Sure enough, human progress requires the introduction of a competitive mechanism.

If there is no competition, then humans are no different from salted fish.

At most, it is slower when sprinkling salt, so that the salted fish is not so salty.

It's not nice to say, but it's definitely true, that is, in times of war, the development of human science and technology is like "accelerating".

Moreover, the greater the scope of the war, the greater the "acceleration multiple" of the point.

It's just that the price to be paid for this kind of technological acceleration is too great, and the pain left to people may not be erased for a lifetime.

Even the previous Cold War, although it did not cause the destruction of the world, still made many people live in inexplicable fear.

In addition, the two countries have been promoting each other's horrors, so even if the crisis is later resolved, there are still many people who feel that one day a large area of deadly nuclear bombs will fly from the opposite side.

But after the crisis was resolved, there was no strong enemy, and Merriken slowly entered a state of salted fish, and even engaged in a public security war from left to right.

A beast no longer grabs territory with another beast, and no longer hunts cattle and sheep, but hunts small mice, this contrast makes the beast even unable to command its minions.

I also suffered a loss.

Anyway, after that, the whole world went into a salted fish state.

It was not until the revival of another country that the world slowly withdrew from the state of salted fish, or the original participating country dragged the whole world out of the state of salted fish.

If nothing else, in some time, the world will once again enter a state of cold war.

And all this was broken by the arrival of "aliens".

Or rather, broken by the unknown.

"Unknown" is sometimes more frightening, worrying, and nervous than aliens.

The horror of horror movies comes from the unknown.

The plot of an urban movie is almost like that, at most, a car suddenly pops out and kills you, but you know what a car is like, so as far as fear is concerned, it should be death that is feared.

But horror movies are different, the art design of many horror movies is very self-indulgent, and suddenly a thing that you have never seen before, but extremely scary, is enough to scare people's hairs to stand on end.

With "strange strangers", even if there is competition, the people of the global village are unanimous in the beginning, even in the competition.

But I don't know how long this "external" time can last, which should be related to the strengths and weaknesses of the "stranger stranger".

After placing a heavy bet on Tianxia's side, Merriken's side was not far behind, and told his latest decision early the next morning.

They will use the event horizon telescope scheme to find the unidentified probe, and it will be even better than the last time they searched for a black hole.

And the billion-dollar mission grant will definitely come out, but considering that it takes time to raise a lot of money, so 10 million dollars will be paid upfront.

The rest, will arrive soon.

The two heads of the earth have spoken, and they will look for the unknown probe in different ways, and even Merriken, who talks big every day, really paid for it, although the remaining 990 million may never be paid, but Merriken can do this step in international affairs, which is already very revealing.

Therefore, other capable countries have also made strong contributions, with those who have money and those who have people.

Especially in the orbit of Mars, there are Tianxia's, Europa's, Peacock's, Petroleum Alliance's and Merriken's orbital probes, and Tianxia has decided to contribute everything to the Tianwen-1 orbiter, so that it can consume precious fuel to actively change orbit to search for the probe.

Because the Mars orbiter is so valuable, other countries won't do it, but they will provide some coordinates so that Tianwen-1 can combine more information to search for the probe.

And they will temporarily suspend their Mars exploration mission, consume a little fuel, and allow the rover's imaging equipment to be aligned with orbit.

The rest is just waiting for the blind cat to touch the dead mouse.

It's the same on Earth, and if you can get the money from the Merrican mission, you can also invest some more manpower and material resources if you can transfer less resource-intensive equipment to the search channel.

This is most prominent at the Europa Space Agency.

It's not that they don't want to pay more money, it's just that because they really don't have any money, their debt crisis is getting worse and worse, and they want to find money from other places to plug the holes, how can they still take money out.

Having been in the UN for so long, everyone knows that the more you invest, the bigger the ranks.

And this investment also depends on strength, not every country is qualified to invest, your investment must match your national strength.

There are also countries whose strength is okay, but only the surface is left, otherwise they would not be unable to come up with money and resources at such a critical time.

Of course, there are other reasons, such as the fact that everyone can't be 100% sure that it's an alien device.

Even if it's really an alien device, but alien technology is also hierarchical, and if it can't bring enough benefits, they won't invest.

The advantage of this is that the loss can be absolutely minimized, and the disadvantage is that after having a high enough benefit, they will not be able to eat the first in their mouths.

However, with Tianxia and Merrican on top, it is impossible for them to eat the first batch of benefits, because no matter how much you invest, it is impossible for Tianxia and Merrican to invest as much.

So, it's better to be honest.

After all, they are Europa like salted fish, and the center of gravity of the world is no longer there.

At this time, it is generally not good to make a head bird.

"Shoot the first bird" is not just a unique word in Tianxia.

Sure enough, the world's largest gun spoke.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a very dangerous situation!"

In the last hour of the morning, Merrican sent a councillor who spoke quite well.

"Aliens have come to our solar system, we think that human society can no longer be like before, we need to unite ......"

It's funny that the word solidarity comes out of the mouths of the councillors at Merrican.

None of the people in the Great Hall spoke, but watched his performance.

And this man did not disappoint the others and was quick to say his central idea.

Go technical!

Aliens are coming, and the future of humanity is in jeopardy, so he called on Navigator to disclose the technology of unmanned exploration spacecraft to countries involved in the search for unknown probes.

Anyway, the Navigator company has already contributed the unmanned exploration spacecraft, so it is better to directly disclose the technology, so that other countries can also manufacture corresponding equipment, and human resistance to aliens can also be increased.

Of course, he did not let the Navigator company take out the technology in vain, he suggested that countries contribute some funds to the Navigator company to compensate the Navigator company.