Chapter 88 Is not the dark forest

More than half a month of waiting, it is too tormented, people suddenly feel that the speed of light is really too slow, a round trip actually takes ten days of work ...

During this period of time, the Noah ship set off a wave of "dark forest theory" research, people want to study the "dark forest theory" to find its loopholes, to estimate the possibility of war between humans and extraterrestrial civilizations.

"The Dark Forest Theory has many prerequisites, including chains of suspicion, easier to destroy than to communicate, technological blasts, and extinction-level weapons. But I think the key to it also lies in the sparseness of interstellar civilizations!"

In the largest forest park of Noah, a group of people are sitting in a circle on the lawn. Above their heads was a light similar to sunlight, and under their feet was grass as well as some insects.

These days because of the large number of laboratory shutdown, they can only "reluctantly" holiday. A lot of energy and industry has been freed up to make nuclear weapons.

The middle-aged man at the front of the lecture is a cosmologist. Beside him was a blackboard with a large number of images and related derivations. Pointing to the board, he continued, "If interstellar civilizations are sparse and rare, there is absolutely no need for wars between civilizations over survival resources ..."

"Let's go by the common sense on Earth that all state-to-state encounters involve one basic concept, and that is interest. The interest can be traced not only to the country, but also applies to the entire civilization. If the benefits of going to war, are less than the losses from the battle, then the war will most likely not happen."

The people below nodded their heads with seeming understanding, and one of the girls suddenly stood up, "Teacher, I have an opinion ..."

She said, "We don't know each other's social structure, nor do we know each other's moral system, if the other side is a war monger or a senseless species ... uh, for example, the insects? Then the likelihood of war is high."

People have had a lot of fantasies about the entire universe, and although it is very unlikely that something irrational could cross the stars, the universe is so big, so who knows? Maybe there is?

The cosmologist nodded and said, "Yes, you are right, so just in case, we are increasing the manufacture of nuclear weapons ..."

There is so little time for development, the level of human technology is still quite limited, the technology of space weapons such as electromagnetic cannons and lasers are not mature, so the best way at the moment is to manufacture a large number of thermonuclear weapons. Things like nuclear bombs fly slowly and are easy to intercept, but mankind has no choice. Just like a temporary hug, the more they are produced, the more secure people feel in their hearts, whether they are ordinary people or top leaders.

Oliver stood in the Genov industrial plant and watched as a nuclear bomb was in the process of being manufactured in bulk, with some deuterium-tritium-hydrogen bombs and some helium-3 bombs.

Of course there are more atomic bombs, and the last thing humanity is short of is uranium resources, which can be dismantled if they can't be used.

"Time is still too short, if only we had developed a few more years ..."

He kept lamenting that there wasn't enough time, the event was too sudden and inexplicable, there really wasn't enough time ...

According to his idea, there are three possibilities that lead to the war.

The first is that the other side is a crazy civilization that explodes at the touch of a button. The other side may think that the human behavior of firing the cannon is a sign of an active attack and will take the initiative to return fire in order to protect themselves. Or the other side saw the human's brokenness, knowing that the human's combat power is less than five of the scum.

Second, the other side is a perverted civilization, a war monger, eliminating other civilizations will gain great spiritual satisfaction. After all, the universe is so big, there is nothing strange, no one knows if there is really such a perverted civilization ...

Third, the elimination of other civilizations may have inexplicable benefits, such as the qi plus, etc. ... This statement is a bit of a mystery, but there is no way to exclude humans, after all, humans know too little about the universe.

Too little information is really a headache please, even if scientists are smart, they can not think of a better solution. Now people do all the steps, all according to the greatest probability of success, but the premise is that the universe is not the Dark Forest, as well as ... other party is not the civilization where the Mars flying saucer.

If this alien civilization has a logic of thinking similar to humans, or any animal on Earth, and knows how to avoid harm, the possibility of war breaking out will be very small.

"I hope they are not a perverted civilization that explodes when you mess with them ..." Oliver muttered as he looked at the batches of nuclear bombs. Even if the fish dies, let them know that humans are not to be messed with ...

Time passes day by day, and people's hearts are getting more and more nervous. A group of scientists kept their eyes on the observation instruments at all times. Sunlight to too far away has been too thin, the reflected light is also very dim, so it is difficult to find that ship with ordinary astronomical telescopes.

According to common sense, if this alien civilization deliberately concealed, humans simply could not find it. But it surprisingly emits great heat at all times, so with a thermal imaging telescope was able to easily find this alien ship!

"This huge heat, probably from the engine ... but it shouldn't be, even if the universe is not a dark forest, it doesn't have to be so blatant, right?"

Physicist Dr. Rimbaud said while making a gesture of disbelief, "This source of heat is also so unwarranted, like a nuclear bomb blast ... Could they also be using the power of a nuclear bomb blast to propel the ship?"

Rimbaud is a scientist Oliver admires very much, he is young and has a very active mind, like the sky is moving. He could always cut to the heart of the matter in unexpected places.

"Impossible, we didn't find the flash of nuclear bomb explosion." Oliver shook his head, "And relying on nuclear bomb propulsion, the conversion rate of energy is too low to accelerate the ship to 0.4 times the speed of light ..."

Rimbaud nodded, "You are right ... but I do not mean that, I always feel that the other side's behavior is very odd, obviously can do more covert, but it seems like a kind of hand-to-hand look, not at all imagined sophisticated."

"Interstellar civilization should be very powerful, very developed, a lot more advanced than our technology ... should not ah? Even the other side even radio signals have allowed us to detect, which is very undesirable. Even if the universe is not a dark forest and civilizations can develop peacefully with each other, there is no need to be so sloppy, right?"

"What do you mean?" Oliver queried.

Rambo was hot-headed and a little excited, speaking faster and faster: "There are two possibilities, first, they are rookies who just stepped into interstellar civilization! Maybe they don't know if the universe is a dark forest either ..."

"Second, the other side's spaceship may have been damaged. The spaceship was in a dilapidated condition and kept making mistakes ... They panicked and ran into the solar system just to replenish energy as well as supplies!"

"Whichever the case, the other side does not dare to start a war easily, all to our benefit as humans! Our camouflage plan can probable scare them, and even, can squeeze out a little oil!"

Oliver listened and suddenly stood up, his back felt cold, and had to be shocked by Rimbaud's crazy idea: not only to intimidate the other side, but also to extort them ...

He paced back and forth, constantly thinking about the feasibility of this "blackmail" argument.

No, it's too risky. Humans are not lacking in technology or research direction, but only in time. He still has to be cautious, and then cautious, not to risk greed!

"... Our astronomical telescope will be able to discover that ship in a few more days, and we will make a decision then!"

No matter what, we still need to know the other party's attitude first ... If we really fight, what's the point of extortion?Oliver slapped his head and also felt that he was a bit nervous and really thought too much ...