Earth Era

All unconventional sailing methods have one thing in common, that is, they are expensive, time-consuming, and yields are extremely low. Just like the hibernation voyage used by Weifeng in the Island Project, just sending one person to the Nanmen 2 galaxy would cost 1.5% of the total annual economic volume of human civilization. What about earnings? The island plan can be said to have no substantial benefits.

If Wei Feng guessed correctly, the head of the Keller should have seen this paradox at the beginning and promoted the island plan. Maybe it was just a pavement for the follow-up larger-scale unconventional way of sailing out of the solar system. .

If this foreshadowing is successful, then the heads of state who take office in the future may push to spend the same resources, adopt this unconventional way of sailing, and send a group of scientists and a group of observation instruments out of the solar system to obtain more knowledge.

But there is a problem with this scheme. Not only is it time-consuming, but it also costs a lot of money. Note that within a certain period of time, it may take three or four thousand years. This solution will not bring any visible returns to human civilization. Its benefits may take three or four thousand years to be realized.

Because of the inefficiencies of unconventional voyages, acquiring knowledge in this way is extremely difficult. The resources consumed to send enough scientific scholars and scientific instruments out of the solar system may be astronomical, which is likely to bring down the average living standard of people in human civilization. And within three or four thousand years, these consumed resources will not be able to bring back any visible returns for human civilization, so this again forms a dead end.

Because people are always short-sighted, no. Not just the people. Even a wise man. He probably couldn't look far enough to see the benefits after three or four thousand years. The attempt to break the knot through unconventional navigation, then, is bound to encounter enormous resistance.

Wei Feng thought of a way to break the knot, but Wei Feng immediately denied this method. This method is really too difficult, and no one can accept it. It is like saying to the people who were still in the age of the state hundreds of years ago, asking them to endure hunger for five hundred years and ten generations in exchange for the prosperity of the country five hundred years later. Man must be considered lunatic.

Führer Keller may be such a lunatic. His vision is long enough to see things three or four thousand years later, and three or four thousand years ago today began to pave the way for breaking the paradox. Perhaps it is because of this that there is the island plan and Wei Feng, who is drifting in the endless starry sky at this moment.

At this time, Wei Feng suddenly thought that the death of the head of Keller may be because of this matter. The island project consumed 1.5% of the total annual wealth of mankind. I don't know how many people's interests were damaged. So... Is it because of this reason that the head of Keller was killed by a conspiracy? Woolen cloth?

Wei Feng felt a little cold in his heart. If Führer Keller really died for this reason, then the many heads of state who took office next...do they still have the courage to be such a lunatic? After all, the head of state will always step down and hand over power. Being safe while you're in office doesn't mean you'll be safe after you leave office.

Even if the head of state is for life. The heads of state must also take into account the possibility of popular riots and violent overthrow of the rule.

If the only way to break the paradox doesn't work... Where should human civilization go? The development of science and technology is facing stagnation, has been trapped in the solar system, and then... disappeared into the universe like this?

Chu Hai's letter was not over yet, Wei Feng pondered for a while, then continued to read.

"What we are facing is a dead end. Wei Feng, I thought of a question that has puzzled people for hundreds of years to now, and that is, where are the aliens? Now I think, it may be like this. , There may indeed be many civilizations in this universe, but these many civilizations are all locked by this paradox that is plaguing our human civilization. They did not find a way to break the paradox until the extinction of civilization, and they failed until extinction. If you walk out of your own galaxy, you will naturally not be able to be found by our human civilization."

Wei Feng knows the question of "Where are the aliens?", which is known as the Fermi Paradox. The Fermi Paradox means that, according to the model, there should be many civilizations in this universe. The age of the universe is already over 13 billion years old, while the age of the solar system is only five billion years old. Then, according to the model that the longer the existence time, the more advanced the technology is, there should be many civilizations with very advanced technology in this universe, but why has human civilization not noticed any signs of the existence of alien civilizations until now?

