The history of human civilization began with the invention of writing, and the earliest timeline was only seven or eight thousand years.

Not to mention that this period of time only accounts for one percent of human history,

In terms of these seven or eight thousand years, human civilization has been in the stage of obscurity for most of the time.

It was not until more than 100 years ago that we figured out the answer to the origin of mankind, and the rapid development of science and technology has only been a matter of more than 200 years.

Some sociologists believe that human civilization has gone through four stages, namely:

1. Primitive social civilization

Human life is completely dependent on the gift of nature, hunting and gathering is the main activity of the development system, and it is also the most important productive labor, the result of the accumulation of experience: stone tools, bows and arrows, and fire are important inventions of primitive civilization.

2. Agricultural civilization

From primitive civilization to agricultural civilization, scientific and technological achievements began to appear: bronze, iron, pottery, writing, papermaking, printing, etc. The main productive activities are agriculture and animal husbandry, and human beings create the right conditions for the growth and reproduction of the species they need, and no longer depend on the ready-made food provided by nature.

3. Industrial civilization

An era when human beings began to use science and technology to control and transform nature, and achieved unprecedented victory. Steam engines, electric motors, computers, and nuclear reactors, each scientific and technological revolution has built a new monument to "humanizing nature" and arming agriculture with industry.

4. Ecological civilization

Ecological civilization is a social system in which human beings and nature will achieve coordinated development, and is a civilization built on the basis of highly developed knowledge, education and science and technology, emphasizing that the natural world is the cornerstone of human survival and development, and making it clear that human society must interact with the natural world on the basis of ecology and develop together, so that human economy and society can develop sustainably.

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In fact, even if we have entered the stage of ecological civilization, compared with the vast universe, human scientific and technological civilization is still in a very backward primary stage of development.

According to the more traditional way of classification, the current civilization index of human civilization has not yet reached the first level.

At the end of the twentieth century, some scientists predicted that if the earth's civilization developed naturally, it would not be surprising that within 100 years, it would begin to enter the level of Type I civilization and become a civilization that mainly relied on nuclear fusion and solar energy.

And this prophecy came true ahead of schedule in 2030!

Nuclear energy is a great discovery in human history, which is inseparable from the exploration and discovery of early Western scientists, who laid the foundation for the discovery and application of nuclear energy.

This process can be traced back to the discovery of electrons by British physicist Thomson at the end of the 19th century, and mankind gradually unraveled the mystery of the atomic nucleus.

In 1895, the German physicist Roentgen discovered X-rays.

In 1896, the French physicist Becquerel discovered radioactivity.

In 1898, Marie Curie and Monsier Curie discovered the radioactive element polonium.

In 1902, after three years and nine months of hard work, Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium.

In 1905, Albert Einstein proposed a mass-energy conversion formula.

In 1914, the British physicist Rutherford determined through experiments that the hydrogen nucleus is a positively charged unit called a proton.

In 1935, British physicist Charles Chadwick discovered the neutron.

In 1938, German scientist Otto Hahn bombarded the nucleus of uranium with neutrons and discovered the phenomenon of [nuclear fission].

On December 2, 1942, the University of Chicago in the United States successfully launched the world's first nuclear reactor.

On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.

In 1954, the Soviet Union built the world's first commercial nuclear power plant, the Obrinsk Nuclear Power Plant.

Since then, mankind has begun to use nuclear energy in military, energy, industry, aerospace and other fields.

Indeed, the Western world has been ahead of the curve in the research and application of nuclear energy for more than 100 years.

But this time, it is the scientists of the Chinese world who are the first to break through the technical barriers of controlled nuclear fusion and make the peaceful use of nuclear fusion energy a reality.

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October 1, 2030.

The research project jointly carried out by the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Plasma Physics, and the Southwest Institute of Physics of the Nuclear Industry has been declared a success to the world.

Since then, the technology of peaceful use of nuclear energy has reached a higher level, and a new page has been opened in the history of the development of human civilization.

The ultimate goal of using nuclear energy is to achieve controlled nuclear fusion, and once the technology of controlled nuclear fusion is fully mastered, it will have a earth-shaking impact on the earth's energy system!

Nuclear fission is the release of energy by the division of atomic nuclei, while nuclear fusion is the release of energy by the fusion of lighter nuclei into heavier nuclei. The most common is the energy released by the hydrogen isotopes deuterium (also known as heavy hydrogen) and tritium (also known as super heavy hydrogen), or deuterium and helium-3, which are fused into heavier nuclei.

