Facing Reality
Yi Kai is a man of action. He has been watching all the meetings that are pushing forward the New Collider project, but he just hadn't found the right opportunity until now. Now that things have progressed to this point, he believes the time is ripe.
So, after Liu Miyan, he began to take action.
First, contact some well-known experts and scholars in the scientific community, and use their influence or direct power to have the relevant Propaganda Department consciously promote the meeting on promoting the New Particle Collider project in the public, and create and guide public opinion on the issue of the meeting's efficiency.
Yes, after all, we live in a society that values and prioritizes science. Scientists are not only respected professionals, but they also have a series of clearly defined rights.
After the public opinion fermented, Yi Kai and others also came out to make some targeted remarks, stating their positions. For example, they started by criticizing the efficiency of the meeting, and then extended the discussion to the drawbacks of this meeting system and the problems existing in human society today.
In short, this kind of wrangling is unacceptable; a strong voice is needed to take charge of this matter concerning the grand plan for human development.
I would rather embark on a path of trial and error under the guidance of a strong voice than see humanity waste precious time on meaningless internal conflicts.
Reduce internal friction and concentrate resources on major tasks.
Thus, with the help of many parties, people finally realized the seriousness of the problem. They realized that perhaps humans had been living too comfortably in recent years, to the point that they had forgotten how they struggled to survive in the past, or perhaps they had not encountered aliens or crises for a long time, which made most people forget that this was the universe, not that Blue Cradle.
Internal strife and infighting are a human tradition that has persisted since ancient times. This is especially true in interpersonal relationships, society, and within companies. A matter that could be resolved in two sentences is instead stretched into an hour-long meeting, resulting in meaningless internal friction.
Of course, sometimes even if you can explain something clearly in two sentences, the listener just won't take it seriously. They'll only take it seriously after a meeting of one or two hours, where formalism is incorporated into the rhetoric.
Humans are just strange like that.
In Earth Era, this was also known as involution, where everyone intensifies until they can no longer intensify.
In the interstellar era, this situation also arose after humanity felt it had escaped the survival crisis.
However, things did not get out of control. After public opinion had fermented to a certain extent, Yue Yuan stepped in to clean up the mess.
He had been watching this matter closely, just waiting for the right opportunity. Now that the scientific community was being so cooperative, he naturally wouldn't beat around the bush.
Yue Yuan directly convened a meeting of all senior executives, and then, accompanied by Man Yuemei, Bu Guiyu, Zhu Pete Pite, announced on the podium the cancellation of the voting meeting on the New Collider previously organized by Liu Miyan.
Then it was announced that the New Collider project would be launched immediately.
Of course, Yue Yuan didn't leave everything unexplained. Facing the somewhat noisy meeting room after the announcement, Yue Yuan raised his hands to quell the noise. Only after the noise subsided did he speak, "Colleagues, whether we like it or not, the facts of more than five hundred years of development tell us that our science has indeed stagnated."
"We have reached the end of the road in the field of True Nano Technology. Fundamental physics has long stagnated, and the Grand Unified Theory remains only a conjecture. We have no way to study it through experiments."
In this situation, we either continue as we are, waiting for a miracle to happen—and of course, we might stop here—or we can be a little crazy and give all of humanity a chance, even if it's wrong, we should try it, at least to show future generations a wrong path.
"We are no longer the ignorant civilization that just emerged from the Solar System. Having experienced so much and come into contact with so many Alien Civilization, I believe everyone has a certain understanding of civilization levels. Yes, the transition from Level 3 Civilization to Level 4 Civilization is a major hurdle. Before Type IV, we are generally referred to as Aerospace Civilization, and entering Type IV means becoming Interstellar Civilization."
Of the civilizations we encountered, apart from the Awakeners, all were Aerospace Civilization, which are Low-level Civilization. Many civilizations perished here. The existence we once looked up to— the Moke Star Civilization —failed to reach the Level 4 Civilization even after its extinction.
I do not want us to follow in the Moke Star Civilization, nor do I want humanity to develop into the decadent Fallen Civilization the Awakeners speak of. Therefore, the New Collider project is imperative!
After a pause, Yue Yuan instinctively tried to take a tactical sip of water, only to realize that he was in a virtual meeting room.
He cleared his throat and continued, "Of course, the launch of the new pair-to-pair collider project today does not mean that mining will begin immediately afterward. First of all, we understand that such a Supercomputer is an extraordinary engineering and physical project; it is a tool to expand the limits of our understanding of science and technology."
Such a creation cannot be started immediately upon request. We need all scientists and engineers to design it first and solve the problems that may arise during construction. This may take a very long time. Furthermore, we cannot simply start construction anywhere under the stars, at least not in this particular star system, for reasons I believe everyone understands.
I understand, of course I understand.
Most scientists and engineers know this.
Of course, the reason this star system is unsuitable is not because it's a place for humans to search for traces of Alien Civilization, but because it's too vast and the distances between stars are too great. Building here would create an excessively long mining route, unnecessarily increasing costs.
Regarding the various social problems arising from mining in multiple Star System simultaneously, experts suggest using a combination of multiple Strong Artificial Intelligence systems and a rotating shift system. This approach was already proposed when Liu Miyan initially initiated this project.
Humanity must first find a resource-rich Star System and ensure that the surrounding Star System are relatively close. Then, using this Star System as a base, we can send out Strong Artificial Intelligence and on-duty personnel to excavate the surrounding Star System.
To ensure mining safety and address the rotation issue, the human fleet will conduct regular patrols of each mining area and rotate the personnel on duty.
As for the search for the remains of Alien Civilization, humanity has been searching for over five hundred years. Although we haven't searched the entire star system, we have ventured into most of Star System.
Indeed, nothing was found.
To appease the perseverance of those who were determined to search to the end, Yue Yuan personally selected a route to a region with a high density of stars. This route would start from where humanity was located and pass through eight stars in this star system that had not been explored before.
However, Yue Yuan held no hope for this. He believed that the so-called Alien Civilization ruins either did not exist, or that the Crimson Flame Civilization itself had been deceived by this baseless information from who-knows-where.