"I'm somewhat sure of this conclusion."

Duan Qing didn't continue to talk immediately, but left some time for everyone to think. So that everyone can calmly analyze the whole process of the matter.

In fact, Xu Liang Duanhan, even including those middle-level officers next to him, did not think about this problem. They all know that a tsunami cannot happen for no reason, there must be a mastermind and a promoter.

The explosion of fossil fuels on the seabed is the direct cause, but not the root cause.

The root cause, in other words, is where the person who "ignites the fire" is the core question.

Xu Liang Duanhan also knew that this issue was very important, but in the past few days, they have been busy dealing with more important issues of life and death. And in such a short period of time, to be honest, even if you study it with all your might, it is difficult to draw conclusions.

However, the sister Duanqing sitting opposite was different.

Duan Qing has ten years, and she also has the strongest instruments, the most resources, and the best scientific research team on the planet. She has more than enough to figure this out.

And now that she's figured it out, she continues:

"Why must it be another civilization, you may ask? On what basis did I make this inference? What did I find that made me dare to draw such a conclusion? Why do I dare to conclude that there must be such a civilization at the bottom of the sea? I think you must have a lot of similar questions in your mind. ”

"I'll answer all your questions based on what I know." "But before I do that, I want to ask you a question. ”

"Think about what the so-called 'aliens', or the so-called 'other civilization', would be like in your mind?"

After Duan Qing finished speaking, he took a sip of tea.

There is no doubt that no one has ever seen an alien. So no matter what you imagine it is, whether it is a seven-clawed octopus or a silicon-based lifeform, a super battleship or a dimensional monster, whether you believe in Marx or Keynes, it can be summed up in two words - blind imagination.

"Extraterrestrial life is naturally undefined in the mainstream scientific community because it is something that has never been touched at all."

"But there has been a lot of discussion in the media, scripts, film and television, from the appearance of aliens, the appearance of battleships, the living environment, and even the social and political form, there are quite a lot of discussions in various media."

"But we seldom discuss a critical issue."

"It's also a very scientific question."

"The problem is: the ability of a civilization to change its environment."

"This ability can also be understood as 'the total energy that can be manipulated', 'the influence on the natural world', and the 'efficiency of energy utilization'!"

"That's what scientists care about!"

"This question, whether aliens look good or not, how aesthetically pleasing they are, whether they are men and women, whether they believe in Marx or Keynes, whether they are celebrities, whether they chase dramas or not, whether the battleship is beautiful or not, is much more important than these questions!"

"Because a civilization's ability to control energy determines the civilization's ability to survive."

"And survival, for a civilization, always comes first."

"The more energy you have, the more survivability you have."

"We agree that this is a very strong axiom that is self-evident."

"Take us as an example: about 70,000 years ago, we Homo sapiens set out from the African continent and went all the way north, defeating the Neanderthals who were entrenched in the north of the Mediterranean Sea in Europe at that time, and until 10,000 years ago, we left traces of Homo sapiens on the seven continents of the world, and marched towards the civilization journey of conquering the whole world."

"The total amount of energy we can grasp is increasing."

"In the beginning, we had to hunt and gather for energy, which was barely enough to feed us. Hunting and gathering consumes energy, and eating gets energy, one in and one out, just balanced. Later, we Homo sapiens conquered the world, invented more advanced farming techniques, increased the output per unit of land area, and finally began to settle down. Because we only need to settle down, we can produce a sufficient amount of energy for us to survive. ”

"Food is energy."

"We even have extra energy to make wine with food. Wine is probably the oldest luxury item of mankind. The creation of luxury goods means that for the first time, there is a surplus of energy available to us. ”

"The time node of the era of agricultural civilization was about 7,000 years ago."

"Because we have a surplus of energy, we can have more children, and the population will expand at an accelerated pace, in fact, at that time, it will be the first time that the population has expanded in the world."

"The whole world is full of tens of millions of primitive Homo sapiens who have not yet shed their hair."

"What could all the energies of our race do together at that time?"

"A pyramid can be repaired."

"Or a Burj Khalifa."

"This is what all of our races could do 7,000 years ago, with all the energy that could be harnessed."

"But about 4,000 years ago, people from Egypt alone could have done that."

"In middle school textbooks, teachers tell us that this is a productivity boost. And this is usually attributed to political reasons of the stepped nature of the progress of the productive forces of slave society - feudal society - capitalist society and so on. ”

"But we scientists don't."

"We scientists prefer to interpret history from a scientific point of view. That is, from the liberation of energy control, we should look at the development of the entire human civilization. ”

"4,000 years ago, in addition to Egypt, there were four or five birthplaces of civilizations, that is, several ancient civilizations that were later named, and all their energy balances together have reached ten times that of the beginning."

"Further back, 2,000 years ago." Duan Qing continued, "During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization, there was already a Great Wall that stretched for thousands of kilometers. This is a much larger megaproject than a single pyramid. ”

"From the perspective of energy control, the energy controlled by the entire human civilization at that time increased more than tenfold."

"At this point, you've probably figured it out."

"The growth of the power of a civilization is by no means flat, but leapfrogging and exponential!"

"It's not 1+1=2, this year I harvest one acre of wheat, and next year I will harvest one acre of wheat, which adds up to two acres of wheat. It follows an exponential upward trend. ”

"In multiples!"

"If we follow the addition method, all our energy before 2000 was to build the Great Wall, then now after 2000, we can only build two Great Walls."

"But in reality? Look at the world's super cities, 100,000 kilometers of high-speed railways, millions of kilometers of highways, and see how bright the night of the earth is under satellite pictures, and you can know what kind of miracles we humans have created. ”

(To be continued, there will be a change at night)