Chapter Ninety-Eight: Gamma Burst
The metal sheets are opened one by one, except for the first one, which is centered on the starry sky art image, and the rest is all small, exquisite text and supporting pictures.
The text is densely packed and looks a bit like Arabic, full of alien beauty.
"With more than 200 pages of images and textual materials, and a lot of before and after references, we should be able to make a specific translation, right?" Security Minister Xu Yunjin asked.
"Of course!"
An informatics expert was busy transferring data to a computer, and he replied without looking back.
People have been studying this kind of thing for hundreds of years, and it is impossible to go out of their way as before. In particular, with the steady rise of artificial intelligence, the new human civilization has translated a lot of extraterrestrial scripts.
Some hibernation experts were also urgently woken up and rushed over hungry. Seeing their sleepy-eyed expressions, they were scolded by Yu Yifeng again, and asked them to run to the cafeteria to eat first, and then come back when they were full.
"These text images...... It should be similar to our Arabic numerals, hey, their math is actually directly binary?! That's amazing...... Is this the notation for calculus?
"It should be ......"
"This is the axis and the trigonometric image...... Are the images of the genetic material just single-stranded structures, and these pictures represent their biological development...... Very comprehensive information......"
"If it is a more low-level civilization, it is estimated that you can learn a lot by getting this information."
These experts typed and relied on pictures to draw certain conclusions, and in fact, when they saw these things at first glance, they almost understood.
Images are always the easiest to understand, and mathematics is the universal language of the universe and the foundation of natural science.
A race that can't learn math will always be inferior and stupid.
"Wow! What is this, their portraits? How does it look a bit like ...... Indescribable, a bit like an owl. One scientist exclaimed, attracting a lot of attention.
“…… This cylinder in the back should be this detector, right? In this comparison, the height is generally two meters...... I don't know if I can fly......"
The information in gold-plated aluminum sheets is highly condensed, and often a single image contains a lot of information that needs to be interpreted by humans themselves.
For example, their height, measured in the wavelength of hydrogen at 1420 MHz at 21 centimeters, is described in the form of binary codes. This spectral line is the most widely distributed electromagnetic radiation spectral line in the universe.
If the technology is not in place, there is no way to understand these hidden passwords.
This feeling is a bit like archaeology in the interstellar age, and like deciphering the Sherlock Holmes code, an exchange across time.
Yu Yifeng listened to the conclusions with interest, "Our interstellar history museum will add cultural relics of an ancient civilization. ”
What happened to them in 150 million years?
Is it development? Or is it declining?
The dim starry sky, the latter is the high probability......
Perhaps the entire civilization has completely declined, and there are no planets left...... Only this information is the whole testimony of their existence......
The decline of civilization is the most cruel fact in the starry sky, whether it is a great man or a commoner, all reduced to a pinch of loess, the starry sky, and there is no trace of what once existed.
This kind of cruelty, which is difficult to describe in words, is the cut off child of a civilization, and from then on, there is no one to talk to.
It is also unknown whether the declining civilization will be discovered by other civilizations.
But for the universe as a whole, what does your existence or not have to do with it?
Whether it is a K-level civilization or an L-class civilization, they will slowly grow old because of the increase in entropy, and nothing is eternal.
When I think of this, many people's hearts are empty, because people have witnessed the rise, glory, decay and destruction of civilization.
It just slowly decays, grows old, dies.
One day, human beings will do the same, this is the eternal theme of the universe, from small individuals to large civilizations......
With the development of artificial intelligence technology, the translation system is no longer too much of a problem, and after three days, with the complete entry of data, the data has been basically translated.
More than 200 sheets of metal, like a condensed encyclopedia, provide detailed information on the culture, history, and science of the civilization.
The metal disk is burned with a simple information encoding, which is easy to be unraveled by humans, and people have specially made a translation reading device, which will automatically display the read information on the screen.
The content is surprising.
"It's a gift from a distant, small world. It contains our words, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and feelings......"
"We are trying to bring the traces of our past to you who do not know......
"It has traveled through incalculable time and space, and it has been delivered to you like this, I don't know if you like this gift."
"If you are stronger than we are...... I'm sorry that in the midst of despair, we chose to pour out this pain to another unknown civilization that we will never meet. ”
"If you are weaker than us, I hope that this spark of wisdom of ours will be passed down in the universe and will never be extinguished...... At the very least, it will facilitate your development. ”
"We are derived from the Tucker civilization, which is cantilevered by centaurs. We don't know if we were destroyed when you who don't know saw this information. ”
"There is a high probability that we have been destroyed, and there is a small probability that we will be reborn."
"Because we have observed that a supernova about to explode 168 light-years away has been aligned with its axis of rotation at our planetary system."
"Sometimes, ignorance is also a blessing, and we have worked so hard to develop modern science and observe such sensational facts. We would rather have no science, and then we will go to destruction in ignorance and joy......"
"Unfortunately, if this supernova explodes completely, there will be no grass and no life alive in the gamma ray blast. We don't know when it's going to explode, maybe it's going to explode in a thousand years, maybe it's already exploding at this moment, it's just that we haven't observed it. ”
"Even, the next moment, we'll all die."
"We don't have much time left......
"These ecospheres carry the simplest and most tenacious ecological chains, and more than 95% of the microorganisms in them have a genetic structure similar to ours."
"Because of the limitations of science and technology, our physical bodies may never be able to step into the starry sky, and our lifespan and sailing speed are far from reaching the level of interstellar navigation. But our genes can ......"
"Put our genes in a glass bottle and throw them at a planet that looks like it can host life, maybe ...... We can still hear some echoes. Maybe there is no repercussions, but none of them matter...... In the universe, we are not individuals, we are not this race, we are just a set of unique genetic codes, a difficult code to solve. ”
"This genetic code will change, it will increase, it will evolve, and in an infinite time, we may be reborn on another planet in another way."
"Of course, the premise is that these microbes can reach that planet alive......"
"All in all, we've done our best. Whether this probe was captured by another intelligent civilization or dropped on another planet that could host life. After all, our heritage is still here...... Either spiritually, or genetically......"
"We're looking forward to it."
"Unknown civilization, if you decipher this text, it means that you already have a higher level of wisdom. If you pick it up on your own planet. I'm sorry, but maybe you're our descendants......"