Thanos's tall and burly body was originally very oppressive, but with the crisp suit on his body and the gold-rimmed glasses on Bilian, it looked a lot more elegant and easy-going.

He nodded, walked into the conference room and said hello to his colleagues.

Then pull out a stack of paper documents from the briefcase and distribute them to the other members of the project management committee (Titan executives still advocate the use of paper documents instead of electronic documents when holding meetings to prevent information leakage),

Everyone spread out the document and glanced at it, the content of the document was divided into two parts, the first part was roughly a breakthrough in the research and development of the tachyon engine, and in a very short period of time, it was possible to develop Titan's own superluminal interstellar ship,

There is no doubt that this is definitely good news for the whole world.

The successful development of the faster-than-light engine is beneficial to the nation, the country, and even the entire civilization.

It not only means that the interstellar colonization plan has obtained the most critical piece of the puzzle, but also means that the territory of the Titan civilization will be greatly expanded in the future.

Just after reading the first part of the document, the high-level officials of the Space Agency who participated in the meeting were already excited, and they couldn't wait to immediately smash the Peace Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Thanos team, let him be canonized on the spot, and push him directly to the altar.

Given the historical significance of the faster-than-light engine, this treatment is not excessive.

Just when the hearts of the participants were beating wildly and they couldn't help themselves, Li Ang raised his hand and motioned for everyone to continue reading the second part of the document.

"Immediately start KTX, the colonization project of Planet 456134?"

The deputy administrator of the space agency read out the title of the second part of the document, looked up in confusion, and glanced at Thanos, "What's going on?" ”

In the second part of the document, Thanos expounds in a very serious tone the need to immediately carry out the interstellar colonization program,

Look at the warning between the lines, if Titan can't colonize the alien planet within a hundred years, it will be destroyed in an instant, just like the destruction of the country and the species.

Everyone looked up from the document and looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a while.

The deputy chief executive glanced at Leon, who was sitting in the chief, and saw that the latter looked like he was meditating with his eyes closed, so he had to cough lightly and said to Thanos,

"Sanos, first of all, on behalf of myself, my colleagues at NASA, and the entire community of Titan, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you for your efforts in the development of the faster-than-light engine, but..."

No matter what race, civilization, or language family, once the word "but" is blurted out, it means that the first half of the discourse can be invalidated, and it is the second half of the sentence that really determines the effect.

"However, is the interstellar colonization plan you proposed too urgent?"

The deputy chief executive hesitated and said: "The star region where Titan is located is quite barren, even the nearest habitable planet to us, KTX, Planet 456134, is hundreds of light years away.

The plan of colonizing aliens is undoubtedly second to none in the present and beneficial in the future.

But it takes time to build a faster-than-light engine, it takes time to build a supporting spaceship, it takes time to train crews, it takes time to convince the government and the people,

What's more, before sending colonial spacecraft, we also need to send unmanned scientific research ships and manned scientific research ships to conduct a comprehensive investigation.

Every job requires a lot of time, and it is not something that can be rushed. ”

The deputy chief executive shook the documents in his hand and said softly: "Everyone here has worked step by step from the grassroots level, and no one is a layman.

Everyone knows that even with a faster-than-light engine, KTX-456134 planetary colonization plan will take three hundred years to plan, at least two hundred years.

And in your plan, you keep emphasizing the need to transfer more than 70% of Titan's population to KTX, the 456134 planet, within a hundred years..."

The Deputy Chief Executive picked as many gentle words as he could, and said to Thanos, the unprecedented engineer, with a pleasant face, "Isn't this a little... It's unrealistic...."

If he had been replaced by someone else, the deputy chief executive would have squirted him bloody, and how could he be so polite.

Thanos took a deep breath and said calmly but firmly, "I know I'm asking for a lot of money, but there's a reason for all of this - our planet is on the verge of collapse. ”

No one squeaked, in recent years, among the various nest cities of Titan, there has been a lot of clamor about collapse, and a small group of people believe that Titan will face a huge political and economic crisis sooner or later, and it is about to collapse completely.

There are so many data reports behind this theory that even professionals can't find obvious patterns in the cumbersome numbers, so the market for crash theory is not large – it is usually concentrated in the cynical crowd.

All of the people in the room are highly educated elites, and they don't buy much into the so-called collapse theory - most people believe that the current stage of Titan is in a new period of history, the overall situation is extremely stable, and the collapse is completely ridiculous.

Sensing the silence, Thanos looked around at the room and said slowly, "Since the birth of human society, it has always faced a dilemma: the contradiction between the poverty of material life and the requirements of human reproduction.

To put it simply, the multiplication power of the population is greater than the ability of the land to produce the means of human life, and the increasing population will exceed the upper limit of the land, and the extra population will be eliminated in some way.

There are many manifestations of this way, plague, famine, and of course the most common is war, which can solve the population problem and increase many material resources.