Chu Hai said that he believes that the answer to the Fermi paradox is that there are many civilizations in the universe, but no civilization can break the dead knot between "navigation speed" and "getting more knowledge", so they all perished .

"I think our human civilization will eventually follow this example. Because we also have no way to open the dead knot. If we can't open the dead knot, we can only go extinct."

By now, Wei Feng naturally knew that alien civilization existed. Because if alien civilizations don't exist, then the high-tech metal fragments in that irregular asteroid cannot be explained. However, after learning about the dead end between "cruising speed" and "getting more knowledge", Wei Feng had more ideas about the alien civilization that had come to the solar system.

Since that alien civilization can come to the solar system and fought a huge war in the solar system, although Wei Feng is still unable to confirm the authenticity of the huge war, because Wei Feng has not obtained more exact evidence, but Wei Feng believes that this inference is very possible, because the probability of "a piece of debris was found on an asteroid by chance" is too low, and it is too far-fetched to explain it by coincidence, then it must prove that alien civilization. Has the ability to travel between stars. And if this "dead knot" is a common problem faced by many civilizations in the universe, then this alien civilization has undoubtedly broken this dead knot.

Because it is obvious that only by breaking the dead knot can the ability to travel between stars be obtained. Also, since they have broken the knot, their technological level should be much higher than that of human civilization.

But...why is the technological content of that piece of metal not as high as expected? Wei Feng clearly remembers the performance parameters of the piece of fragmented material. These parameters show that although its technological content is higher than that of human civilization, it is limited. In one hundred years, of course, this is based on the current rate of technological development of human civilization. Wei Feng has no way to determine whether the technological development of human civilization will slow down or even stagnate in the next hundred years.

But at least so far, Wei Feng has not found any sign that the technological development of human civilization has stagnated.

What does this mean? Does this mean that the technology of human civilization can break through the dead knot and acquire the ability of interstellar navigation after another hundred years of technological development? Or does this dead knot simply not exist? Or, what is facing the dead knot is only human civilization, a civilization, and the alien civilization is not troubled by this dead knot?

Wei Feng could not be sure which of the three speculations was correct. It will take time to get an answer to this question.

Chu Hai's letter continued, "Wei Feng, I already have some bad hunch about the fate of our human civilization in my heart. I don't know what we will face in the future, our personal strength is too small, The inability to exert influence over the entire human civilization is a real torture for us with a long life. The only thing we can look forward to is...hope that after a thousand years, we will be able to meet again."

Chu Hai's letter ended here, and Wei Feng fell into a long period of thought. But this thinking is doomed to be fruitless. After thinking about it, Wei Feng is even more at a loss.

With a long sigh, Wei Feng gave up thinking and began to perform restorative training under Ye Luo's arrangement.

Life has returned to that turbulent state. The universe is always dark and empty, and life is always lonely and lonely. After a period of restorative training, Wei Feng recovered some physical strength, so he repaired all the faults in the spacecraft, and then eliminated some bugs accumulated by Ye Luo during the operation, and the time was up again. months later.

"It's time for you to hibernate." Ye Luo said.

Wei Feng was once again lying in the hibernation cabin. Before entering here, Wei Feng had instructed Ye Luo to search for possible fragments of unknown civilization creations near the flight route~www.readwn.com~ and granted Ye Luo the power to wake him up urgently under certain circumstances.

"Ye Luo, goodbye." Wei Feng said with a smile, and the hatch of the hibernation cabin began to slowly close.

Before he lost consciousness, a thought passed through Wei Feng's mind: "My report on the discovery of fragments of unknown civilizations is estimated to have been sent to the solar system at this moment. I wonder what our government will report on this report. Attitude? This should be the first time our human civilization has found evidence of the existence of alien civilizations..."

Consciousness slipped away, and Wei Feng fell into a deep sleep again. The Xinghai spacecraft once again turned off all unnecessary equipment on the spacecraft, and continued to turn into icy stones in the universe, continuing the lonely journey that will last for thousands of years. (To be continued...)

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