovery of fragments of unknown civilization has probably been sent to the solar system at this moment. I don't know what kind of response our government will give to this report." What about your attitude? This should be the first time that our human civilization has found evidence of the definite existence of extraterrestrial civilization..."

The consciousness slipped away quietly, and Wei Feng fell into a deep sleep again. The Xinghai spacecraft once again shut down all non-essential equipment on the spacecraft, continued to turn into cold stones in the universe, and continued its lonely journey that would last for thousands of years. (To be continued ~^~)

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