Chapter 755: Chapter 6 Big Face Cat, CC, Old Friends!
(Monthly ticket extra update!)_6 Chapter 755: Chapter 6 Big Face Cat, CC, Old Friends!
(Monthly ticket extra update!)_6 Wei Shengjin turned his head in confusion, looked at Lin Xian:
“Are you trying to comfort , Lin Xian?
Hahaha…
you worry too much.
At my age, why would I get disheartened over such a trivial matter?
Hahaha…
...
But still, thank you, I was just too tired earlier, montarily at a loss for words.
After all, I am 70 years old; I can’t compare with you young folks in terms of physical strength.”
Wei Shengjin picked up his water bottle, and gulped down a few sips, then with a chuckle, handed it to Lin Xian.
Seeing the good spirits of this 70-year-old chasing his youthful dreams, Lin Xian also felt relieved and waved his hand to show he wasn’t thirsty.
Then he stepped forward, sat on the newly unearthed Hafnium Alloy Safe, and together with Wei Shengjin, looked towards the deep forest:
“Old Wei, I have so historical questions I’d like to ask.”
“Ah, why so formal all the ti, Lin Xian.”
Wei Shengjin waved his hand:
“You really haven’t adjusted to this era yet, making feel a bit constrained.
You don’t need to keep calling ‘old,’ just call Wei Shengjin like you call by my full na!”
“Um…”
Lin Xian decided to skip the formalities and dive straight into the main topic:
“I want to ask two questions, the first one is…”
“[Why in 2400 A.D., after the super disaster, when Jask ca from Mars to pick people up, everyone left without hesitation?
Normally, even if Earth was shattered, degraded, left in ruins and technologically backward with not enough food…
would really that many people be willing to leave their hos behind and go to Mars?]”
Wei Shengjin sighed lightly.
He spoke slowly:
“You see, this is the disadvantage of not receiving historical education, I wonder how you passed the hibernation awakening knowledge test?
If soone fails that exam…
they have to retake it.
If it’s not certain that you have the ability to integrate into the current society, you’re not allowed to live freely in the future era.”
“History education states that the situation on Earth was very dire, not just in terms of wars and famine.
Even decades later, the global population had dwindled to almost nothing, but the natural environnt had not recovered…
Volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis…
Having not experienced those horrific scenes, you certainly can’t understand their mindset, Lin Xian.”
“Look at the movies, those war scenes, those disaster films, who wouldn’t want to retreat to a safe place?
At that ti, between 2400 and 2500 A.D., the safest and most comfortable place was definitely Mars.”
“After 2500 A.D., the environnt on Earth may indeed have improved, but by then, those Earth migrants, either had already died of old age or had settled down on Mars…
The new generations of Martian children and grandchildren, they were not willing to go to the backward Earth.
Should an old man like , run back to Earth to hunt and live a primitive life?”
“I definitely wouldn’t want that…
and with interplanetary transit every two years, anyone who really wants to return to Earth could simply do so, nobody is stopping them, it is entirely up to personal freedom.
Just that it’s difficult to go from luxury to austerity.
Life on Mars is obviously much happier than on Earth, no one would choose otherwise.”
“Unless…
one day, Earth’s technological and living standards can reach half or even a third of Mars’, maybe then people would be willing to live on Earth.”
Lin Xian nodded his head.
He continued:
“Exactly, that’s the second question I wanted to ask——”
“[You ntioned before that in 2500 A.D., after the last fleet of Martian immigrant ships left, there were still several million, or even tens of millions of people who chose to stay on Earth.
Now, over a hundred years have passed and there is so degree of knowledge preservation, why hasn’t it developed to the stage of industrial civilization?]”
Wei Shengjin screwed on the cap of his water bottle.
He placed it aside.
He continued to explain to Lin Xian:
“100 years is indeed a long ti, sufficient for a technological leap.
But it requires that the population be sufficiently concentrated and that knowledge and basic equipnt can be sustained.
“Space-T’s space ships took decades to evacuate everyone from Earth willing to leave; the remaining people, aside from so die-hard individuals, mostly had various physical ailnts that prevented them from traveling in space or adapting to a weightless environnt for long periods.”
“To say that the remaining ones were the old, weak, sick, and disabled is no exaggeration; under such preconditions, with the population also being severely fragnted, it’s hard to truly unite.
Managing to gather even tens of thousands into a large organization is already significant.”
“But then…
with a population of only tens of thousands, including old and young, what can you achieve in industrial developnt?
It would be quite an achievent to maintain an agricultural economy.
Thus, after over a hundred years of reproduction, the total human population on Earth breaking past 30 million and advancing to a dieval level of living is already a miracle.”
“The explosion of civilization and technology indeed cos swiftly, but no civilization can experience a sudden, unearned technological explosion.
Each industrial revolution seems rapid, but it is actually the culmination of centuries of accumulation.”
“This form of accumulation isn’t just in knowledge and basic equipnt but more so in talent, even ‘geniuses.’ Only geniuses truly drive historical progress, and with the population base being what it is, over just a hundred years spanning a few generations, the probability of a genius erging is incredibly small.”
“You might not believe it, but even with nearly a thousand years gone by, Einstein, Newton, and Gauss are still listed as geniuses in children’s textbooks today…
in fact, there was more than a hundred years between Newton and Gauss; and another hundred between Gauss and Einstein.”
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