Silence, silence is synonymous with all those present.

David interprets the purpose of extraterrestrial signals from a new perspective, and although most of it is based on speculation, it has been able to justify itself relatively perfectly.

After all, no one is naïve enough to think that aliens just care about humanity and care for it like a mother - if that were the case, there should have been several miracles in history.

The core of David's energy threat theory is quite concise, and it is also very consistent with the actual interstellar communication situation, and it is more in line with the inference of "human" nature led by evil.

But this inference is too frightening for people to believe it.

From the perspective of human beings, once the nuclear bomb is mastered, it means that the microscience has made breakthrough progress, which should at least represent some kind of "threshold" in the entire universe.

And what will aliens do to humans who have already crossed this threshold...... It's unimaginable.

If there really is a starfleet on its way, will humanity be able to fight back?

The more John thought about it, the more terrified he became, as if aliens had descended on him, oppressing him out of breath.

"It's all just speculation."

His voice was visibly shaking as he spoke, but after he said it, he relaxed a lot and his tone was firmer.

"It's not even clear whether it has anything to do with the hydrogen bomb, it's just a possible inference."

The others listened to his words as if grasping at a life-saving straw, and nodded their heads in agreement.

"yes, two beams of signal don't mean anything."

"It's also possible that there are other unknown reasons, maybe it's just a coincidence."

“……”

David calmly watched the reaction of the crowd, and waited for them to slowly calm down before continuing:

"It's very easy to solve this problem, there are more nuclear bombs on the moon that are about to explode, we just need to keep an eye on them when they explode, they are all monsters with a huge yield.

If my hypothesis is correct, then at least one more signal can be monitored, and we will launch more Mars probes in a few months, presumably with a higher chance of interception. ”

Robert: "This ...... No problem, NACA's original plan was to add 2 probes to Mars, and after the M event we decided to increase it to 4, and it was not difficult to do that. ”

David: "I know, but my purpose today is not to scare you again, but I hope you will start thinking seriously about one question from now on:

If things are really bad, how are we going to survive human civilization?

Will you let a few people flee, or will robots fly away with human DNA, or will they be captured? ”

This time he got an answer quickly, and Claire immediately shook her head and said:

"In the next ten years, it is impossible for humanity to build a ship with the ability to truly escape, that is, to go to other galaxies, and there is no hope for even fifty years, which is completely delusional, not even to send two people.

As for the second way, not to mention how we can ensure that machines can find a suitable new home and resurrect humans in thousands or even tens of thousands of years, even if we do, it has nothing to do with us.

Escape is out of the question, unless aliens give us hundreds of years to develop, and I don't think NACA should even tilt any resources for interstellar escape before the 50s. ”

Claire didn't say that fleeing to other parts of the solar system would be pointless if it was to survive civilization and continue to develop rather than just save a few people to survive.

……

It was late at night when the attendees quietly left the presidential palace, but probably no one but David would want to sleep.

The same was true of John, who left a few of his staff behind and followed him to start a small meeting.

After all the staff members were gathered, John's first words were shocking:

"Should we arrest David and put him in a mental hospital?"

Sullivan carefully observed John's expression, confirmed that the little old man was serious, and immediately admonished:

"Sir, David is one of the very few scholars who have a wide range of knowledge and excellent leadership skills, and the Thirteenth Office is in great need of such a person."

"But...... But what did he say...... I still think that I should have been involved in the discussion of science fiction movie screenwriters just now, maybe the M incident is just a very big coincidence, in fact, there are no aliens at all, in fact, ......"

The staff understood that it was not that John doubted David, but that the impact of aliens was too great, and the desperation of human beings who were desperate to the limit and unable to return to heaven put too much pressure on him, and he could not adapt to this unprecedented change.

Claire: "I know it's hard to accept but ...... We should trust the judgment made by the top scientists and top intelligence agencies in Afghanistan and the United States, and every detail of this matter will be scrutinized repeatedly, and the conclusion no longer needs to be questioned.

And whether it's fake or not, we need to improve our aerospace technology as much as possible, and maybe a small advantage can make a difference. ”

John didn't speak, but those who knew him well knew that he had approved of the other party's explanation, but it still needed time to digest it.

After a while he looked up and asked:

"What about the escape? What would we do if the Earth were to be exposed to alien guns? ”

He obviously didn't want to listen to the explanation he had just given again, this time asking "us" instead of "humans".

"We" represents the people Claire knows very well that it is nothing more than a handful of elites at the top, who in their eyes basically represent human civilization.

"It's impossible to be outside the solar system, you can only find hiding spots inside the solar system."

Claire didn't think it was selfish, and she had already thought about it:

"In addition to the eight planets, the components of the solar system mainly include the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt, two dense areas of asteroids and meteorites.

The eight planets and their moons are all unsafe and must be important targets for aliens, and the only real glimmer of life is the outer Kuiber belt.

Although there are no planets in the Kuiper belt, there are many larger asteroids, such as Neptune's moon Triton, which was captured from the Kuiper belt.

It is also rich in meteorites that provide a variety of minerals such as ice, iron, and rare metals, and is a vast area that surrounds the sun and is more than 3.7 billion kilometers wide, so it is more likely that it will not be discovered if the hidden scale is not large.

I think it's extremely difficult for an alien civilization to search for a survivor gathering place the size of a meteorite in such a large area.

Although it is also very far away from us, it is still quite certain that it will cost a lot of resources on the premise that we have already mastered the technology of fissile nuclear propulsion. ”

(End of chapter)