We struggled in the quagmire of war for thousands of years before the Titans developed a controlled nuclear fusion reactor, and until now, we think that the energy we have created can help us jump out of this trap.

Outwardly, we succeeded, and the fusion reactor released a constant stream of energy, almost inexhaustible,

We have enjoyed peace for thousands of years, and the word war has never been so far away. ”

There's nothing new under the sun, and the problem Thanos points out is the Malthusian Trap – a theory that, of course, has a different name on Titan.

The Deputy Chief Executive interrupted: "Excuse me, Dr. Sanos, what do you want to say?" ”

Thanos glanced at him and said slowly, "We were wrong.

Although controlled fusion reactors provide an inexhaustible source of energy and delay the onset of the population trap, the problem is the problem.

It is like a pustule hidden under healthy skin, and over time, this pustule that looks like any other skin will continue to accumulate highly toxic pus until the time comes, when it suddenly erupts, causing fatal damage to the entire living organism. ”

There was still not much expression on the faces of the people in the conference room, and they had heard so many threats like this that their ears were calloused, and they couldn't be touched at all.

Thanos was not annoyed, he said calmly: "I know this sounds ridiculous, the Titan civilization is rich and strong, and the scientific and technological strength is enough to provide enough material resources to support many nest cities,

Even if the population is overcrowded, we can come up with the idea of sending people to the space station, and keep all the elements in a balanced state, even if the people are a little dissatisfied, they will not have any intention of disturbing the social order because of the excessive pressure of survival.

However, we seem to have forgotten one thing, and that is the speed at which technology is evolving. ”

There was no shortage of talented people in the room, who heard the slight change in color, but listened to Thanos continue: "Since the invention of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor, we have enjoyed a thousand years of peace,

Science and technology have been developing continuously, far transforming scientific and technological power into productive forces and pressing down the contradictions of the population problem.

However, the development of this kind of science and technology is completely based on the theory of the unification of physics thousands of years ago.

In the past 1,000 years, we have only added bricks and tiles to the theory of great unification, but we have never made breakthroughs, and if we zoom out to the scope of the millennium, it is easy to find that the iteration speed of scientific theories and science and technology is slowing down.

At present, the population problem can still be balanced, but when the development of science and technology is completely stagnant, the ever-expanding population cannot be erased because of the war.

It's like a pressure cooker that is getting unbalanced inside and out, and when the pressure is pushed to the limit, the pressure cooker becomes a bomb.

I can assure you here that if we can't move the vast majority of our population to another planet within a hundred years,

At that time, the population will grow to the limit in a logical way, the unprecedented pressure to survive will be overwhelming, and our civilization will collapse in an instant. ”

Thanos' tone was sincere and serious, and even those space agency bureaucrats had to start thinking about it seriously.

Someone frowned and said, "Why do you say that the population problem will prevail?"

The plan to transfer the population to the space station has been repeatedly discussed and studied by think tanks many years ago, and it can perfectly relieve social pressure.

Coupled with the macroeconomic regulation and control of the Titan government, guiding public opinion, I don't think there will be any emergencies. ”

Thanos nodded and said, "The think tank only thinks about the situation at the time, but they underestimate the level of chaos in human nature.

I took an emerging course called 'Psychohistory' during my college years, which is also known as 'Social Physics'.

That is, the movement of human beings as a whole is regarded as the change of material itself, and the political, economic, cultural, military and other social factors are comprehensively considered, combined with the psychology of the masses, to a certain extent, to speculate the future development direction of society.

In short, it is a science similar to 'big data derivation', where sufficient information can be collected and the right algorithms can be used to predict human history. ”

With that, Thanos took out the personal information terminal and pressed it twice, projecting a huge and extremely cumbersome calculation formula in the air.

Everyone was stunned, and even though they had all heard of the new branch of sociology called "social physics", they still couldn't accept it when Thanos said the words "predicting history".

"Ridiculous! Nonsense! ”

The highly educated space agency elite were annoyed, regretting why they had wasted their time, but when they glanced at the icons, they were shocked to find that behind the cumbersome algorithms there were wonderful mathematical laws.

Everything about psychohistory seems to be really a matter of time, and it really seems to be self-consistent...

What's more, the future deduced by those calculations is not very pretty....

"A hundred years later, the Titans' self-destructive tendencies are at their peak, with the abandonment of social responsibility, contempt for the authority of the Titan government, and cruelty to others and themselves,

It will make people exclude and even hate each other, abandon the great situation of unity, divide the people again according to region, ethnicity, civilization, and skin color, religion will transcend science, and fanatical personality worship will transcend democracy and freedom.

Eventually, the entire Titan Star will fall into unprecedented civil strife, people who have been divided into countless groups will attack each other, and they will no longer be able to form a whole, technology will regress for hundreds of thousands of years, and the natural environment and material resources will be destroyed like never before.

