Deep Space Fleet

The expert continued: "Only when words are born, can there be cultural inheritance, and even the development of a splendid civilization. Word of mouth alone produces too many variables. Mathematics is a further step forward in language, which means A certain level of logical thinking ability and the ability to plan for the future."

"After the birth of mathematics, more people can be managed, and a series of standards can be formulated, including material reserves, weights and measures, and currency units, and then a series of transactions can be formed, from primitive tribes to countries."

"...if in our future travels we are able to encounter many more Stone Age civilizations, it should be able to demonstrate this."

Zhang Yuan nodded, and said: "That is to say, mediocrity has appeared from the very beginning, and races with intelligent minds may not necessarily be able to form civilization, let alone form technological civilization. We are already in the universe. It’s a pretty good species.”

The vast majority of races are simply unable to fully realize their full potential, just like the Riley civilization, which is inexplicably stuck.

Immediately afterwards, a photo was displayed on the screen, which was retrieved from the most original database.

"...The most culture about human beings belongs to the typical artifacts of the Paleolithic age. Look at this picture of the unearthed cultural relics, which are side scrapers and triangular pointed objects carefully made of stone flakes. In addition, there are concave missing devices, jagged devices, stone balls, blunt-backed stone knives, and small hand axes."

"It shows that humans at that time used various tools more widely in the process of practice."

The historian said excitedly, "But we are not sure whether humans in ancient times came out of Africa and formed the so-called Moste culture, whether they were influenced by the enlightener civilization. Because there are actually many similar cultures, the whole There is no written record of the process.”

In the trough of mediocrity, it is quite normal for a species to stagnate for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years. It is abnormal for a species like humans to advance by leaps and bounds in technology for hundreds of thousands of years.

"That is to say, according to what the enlighteners are currently doing, they will give appropriate and a small amount of help to potential species. "

If the other party has really visited the earth, then the probability of helping humans a little will be very high.

"One more point, if the enlightener civilization really exists, it must be a fourth-level civilization, or a more powerful civilization. Because the distribution of cosmic strings is not static, the distribution of cosmic strings 150,000 years ago is not what it is now. There are no cosmic strings near the Earth and the Riley star. Therefore, if the Enlightenment civilization really exists, they have a high probability of mastering curvature navigation, so that they can go back and forth between stars as they wish..."

"It's really a civilization full of whimsy and romance. What is this civilization for?"

"Perhaps, this heuristic behavior is very interesting to them, yes, just for fun, please forgive me for using this adjective... Longer-lived species must have a way of thinking that is very different from our short-lived species. vastly different."

Immediately afterwards, the expert changed the topic, "But it is also possible that it is for experimentation, or we have developed a prediction discipline similar to the history of new civilizations like us, and we need the evolution of some civilizations as experimental samples."

"That's why I suggest that we conduct a comprehensive search of Riley Star and the surrounding satellites to find out if there is an observatory of the Enlightenment civilization!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked. Could it be that there is really an observation station of advanced civilization near Riley? If this is the case, it also means another big event... a dialogue with a higher civilization, and faster-than-light communication!

Without means of faster-than-light communication, it would be difficult to transmit large amounts of data to the far end of the galaxy.

Talking about FTL communication, many experts became excited. This is a technology that human beings dream of. If a scientific research station of advanced civilization is really discovered, what should be done? Is it to talk to the other party, or to study the technology directly? Is there any risk in it?

However, Zhang Yuan sat in his seat, keeping his face calm. They may have discussed this a long time ago, and even sent troops to conduct a comprehensive search as soon as the question was raised.

According to human thinking, the best place to observe a star is in space, or on the satellite of the Riley star.

The size of this natural satellite is much smaller than that of the moon, and it has been locked by tides. There is always only one direction to point at Riley Star. Geological activities are infrequent, so it is the best place to observe.

But humans did not find any suspicious traces... not even the slightest trace.

This shows that this guess is likely to be wrong.

Listening to everyone's discussion, Zhang Yuan quickly stood up and announced the relevant conclusion: "Everyone, please listen to me. If the other party builds the observation station on a bare satellite, it should be easy to find, but we Didn't find out."

"We will continue to search in this area throughout the entire planetary system. However, if the scope of the search is too large, it will undoubtedly be an act of finding a needle in a haystack."

If an observation site is established on Riley, on the one hand, it is to resist the oxidation of oxygen. Things that can last tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years in space may only be preserved for hundreds of years in an oxygen environment.

On the other hand, it is also necessary to fight against possible geological disasters such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and the data that can be collected on the surface is extremely limited.

"Yes, from a logical point of view, building a space observatory is the best choice. No matter how advanced the technology of this civilization is, there is no need to make it difficult, right?" An expert stood up.

"I don't think they will set up some kind of observation station here to observe for hundreds of thousands of years... because the earth civilization has also been visited by enlighteners. Regarding the solar system, human beings have developed it for an unknown number of years, and their footprints are everywhere. If there are really alien relics on this planet, it should have been discovered a long time ago."

This is true, and Zhang Yuan quite agrees with this point of view. If there is no such thing on the earth, then this planet should also not exist.

It's just that many experts looked at each other, not knowing whether they should breathe a sigh of relief or sigh. In other words, the opportunity to talk to higher civilizations is gone, which makes them feel very sorry, and they have a strange mentality like Ye Gong loves dragons.

"I think that more advanced civilizations should use virtual world technology to conduct related experiments..."