Marvel – Immortal Path

The tall and burly body of Thanos was originally very oppression force, but with the straight suit on his body and the gold-wire glasses on Bilian, it looks elegant and easy-going.

He was nodded, walked into the Conference Hall and greeted his colleagues,

He took out a stack of paper documents from the briefcase and distributed them to the others in the project management committee Members (Titan Star executives still advocate the use of paper documents instead of electronic files to prevent information leakage when they hold meetings),

Everyone spread out the document and glanced at it. The content of the document is divided into two parts. The first part is roughly It is the research and development of the superlight engine that has made breakthrough progress. In a very short period of time, the Titan star own superlight Interstellar ship can be developed.

Undoubtedly, this is definitely great news for everyone to celebrate. ,

The successful research and development of the super-light speed engine is beneficial to the nation, the country, and even the entire civilization.

It not only means that the Interstellar colonial plan has obtained the most critical piece of the puzzle, but also means The territory of Titan's civilized influence will be greatly expanded in the future.

After reading the first part of the document, the senior officials of the Aeronautics and Space Administration who participated in the meeting were already excited, and they wanted to immediately smash some peace awards and lifetime achievement awards to the Thanos team and let him be canonized right away. Put him directly on the altar,

Considering the historical significance of the super-light engine, this kind of treatment is not excessive.

Just when the participants' hearts were beating violently and it was difficult to restrain themselves, Li Ang raised his hand and motioned everyone to continue reading the second part of the document.

"Start KTX-456134planet's colonization project now?"

The Deputy Chief Executive of the Aeronautics and Space Administration read it out according to the title of the second part of the document, and lifts puzzled. the head, took a look at Thanos, "What's going on?"

In the second part of the document, Thanos used a very serious tone to explain the necessity of immediately launching the Interstellar colonization plan. ,

Look at the warning between the lines that means that if Titan cannot colonize the planet outside of the planet within a hundred years, it will be destroyed instantly, just like total destruction.

Everyone lifted the head from the document, looked at each other in blank dismay, and didn’t know what to say for a while.

The deputy chief executive glanced at Li Ang, who was sitting in the chief, and saw the latter's eyes closed meditation. He had to be lightly coughed and said to Thanos,

"Sano Si, first of all, on behalf of me myself, my colleagues from the Aeronautics and Space Administration, and all the people of Titan, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you for your efforts in the superlight engine research and development project, but..."

No matter which race, civilization, or language family you are in, once the word "but" is blurted out, it means that the first half of the discourse can be invalidated, and the second half of the sentence is really decisive.

"But, the Interstellar colonization plan you proposed is too rushed?"

The deputy chief executive hesitated and said: "The Sector where the Titan star is located is rather barren, even if It is the closest habitable planet KTX, planet 456134, which is hundreds of light-years away.

The plan of colonizing aliens is undoubtedly second to none.

But it takes time to build a superlight engine, time to build a supporting spaceship, time to train the crew, and time to persuade the government and the public.

even more how before we send out the colonial spaceship, we It is also necessary to send unmanned scientific research ships and manned scientific research ships to conduct a comprehensive survey.

Each task requires a lot of time, and it’s not just a matter of urgency."

The Deputy Chief Executive shook the document in his hand and said softly: "Everyone here is from the grassroots step by step. No one is an outsider.

Everyone knows that even if it is faster than the speed of light. Engine, KTX-456134 planetary colonization plan needs three hundred years to plan, at least two hundred years at least,

and in your plan, you keep emphasizing that Titan must be deployed within a hundred years. More than 70% of the population has been transferred to KTX——Planet 456134..."

The deputy chief executive chose to pick a milder vocabulary as much as possible, and said to Thanos, an unprecedented great engineer, with a cheerful face, "This Isn’t it a bit...unrealistic..."

If someone were to change, the Deputy Chief Executive would have sprayed him with blood on his head long ago. How could he be so polite? .

Thanos took a deep breath, calmly and firmly said: "I know that my request is quite excessive, but these are all justified-our planet is on the verge of collapse. "

No one has spoken. In recent years, among Titan’s nests, the theory of collapse has been raging. A small group of people believe that Titan will face a huge political and economic crisis sooner or later, and will soon collapse. .

This kind of theory involves a lot of data reports. Even professionals cannot find obvious rules from those cumbersome numbers. Therefore, the market for collapse theory is not large—usually focused on Those cynics.

Everyone in the Conference Hall is an elite who has received higher education. They don’t pay much attention to the so-called collapse theory—overwhelming majority people believe that the Titan star at this stage is already in a new era in history. The situation is extremely stable, and the collapse is completely absurd.

Thanos felt the silent atmosphere. He looked around the people in the room and slowly said: "Since the birth of human society, it has always faced a dilemma: the poverty of material life and the requirement of human reproduction. Contradiction.

To put it simply, the population proliferation power is greater than the land’s ability to produce the means of human life. The increasing population will exceed the upper limit of the land carrying capacity, and the extra population will be Way to eliminate.

