Chapter 223
The center's computer contains video footage of Fleiscott's lover. www.biquge.info His lover's real name is Hua Xiaorui, and she sang in her first original song: The heart of the flower is hidden in the stamen, and the flowering period is missed, my heart forgets the season, and it is never easy for people to understand......
The spacecraft has entered low-Earth orbit. From here, the Red Starfish has covered most of the field of vision, as if there is a colorful and beautiful halo surrounding the planet; It rotates silently, strands of cloud intermittently linked, outlining a general pattern of movement. Princess Qian'er, the little mermaid, glanced at the console, the signal had been sent out, but no response was received, which seemed a little abnormal. The wormhole jump is followed by a regular trip that takes about two days to reach the Red Starfish, and the astronauts are trained to prepare for this regular voyage. Princess Qian'er turned her head to enjoy the scenery outside the porthole, she already knew that due to the absence of a continent, the climate of the Red Starfish was relatively mild, except for the occasional typhoon near the equator, there were basically no extreme weather conditions; Due to the lack of continental blocking and mitigation, typhoons last much longer than Earth's on Red Sea Star. Even a typhoon does not pose a threat to most living beings, and the huge amount of liquid water with a large number of red plankton that breeds like the Red Sea of the Earth protects all living beings, but is this really a protection?
"I still doubt that the water planet can't be sealed off forever from the creation of intelligent life." The Little Mermaid looked at Fleicisco and said, "If time is enough, maybe life will find an evolutionary path that we don't know - just like the intelligent creatures in the Earth's oceans, the 'Fish-Man'......"
"I've thought that before, too. But can you tell me how to get fire on the planet Water, not the fleeting kind like lightning or an undersea volcanic eruption, but a fire that can be used continuously? Flessisko's voice was low, and he continued: "The three conditions for combustion are the presence of combustibles, contact with oxygen, and the temperature reaches the ignition point of combustibles. There is no free oxygen in the water, and the water temperature is lower than the ignition point of most combustibles, so fire cannot be obtained under natural conditions. As for the underwater combustion that people have achieved nowadays, it is actually based on an ingeniously designed machine, and this kind of fire is actually a product of intelligence. ”
Princess Qian'er, the Little Mermaid, shook her head in frustration. Of course, she knew the significance of fire for the evolution of intelligent life, not only to provide protection and cooked food, but also to calcining utensils, smelting metals, and later all the technologies of human chemistry, physics, and aerospace, none of which did not originate from the application of fire.
"In the past, there was an opinion that the hallmark of human beings as intelligent beings was that the proportion of human brain to body weight was the highest, but now we know that the ratio of bottlenose dolphins is greater than that of humans. But for millions of years, bottlenose dolphins have not been able to produce their own civilization, at most some of the rudiments of society. Flessisko continued: "So you can now understand why the Earth Council was so close to the enemy when the Red Sea Star was discovered, because the existence of continents is conducive to the emergence of highly intelligent life. It was just a false alarm, the Red Starfish did not have highly intelligent life, and the most advanced species there were a kind of marine 'fish-man' with a spine and six brachiopods and a pterosaur that could fly freely in the clouds, and the intelligence was close to that of the gibbons on Earth. If humans had discovered the Red Starfish earlier, the creature might have become the ruler of the planet, but now their brachiopods are a famous dish for the Red Starfish. ”
Princess Qian'er, the Little Mermaid, couldn't help but feel a huge pride and happiness in her heart. If you agree with Flessisco's view, the protection of life on the planet water planet is an eternal imprisonment of life. Being in the sky above the Red Planet, Princess Qian'er knew that the conversation she had with the leader in the past few days had completely changed her. For the first time in her life, she realized what a strange thing it was to be human, or what a unlikely event, according to Flessisco......
"But why would humans be so afraid of another intelligent life? Can't you be friends? Princess Qian'er spit out the doubts in her heart.
Flessisko smiled strangely and said, "Actually, there have always been two schools of pessimism and optimism on this issue. Pessimists believe that once intelligent life in the universe meets, it will immediately lead to the plundering, killing, and even extinction of the lagging side. Now this view has been recognized by many people and is the mainstream. ”
"What about optimists?" Princess Qian'er asked eagerly.
"I'm just an optimist." Fleisisco looked into the Little Mermaid's eyes and said, "Maybe it has something to do with my own astronomy major." But now, something is wrong with my view. ”
"The reason we are optimistic is simply because of the grandeur of the universe itself. The closest star system to the Earth is Proxima Centauri, which is 4.3 light-years away, but it is a three-star system with a very complex gravitational system, and the planet cannot exist stably at all, but recently scientists have discovered that Proxima Centauri is actually a rocky planet like Earth, and the parent star is a red dwarf, which may also produce alternative planetary life; Other known stars with planets are more than 10 light-years away from the Earth, but based on the harsh conditions for the emergence and evolution of life, the possibility of intelligent life on these planets is almost zero, and the most powerful radio telescopes on Earth for hundreds of years have not received a trace of meaningful signal from these planets, which has actually basically denied the possibility of intelligent life around the Earth for decades light-years. ”
"And what about a little farther away?" Adan the Negro interjected: "The extent of the universe is more than 22 billion light-years......"
"Of course it's possible to go a little further." Flesisko said with great certainty: "Although the probability of intelligent life is extremely low, the cosmic matter is incomparably huge, so there must be planets with intelligent life, and many of them must have a technological level that exceeds that of earthlings." So the question is, what will these more technologically advanced alien races do if they come to Earth? ”
Princess Qian'er and the black Adan glanced at each other and shook their heads honestly.
"The optimists conclude that they will do nothing. Because for advanced intelligent civilizations that can span thousands of light-years away, the earth and the so-called human civilization at this stage are of no use at all except for a little observational significance. Such a super-intelligent civilization has long understood all the secrets of matter, and perhaps they have casually extinguished hundreds of sun-sized stars in order to come to the earth to take a look, how can such a race care about the so-called resources on the earth's sand grains? Flesisko smiled playfully and said, "I often think that this is like humans building a high-tech USO amphibious flying saucer that can resist the high pressure of the deep sea, coming to the Mariana Trench more than 19,000 meters underwater in the Pacific Ocean and saying that there are metal deposits or the chimneys on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to observe those tubeworms that rely on sulfides, and if the tubeworms are also pessimistic, they will definitely exclaim: Oh no, humans have come to rob us of hydrogen sulfide and delicious sour water......" (To be continued. )