History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 50
In the wild ancient times, the ancients looked up on the earth and saw the bright starry sky.

Later, when people entered and exited civilization, they began to use the rotation of the sun and the moon in the sky and the dots of stars to point out directions, divide seasons, and divination of good and bad luck.It was at that time that people felt that the earth was the center of the universe and all things.

People at that time spent their whole lives, the lives of their predecessors, and the lives of some of their younger scholars and observers observing the laws of operation of the sun, moon, metal, wood, water, fire and other stars.Under the visible limit of cell composition, under repeated observations and repeated corrections of observation data, people at that time used their best mathematical tools to create a complex, precise, and complete geocentric theory.

Retrograde...Epicycle...Percentra... Although these terms have become history forever, they should not be forgotten by us.Are they wrong?They are not correct, of course, but they represent the best interpretation of the universe under human observation conditions at that time.Therefore, the relevant theories of Udesses, Apollonius, Aristotle, and Claudius Ptolemy are still worthy of our permanent memory.

At this time, the relationship between religion and natural science is not the kind that many people in later generations think that after a certain theological system is established, all natural phenomena are used conservatively to endow religion itself with lofty meaning.On the contrary, since primitive humans began to have cognition of nature, due to the different depths of understanding of natural science in different ages, there are often various forms of belief systems such as nature worship, fetishism, polytheism, monotheism, and ancient philosophy. These systems are almost They all explain natural phenomena for people of different ages, and propose one or more self-consistent, reasonable and acceptable world views in these systems.

For example: Abraham’s purpose of sacrificing his son Isaac is to allow his people to obtain a faith that can be entrusted, and this involves the question of whether people can trust a philosophy or a form of belief. As a test carrier, he can undoubtedly convince himself, the public, and God in his heart.

According to Mr. Dan Simmons' understanding of "Abraham's Dilemma" in "Hyberian": At the beginning, when human beings were about to step into civilization, human beings had insufficient knowledge and the need to survive at the same time made human beings need to understand certain problems. Make some self-consistent explanations for some personal things, or propose an appropriate way of understanding.At this time, primitive nature worship, idol worship, or some primitive religions came into being.Specific examples, such as fire, such as lightning, such as life and death, and so on.

Later, when primitive religions gradually developed in the areas around the Mesopotamia and became the source of the Semitic monotheistic religions, it is possible that human beings’ needs for beliefs and religions are not limited to the above-mentioned, explaining some things that they cannot understand Natural phenomena, or just some endorsement of the rationality of certain actions.At this time, human beings' desire for belief and religion, I think, began to develop towards guiding people to establish social order, establish social basic laws, and so on.

And why establish social order?From the point of view of our future generations, the establishment of a certain degree of system, even the slavery that seems barbaric now, or those currencies represented by shells or other things, will reduce the overall transaction costs of society to a certain extent, thus Let the human race dependent on the material itself be able to better engage in the production or other activities of creating more material.From this point of view, if the human beings who started to enter the early stage of civilization, the inner motivation of religion and belief is only to explain the surrounding things, it may not be able to keep up with the development of the times.

At this time, "Abraham" and others, or the group of people who created the original logic and basic philosophy for the Semitic monotheism, began to tell the story of "God" asking Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, which shows that kind of The transformation from primitive fetishism to a more advanced religion more suitable for human development at that time.The story is very simple. It is nothing more than "God" asked Abraham to "offer a burnt offering" to Isaac, the jewel in his palm.Then when Abraham's determination to kill his son was so real, and the grief from the father's love was so visceral, the Lord stopped Abraham from going down with the knife.

Here, let’s not explore whether the “God” who made Abraham sacrifice his son exists objectively, or whether it is another voice in Abraham’s heart that transcends himself.I think the spread of this story objectively makes people believe in the God who has wisdom, compassion and morality beyond human beings, and can be trusted by the ancestors spiritually.This kind of trust, in my understanding, is a kind of collective consciousness, which gradually formed some underlying social laws of that nascent civilized society.And the social law itself, in the age when human beings themselves are still immature, must be beneficial to the development and survival of human beings themselves.

Simmons narrates in the words of Saul Winterberg in "Hyberian": When the ancestors headed by Abraham needed some kind of belief to support themselves and their future spiritual world, God used the request to sacrifice Abraham's son Isaac tested the people's obedience to God.At the same time, Abraham also understood that his determination to sacrifice his son must be true, and at the same time, his love for his son must also be true. He was also testing whether God would stop him at the moment he stabbed the knife.If it is stopped, then this God who can feel his own grief and love, and who can be majestic enough to test human nature in this way, is a God worthy of the people's trust.