There are many manifestations of this way, plague, famine, of course, the most common is war-war can not only solve the population problem, but also create a lot of material resources.

Before Titans developed a controllable nuclear fusion reactor, we struggled in the quagmire of war for thousands of years. Until now, we thought that the energy produced by oneself could help us out of this trap.

On the surface, we have succeeded. The nuclear fusion reactor continuously releases energy, almost inexhaustible.

We have enjoyed peace for thousands of years, and the word war has never been So far away."

There is nothing new under the sun. The problem that Thanos pointed out is the Malthus trap—of course, on Titan, this theory changed its name.

The deputy chief executive interrupted: "I'm sorry, Thanos doctor, what do you want to explain?"

Thanos glanced at him and said slowly: "We are wrong.

Although the controllable fusion reactor provides inexhaustible energy and delays the onset of the population trap, the problem is the problem.

It is like a pustule. Hidden under healthy skin, as time goes by, this pustule, which looks no different from other skins, will continue to accumulate highly poisonous pus. It will not burst out suddenly until the time comes, causing fatal damage to the entire body of life."

The people in the Conference Hall still didn't have much expression on their faces. They heard too many threats like this, and their ears were cocooned, and there was no touch at all.

Thanos is not irritated. He calmly said: "I know this sounds absurd. Titan is a civilized country, rich and strong, and its technological strength is sufficient to provide sufficient material resources to support many nest cities.

Even if the population is overcrowded, we can come up with the idea of ​​sending people to the space station, keeping all the elements in a balanced state. Even if the people are a little dissatisfied, they will not be overly pressured to survive. What are you thinking about disrupting social order.

However, we seem to have forgotten one thing, that is the speed of technological development."

There are many talented and agile people in the Conference Hall. Hear this. complexion slightly changed, but Thanos continued to say: “Since the invention of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor, we have enjoyed a thousand years of peace. Productivity suppresses the contradiction of population problems.

However, the development of this kind of technology is completely based on the unified theory of physics a thousand years ago.

Nearly 1,000 In the past few years, we have only contributed to the unified theory, but there has never been breakthrough progress. If we expand our sight to the millennium range, it is easy to find that the iterative speed of scientific theories and science and technology is continuously slowing down.

At the moment, the population problem can still be balanced, but when the development of science and technology has completely stagnated and the ever-expanding population cannot be wiped out because of the war, it is like a mouthful of inside and outside. The pressure cooker is becoming unbalanced. When the pressure is increased to the limit, the pressure cooker will become a bomb.

I can guarantee here that if within a hundred years, we will not be able to transfer most of the population to a different planet. ,

At that time, the population will grow to the limit in a logical manner, the unprecedented pressure of survival will overwhelm everything, and our civilization will collapse in an instant."

The tone of Thanos Sincere and serious, even the bureaucrats of the space agency had to start thinking about this issue seriously.

Someone frowned and said: "Why do you say that the population problem will overwhelm everything?

The plan to transfer the population to the space station was discussed and studied repeatedly by think tanks many years ago. It can perfectly relieve social pressure.

In addition to the Titan star government’s macro-control to guide public opinion, I don’t think there will be any emergencies."

Nodded said. : "Think tanks only considered the situation at the time, but they underestimated the level of chaos of human nature.

I took a new course called'Psychological History' when I was in college, and this course was also Called'Social Physics',

The movement of human beings as a whole is regarded as the change of material itself, and social factors such as politics, economy, culture, military, etc. are comprehensively considered, combined with the public psychology, to a certain extent The above speculates on the future development direction of society.

In short, this is a science similar to'big data derivation'. As long as enough information is collected, coupled with appropriate algorithms, it can be predicted Human history."

After that, Thanos took out the personal information terminal and pressed it twice, projecting a huge and extremely cumbersome calculation formula in the air.

Everyone was stunned. Although they had heard of the new branch of sociology, "social physics", when Thanos uttered the words "predictive history", they Still unacceptable.

"Absurd! Nonsense!"

The highly educated space agency elites were a little angry. They regretted why oneself was wasting time, but when they glanced at the icon roughly , I was surprised to find that behind those cumbersome algorithms, there are wonderful mathematical laws.

Everything about psychological history seems to take a while, and it seems to be able to form self-consistent...

More importantly, the calculations deduced The future is not so good....

"A hundred years later, the self-destructive tendency of the Titan people has reached its peak, the abandonment of social responsibility, the contempt for the authority of the Titan star government, and the cruelty to others and own.

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It will make people mutually exclusive and even hateful, abandon the great unity situation, divide the population again according to region, ethnicity, civilization, and skin color, religion surpasses science, and fanatical personality cult surpasses democracy and freedom.

In the end, the entire Titan star will fall into an unprecedented civil strife. People divided into countless groups will attack each other, and will no longer be able to form a whole. Science and technology will go backwards for hundreds of thousands of years. The natural environment and material resources will be destroyed as never before.

