From its birth to the present, the main theoretical cornerstone of the New Civilization School is the "principle of medicality".

At its core, there are two words: mediocrity.

As large as the entire Milky Way, as small as a single cell, the probability is mediocre.

A simple example: Earth, an ordinary rocky planet in the solar system. The Earth is not the center of the solar system, nor is it the center of the universe. In the universe, there are many planets that resemble the Earth.

The Sun is just an ordinary star in the Milky Way, and there are countless similar dwarf yellow stars.

The Milky Way is nothing more than an ordinary spiral galaxy in the universe.

This can also lead to the conclusion that our position in the universe, and the stage of evolution we are at present, is mediocre.

The principle of banality is so profound that it can be applied to all aspects of life.

How do humans study the life cycle of bacteria?

Just take a picture of the petri dish, which is already full of the life and death of bacteria. Because bacteria are all ordinary, they are similar all life.

In the same way, casually take a photo on the street, most of the people in the photo are ordinary.

If an alien with a very high level of civilization wants to study human culture and understand the way of life of human beings, and does not need to stare at a person's entire life, it will take too long. They just need to collect as much human data as possible at the same time.

Why?

Because, the vast majority of people have a mediocre life, and the life trajectories of these human beings are similar. By collecting data from other people, it is already possible to predict the lifestyle of a certain person.

Go ahead and zoom in on this conclusion to some abstract concepts.

Civilization, for example.

Everywhere you look, you can see hundreds of millions of stars.

It is bold to predict that these stars are mediocre and ordinary.

What about civilization inside?

The probability is mediocre, there is no need to imagine aliens as particularly awesome, it can be boldly predicted that many civilizations inside may not be comparable to human civilizations.

So...... What about human civilization?

I have to admit that human beings are most likely a mediocre civilization. There are indeed many great figures in history, from the ancient Qin Shi Huang, Shakyamuni, and Muhammad, to the old Lincoln, Mao, Newton, and Einstein.

But in the entire universe, it is just commonplace, and all events follow the laws of history itself. Great men have indeed promoted the times, but the times, in turn, have given birth to great men.

There is no evidence that human beings are extraordinary.

It has to be said that this is a very dismal prediction.

So, what kind of civilization is an extraordinary civilization?

The civilization that happened on Tabi Star and tried to build a Dyson sphere is most likely an extraordinary civilization.

Any mediocre civilization can know that the Tabi civilization is powerful and different.

Dyson sphere, a huge amount of engineering, even if human beings are a billion or even tens of billions of times stronger, there is no way to do this project.

One last question.

How to make human civilization an extraordinary civilization?

The answer is: I don't know.

There are so few non-trivial samples that can be observed that the New Civilization School has no way to make any calculations.

But there is no doubt that human civilization has done something extraordinary.

That's – launch Earth Times!

From the point of view of probability, mediocre civilizations usually do not do such seemingly expensive but "meaningless" things. Otherwise, human civilization will definitely be able to observe more traces of the activities of "mediocre" extraterrestrial civilizations, which contradicts the existing facts.

……

Time passed, and Zhang Yuan opened his eyes.

For a while, the whole head was still in a state of chaos.

"Wake up, he's awake!"

"Hey...... Can you hear me? ”

It was as if someone was shouting to him, and the voice reached his ears from the distant sky.

The body temperature is recovering little by little, and Zhang Yuan's will is slowly sobering up. It was a very uncomfortable feeling, as if I had been woken up from a deep sleep, but my brain was not completely awake, and there was no way to move, but my muscles twitched instinctively.

"Mr. Zhang Yuan, you have been asleep for 183 years, it's time to wake up......"

"Give him a little adrenaline."

After a long while, Zhang Yuan's eyes moved and his neck twisted slightly.

Instinctively looking around, there was a bright electric light on the ceiling, some needles in his arms, and a nutrient solution hanging from them.

On the bedside table next to me is a medical machine that monitors physical health.

The whole environment seems to be a little familiar.

There is a line of numbers on the upper display: 2448.11.13, 12:20.

There were also several people in the next bed who had also just woken up from hibernation.

There was also a nurse wearing a mask standing beside her, and she said softly: "Hello, Mr. Zhang Yuan, this is the hospital in Area A. You've been asleep for 183 years and have just woken up from hibernation, don't worry, if you feel tired, you can continue to sleep for a while. ”

Hibernation is a little different from normal sleep, and although he has been asleep for 183 years, Zhang Yuan still feels that he is very tired and has no way to think about anything.

This time, I slept for another three days.

Moistened by the nutrient solution, he has slowly regained his health.

"Miss Mary, thank you, can I eat beef jerky?" Zhang Yuan lay on the hospital bed and said in a hoarse voice.

"Beef jerky can't be eaten for the time being, I can only eat probiotics these days to restore gastrointestinal health, plus a little porridge."

The nurse smiled and said, "You're probably the most voracious patient I've ever met." When people wake up, they ask what has happened in the past 100 years......"

Zhang Yuan was a little apprehensive in his heart.

Why didn't he want to know?

It's just that he is a little scared, a little afraid to face the story of the past.

"Uh, is everything okay with the ship?"

"Everything is normal, nothing particularly serious."

"That's good."

On the fifth day, Zhang Yuan was officially discharged from the hospital.

He was received by a liaison named Yu Feng. The old gentleman, Zhang Yuan, who was about 50 years old, knew that he was once a professor at the Deep Space University, but now he is a political liaison.

"A sixteenth-level job? High-tech talents! ”

When he saw his information, Yu Feng was a little surprised, "Mr. Zhang, unfortunately, this is a small year, and the sober population is only six hundred. If you don't have a life partner, you may be more lonely......"

"Thanks, I'm used to being alone."

Zhang Yuan smiled reluctantly and nodded.

Xiao Nian refers to the era when the sober population is very small.

There is probably a big year every 20 small years.

During the middle of the year, the sober population can soar to 20,000, and a large number of people will maintain the entire ship as a whole, and then produce the necessary necessities for the next 20 years in one year.

In the following time, everyone began to live a cold year again.