History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 13

When Jacques Cartier's small space shuttle docked and was preparing to dock with the Gaspé space station, looking at the black and blue planet outside the porthole, he still couldn't help feeling the "fear of the abyss" disease".Although he had also been implanted in a submarine to the Earth's Marinaya Trench in a geography class in his second year of college.A year and a half later, in his third year of college, he and the school practice group went to the atmosphere within 190 kilometers of the surface of Jupiter.

Compared with observing a solid planet from a porthole at a close distance from space, such a thousands of kilometers in diameter has no undulating mountains, no rich surface color formed by different vegetation, minerals or rocks, and an overall black and blue color. The colored water spheres are indeed very different from the planets that ordinary space travelers visit.More than 200 years ago, a ship crashed during a close-range artificial observation of a gaseous planet, causing the entire probe ship and more than 30 researchers and staff on it to fall into the Jupiter-like planet and die. Whether it is official or private initiative, artificial close-range observations of that type of planets have basically stopped.For a scene like Daxixing, which is rarely seen within the reach of human beings, even when observed from space, it still makes people feel awe and oppression.

He understood that as a descendant of the French, the family gave him the same name as the explorer in the 30th century, hoping that he could add to their surname in this era of "new great voyages" unprecedented in human beings. This belongs to the glory of the new era.In the [-]th century, the French explorer Jacques Cartier, who had the same name as him, explored the new continent of North America, although his reputation was far less than [-] years earlier, and brought Europe the first large-scale contact with the North American continent. The navigator Christopher Columbus, but Cartier's praise in ancient Canada on earth is comparable to Columbus.

Jacques Cartier is actually lackluster in historical sources, even French allusions like "faux comme les diamants du Canada" (faux comme les diamants du Canada) are used to make fun of his third and final North American voyage Brought back to France brass and mica masquerading as gold and diamonds.However, since the two most important place names "Canada" and "Montreal" for the later colonists here came from him, Jacques Cartier's name is still used by some to continue to the whole chamber Virgo supercluster of galaxies. Pioneering French and Canadian descendants are fondly remembered.

The name of Atlantis should be earlier than 200 years before the cosmic era. At that time, various cultures on the earth hoped to use their own influence in the planetary council on the newly discovered planet, regardless of whether it was suitable for living in the Kamin index.This kind of desire makes all countries with some influence in the world use names with strong cultural or regional characteristics to name new pioneering borders.A big country like France will naturally not let its name be absent on this issue.

The European Space Development Agency has just opened the 1-2-7 star tunnel for less than half a year. At that time, the basic detection of the galaxy itself has just been completed, and the galaxy itself has not even been properly named.The European Universal Development Bureau (EUDB European Universal Development Bureau) strongly requested the Planetary Council to name the red dwarf main star and the innermost planet in this galaxy Atlantic.

Europeans' obsession with the ocean is deeply imprinted in their culture, and at the same time, they have an indescribable longing for "Atlantis" or "Atlantis", the legendary continent that sank in the age of ancient mythology. .Therefore, trying to name the main star and this unique planet in this galaxy has become a matter that the European Space Development Agency is determined to achieve, and at the same time is full of ambition.
In the past 300 years, humans have opened up more than ten star tunnels and entered more than ten new galaxies, and discovered the first planet whose surface is completely covered by liquid water and is in the habitable zone.Because the planet is too close to the main star Orpheus, it is tidally locked and has no rotation, so the annual average temperature on the sunny side is about ten degrees Celsius higher than that on the backside.Although Atlantis is not like those thousand-meter-high waves caused by celestial bodies with greater tidal force, the non-stop violent winds and waves generated by ocean currents make the living conditions of the planet's global ocean surface very harsh.

Of course, the European Space Development Agency knew at that time that this planet probably did not have much potential for inhabitation, but as mentioned above, Europeans are indeed unmatched among humans on earth in their obsession with the concept of "Ocean". two.However, starting from the naming of this planet and the entire galaxy, official organizations in Europe and America no longer use "Colony" as a term to describe settlements outside the homeland.

According to the results calculated from the composition of the main star Orpheus, the galaxy was only formed less than 20.00 million years ago.In such a short period of time, only marine algae plants that can sufficiently oxidize the planet evolved on Daxi, and the atmospheric oxygen content of [-]% was also the reason why human beings discussed the way of developing the planet very intensely at that time.Because of such oxygen conditions, it is indeed enough to contract the planet to an organization like the Writers Association for special tourism development.

