Chapter 38: A Powerful Civilization?

"Listen to me slowly, everyone, there are more points other than the two mentioned above."

Rimbaud said while counting out the third finger, "Third, the creation of intelligent beings. We still can't be sure whether the emergence of intelligent creatures is the result of an inevitable appearance, or something that happened by chance.

After all, the dinosaurs dominated for 150 million years and did not have any tendency to produce intelligence. For creatures tens of millions of years ago, the attribute of wisdom is far less important than "strong" for survival bonus."

"Therefore, the birth of intelligence may also be a coincidence. After all, there are so many kinds of creatures on earth, only humans have intelligence."

Oliver nodded, this one also has some truth. There are 30 to 50 million species of life on Earth, and there will only be more species that have ever appeared in history, but the only ones with intelligence are humans. This suggests that the birth of intelligence is likely to be a small probability event as well.

Immediately after, Rimbaud held out a fourth finger: "The birth of the fourth ... modern science may also be a big filter.

Civilizations such as the Maya in the Americas perished because they indulged in rituals, Babylon perished because it indulged in hedonism, and the once Earth Alliance was almost on the verge of extinction because it fell into the super-stable structure of late feudal society. Once Europe was almost robbed of everything by the Black Death because it was caught in a theocratic society that could not extricate itself ..."

"The birth of modern science may not have been easy for a civilization ..."

This is where Dr. Rimbaud's statement ends, and the scientists begin to explore, each stating their own point of view.

If one of the few things Dr. Rimbaud said is true of the Great Filter, then humans may well have crossed that stage and become one of the rarer races in the universe. Emotionally speaking, they certainly hope that humans will become a rare race with great luck.

The probability of crossing the big filter, at most, is only one in ten million ah, if the human race has crossed, there is no need to worry, since it is already a rare race, regardless of the flood behind him ...

Oliver listened to the scientists' debate while thinking. Dr. Rimbaud said several conjectures, no doubt very reasonable, each full of great contingency, from the time scale is difficult to estimate.

For example, the one about "evolution from eukaryotes to prokaryotes" is very powerful. Prokaryotes such as bacteria and cyanobacteria appeared on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago, and the earliest eukaryotes appeared on Earth about 1.9-2 billion years ago, a time span of 1.5 billion years!

1.5 billion years! How much chance has that period been filled with? Without all those strange and a thousand kinds of chance, maybe humans would still be single-celled organisms ...

"Perhaps, we humans are already a rare race in the universe!" The more Dr. Rimbaud said, the more excited he felt: "Perhaps, we are already one of the more developed races in the universe!"

What Dr. Rimbaud represented was the idea of the optimists. They believed that humans had already passed the Great Filter and had a smooth future, and only needed to keep developing technology.

Of course, Oliver likes this argument from the bottom of his heart. He is the leader of a civilization, and even though he is fully capable and confident, he does not want to face the inhumane "Great Filter" with a 1 in 10 million to 1 in 100 million pass rate!

He does not want the new human civilization to be filtered out directly ...

Of course, scientists can not all be such optimists, there are also Professor Hagel as the representative of the pessimists, they believe that the great filter is still in front of human civilization.

In the near future, human beings are likely to have to face ...

"Dr. Rimbaud, I have a few questions I would like to ask you." Hagel took a sip of water and said unhurriedly, "How do you know that only eukaryotes can evolve into multicellular organisms?"

"Maybe there will be other forms of evolution for alien life, and eukaryotic life is just one of the paths. We can't take things on Earth as the norm in the universe. That one is in doubt as a big filter."

"Yes, but only one of us two is correct." Rimbaud nodded, "No one is going to convince anyone until there is definitive proof ..."

Hagar nodded, she really couldn't come up with evidence to convince the other, "Second point, you said that humans are already one of the more developed races in the universe, I may not agree, what do you think of the civilization that built the Noah?"

"Yes, the Noah civilization that invented the Noah, we humans are not even qualified to look up to ... them is too powerful." Dr. Rimbaud stood up quite confidently and eloquently.

"If anything, the Noah civilization may be the strongest civilization in the universe. But ... we humans may also be the second strongest civilization in the universe, huh?"

"Otherwise, why would they place the Noah on the moon? Could it really be a coincidence? If our human civilization is ordinary, then why would they place the Noah on the moon?"

Rimbaud's words have a suspicion of self-aggrandizement, but it seems that ... there is also some truth to them. If human civilization is ordinary and has not yet passed the Great Filter, then why would Noah's civilization place the Noah on the Moon?

Is this a coincidence, or a necessity?

Humans can step into the stars, or largely dependent on Noah's ... without Noah, the remaining people can only wait for death on the moon.

If it is a coincidence, then human civilization is really extremely lucky to have discovered the lost alien spaceship.

If it is inevitable, then the human civilization may really be one of the most powerful civilizations in the universe ... The most powerful Noah civilization in the galaxy happened to find the human civilization that passed through the Great Filter and for what purpose left the spaceship on the moon ...

This explanation is already considered a conspiracy theory, human civilization is really a powerful civilization?

Too exaggerated, Oliver simply do not know what to say, this fucking ... If human civilization is also considered a powerful civilization, this universe is also too trash a little, right?

He always felt that this statement is a bit funny, but there is no definite evidence to refute ... and some conspiracy theories combined together, it sounds as if it is true. This idea is really too odd, only someone as young and vigorous as Rimbaud, with a not-so-normal brain circuit, could come up with it and dare to say it.

Just like the ancient geocentric theory in general, the ancient Greeks believed that the earth was the center of the entire universe and everything revolved around it! And Rimbaud's statement already has such a feeling, but according to him, and seems to be a little bit of sense, indescribably strange.

The scientists all laughed lowly, a laugh that contained a variety of meanings ... in fact they themselves did not know what they were laughing at.

"Alas ..." Professor Hagel laughed and sighed again, "So, Dr. Rimbaud, tell us what destroyed our planet again?"

"Was it a natural phenomenon, or was it some other advanced civilization?"

"As you said, human civilization is already considered powerful, so the only one that destroyed the Earth would be the Noah civilization, right?"

Rimbaud suddenly froze, which was something he had not thought of.

According to him, human civilization was already a more powerful civilization, that is, a rarer civilization. It was impossible for another civilization to emerge that was much stronger than human civilization but weaker than Noah's civilization.

In this way, his statement is somewhat contradictory. He could only nod his head and admit it, and continue to fight hard.

"Yes, if it was Noah's civilization that destroyed the Earth, then my statement still stands. If it was a third civilization that destroyed the earth, then ..."

"Human civilization is still an ordinary civilization ... Noah is just a coincidence ..."