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October 11th, an important day.

Today in history:

The first American female astronaut to perform a spacewalk appeared in America.

The Maglev train demonstration operation line in Jiangkou City, Tianxia, began its open operation.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize.

A Soyuz rocket launch failed, and two astronauts safely escaped.

Today, at this moment:

Amidst the protests and riots of thousands of alien enthusiasts, alien resisters, and miscellaneous onlookers, delegations from various countries entered the United Nations building to hold an important meeting on the topic of "extraterrestrial civilization."

The level of this meeting is quite high, and the corresponding event is also very important, belonging to an "emergency special session."

Generally, such meetings are held when peace is threatened, disrupted, or acts of aggression occur. The meeting is convened within 24 hours after the Secretary-General receives a request from the Security Council, supported by any nine members, to convene an emergency special session, or upon receiving a request from more than half of the United Nations member states, expressed through a vote in the interim committee or in some other way, or after receiving notification of approval for the meeting from more than half of the member states.

Therefore, saying things like "it took so long to hold a meeting" is unreasonable. According to the United Nations procedures, this meeting is already quite fast.

This meeting is being held in the General Assembly Hall, which is the super-large conference room with nearly 2,000 seats, a place with a very high appearance rate.

Today, representatives from various countries are sitting here, including comprehensive delegations from informed countries and major powers, as well as the President of the General Assembly, the Secretary-General, the Deputy Secretary-General, representatives of special agencies, other senior officers, journalists, and members of the public.

It has been a long time since the General Assembly Hall has been so lively, or rather, when the General Assembly Hall is lively, it may not be a good thing.

The matter they are discussing this time has such a tendency.

Tang Chao sat in the front row of the Tianxia delegation because he was an important figure in the delegation and was scheduled to speak on stage in the afternoon.

The Americans are speaking up there now. They have already had three consecutive speakers, each exceeding 10 minutes.

Especially the first one, who spoke for more than 30 minutes.

Mainly, they are a cunning bunch. They came up and used factual evidence to explain the information received by the probe, providing an explanation for the entire "alien incident."

But other informed countries also received those things. If they spoke, it was up to the other informed countries.

Speaking would waste time and would also make the representatives of other countries think it was a meaningless speech.

Not speaking would mean that they came to the meeting to do nothing, and they would not even have "participation."

The current "participation" is very important. In the United Nations, the more "participation" there is, the more likely it is to gain control of something.

But now the Americans have said all of this, which means that other informed countries can only say something slightly different when reporting, such as the reception time and coordinates.

After saying these, they have to add a sentence: "The rest is the same as what the American representative said."

Sure enough, even if America agrees to cooperate, the final result is unlikely to be equal cooperation.

Moreover, Tang Chao also discovered an interesting thing, that is, the people in the American delegation, they are... so unique.

Other delegations are wearing very formal clothes, mostly suits, and a few are wearing their own country's traditional clothes, such as some African countries' representatives. Some of their traditional clothes are no different from being naked, but that also shows respect for the United Nations.

But the American delegation is different. Perhaps because they don't have to go abroad, their clothes are fancy, looking almost like the protesters outside.

The most important thing is the speakers. Except for the first one who was from the American Space Agency, wearing formal attire, and the report process was clean and neat. Although it was thirty minutes, not a second was wasted, and everything he said was substantive.

Cough, of course, he also said the substantive things of other countries.

But at least it played a role in saving time.

But after that person, the people who went up behind the American delegation were not very good.

Just like the person who is currently speaking up there, his identity introduction is "social activist"...

What does this have to do with the extraterrestrial civilization conference?!

As a result, it really has something to do with it.

"As an ethnologist, I have studied all the races on Earth. We have countless races on Earth, and all races are equal. We are all equal."

"We all live here in harmony, so the arrival of aliens is just adding one more race. Even if they come, they cannot exceed 8 billion people."

"Even if we vote according to the number of people, we will still play a leading role, so we are still human beings, and this is still the Earth. After a while, those aliens will also become 'human beings'."

"By that time, we can use their technology to directly enter the interstellar era. Isn't this great? So why should we hate aliens? Everyone is a part of the universe..."

Tang Chao couldn't listen anymore after hearing half of it. What is this? These words are good for selling online and fooling fools. How can you say this in this place?

While he was frowning, a staff member stationed at the United Nations said to him: "Mr. Tang, this is the United Nations, and it is also America. Their tradition is that anyone can express their opinions, although... it's useless."

Understood.

After being reminded by a professional, Tang Chao looked at the area of the American delegation again and already knew that those people were not much different from the protesters outside.

The only difference is probably that these people are more well-known in their research "fields."

However, he felt that the second half of the professional's sentence was the key point, "This is also America. Their tradition is that anyone can express their opinions, although... it's useless."

This premise should be Americans talking about themselves.

If people from other countries want to say bad things about America, it is estimated that it would be a situation of "I'm sorry, I won't stop you from entering the United Nations, but you don't meet America's entry standards now, and I can't issue you a visa."

Sure enough, he then saw a "scientist whose research direction is not recognized by the mainstream", "a high-level member of an alien enthusiast organization", "a soldier who retired due to bad deeds", "a game player who plays science fiction games very well", etc., take the stage to give speeches.

Tang Chao was stunned. He originally thought this was just a team configuration in American movies, but he didn't expect it to be like this in reality.

It's really doing whatever you want.

The professional next to him told him that the first day is like this, first set the tone of the meeting, and then give some people a chance to speak, but only for one morning.

From the afternoon, these people will probably not appear here again. After that, there will be a more professional analysis and discussion session.

So the reason why these people can appear here is actually to shut up some people.

"It's really not easy to work at the United Nations."

Tang Chao said with emotion after hearing this.

"Who says it isn't," the professional also said in a low voice: "Human society is not a bee colony that is simply divided according to work, but a super-complex society composed of 8 billion humans with different ideas."

There are quite a few people who are secretly chatting like them.

There's no way, only the protesters outside are interested in the views of those on stage.

However, Tang Chao gained some knowledge.

At the same time, I also understand that it is unlikely that a unified political entity will appear on Earth.

Like the Earth Federation, the Human Alliance, etc., with eight billion people, or even hundreds of billions of people in the future, each person has an idea, and everyone has their own interests. If they can be unified together, it would be really amazing.

Just like now, finding an "unknown Mars probe" requires a half-day of meaningless meetings before the real meeting can begin in the afternoon. This efficiency is unmatched.

Thinking about Tianxia again, it is not easy to manage a country of 1.4 billion people like that.

There is a good comparison object next to it. Both are 1.4 billion people, and it is even more difficult in comparison.

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