History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 59 Escape from Mars 2 Disaster
After the virus raged in the early 2020s and the global economic depression between 2025 and 2029, the human world at the beginning of the 2030s finally felt the dawn of coming out of the gloom. In 2031, after years of preparations and the cooperation between several space powers, humans will establish a permanent settlement on the moon for the first time.This is the first time that humans permanently station personnel on a solid planet other than the earth, and equip these personnel with a semi-closed self-sufficient circulatory system.At the same time, a fully enclosed self-contained circulation system was also put into trial operation in the following years.

The time has come to the 2030s, which is destined to be a decade that will have a profound impact on human future interstellar exploration. In 2033, humans will land on Mars for the first time in history.After nearly a decade of safe operation of a permanent base on the moon, the first permanent settlement on Mars will be established in 2038, five years after humans first set foot on Mars.

Although experienced several recessions and turmoil in the second decade of the 21st century, human society is still developing and advancing towards the goal that people dream of.Over the years, weak artificial intelligence for product and consumer goods production, as well as equipment that can replace most manual labor, has been accelerating deployment into more and more industries. In the 2040s, during the practical application of new technologies promoted by the "Fourth Industrial Revolution", the number of people engaged in the primary and secondary industries in the world has decreased from 2020 billion in the 25s to 8 million.In terms of energy, although the consumption and extraction of oil, natural gas and coal are hitting new highs every year. In 2043, the first controllable nuclear fusion power station in human history was put into commercial use in Lanzhou. This epoch-making news has become the cause of many events that happened in the following years.

According to the records in multiple industry reports of various governments at that time, with the informatization and intelligent technology and industrial revolution that began in the 80th century, the number of industrial populations required to survive enough to meet people's demand for products continued to decline.Take a typical industry, tobacco, as an example. In the 60.00s and [-]s, a small tobacco factory with about [-]% to [-]% mechanized production and about [-] production personnel could meet the daily production capacity of [-] A moderately addicted smoker who smokes a pack of twenty cigarettes a day.If the tobacco farmers who grow tobacco leaves are added to this figure, it will take about three to four months of work by three tobacco farmers to produce the tobacco leaves needed for the [-] packs of cigarettes.

In the example of tobacco, if we add the entire population involved in the production of product raw materials, auxiliary materials, finished product processing, auxiliary types of work, sales, transportation, management and other industrial divisions, then it is necessary to serve 300 smokers. It is basically reasonable to calculate the total number of employees with 1 people.And if the ratio of three hundred and one hundred thousand is calculated, that is, one industrial personnel can serve about 350 end consumers.

The same tobacco industry, at the beginning of the 21st century, after major countries carried out large-scale intelligent technological transformation, the production efficiency has increased several times.Take China in the 2010s as an example. At that time, there were about 20 front-line employees in all tobacco companies in the country. At that time, with the help of highly intelligent and automated equipment, these men and women produced about 90.00%.Assuming that the number of employees in auxiliary materials, transportation, and sales mentioned above is also included, and the number of people involved in cigarette production and sales activities is calculated as 40, the ratio is that 1 industry employee serves 2000 end consumers .

Although the governments of various developing countries initially considered that overly aggressive automation and intelligence would have a huge impact on employment, thus slowing down and inhibiting the development and deployment of such equipment to a certain extent, the wheels of history always move slowly. Forward.By the 2030s, almost all traditional industrial countries on the earth have basically completed the intelligentization and automation of the tobacco industry in the 2010s.In this case, from the perspective of the consumption of industrial and agricultural products that all industries need to serve the world's 80 billion people, theoretically the world only needs producers with a population of less than 500 million.