Here, let me extend my understanding again: I don’t know if Abraham’s act of killing his son can be understood as the kind of barbarism brought out by primitive humans from the cave?Does God's instruction to prevent Abraham from killing his son mean that the human race was just at the critical point of transformation into a civilized society at that time?To a certain extent, "God" is gradually produced and awakened in human consciousness. What about civilization and order?
Later, Nicolaus Copernicus put forward the possibility of the heliocentric theory with "On the Movement of Celestial Spheres" based on the related theories of Heraclitus and Aristarchus 300 years ago.However, the heliocentric theory at that time could be refuted even with the question of Aristotle, who had died for 300 years: If the earth is revolving around the sun, why can’t people see the time difference of other stars in the sky relative to the sun?However, there is no doubt that Copernicus laid the foundation for further theories of later generations with his genius thinking and massive data collation.

Later, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, refracting astronomical telescopes, reflecting astronomical telescopes, and classical mechanics... all of them defined the limits of human understanding of the universe in those periods. new boundaries.

Later, the big bang theory, from conjecture to confirmation, told us that the visible matter in the universe is moving away from each other and receding at a speed of hundreds of thousands of kilometers per second...

So, standing on any solid planet, can we activate our imaginative brains, imagine: looking up at the starry sky from this tiny planet under our feet, hundreds of thousands of years, millions of years, hundreds of millions of years , billions of years, tens of billions of years, or even trillions of years, until the moment when the universe is infinitely close to the end, what will happen?Are these starry dots that we can see now, because of the inflation of the universe, the inevitable redshift, and the ever-present regression, are they far enough in the future that they can no longer be seen?
We can't see it with the naked eye, can't see it with high-resolution astronomical telescopes, and can't even capture even a tiny bit of signal with a galaxy-level radio array antenna?

If this assumption is true, then our sect, which is dedicated to allowing people to survive at the end of the universe, is undoubtedly the only belief people need for the future!

The only homeland survival sect—the only correct belief that guides people until the end of the universe.

The above are the "they" who kidnapped Geng Sihan and deliberately used Geng Sihan to confuse and kidnap Yang Yi.This is a small religious group that appeared during the "Great Turbulence" period on the earth. The original intention of establishing the group is no longer testable, but according to reasonable guesses, it should be based on the end-time destruction that was common to all human beings on the earth at that time, and that asteroids would inevitably bring about the end of the world. of fear.During that period, many similar groups and organizations appeared on the earth, but there were only a handful of them that spread to the entire Virgo supercluster after the opening of the Star Tunnel, including open and secret underground ones.

During the period from 500 to 1000 of the cosmic era, whether it was the coalition government of the entire human race or those local star area governments with strong independence, they were very keen to use self-made star-level fusion weapons to blast the gaseous state of Neptune-like planets. planet, to open a new star tunnel.According to the relevant treaties and regulations at that time, whether it is a star area government, organization, company, or individual, the star tunnel opened after legally obtaining a star-level fusion weapon, the opener can own the space where the star tunnel goes, and The end of the star tunnel is within a 10-light-year radius of the center, and the development time of about 3500 cubic light-year spherical space is 279 standard years.

Although the price of manufacturing star-level fusion weapons is high, it is still a very cost-controllable behavior for the universe that contains a large amount of helium-3, deuterium, and tritium, which are easy to use nuclear fusion materials, and the entire star region.Against such a background, during those 500 years, there were no less than [-] Star Tunnels with official numbers recorded in the later "History of Human Universe Development".And in addition to the one hundred thousand star tunnels that have "identity authentication" and are recorded in all interstellar spacecraft navigators, there are at least twice as many "non-public star tunnels" as them.

Compared with the star tunnel data reported to the ternary interstellar coordinate database shared by all mankind, the "non-public star tunnel" usually only exists in the star region government or smaller galaxy government databases.These star tunnels often lead to extremely dangerous pre-supernova explosions, black hole mergers, or expanding red giant star regions, or places with some secret research or military uses.Around 700 Era, the white dwarf star that buried the Great Eagle, and a large number of asteroids that were transformed into land-based radio telescopes with a diameter of several kilometers belonged to this type of small galaxy that was "hidden" by the star region government.

In addition to such recorded "non-public star tunnels", people speculate that there are at least one hundred thousand "dark star tunnels" with almost no traces of records.Most of these "dark star tunnels" are indeed "darkness" worthy of the name.

The reason for the formation of "Dark Star Tunnel" is generally the lack of resources and the abandonment.After human beings have used stellar-grade fusion weapons to explode and form a star tunnel for a long time, they will usually send hundreds of unmanned detection spacecraft to scan the area within a few cubic light years at the other end of the star tunnel for one to three years.If the scanning result of the unmanned spacecraft shows that the development potential of the galaxy is higher than the Kamin index of 990 or more, the manned spacecraft will be dispatched to plan the development of key planets.And those galaxies and planets with a Kamin index of less than 900, after the developers take back the unmanned spacecraft, generally no one cares about them, and even the coordinates of this star tunnel and galaxy will not be reported to any level of official organization.