Compared with nuclear fission, nuclear fusion has two major advantages.

The first advantage is that it is clean and safe.

Because nuclear fusion does not produce radioactive material that pollutes the environment, it is clean.

Compared with those energy sources such as black hole energy and antimatter that are still far away in science fiction stories, controlled nuclear fusion technology, although it does not sound so lofty, is currently the most accessible way for human beings on Earth to obtain energy.

It can be said that as long as the humans of the earth master this technology, they will immediately be upgraded to a standard Level I cosmic civilization.

The second advantage is that the earth contains much more nuclear fusion energy than nuclear fission energy.

It is estimated that there are 0.03 grams of deuterium per liter of seawater, so there are 45 trillion tons of deuterium in seawater alone on Earth. The deuterium contained in 1 liter of seawater, through nuclear fusion, can provide the equivalent of the energy released after the combustion of 300 liters of gasoline.

The nuclear fusion energy contained on the earth is about 10 million times that of all nuclear fission energy, which can be said to be an inexhaustible source of energy.

As for tritium, although it does not exist in nature, it can be produced by the interaction of neutrons with lithium, and seawater also contains a large amount of lithium.

Of course, this is only the basic situation on Earth.

If we look a little further, we will find that the amount of nuclear fusion energy available in the solar system is staggering.

Not to mention Jupiter, which is far away, just the surface of the moon is rich in a lot of nuclear fusion energy.

For example, helium-3, which is very scarce on the earth (generally synthesized in laboratories, according to speculation, the reserves of helium-3 on the entire earth are only 500 kilograms at most), there are 70 kilograms per square kilometer on the moon, and the content of helium-3 in the entire lunar soil can even reach 715,000 tons.

PS: Helium-3 was initially formed by a thermonuclear reaction from the sun, and then scattered in all directions by the solar wind. Of these, only a small amount can reach the Earth and other planets. Because there is an atmosphere and magnetosphere obstruction. They are very difficult to land on the surface of rock formations. The Moon does not have an atmosphere, so particles carried by the solar wind can easily fall on the Moon.

Based on the above, scientific researchers believe that the nuclear fusion energy contained on the moon can provide nuclear power for nuclear power plants on Earth for tens of thousands of years.

This situation also confirms the saying that as long as the earth's turf is searched, mankind can live a heavenly life, not to mention Jupiter.

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Because of this, breakthroughs in controlled nuclear fusion technology have largely promoted the pace of human development of interstellar resources.

Looking back, it starts with the "U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competition Act" signed by the United States in 2016.

The United States has made it clear that any citizen in the country has the right to bring back to Earth the space resources it has discovered.

The bill declares that while other asteroids cannot be attributed to any country or business, if a company mines valuable minerals on it, the property belongs to that company. Any citizen of the United States who participates in the Commercial Recovery Program for Asteroid or Space Resources has the right to receive any resources on an asteroid or in space, including the right to own, transport, use, or sell any resources on an asteroid or space in accordance with applicable law.

Subsequently, in 2017, Belgium and Luxembourg will jointly take steps to attract more private investment in the development of space resources, committing to the joint development and use of space resources within the international legal framework.

In 20234, many countries in the European Union, Japan, and India will also enact relevant space mining laws at the same time.

In 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the "Law on the Development and Utilization of Commercial Space Resources", which covers all aspects of Russian space exploration, including the removal of various restrictions on private space companies and the granting of space mining rights to private individuals within the next five years.

The Chinese government also issued a statement on April 26, 2026, emphasizing its consistent foreign policy of safeguarding world peace and promoting common development. It is hoped that in the future international legal framework, the right of individuals to explore, exploit and exploit space resources will be recognized, while respecting the interests of mankind as a whole. In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the problems that occurred in the process of industrialization on Earth in space.

In 2028, major countries in the United Nations will simultaneously promote the efforts of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and other parties to begin to formulate an international legal framework for the peaceful use of space resources by mankind.

By 2030, a total of seven countries' aerospace science and technology enterprises or space resource development companies (state-owned or private) will carry out the first phase of exploration of extraterrestrial objects, including the Moon and Mars.

Since then, large-scale space mining activities have finally become a reality step by step.

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