Twenty-seven, bustling
Two months later, a paper titled "Prospects for the Direction of Human Evolution and Social Development" caused quite a stir at home and abroad, and people turned their attention to the city in the southwest.
When they learned that the author of the paper was only a 22-year-old college undergraduate graduate, people were extremely surprised and envious, and countless people gave him a thumbs up.
In this 20,000-word paper, the young author begins with the origins of human beings, lists the various "choices" made in the process of human evolution and social development, and finally comes up with a sharp answer:
"Under the pressure of human bombing, environmental degradation, resource shortage, frequent wars and alien invasions, human beings can only meet their own needs for survival and development by asking for space."
At the same time, the article points out that human beings no longer simply follow natural evolution, and "genetic modification" will accelerate the pace of human beings becoming "superhumans" in order to adapt to life in space.
The paper was also published in the country's top journal "Frontiers of Life", and for a while, words such as "life in space", "flying to space" and "genetic modification" appeared in the top few hot search lists.
People have even begun to fantasize about the specifics of space life, and some people are worried about whether their pet dogs can adapt to the future life in space.
As for the author of the article, the media commented that he would be the youngest, most visionary, and most promising scientist in China, which made Duan Pingsi walk a little floating.
However, Professor A scoffed at people's reactions, he patted Duan Pingsi on the shoulder and mocked: "Don't look at them lifting you to the sky now, once you make any mistake, they will immediately send you to hell, this is human nature!" ”
"These media like to exaggerate the facts, and there is really nothing they can do."
Duan Pingsi immediately put away the smile on the corner of his mouth, he knew that Professor A had a certain truth in saying this, thinking that Professor A was also a famous leader at the beginning, but now he has become "unknown", it is really this time and that time.
Professor A added, "I don't know if it's right or wrong to allow you to add the content of 'genetic modification to accelerate evolution', but now the opposition to GMO is getting louder and louder, and there were casualties in France not long ago." ”
"Is there any news in the country?" Duan Pingsi was also worried about this, and he vaguely felt that Professor A seemed to have heard something not very good.
"There is nothing going on with ordinary people, just like you see, but ......," Professor Ah turned on the faucet to let the water run down, "there is a well-known anti-GMO academician who seems to have close contacts with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of National Defense...... and we have to be careful." ”
"I'll be careful, some media want to come to interview me and I don't agree to them."
Duan Pingsi knew that as Professor A, he could get in touch with many high-level figures, and what he saw and thought was naturally much more far-reaching, and genetically modified organisms have always been a sensitive topic, and it was of course best not to touch them.
"The good thing is that we never encourage the application of genetically modified technology to food production, alas!" Professor A sighed, his fingers trembling slightly, "There's nothing wrong with the technique!" ”
From Professor A's words, Duan Pingsi truly felt the complexity of scientific research for the first time, in essence, science and technology are for the service of all mankind, but scientists themselves are people with a certain position.
As a famous scientist said, "Science knows no borders, but scientists have nationality", and no one can really engage in research behind closed doors.
"This is the sorrow of scientists and the greatest insult to science!" Professor A said angrily, "If human beings will only blindly look ahead and look backwards, and will only fight behind closed doors, then sooner or later one day will ......, hum!" ”
In fact, the presence of aliens is proof of Professor A's fears, and compared to the star-dead who are on an interstellar voyage, humans are as small as ants under their feet.
However, in the face of Professor A's angry scolding, Duan Pingsi didn't say a word, because he also had his own position, he didn't know if his position was right, he just didn't want to say it.
Coming out of the laboratory, Duan Pingsi had mixed feelings, his mind was a little trance, and he walked staggeringly, but unconsciously came to a printing shop.
The charming female boss received him warmly, "Classmate, do you want to print or copy?" A copy of five cents for a print and a copy of two cents a copy. ”
"Ahh I'm ......, I'm going to print a paper! ”
Duan Pingsi was embarrassed when he saw the female boss in a low-cut suit, so he had to take out a USB flash drive from his pocket and hand it to her, "Just print the last one!" ”
"It's twelve pages in total, and it costs six dollars in total!"
The female boss quickly printed the paper, Duan Pingsi took out ten yuan to the boss, the female boss found four yuan, Duan Pingsi turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by the female boss:
"Hey! Classmates, why do people always come to print this piece of paper recently, I see that some people say that the writing is very good, but some people scold it for not making sense, very strange! ”
"Maybe it's really bullshit, who knows!"
Duan Pingsi smiled awkwardly at the female boss, turned around and walked out of the print shop, never expecting that his paper had caused two completely different reactions, and thought that he would have to keep a low profile in the future.
The streets are still bustling with pedestrians, young men and women coming and going, brightly dressed, eating as much as they should, playing as they should, unaware of the danger lurking behind them.
"Squeak! Squeak squeak! Squeak squeak! ”
A gray squirrel was crying pitifully in the green trees, as if it was starving, and now spring had come, but the fruit of last year was almost eaten, and it was even more difficult to find food in the city.
Duan Pingsi saw that the pinch of white hair on the top of its head was very peculiar, so he took out a few melon seeds and put them on the branches, and the "white-haired" gray squirrel quickly crawled over and ate them.
The melon seeds were quickly consumed, Duan Pingsi put a few more on the branches, and the "white hair" was quickly eaten, and after repeating this five or six times, it finally ate and left.
Back at the door of the dormitory, Duan Pingsi noticed something unusual, the door of the dormitory, which was usually closed tightly, opened a big crack at this time, and when he looked inside, he didn't see anyone.
Duan Pingsi shook his head, thinking that these roommates were too careless, and now they were too lazy to close the door.
However, when he gently pushed the door in, a basin of cold water poured straight down from the door, and the water flowed down his neck, and his whole body was immediately soaked.
"Fuck, who did this?"