From the 2020s to the 2040s, when the population was rising, several countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Africa, and South America were unable to follow the steps of major industrial countries in the world to upgrade their manufacturing intelligence. At the same time, due to domestic politics, etc. For various reasons, policy adjustments have not been made to population growth, which has led to them standing on a dangerous powder keg at this historical node of the transformation of traditional production methods and weak artificial intelligence.In addition, the event that controllable nuclear fusion was put into commercial use in the previous year has accelerated the collective depression of the global traditional energy industry and the secondary industries attached to them, as well as the financial industry.This series of problems caused the collective incidents in the above-mentioned countries in the first half of 2044.

In November 2044, personnel from the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency and other organizations involved in economics, currency, trade and cutting-edge technology, as well as representatives of member states of the United Nations, as well as leaders and legislative bodies of all countries authorized Delegates gathered in New York to discuss the relief package submitted to the Security Council by members of the African Union and ASEAN.In the end, the "Global Currency and Future Economic Reform Plan" based on many factors such as natural resources, productivity, and population of countries around the world was voted and approved by the United Nations.This program aims to establish a global credit point currency that can be implemented across countries.

In 2045, after many rounds of negotiations and games, the United Nations finally decided to use the new global currency "credits" to establish a fund of 500 trillion credits to assist the unemployed around the world and help related countries get out of economic difficulties.

The time has come to 21, the last year of the 40s. After several years of hard work and the help of major powers, the countries that experienced the crisis in 2049 have basically returned to normal.In the same year, the second permanent settlement on Mars and the first extraterrestrial industrial base for large-scale mechanical production were completed.It was also in this year that the first human born on Mars and the first human born on land other than Earth were born.

2051: After three years of continuous production at the Mars industrial base and orderly launches, the first human space station in the asteroid belt begins to operate.In this year, Mars is an independent political entity, and the gross domestic product of the whole planet reaches 3% of the total amount of the earth. 2053: Dr. Gu Lanlan was born.

2061: Relying on the Daedalus crater with a diameter of 93 kilometers and a depth of 2.8 kilometers on the back of the moon, mankind established the first radio astronomy observatory outside the earth.

2069: Human beings decipher all their own gene sequences, and cancer can be permanently cured from then on.In the same year, based on the results of this research, the average life expectancy of human beings could reach 150 years.Two years later, in 2071, the artificial womb technology and pure artificial breeding technology were fully matured. From then on, human beings can reproduce by optimizing healthy and suitable chromosomes and mitochondria in a planned way.

2079: At this time, humans have nearly 50 permanent residents on the moon, and nearly 200 million permanent residents on Mars.At the same time, humans have deployed 19 large and medium-sized space stations in the asteroid belt.In the same year, thanks to the breakthrough of nanoscale zero-gravity grinding technology, humans began to collect "ice cubes" in several bases with water ice in the asteroid belt, and began to build four full-band astronomical telescopes with a diameter of 4 meters.

2080: Four 4-meter-caliber full-band reflective astronomical telescopes located in the asteroid belt are all built and ready to be put into use.

When people are celebrating No. 20 of the "AD" calendar, a century will pass in less than 20 years, and the various achievements of mankind in the past 100 years, as well as the wars and peace experienced by mankind in the past 200 years During the turmoil, disasters, and turmoil, I did not expect that 2081, a seemingly innocuous year, would almost become the year when this species and the millions of species that were still alive on the earth were sentenced to death.

April 2081, 4, asteroid belt, Optics space observation space station.Dr. Gu Lanlan, who just spent her 7th birthday alone in the space station, discovered the situation that shook the human beings in the entire solar system on that day that she also thought was normal: a star with a diameter of 29 kilometers and a mass of 4000 billion tons , an asteroid whose composition is almost 99.99% pure iron, is flying towards the solar system at a speed of one thousandth of the speed of light, that is, thirty kilometers per second; the asteroid will be at 2381:29 p.m. It hit Mars in 23 seconds.

According to calculations and simulations based on precise models established by scientists, the impacted Mars will inevitably disintegrate after 300 years, and the disintegrated Martian fragments will move toward the inner solar system at a speed of no less than ten kilometers per second.These fragments will have a 70.00% chance of hitting the Earth, an 11.00% chance of hitting Venus, and a [-]% chance of hitting Mercury.

