He stared into Zhao Changxing's eyes and said word by word: "Not distinguishing between humans and sub-humans, and not concentrating resources on humans will inevitably lead to insufficient driving force for the advancement of civilization."
The only driving force for the advancement of civilization is technology. If technology stagnates, civilization will inevitably perish. Or, it may fall into a situation like the earth age and the feudal period, where the world will be in chaos and war every few hundred years.
It will continue until the population is reduced enough that resources can sustain it.
"In a hundred years at most, real resource depletion will come. By then, everyone will be buried with you because of your stupid decision."
Zhao Changxing looked at the colleague in front of him who had worked with him for decades, his heart was full of sadness, but his expression was unusually calm.
He shook his head gently: "No, resource depletion will not come. Did you know? A more advanced ion thruster than the one used on the Spark spacecraft has been successfully developed. We...soon
It’s time to march into the inner solar system.”
This was a decision that Zhao Changxing made more than a hundred years ago. He devoted as many genetically modified people, as many resources, as much manpower and material resources as possible to the advancement of the experiment.
in the room.
It lasted for more than a hundred years.
Now, this long-term investment has finally yielded fruitful results. Now, Zhao Changxing can finally say with pride that, not to mention other technologies, at least in ion propulsion technology, the new human civilization has completely surpassed the original old human civilization.
Zhao Changxing just discovered those dwarf planets more than a hundred years ago. Human civilization has extremely rich resources. While everyone is rejoicing, they have already seen the difficulties they may face in a hundred or even two hundred years.
And made the layout in advance.
In front of him, the man who once worked with him but was now a death row prisoner widened his eyes in horror. He stared at Zhao Changxing and suddenly burst into laughter.
He was smiling, but his eyes were full of anger.
If he knew this news and knew that humans would soon be able to enter the inner solar system and obtain the nearly unlimited resource support of the inner solar system, then a fool would risk being purged by Zhao Changxing to promote the division between humans and sub-humans!
Just any large planet in the solar system, no, even a larger satellite, such as the moon, Enceladus, Ganymede, etc., has richer resources than a hundred dwarf planets combined.
In a sense, once you have the ability to enter the inner solar system, the issue of resource depletion almost disappears.
At this moment, he felt like he was being fooled.
Zhao Changxing sighed again.
"Sorry, I was actually fishing. But... forget it."
Zhao Changxing shook his head and gave up the intention of explaining.
As a person with an almost unlimited lifespan, he didn't know how to explain his intentions to a person who only had a lifespan of 100 years at most.
The resources in the solar system can indeed be considered nearly unlimited for human civilization at the current stage. But, what about human civilization that will develop for another 200 or 300 years?
The human population will always increase, and more and more resources will be needed. With the development of science and technology, both the overall population and the per capita population will increase exponentially.
The resources of the entire solar system will eventually be exhausted.
Of course, this will definitely happen in a long, long time. The time is so long that it is almost meaningless to ordinary people. But for Zhao Changxing, it is an issue that must be considered and planned in advance.
This is the reason why Zhao Changxing almost used "fishing" this time to fish out all those who supported the plan of dividing humans and sub-humans, and then eliminated them all.
He is trying to make the issue of "human and sub-human" a taboo for the entire civilization, a part of civilized culture, and a part of tradition through a bloody killing every hundred years or so.
In this way, even if one day in the future, there really is an irresistible crisis of resource depletion, such as the exhaustion of resources in the entire solar system, but humans have not mastered the technology of interstellar navigation, or in the interstellar escape one day in the future
, when we have lost any possibility of external supplies and can only consume reserve materials, no one dares to think of dividing human beings from sub-human beings.
Or, even if you have this kind of idea, no one will agree with it or support it. Instead, you will be unanimously opposed by the entire civilization from top to bottom.
At this time, even if you lose control of the entire civilization at some point for some reason, you no longer have to worry about the civilization going astray.
The execution time of this plan may be as long as a thousand or even thousands of years. And what will happen after such a long time is undoubtedly meaningless to ordinary people.