The spaceship carrying Yang Yi, Geng Sihan, and more than a dozen other abductees is sailing towards the "home planet" in the "home galaxy", which is such a place surrounded by almost boundless darkness.

The home star is a veritable "wandering planet", which should be a solid planet that was "thrown out" by a certain star system tens of billions of years ago.Except for the iron spherical core, the planet’s crust contains 60.00% carbon, which makes it appear black throughout, while the remaining content of water ice, deuterium, helium 3 and other substances provide the necessary substances for a small number of people to survive here Base.What's more, the planet is on the edge of the Virgo supercluster.The sparseness and emptiness around it make it almost impossible to see any stars brighter than +5 absolute magnitude with the unaided eye on the home planet.And such an environment is exactly in line with all the fantasies of the "Only Home Survival Sect" about the barriers of the last days.

When on Earth, in order to allow members to feel and live in the "boundless darkness" mentioned in the doctrine, all the gathering places of the sect on all continents are in buildings no less than 20 meters underground.After requisitioning almost all the large-scale air-raid shelters, subway stations and other facilities built in various countries from the 21th to the [-]st centuries, it is believed that the sect has also built many "standardized" full-featured underground living areas in many places.

Due to the lack of natural ultraviolet radiation, and the religious teachings also strictly prohibit the non-medical or research use of artificial ultraviolet rays, the skin color of all members is as pale as plaster statues.In order to "integrate" into the group as soon as possible, the new members deliberately use various methods to make their skin look as pale as the old members.In addition, living underground for a long time, the "future" will live in a universe without the "care" of stellar radiation heat. The standard clothing of the members is all pure black robes with hoods.This is how Yang Yi and Geng Sihan dressed when they left their "Cozy House" on the edge of the city.

According to some contradictory speculations, most people believe that this mysterious organization should have reached the home planet under the leadership of its about 900th generation leader between the years 1100 and 50 of the Universal Era.They gathered the believers they had accumulated over the past 500 years, formed an immigrant migration fleet with a scale of between 3 and [-] people, set off directly from a satellite base of Jupiter in the solar system, and quietly passed through the No. [-] Star Tunnel .

After passing through Star Tunnel No. 7, the fleet of dozens to hundreds of spaceships secretly passed through at least [-] large and small, busy or deserted Star Tunnels, and finally arrived at what they later called This region of the "home galaxy".Upon arrival in this starless galaxy, all believers are said to kneel on the deck of their room to thank the universe for creating a place where their ultimate beliefs can be practiced.

In the first nearly 1000 years, those people who settled on this cold and dark planet, with the help of modern genes and medical technology, extended the average life span of themselves and their offspring from the average human being of 170 to 210 years to nearly 300 years .At the same time, under the dogma of strictly controlling the birth rate, the population of the entire planet has not exceeded the upper limit of its resources.

Changes should have occurred about 200 years ago.A sudden plague or disease caused the planet, which had a total population of 15 at that time, to suddenly lose nearly two-thirds of its population.Such a crisis made the leaders of the only homeland survival sect decide to take the risk. On those "suitable" inhabited planets, they kidnapped people they thought were "qualified" to the "homeworld" to re-enrich the population base here.

It is generally believed that the reasons for this sharp population decline are not complicated.While on Earth, although the member membership system of the only Homeland Survival Sect was so harsh that it was almost closed, if you look at it on a century-by-year basis, tens of thousands of newcomers would still join them.The addition of such new members to the "achievement" benefited from the huge base of the earth's population of 300 billion at that time, as well as the "contribution" of hundreds of billions of people in several galaxies centered on the earth.But when it came to the home galaxy, the closed sect program, coupled with its closed geographical location and information dissemination, resulted in less than a thousand people joining the sect in this period every hundred years.

According to the doctrine, this group is committed to researching many technologies that can allow members to prolong their lifespan, and hopes to use genetic technology to "breed" offspring that are more suitable for longevity.It's just that this kind of practice that fundamentally violates the biological genetic attributes of human beings, although it has indeed achieved twice the life span of humans in super-galaxy clusters for hundreds of years, but because there are no new chromosomes and mitochondria added to this system , systemic genetic defects and diseases inevitably emerge over a sufficiently long period of time.

Before Yang Yi and Geng Sihan, there were at least [-] men and women who had no relatives or relatives, who were kidnapped and lured to Homeworld.

(End of this chapter)