According to independent simulations by several powerful supercomputers on Earth, the largest interstellar fragments that have "visited" Earth in the past 500 million years will cause at least ten times more damage than the mass destruction caused by the Cretaceous period.At that time, the earth will lose all signs of life forever, and the self-proclaimed "advanced" creature will also become history forever with the shattering of Mars and the extinction of the earth.This asteroid, which will inevitably smash into Mars in 300 years, is numbered 2973161 by the International Astronomical Council.

The Great Panic between 2081 and 2094: In the 2081 years since Dr. Gu Lanlan discovered the asteroid in 13, several generations of scientists, including Dr. Gu Lanlan himself, have basically completely displayed all its data and data on the asteroid. form.However, as the information about the high probability of human beings being destroyed in 300 years is gradually released until fully disclosed, destructive waste on a global scale begins in the form of consumption.

Between 2094 and 2134: During these 30 years, several large oil refineries that had been shut down since the 2040s were restarted in order to satisfy the selfish genes of human beings who are unwilling to leave this limited and inefficient biological liquid fossil to others The new owner of the earth reappeared after knowing how many billions of millions of years later.In addition, those vehicles powered by fossil fuels, such as automobiles, motorcycles, speedboats, twin-engine or single-engine single fixed-wing aircraft factories have also been reopened for those who seek the stimulation of sound and aromatic hydrocarbons containing benzene, In this "destined" end of the world, get more relief and satisfaction.It was also during this time that several forests that had been erected in the previous 100 years during conversions and other restoration movements were re-leveled.The recaptured fertile land was systematically redeveloped into industrial vertical farms and ranches.

These planted, farmed, processed, and packaged carbohydrates, proteins, alcohol, and fats are all sent to the tables of nearly 300 billion people, and then continue to be swallowed, digested, excreted, discarded, and wasted.With the substantial growth of agriculture and industry, the tertiary industry and the financial industry are all cheering to join this gamble feast knowing that the end is the end.

The desire of the whole society to grow driven by desperation has also made the rules and laws formulated by human beings in the past 200 years to prevent various risks created by themselves no longer have clear binding force.The wildly magnified leverage stimulates the greedy nerves of every speculator, and these nihilistic financial forces feed back to every cell at the grassroots level with greater destructive force, which makes the economy of Mars and various inhabited space stations reach an astonishing level every year An increase of 17.00%.Wealth doubled every six years, and when it doubled for the fifth time, it created the most brilliant economic achievement in human history.

All kinds of alkaloids, hallucinogens, alcohol, and tobacco entered the wildest period of development in history due to the explosion of demand and lack of regulatory enforcement during this period and the subsequent Great Recession.The morality and conscience that addicts and drug dealers have already swept into the garbage dump of their history are instead used by them to cater to people's fragile nerves with arrogance.

In the summer of 2113, a level 200 nuclear leak occurred in Surabaya, the capital of East Java, ancient Indonesia.Due to the despair of human destruction after 15.00 years, the large-scale use of psychotropic drugs has allowed addicts with potential mental problems to penetrate no less than 37% of industry practitioners around the world.On the day of the Surabaya nuclear leak accident, 2090 technical workers collectively smoked North American Grade A marijuana for a long time, which caused collective unconsciousness and slowdown. Low-cost fission power stations will forever become a cancer on the earth.

Wars and famines caused by competition for resources and living space have reduced the total human population from 2113 billion in 307 to 2185 billion in 239.And if we look back from 2200, the statistics of the first year of the 23rd century show that the total wealth of mankind has decreased by 100% compared to 90.00 years ago[-].When recording and writing these data, people often ignore every living individual contained in these data, and every island of time and life represented by every real person.Often recorders will regard these mortal beings as the gravel that will inevitably be washed by big waves in the torrent of history, but the cruelty of the facts is often hundreds of times and thousands of times that of the words in those "historical records".

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