The Titans who can never point out the alien colonization technology can only be trapped on the surface of the planet forever..."

Thanksgiving faintly said: "This is the future deduced by social physics. I heard Is it too big filter theory?

Intermediate civilization is bound to face a test during the transition to Advanced civilization. One of the contents of this test is the breakthrough population trap."

Conference The Hall became quiet again, and the elites were a little skeptical-I have to admit that what Thanos said seemed to be so reasonable.

"...what do you want us to do?" someone asked softly.

Thanos took a deep breath and said frankly: "It's very simple, I have developed a super-light engine, and all you have to do is to represent the Aerospace Agency and support my Interstellar colonization plan.

As long as the population is transferred to the planet KTX——456134 within the time limit and an extraterrestrial colony is built, all the opportunities will also be restored."

People in the Conference Hall The people were silent and turned their eyes to Li Ang on the chief.

Leader, what do you think?

"...."

Li Ang's fingers tapped back and forth on the wooden tabletop. He closed his eyes and thought for a while, neither fast nor slow said: "Yes, Your request will be met,

However, you have to promise me one condition."

Li Ang opened his eyes, he looked at Thanos, and said calmly: "In In your theory, the changing trend of per capita resource occupation is the most fundamental factor that determines the social form.

War and peace, beauty and ugliness, everything can be attributed to limited resources and Infinity population Contradiction.

Do you want peace, right? Peace without war, chaos, and humanitarian tragedies,

Then, don’t take this Interstellar colonization plan as the end , I hope you can continue this experiment, in-depth research, and find a solution to the final contradiction."

The ghost is a goddess, and Thanos is nodded.

So it was so.

The Titan Space and Space Administration has vigorously promoted the Interstellar colonization plan. Within a hundred years, most of the people of Titan will go to the new planet to open up colonies in batches, and the population problem has been alleviated.

A few years later, Thanos entered politics and was successfully elected as the chief executive officer of Titan.

He represented the Titan civilization and participated in this Star Sea competition. He gained a certain right to speak in Sector with a mode of foreign exchange mainly based on peaceful diplomacy and supplemented by the threat of war.

A hundred years later, Thanos, who worked hard to rule, adopted the slogan "Inclusiveness, Harmony and Difference", assimilating the civilizations of the surrounding Sectors into the Titan civilization, and establishing the Star Sea Federation.

In the same year, genetic medicament achieved a breakthrough, and Thanos, who entered his later years of life, was able to continue his life, as the chief executive officer to continue to lead the new Star Sea Federation.

Thousands of years later, the ever-expanding peace negotiations of the Star Sea Federation split the last rebellious forces. So far, the power of the Star Sea Federation has spread throughout the galaxy.

So far, Thanos, as the chief executive officer, has issued a decree to implement the family planning policy and regulate the population in a peaceful and orderly manner. On the other hand, it will launch probes to other galaxies to explore the outside world.

The Milky Way galaxy, which has balanced sources of revenue, throttling, and per capita share of resources, has finally entered a new era of overall peace.

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As the creator of the new era and the actual ruler of the galaxy, the house where Thanos lives seems a bit simple.

The low thatched house is built on the mountainside. Pushing through the old wood door, you can clearly see the green hills and clear water and the farmland.

Thanos was sitting on a rocking chair in the front yard of the thatched house and reading a book. His burly body had long since become cramped due to the erosion of the years, and his deep purple skin was also full of wrinkles, even Those eyes that were once so sharp were also muddy as if they were stained with dust.

In the eyes of those who like him, Thanos is a savior, a god, a wise and deep leader, a fearless hero, and a messenger who brings peace to the world.

In the eyes of people who don’t like him, Thanos is a dictator, a madman, a war mad, and a thief who uses peaceful lies to cover up the truth of the dictatorship.

But there is one thing that cannot be disputed-whether they are admirers or detractors, what they enjoy now is the peace created by Thanos.

Thinking about this, Thanos turned a page of books. His wife, daughter, and old friend’s old knowledge had already been taken away by the years. In addition to the Great Empire he created, he and the world Without any fetters.

He has fulfilled his long-cherished wish and has no regrets.

Suddenly, as if he felt something, he stopped turning the pages of the book, raised the old head, and looked towards the old door.

Squeak--

The door was pushed open, and Li Ang's silhouette flashed out from behind the door, still in that iconic white coat.

According to Thanos’ memory and historical records, as the former Director of the Space Agency, Li Ang died of illness after completing the KTX-456134 Interstellar colonization plan, and historical evaluation of him is limited to “Sa The former boss of North Archon."

A person who has been dead for thousands of years suddenly appeared in front of him, and a slight surprise flashed in the eyes of the old Thanos-his experience was enough to keep him calm in the most incredible situations.

"How does it feel to fulfill your long-cherished wish?" Li Ang asked.

"...Very good." Thanos said peacefully: "I have never been so calm as now."

"Since there is no regret, then follow me Right." Li Ang said with a smile: "The dream should wake up."