And the Titans, who can never point out the alien colonization technology, can only be trapped on the surface of the planet forever..."

Thanos said, "This is the future deduced by social physics, have you ever heard of the Great Filter Theory?"

In the process of transition from intermediate civilization to advanced civilization, it will inevitably face a test, and one of the contents of this test is to break through the population trap. ”

The conference room was quiet again, and the elites were a little skeptical—they had to admit that Thanos seemed to have some truth in what he said.

“.... What do you want us to do? Someone asked softly.

Thanos took a deep breath and said calmly: "It's very simple, I've developed a faster-than-light engine, and all you have to do is to represent the space agency and support my interstellar colonization plan.

As long as the population is transferred to the KTX-456134 planet within the time limit, and an extraterrestrial colony is built, everything will have a chance to recover. ”

The people in the conference room were silent, and their eyes were fixed on the chief Leon.

Leader, what do you think?

“....”

Leon's fingers tapped back and forth on the wooden tabletop, he closed his eyes and thought for a while, and said unhurriedly: "Yes, your request will be met,

However, you have to promise me one condition. ”

Leon opened his eyes, he looked at Thanos, and said calmly: "In your theory, the trend of changes in per capita resource possession is the most fundamental factor that determines the social form.

War and peace, beauty and ugliness, everything can be attributed to the contradiction between limited resources and unlimited population.

You want peace, don't you? Peace without war, without chaos, without humanitarian tragedy,

So, don't take this interstellar colonization project as the end, I hope you can continue this experiment, dig deeper, and find a solution to the final contradiction. ”

Thanos nodded.

And so, it was done.

The Titan Space Agency vigorously promoted the interstellar colonization program, and within a hundred years, most of the people of Titan went to the new planet in batches to develop colonies, and the population problem was alleviated.

A few years later, Thanos entered politics and was successfully elected Chief Consul of Titan.

On behalf of the Titan civilization, he participated in this competition in the star sea, and obtained a certain right to speak in the star region with a foreign exchange model based on peaceful diplomacy and supplemented by the threat of war.

A hundred years later, with the slogan of "inclusiveness, harmony and difference", Thanos assimilated the civilizations of the surrounding star regions into the Titan civilization and established the Star Sea Federation.

In the same year, a breakthrough was made in genetic medicine, and Thanos, who had entered the old age of life, was able to continue his life and continue to lead the nascent Star Sea Federation as the chief consul.

A thousand years later, the ever-expanding peace negotiations of the Star Sea Federation divided the last resistance forces, and by now, the power of the Star Sea Federation has spread throughout the galaxy.

At this point, Thanos, as the chief consul, issued a decree to implement the family planning policy on the one hand, regulate the population in a peaceful and orderly manner, and on the other hand, send probes to other galaxies to explore the outside world.

The Milky Way, which has been open sourced, throttled, and balanced in per capita resource possession, has finally entered a new era of overall peace.

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As the creator of the New Age and the de facto ruler of the galaxy, the house where Thanos lives is inevitably a bit shabby.

The low thatched hut is built on the mountainside, and when you push out of the old firewood door, you can clearly see the green mountains and green waters, and the farmland.

Thanos sat in a rocking chair in the front yard of the thatched house reading a book, his burly body had long since been eroded by the years, his dark purple skin was full of wrinkles, and even his once sharp eyes were as muddy as dust.

In the eyes of those who like him, Thanos is a savior, a god, a wise and deep leader, a bold and fearless hero, and a messenger who brings peace to the world.

In the eyes of those who don't like him, Thanos is a dictator, a madman, a war maniac, and a thief who covers up the truth of dictatorship with peace lies.

But there is no doubt about one thing - whether it is admirers or detractors, what they now enjoy is the peace created by Thanos.

Thinking like this, Thanos turned a page of the book, his wife, daughter, old friends and old acquaintances had long been taken away by the years, and he had no ties to this world except for the huge empire he had created.

He has fulfilled his long-cherished wish and has no regrets.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, he stopped turning the pages and lifted the old head to look at the old door.

Squeak –

The door was pushed open, and Leon's figure flashed out from behind it, still in his iconic white coat.

According to Thanos' memories and historical records, as the former director of the space agency, Leon died of illness after completing KTX-456134's interstellar colonization plan, and history's evaluation of him is limited to "the former boss of the Archon of Thanos".

A man who had been dead for thousands of years suddenly appeared in front of him, and a slight suspicion flashed in the eyes of the elderly Thanos - he had enough experience to keep him calm in the most incredible situation.

"How does it feel to fulfill your long-cherished wish?" Leon asked.

“.... Very good. Thanos said calmly, "I've never been calmer than I am now. ”

"Since you have no regrets, then come with me." Leon smiled and said, "It's time to wake up from the dream." ”

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