全球危机

001

"Our human civilization seems to be flourishing. We can drill through mountains, reclaim land, and control rainfall... Our human civilization seems to be very powerful. But this is just an appearance. The fact is that we are very fragile, very fragile." Jasper took a sip of wine and slowly said to William who was sitting opposite him.

Jasper seemed to be thinking about something, but he didn't seem to be thinking about anything. Jasper's eyes were very vague, and his thoughts seemed to have drifted to a distant place.

William has always respected his predecessor. As early as when he was in the doctoral program, William entered the Institute of Stellar Physics under the Central Academy of Sciences of the Alliance for an internship, and at that time he became Jasper's subordinate. Jasper's profound attainments in stellar physics have always made William admire him.

"Maybe." William said, "But human civilization is always getting stronger. I believe that in the near future, we will become truly powerful."

Jasper sighed, and an indescribable light flashed in his eyes, which seemed to be sad and painful.

Jasper stood up and walked to the window of this high-rise restaurant. Through the glass of the window, the night view of the bustling city was in full view. The lights were so bright that they seemed to cover the moon in the sky. The road was full of winding dragons of light. Even in this high-rise building hundreds of meters above the ground, it seemed that the noise coming from the ground could be heard.

It was already eleven o'clock, but it was far from the time for the city to fall asleep.

"This is our civilization." Jasper opened his arms, as if he wanted to embrace everything in his arms. Jasper's eyes seemed intoxicated, and his tone began to become like a dream: "This is our powerful and prosperous civilization."

"Brother Li, you are drunk, I will take you home." William walked to Jasper and whispered.

Jasper shook his head: "William, don't rush back. I have something to say to you today."

William was stunned for a moment and sat down again. He noticed that Jasper seemed to be a little bit wrong today.

"Our human civilization has almost changed the face of the entire earth. We naively think that we can do anything, but the truth is cruel. Take the earth under our feet for example, how much do we know about it? The deepest point on the earth is the Mariana Trench, which is about 10,000 meters deep. The highest mountain is Mount Everest, which is less than 9,000 meters high. We think it is a great achievement that our submarines can dive into the Mariana Trench. We exhausted all our efforts and drilled a hole only 11 kilometers deep on the earth, and we claimed that we had taken a major step forward... However, the radius of the earth is more than 6,000 kilometers. , we spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources to only penetrate more than 1/600 of the earth... 99% of the place is unknown to us."

"The depth of the earthquake epicenter is generally no more than 100 kilometers. Even the strongest earthquake recorded in the history of the earth is only equivalent to a sneeze of the earth compared to the entire earth... No, it's not even a sneeze, at most it's just a slight movement of the earth. But even so, the result is often the death of hundreds of thousands or millions of humans..."

Jasper's eyes seemed to be mocking.

William knew all the things Jasper said. But when Jasper said it in this tone, William still felt a little uncomfortable. It felt like a person who thought he was extremely powerful was exposed by others for his fragility and incompetence.

"Humans always talk about protecting the earth, but why does the earth need humans to protect it? Even if the nuclear bombs stored by humans exploded at the same time, it would only destroy the surface environment of the earth. The impact of these nuclear bombs could not be transmitted to a hundred kilometers below the ground. In the final analysis, humans are just protecting themselves. As for the earth...even if humans try their best to destroy the earth, what does it matter? Can ants destroy mountains?"