The United States has obtained the artificial intelligence it wanted, and the disputes with the island countries have subsided and returned to normal.
The world's turmoil is receding.
The island country is still fighting with Russia from a distance, but it is not as fierce as it was at the beginning. The United States has taken much smaller actions and seems to be fully preparing for the next election issue.
All three countries have artificial intelligence, and they all feel the horror of artificial intelligence. They do not publicize it to the outside world and want to keep a low profile as much as possible.
The island country and the United States still maintain their original relations. In order to fight against Russia, they even held a military exercise. It seems that the conflict some time ago never happened.
Only the parties involved know that the two parties have long been at odds with each other.
Now the events are slowly calming down and the world is calm again.
Flying Ant Space Center.
The Goddess is ready.
In the past two months of training, Xiaoyu and Zhao Min have completed their aerospace training and suffered a lot.
Today is the day of space travel.
At this time, Xiao Yu and Zhao Min were already wearing space suits, their bodies were covered, and only one head was exposed.
"Drink this."
Chen Mo took two test tubes of blue liquid from Mo Nu and handed them to Zhao Min and Xiao Yu.
"What's this?"
The two of them looked at the liquid in Chen Mo's hand strangely. It looked like some kind of oral liquid, and there was nothing special about it.
"A radiation-preventing agent that prevents genetic mutations that may occur in the human body due to space radiation." Chen Mo explained.
After all, there is radiation in space. Long-term activities in space will cause genetic mutations, which is not good for the human body. In order to reduce this problem, Chen Mo found this radiation prevention agent from the Science and Technology Library.
The potion is effective for one week and will be produced by Haixing Company for use by astronauts and workers in high-radiation positions.
Zhao Min and Xiao Yu didn't think much, took the potion and drank it.
This was the first time for Xiaoyu and Zhao Min to go to space, so they were somewhat nervous. Fortunately, Chen Mo was by their side, so they felt a sense of security.
"Let's go."
Chen Mo led the two of them towards the Goddess. Under the attention of the ground personnel, strong winds blew up at the airport, and the Goddess slowly floated into the air and disappeared into the distant sky.
In the distant and unknown depths of the universe, a bright spot shuttles from far to near, flying quickly.
The spacecraft slowly flew closer, revealing its true face.
The ferocious spaceship is as ferocious as a mountain, and the edges and corners on its surface are covered with various weapons.
In the cabin of the spacecraft, sleeping pink creatures were sleeping, about three meters tall, with lizard-like heads, closed eyes, slits as long as fingers, bulging protrusions, no ears, and finger-long tentacles on the top of their heads. .
In the transparent dormant chamber, you can see the pink body of the unknown creature. Its skin is as tender and soft as an octopus, covered with strange lines. Its legs are made of ferocious scales, and there is a blood-red tail lingering behind it, about two meters long. , covered with various spikes.
Inside the cabin, a strange and sharp sound suddenly sounded, which was translated.
"Red tail ephemeris, 42 hours, 64 minutes and 89 seconds on December 74, 204756, the Escaper 20981 spacecraft has entered the Milky Way. The 5142nd destination, Orion in the Milky Way, is expected to arrive in 5 years. No habitable stars have been found..."
Just after the report was completed, a sharp and piercing alarm sounded. In an instant, all the dormant cabins in the spacecraft control room were opened. The sleeping pink creature suddenly opened its eyes, with panic in its red eyes.
"Highest alert, highest alert, meteorite flow appears at coordinates A5247, S1547, and X24567. It will impact in 5 seconds and the weapon system will be activated."
"Chi Chi Ji..."
The tentacles on the red-tailed creature's head swayed, and its mouth emitted strange sound waves.
The entire control room was in panic.
The spacecraft's weapon systems have been turned on and are all aimed in the direction of the meteorite.
boom! ! !
Particle beams flew towards the meteorite stream, and the meteorites that were hit exploded instantly, turning into smaller fragments and flying in all directions.
"Alert, alert, hull damage."
"Alert, the hull is damaged. Please evacuate the spacecraft immediately. Please evacuate the spacecraft immediately."
The red-tailed creature heard the alarm, with despair in its eyes.
boom!
The impact of the large meteorite caused the spacecraft that had been wandering in the universe for countless years to explode instantly, sending countless fragments and spacecraft debris shooting in all directions.
The largest fragments among them are heading towards Orion's lasing along with the meteorite shower.
On the Orion spiral arm in the direction of the debris' flight, the sun still shines with its eternal light, and the blue earth is still spinning forward.
"it's beautiful."
On the Goddess, Xiao Yu was leaning by the window, looking at the blue planet outside the window, with an excited face. Next to her was Zhao Min, with a somewhat complicated expression.
The two of them were like two children who had never seen the world, their eyes fixed on the earth.
The blue, fluorescent planet in front of them is the planet they live on. No living things could be seen, and their huge corporate headquarters was so small that it couldn't be seen at all.
How big your vision is and how broad your mind is.
At this moment, they truly felt that human beings in the universe were smaller than dust. To the eternal universe, they were just fleeting passers-by.
People with unstable minds may directly lose their fighting spirit if they experience this feeling of insignificance.