Therefore, Zhao Changxing had no way to explain his intentions to the death row inmate in front of him. In the end, he just patted the person in front of him on the shoulder, sighed, and then turned and left.
Before he walked out of the execution ground, he heard a gunshot from behind.
Zhao Changxing finally responded to the recent crisis of resource depletion in civilization with a brand-new ion propulsion engine. The follow-up was just as he expected, and all the uneasiness and rumors disappeared.
Anyone with basic sense understands the great significance of this technology.
Although engines manufactured using this technology only exist in laboratories at the moment and have not been used in actual applications. But people also know that it is just the beginning of a resource crisis. When the real resource crisis comes, it may still be necessary
More than a hundred years. People have enough time to wait for this technology to be perfected.
Many resources are still being continuously invested in the propulsion laboratory. In the fifth year after this, the first spacecraft equipped with a new ion propulsion engine set sail from the Sedna Star Center Port and sailed towards the distance.
More than 60 million kilometers of deep sky stars.
In the past, a one-way journey from Sedna to Deep Space took almost two years. But this time, the spacecraft only took a month!
When the results of this experiment were finally announced, the entire civilization was almost boiling.
If this kind of spacecraft can cross a distance of more than 60 million kilometers in one month, then wouldn’t it only take about 8 years to fly from Sedna to Jupiter, which is about 13.4 billion kilometers away?
time?
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and the planet with the largest satellite system. There are almost endless supplies stored there.
However, the eight-year one-way voyage has made it feasible to obtain resources from the Jupiter system to support the development of human civilization on Sedna.
Even if it takes a little more time to reach the earth, it will not be a problem to obtain resources from the earth.
After all, the Earth is only less than 700 million kilometers farther from Jupiter than Sedna.
However, given the current level of technology and environmental conditions, it is not a good idea to go to Earth now.
At this moment, the process of the miniature black hole swallowing the sun is continuing, and will continue for at least tens of thousands of years. During these tens of thousands of years, the sun's radiation intensity will always be in a process of slowly increasing
.
Radiation of this intensity could have pushed the old human civilization to the brink hundreds of years ago. Now, hundreds of years later, it can also affect various spacecrafts of the new human civilization, raising their failure rate to an impossible level.
The point of acceptance.
The result of forcibly approaching is that the ship will be destroyed and everyone will die.
However, after all, Jupiter is much farther from the sun than the earth, and has a much stronger magnetic field than the earth. This will block the influence of the sun to the outside as much as possible. Of course, the environment there is still not suitable for human reproduction, but building
In some industrial bases, mining bases, etc., it is still okay for adults carrying a full set of protective equipment to work there.
Full of beautiful longings, new ion thrusters are iterating rapidly and gradually phasing out those old chemical fuel engine spacecraft.
People slowly discovered that travel between planets that used to be considered far away has gradually become more convenient. For example, the farthest dwarf planet that has been developed by people, namely Star 13, used to be
A one-way voyage took at least 7 years, but now, this time has been greatly shortened to even less than 3 months.
With its increasingly large-scale use, new ion thrusters have also matured rapidly.
At this moment, the time to march into the inner solar system has finally arrived.
Therefore, a very realistic problem was placed in front of Zhao Changxing, and Zhao Changxing once again needed to make a decision.
Should the base camp of human civilization continue to stay on Sedna and just use the inner solar system as a source of resources and energy, or... should the entire civilization be relocated to the inner solar system?
Obviously, these two solutions each have different advantages and disadvantages.
If they want to relocate, people will choose to relocate to the Kuiper Belt where Pluto is located. The level of solar radiation there has been reduced to a level that can be perfectly resisted with the current stage of technology.
If you move to the Kuiper Belt, it will be very convenient to obtain various materials and resources. But the problem is that it will be an extremely troublesome thing to relocate the entire human civilization that is already quite large. This is just a preliminary estimate.
, it will take at least twenty years.
In these twenty years, as well as the time required for preparation before departure and settlement after arrival, all development will be stagnant. It is not an exaggeration to say that the youth of a generation has been delayed.
Without relocation, resource acquisition is doomed to be very difficult and time-consuming.