Chapter 1386
The space agency, an organization that seems to seek future survival for human beings, is also full of darkness in people's hearts. First of all, the instructor among them, Professor Brand, the light of wisdom who led everyone forward, already knew that he could not calculate the anti-gravity fortifications. He has been deceiving everyone, lest people know the truth and despair. This gray-haired old man did not inherit the status of his peers such as Dumbledore or Gandalf. As "grandpas", those two people were still capable at critical moments, and Professor Brand was a pitfall.
He himself knew that because of the lack of key data on black holes, the anti-gravity formula fell into a dead end. Without anti-gravity technology, the large space station built by NASA could not be successfully launched. He has been telling people that the formula is completed quickly, and then humans can easily push massive structures into space. Because he knows that there are not so many fearless people, knowing that he will wait to die on the earth in the future, he will still work hard to let the seeds of mankind bloom again on the immigrant planet.
Now that Professor Brand tricked Huang Chao and Cooper into joining the team, he showed this kind of guilt. If Cooper was alone, he would dare to show Cooper a tour, and then talk to him in detail in the office. But now that Huang Chao was also in the team, the old man Brand didn't dare to let Huang Chao see the derivation on the blackboard, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to fool Huang Chao. So the old man only took them to visit the research of Fusarium wilt. The sealed and isolated laboratory showed a shocking scene. In such a cultivation room isolated from sand and dust, the plants still suffered from Fusarium wilt.
A variety of plants became extinct, and clean samples could not be found all over the world. Even if they were cultivated from scratch in the laboratory, the blight spread to the isolated environment. But people's analysis can't see any influence on them, no genetic mutation, no abnormal pollution, all the results show amazing despair, these plants can no longer survive on the earth from now on.
Huang Chao thought vaguely: "Using the explanation of mysticism, this is a drastic change in the geomantic omen of the earth, specifically to kill vegetation and creatures? It's really crazy."
Cooper saw samples of the blight in the maize in the lab: it meant that eventually the maize, too, would disappear altogether. Without the professor's reminder, Cooper himself became nervous and desperate. He asked: "We must have a way, right? We will always have a way."
The old man looked at him sympathetically, and then told him the accurate news, which made people even more desperate: "Corn will eventually become extinct. After all plants disappear, the earth will lose oxygen. And your daughter's generation will be the last generation of human beings. "Speaking of which, Miss Brand is walking over with Murphy. The two of them are already familiar with each other. Murphy is very excited and happy in this universe base, with a smile on his face all the time. She doesn't know what her generation will face in the future. The desperation he felt was filled with the joy of discovering the truth about spaceflight.
Her school taught everyone that space exploration does not exist, and that the Apollo landing on the moon was just a fabrication... All kinds of anti-intellectual education are all for people to feel at ease to farm and die honestly. The school teachers even completely believe this, thinking that Murphy is a Cranky bad student! Now that she knew that the school teacher was wrong, this expedition was really worth it.
Seeing that Murphy was sleepy, Miss Brand told them, "I'll take Murphy to my office to sleep for a while.
Cooper nodded, and Murphy left happily. Behind her, Cooper's eyes became firm. He is a father, and he wants to fight for a way out for his daughter.
Cooper turned to old man Brand, and asked with red eyes: "Tell me, your plan to save the world." Old man Brand nodded, knowing that he was about to catch Cooper, an excellent astronaut. He glanced at Hierro, who seemed to be moved by this scene.
In fact, Huang Chao just made a qualified passer-by expression: such a great fatherly love is indeed worthy of admiration, but Huang Chao understands that if it is not for the strange space inside the black hole, Cooper would not be able to send back key data, and human beings on the earth are really destroyed. He was arranged by "them" to perform a miracle that human beings did not suffocate to death on the earth, but an unknown civilization came to their aid: this is not even human self-help.
The old man Brand felt that he had a chance of success, so he brought the two of them to the construction site of the spaceship. A spaceship had been basically completed. The bow of the ship stood upright in the silo, the top was more than ten meters above the ground, and the rear of the hull extended all the way to the ground. The surface of the spaceship shone with a metallic luster, and sufficient lighting equipment was placed on the surrounding ring-shaped walls, making the launch shaft full of light.
"This is the Prowler, the last component of the orbiting multipurpose spaceship Eternity. Our last expedition." Old Man Brand had mixed feelings of hope and loss. Because with the accumulation of the space agency, they can no longer build spaceships for interstellar travel.
Under the crisis of human annihilation, due to various reasons, even the means of escape cannot be researched. They dare not announce the truth. The remaining human beings are no longer able to organize the large-scale industries of the past. Most people must go to farm, because the poor agricultural output requires a huge population base to produce food to maintain the survival of all human beings.
Under such circumstances, even if they really abandon their prejudices and work hard for the whole people, they will not be able to invest a lot of resources in aerospace research. In this catastrophic world, the space agency depends on many people to support them. If there are a little more people in industry and scientific research, there will be a famine due to lack of food, and the development of blight is another countdown to death. Humanity has truly been cornered.
However, this is also a kind of self-inflicted blame. Humans once had a good time, when there was no blight, and people could meet the needs of survival: it is a pity that they did not cherish the opportunity to explode technology at that time, and there were countless brains, neuropathy and bastards involved in the development of technology . Human beings are motivated to pursue a better life, to develop technology in pursuit of higher profits, and to fight with others for various interests and beliefs, but to carry out space exploration with little profit... Haha.
They have also experienced a world of mutual restraint before. The vast majority of human beings are passively involved in civilization, and their own cognition and civilization have not kept up with technology. And the forces that have the power to explore space must also guard against each other. It is impossible to develop wholeheartedly. This kind of exploration will lose money for a long time. If anyone is really so stupid, I am afraid that the starry sky will be swallowed by others before it goes up. What's more, the mainstream of the people will not accept it, lower their living conditions, and carry out space exploration with no hope.
Cooper can do whatever it takes for his daughter at this time. If it was put a few decades ago, and the possible crisis on the earth was used as an advantage, Cooper would roll his eyes and refuse.
People have no long-term worries, but they must have near-term worries. Human beings in this world have wasted too many good times worthlessly, and now they can only pay the price for it.