Chapter 1043： dark forest

The ignition of the nuclear-powered rocket was quite successful! The Mars rover in space continues to accelerate!

If it is the previous probe, after being launched by the rocket, it is a process of inertial flight! Of course, this process will be quite lengthy! They must calculate their orbits in advance, launch before Mars and the Earth are closest to each other, and meet at the closest location, and even then, it will take more than a year!

And now, it's completely different! This Mars probe, after being launched, continues to accelerate! The thrust of 168 kN is actually not large, but in outer space, even a plasma engine with a thrust of only a few thousand N will bring a qualitative leap to the spacecraft. Now, the biggest advantage of this type of engine is that it can continuously provide thrust. ! In the atmosphere, this thrust is mainly used to overcome air resistance, while in outer space, these thrusts are completely used to accelerate the spacecraft!

The launch was a complete success!

Leaving the launch hall, Andre convened a meeting again. However, this meeting was attended by only a few people. Even Che Luomian just now let him attend the meeting after some consideration.

"First of all, congratulations on the successful launch of our nuclear-powered rocket." Andre said: "Have you ever thought about what we spend so much money on space exploration for?"

It is indeed costing a lot of money. Fortunately, the economic situation of the Soviets is quite good now, and strong countries have strong funds to support space activities. Even so, the entire investment in the current fully launched space program also accounts for the Soviets' financial expenditures. Five percent, which is already a pretty high percentage.

"Of course, it is to occupy outer space. Now the facts have proved that only by occupying outer space can we gain absolute advantage over the United States." Nikolai said, as the head of the Scythian laser cannon, he has always been very proud.

"It's to explore farther planets." Chelomian said: "The earth is the cradle of mankind, but it is impossible for mankind to stay in the cradle all the time. When our technology is achieved, we will explore further worlds. The flag of our Soviet is to be planted not only in every corner of the earth, but also in outer space."

The sentence just now is a famous saying of Soviet aviation, from Tsiolkovsky, the first person in Soviet space.

Andre nodded: "Yes, we will carefully penetrate the atmosphere, and then go to conquer the solar system. In fact, these are just one aspect, have you ever thought that there may be other civilizations outside the earth? "

Andre's words surprised everyone. In fact, theoretically speaking, the universe is so vast that it is definitely not only one planet that can breed life, but there must be many planets, all of which are capable of appearing intelligent creatures!

Aliens, this is simply a regular in science fiction! It's a topic that fans of science fiction talk about.

Alien civilization! Speaking from Andre's mouth, of course, this is not just talk, Andre has a deeper intention!

"Marshal Andrei, in theory, alien civilizations should exist." Glushko said: "The ancient galaxy in which we live is about 10 billion years old, and the space of the Milky Way is about 10 billion years old. The diameter is only about 100,000 light-years, which means that if there are aliens, even if they fly through space at only one thousandth of the speed of light, they will only need about 100 million years to traverse the Milky Way. , and this time is much shorter than the age of the Milky Way. Therefore, we analyze from the mathematical probability that in the vast universe, there should be many stars similar to the Earth that are suitable for the existence of life. At the same time, some stars are much older. On the earth, then the evolution of life on them is far earlier than that of humans on earth.”

"So, if we assume that there are aliens, what should the attitude of the aliens be towards us?" Andre continued to ask.

alien! Now, discussing alien civilization with Marshal Andrei is like a whimsical! Chelo reluctantly said: "There are only two attitudes, good intentions and malicious intentions. However, we don't know if there are aliens, whether they are good intentions or malicious ones."

"If we discover alien civilizations in the process of exploring the universe, and their civilizations are lower than ours, for example, they have just entered the Stone Age, what should we do?" Andre asked : "Should we help them, let them learn to make fire, and let them evolve to our level, or should we drop a few powerful nuclear bombs and destroy their civilization?"

Since you can't guess whether the aliens come to the earth with good intentions or malicious intentions, just turn it around and think about what would happen if you went to another planet.

"I think we should drop the nuclear bomb." Beside Andrei, the KGB leader Putin who followed him suddenly said: "After all, if we can't control each other, it is best to destroy each other. We help them evolve. , they may overtake us at any time, which is dangerous for us. We should not put ourselves in danger.”

Anyone, doing anything, will definitely consider the problem from their own perspective first. If they don't think so, it is definitely something wrong with their brains.

Putin's words suddenly caused sweat on the backs of the other participants . As the most high-end aerospace engineers, their thinking is of course the most flexible, and they quickly thought of terrible results. , If it is discovered by an alien civilization that they already have such a powerful civilization, in order to prevent their own side from surpassing them, they will definitely destroy their own side without hesitation!

Peaceful coexistence? Stop dreaming! Just look at the earth. When will the United States and the Soviet Union coexist peacefully? The total amount of resources on the earth is certain. Whoever wants to develop must get more resources and restrict others!

"The universe is a dark forest, every civilization is a hunter with a gun, sneaking in the forest like a ghost, gently pushing aside the branches in the way, trying not to let the footsteps make a little sound, even breathing must be careful: he Be careful, because there are hunters like him everywhere in the forest, and if he finds another life, there is only one thing he can do: shoot and destroy it. In this forest, other people are **** and eternal Threats, any life that exposes its existence will soon be wiped out, this is the picture of cosmic civilization. Once discovered, only one party can survive, or none of them can survive.” Andre said.

This passage, Andre remembers very clearly, this is what Da Liu, the author of the later sci-fi novel Three-Body Problem, said. Although some of his words were constantly questioned by some people, Da Liu finally explained it. This passage was made up by him to write a novel.

The truth is not debated at all, because the truth is always in the hands of a few people, what Da Liu said, just to avoid controversy, people just write novels, but when more and more things have been experienced, especially Now, for Andre, who has stood at the top, he knows that this set of laws is probably the closest to the laws of true cosmic civilization!