Ultimately, the proposal from ESA and WWF was agreed by the coalition government.That is to say, Daxixing, as a public welfare marine animal and plant gene bank, will "immigrate" the marine biosphere that still exists on the earth in an orderly and scientific manner in the next 200 years, making it a place that belongs to all mankind, belongs to the earth, and belongs to The Universe's Museum of Earth and Marine Life.

In the year 509 of the Universal Era, through the efforts of two generations of scientists and professional transportation companies, the first three phases of the earth's marine biological immigration plan were completed.At the same time, 53 permanent observation service platforms distributed around the world and 70.00 service relay space stations in synchronous orbits were also completed.One of the particularly commendable achievements is that 300% of the three species of animals, including more than 50 species and subspecies belonging to marine life, were extinct due to human desperation and blindness in the "Great Recession Period". Thanks to the efforts of scientists, at least two hundred species have been "resurrected" on Daxixing.Moreover, it is worth looking forward to that the remaining species with higher difficulty are also expected to reappear in the waters of Daxixing in the next [-] years.

Since the construction of the marine biosphere on the Great Western Star was basically completed, this planet has attracted many young people who have enough curiosity in their hearts besides scientists.In order to cope with such beneficial curiosity, many institutions, universities, and foundations will offer rewards or release prize-winning activities at regular intervals.These bonuses allow young people to successfully convince their staid parents and guardians with the help of these lucrative pocket money incentives.

Although the information encoded in Morse code sent from the earth seven years ago has been compiled through multiple layers of mathematical codes and logical codes, it is not an outrageous threshold in the era of the 500th year of the cosmic era.However, the reason that most decipherers are finally discouraged is the extreme adventurous spirit and desire for knowledge itself that the participants need to have behind the information.Jacques Cartier and his few like-minded friends who have enough credit at home to afford young people to roam the universe without any worries, naturally belong to these young people who "have their own conditions, and at the same time possess extreme adventurous spirit and knowledge" .

The purpose of traveling on the Great West Star is to solve one part of the puzzle: "In the vast and boundless living space, the fierce traces left by the great ancient predators on the artificial creations".

Although the Earth’s marine biological immigration plan only migrated the populations that still had the natural reproduction conditions to the Atlantis at that time, it is a plan to “resurrect” extinct ancient marine life such as megalodon sharks and black dragons by using genetic and other technologies and paleontological excavations. But failed to implement.The reason is that scientists believe that predators that are too powerful and objectively eliminated by the times due to various reasons will significantly damage the stability of the future ecosystem of the future planet.

Even so, the gravitational environment that is only 70.00% of the earth, the atmospheric conditions with high oxygen content, and the bad habit of eating shark fins accompanied by huge fishing waste.These factors have caused a dramatic change in the size of Earth's marine life that has come here in just over 200 years.

Due to the global overfishing caused by the sharp drop in global food production during the Great Recession, the conservation level has become endangered. The average adult weight of the great white shark on the earth was two tons, and the average body length was eight meters.According to statistics from the Biological Observation Workstation stationed in Daxi, in the 479th year of the universe era, more than 40.00% of the adult individuals had an average weight of five tons and an average body length of nearly 15 meters.Although such data is still far from the jagged shape of the prehistoric top predators, this kind of biological transformation caused by objective environmental changes has already had a huge impact on the evolutionary path of the organism itself.

The experience of Cartier and his team traveling on dozens of planets and long-term gravity-free space travel made them not feel too uncomfortable with the low-gravity environment, but the high oxygen concentration of Atlantis made them experience drunkenness for three days. oxygen reaction.The professionalism of the adventurers did not let these small problems slow them down. In the ten days after arriving on the planet, they visited and inspected seventeen large, medium and small observation service stations.

Although the resident staff at the service station ranged from warmth to indifference, frivolity or dignity, a trait that was common to all offshore platforms was one that Cartier took to heart.In order to avoid being corroded too quickly by high-salt seawater, the thick platform piles made of chromium and processed into chromium alloy casting are all left with terrible teeth marks by huge marine carnivores.These pillars are all taken from the fifth planet of the Orpheus star system in situ in order to balance the cost.

Combined with the description in the Morse code puzzle, Cartier thinks that the teeth marks left by these sharks and killer whales may be the answer described by "the fierce marks left by the great ancient predators on artificial creations".After observing the whole process of an adult sand tiger shark preying on a giant star octopus personally with the sightseeing submarine Madagascar, this impression was even more profound for him to keep in his mind.

(End of this chapter)