Chapter 100 Psychological advantage

What the Oliver crowd didn't know was that the Greenlight civilization had even associated it with a Martian flying saucer! They thought with a start that the flying saucer could have been shot down by the Noah ... thus creating a degree of deterrence for them.

Especially after sending the string of waves, the green light people perceived that the flying saucer in the Arctic had been nuked in a sparse manner, without any missile trajectory during the period, which made them have some fear.

This civilization is really too barbaric, even if the people down, but also to completely destroy ...

Just like that, the new human civilization sparsely occupied the psychological level of advantage, even Oliver themselves do not understand how this advantage is established, can only vaguely guess a few of the key.

Psychological advantage, although it sounds strange, but actually very useful.

Just like an ordinary person, when faced with a robust tiger, will subconsciously fear and escape, this is the psychological factor. Not to the end of the mountain, he did not even dare to provoke the tiger, not even the slightest temptation.

Because, the tiger looks stronger than him.

After being intimidated three times, this ordinary man was completely terrified, and did not think much about how the tiger's combat power was ... even to escape, but also to commiserate a little.

Today's green light civilization is what it is now.

"... Since they want to stay in the solar system for a while, what kind of tone, what kind of attitude should we use to respond to each other?"

"We can't really refuse, to save them from really breaking the net of fish ..."

The crowd is talking about it, and this wonderful feeling of walking on the edge of the abyss gives them an inexplicable sense of accomplishment.

Sometimes, this feeling of fear can be addictive? This group of highly intelligent experts were all excited and their whimsical ideas were endless.

"Should we, as the seemingly powerful party, bestow a planet on them in a kind of almsgiving attitude?"

"Almsgiving doesn't seem to be the right word ..."

"I think that a Sedna planet will do, with the size of Sedna, it is enough for them. Also, it's relatively far away from us on Mars ..." said one astronomer.

Oliver took the information handed over by the scientists and rubbed his chin in contemplation.

Sedna, a planet off Pluto, is 76 astronomical units closest to the sun and 937 astronomical units farthest away.

It has a diameter of about 1000 km and a revolution period of about 11,400 years around the Sun. Currently, Sedna is about 50 years away from its orbital perihelion, and its average distance from Mars is about 85 astronomical units.

The bottom line is that the planet is right in the path of the Greenlight civilization's advance ...

85 astronomical units is not particularly close, the Earth is only 1 astronomical unit away from the Sun. Light from Mars light propagation to the propagation Sedna star in 11.76 hours, that is, almost half a day's work.

This distance, is already the limit of what mankind can tolerate, after all, the new human civilization is powerful in disguise, the bottom is limited ... any closer, it may be discovered!

85 astronomical units, still in a distant state, plus Mars also has clouds and dust storms, can well obscure the Noah, so that the Noah continued to maintain a sense of "mystery.

With a nod, Oliver decided that Sedna was the best option for them.

"We are not the tough side, just let them in so cheap, seems inappropriate, right? Perhaps ... we can also intimidate them more? We should get more out of this opportunity!"

The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.

"We're not to be messed with, we have to squeeze them some more, yes, that's it ... where in the world there is a free lunch? To make them bleed!"

Because of the initial victory, the young people at the back of the room, each with an exuberant look, also followed suit. The thought of extorting an alien civilization that is countless times more powerful than themselves gives them a crazy and exciting thrill.

"... We can pretend that there is a powerful civilization behind us and we are just an ordinary fleet of them. If we let them in out of compassion, we will be punished ... Yes, that's it! We need to claim benefits to make up for that punishment!"

Rimbaud brainstormed, and the more he spoke, the more excited he seemed to see an opportunity for humanity to rise.

Many radicals surprisingly agreed with Dr. Rimbaud's views. Perhaps, young people are so unafraid of the sky and the earth, and having some small victories can make them burst with self-confidence.

They are acutely aware that risk and profit are always proportional, and that such moves, though risky, are likely to reap more!

So, what are the benefits among civilizations? What are the things that can be traded? They racked their brains and thought frantically.

First, scarce resources, ordinary natural elements are obviously not in the scope, even, a planet is not too expensive for an interstellar civilization.

So, the scarce resources that can be traded are either man-made elements with very short radioactive cycles, for example: tritium, or rare substances like fullerenes and antimatter.

Second, science and technology. If two civilizations can exchange, science and technology is bound to be traded. After all, a civilization can not explore all the technology.

For this point, mankind has some preliminary understanding, a civilization's science and technology tree is like a circle, inside the circle is known, outside the circle is unknown, the more you know, the larger the circle is, the more you don't know.

Inspired by the creation of flying saucers, humans have gradually understood the breadth of this "unknown".

Beyond the illuminated technology tree, people faintly see a vast amount of unknown technology, as many as the stars!

In this case, each civilization's development model is different, the path of technological development will certainly have some changes, or some focus on the direction. This also means that there may be unique technologies that exist.

For example, the same fighter, the same engine, the United States and Russia are very different, this is the bifurcation of technology.

For a civilization, perhaps the emergence of a genius scientist can greatly promote the process of a particular line of technology, so that it crosses the era in which it is located, and become a civilization unique technology.

Humans, for example, are far ahead of other technologies in the development progress of nuclear energy as well as batteries, and perhaps these two directions will become unique technologies for humans.

"Technology, we can claim their unique technology!" Rimbaud yelled.

Oliver frowned, this kind of robber baron logic although a bit reasonable, but how all feel a bit strange, and he could not say what is not good.

"... I don't think this option is appropriate."

The one who spoke was Yuriko, she still had a very flat expression: "First of all, you said the characteristic technology, its existence or not is a doubt."

"What if its does not exist? By making such a request, we are likely to make a common sense mistake and arouse the suspicion of the other party ..."

Yes, indeed, what characteristic technology cloud, are only the speculation of scientists, who knows if it is true.

Yuriko saw that the crowd was quiet, continued: "Secondly, they should not be like us, the population is only 50,000 or so, the entire civilization is within a ship, they should have the home planet. And one alien fleet that came to the solar system cannot represent the entire Greenlight civilization ..."

"How many important secrets can a fleet, know?"

"Let's take an example, they are equivalent to a carrier fleet on Earth. Carrier fleets don't always carry a lot of their country's cutting-edge technology and roam around, do they? Even if we ask for it, can they take out cutting-edge technology?"