Zhao Min was a little envious when he saw Xiao Yu who was only excited. There is someone who cares about you, so you don’t have to think too much. Sometimes it’s good.
Chen Mo next to him looked calm.
Only now did she understand that Chen Mo had the fighting spirit to challenge the universe head-on.
I'm afraid this man wouldn't be willing to disappear into the universe like a bacterium.
Chen Mo seemed to understand Zhao Min's thoughts. He smiled and reached out to pat her back, and also touched Xiao Yu's head: "Does it look good? Is the galaxy over there more beautiful, or the earth?"
"Then do you think it's Miss Mo or Sister Zhao Min who is better looking?" Xiao Yu asked jokingly.
Zhao Min almost laughed when he heard this question. This rhetorical question was indeed interesting.
"Well, they all have their own merits and are all good-looking." Chen Mo said with a dry smile.
"Tell me, are there really other creatures and extraterrestrial civilizations in this universe?" Xiao Yu looked at the earth outside the window with some emotion after regaining consciousness.
"Let the great scientist answer you."
Zhao Min and Xiao Yu both looked at Chen Mo, waiting for his answer.
"This question is similar to that of deep-sea bacteria. The bacteria living in small pits deep in the trench ask whether there are other bacteria outside." Chen Mo said with emotion: "There must be, but they are limited to the deep sea."
"But isn't there a Fermi Paradox? Assuming there are aliens, millions of years earlier than our development, space travel must have discovered us. But we have not found aliens appearing, nor have we found aliens to be real. The evidence for their existence means that aliens no longer exist.”
"Okay, I even know these theories." Chen Mo said with a smile.
"I just heard about it," Xiaoyu said.
"This paradox is a paradox. In fact, in Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem", a possible explanation of the Fermi Paradox is based on the Dark Forest Law. The general idea is that alien civilizations deliberately hide themselves from others. The discovery of extraterrestrial civilizations will prevent them from being cleaned up by more advanced civilizations.
But it was just a possibility. Not all civilizations would hide from each other, so humans launched Voyager 1.
There are many other possible explanations for the Fermi Paradox.
Just like the deep-sea bacteria I just mentioned, the Fermi Paradox is equivalent to the deep-sea bacteria asking, are there other organisms outside? If so, why haven't they been discovered yet? Or they discover evidence of our existence.
If they don't discover us, does that mean we don't exist
In fact, there is a problem of discovery time span. Millions of years are a long time for humans, but a short time for the universe.
Millions of years ago, we were just a puddle of liquid. Assuming that bacteria on the seabed can only live for two days, how many generations will it have to pass on before it is discovered by us
Maybe a few decades later, during a deep-sea scientific exploration, humans will discover that deep-sea bacterial colony, and then a few decades later, they will discover a second bacterial colony, and a third bacterial colony? The time to discover those bacterial colonies is sooner or later.
The same question also applies to us. Suppose we are a colony in the deep sea of the universe. What if the aliens’ journey of exploration has not yet discovered us? After all, space travel is much more dangerous than deep-sea exploration and much wider than the ocean.
Of course, you can also assume that all creatures in the universe appeared at the same time. We are the generation with the fastest formation of civilization. Millions of years later, our exploration of the universe will discover other civilizations. No matter which result, scientific inference, extraterrestrial life will exist. .
But in the universe, what is the probability that we are the first generation of cosmic civilization? This probability is equivalent to the fact that all living things on earth think that they are the first generation civilization. The probability exists, but this probability is estimated to be lower than the lottery probability of Penguin Game. "
Hearing the last joke, Xiaoyu and Zhao Min couldn't help laughing.
"I think the probability of winning the lottery is a little higher than that of the Penguin Game." Zhao Min joked with a smile.
"It's so complicated. Fortunately, I'm stupid and don't have to think so much." Xiaoyu said.
She roughly understood the meaning of Chen Mo's explanation, but thinking about it in detail was beyond her scope of consideration.
"Are you afraid that one day aliens will discover our 'colony' and capture you as a specimen for study just like humans capture specimens?" Zhao Min asked.
"Then I will aspire to be the superbug that infects them with fatal infections."
"If we are discovered by aliens, won't they directly exterminate us as described by Three-Body Problem?" Xiaoyu asked curiously.
"Maybe, but maybe not, the Dark Forest Law may apply to civilizations of the same level, or when the civilization levels of two species are close. For example, in the Age of Discovery, the Indians in the Americas were massacred and exterminated.
But for civilizations at the same level, or civilizations at a level similar to ours, the probability that the universe will reach us is too small, and the time span and distance span are too long. Unless a civilization of the same level as ours finds a habitat like the Trisolaris, it is impossible for the entire race to exterminate us.
Civilizations that are much higher than our own civilization explore and discover us. For example, when we go on expeditions to Africa and discover a new species of ants in the rainforest, will we burn the ant nest with fire? Obviously not. Catch a few at most to study or watch.
If our human intelligence and civilization evolution do not reach their level and will not threaten their interests, and our living environment has no value to them, the laws of the dark forest may fail. If we are interested in them, then you can refer to the small animals in the zoo. "
Chen Mo looked into the depths of the universe and said quietly.
The law of the jungle is applicable to any civilization. That is the nature of the universe.
(End of chapter)