Chapter 189 Aliens and Fermi Paradox, Coma and Mutation
Chapter 189 Aliens and the Fermi Paradox, coma and sudden mutations
""under the dome"!"
Tony looked at the introduction projected on the screen, with a very subtle expression on his bearded face.
"Under the Dome" is a book written by the "master of horror novels" Stephen King. It describes a resort in Maine that is suddenly surrounded by a force field falling from the sky, covering the entire town like a falling sky.
As a result, the town lost all contact with the outside world. No matter it was guns, ammunition, tanks, rockets, or even missiles, they could not penetrate this transparent object.
"So, what's going on now?"
Deadpool pushed his big hooded face in front of the screen. Looking at the content of the novel introduced above, he was even more confused about the current situation.
It can only be said that what the town is experiencing now is almost exactly the same as what was described in the book "Under the Dome".
Judging from the current situation, it is true that art originates from life and is also reflected in reality! !
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"So, this incident was caused by aliens!!"
"Oh my god, there really are aliens in the world (｀Δ)!"
After Deadpool finished reading the introduction to the novel Under the Dome, the idiot immediately started yelling. His idiotic behavior immediately attracted the attention of the people next to him.
"Wade, shut that crappy mouth of yours!"
Constantine saw other people looking here, and he quickly said dissatisfiedly to Deadpool, the idiot.
"OK, OK!"
After hearing what Constantine said, Deadpool quickly slid his hand over his mouth twice to indicate that he had zipped up the mouth.
"Constantine, what do you think about this matter?"
Tony ignored the fuss made by Deadpool, and instead asked Constantine very calmly.
"Tony, do you know the laws of the dark forest?"
"Um?!"
Constantine held a lit cigarette in his hand and slowly began to talk about content that had nothing to do with the dome above the town.
"A wise man who studied the sociology of the universe once said:"
"The universe is like a dark forest. Every civilization is like a hunter with a gun, sneaking in the forest like a ghost, gently pushing aside the branches blocking the way, trying not to make a sound with his footsteps, and even breathing must be careful."
"He must be careful, because there are hunters like him stalking everywhere in the forest. If he finds other life, there is only one thing he can do: shoot and eliminate it."
"In this dark forest, other people are hell and an eternal threat. Any life that exposes its existence will soon be wiped out. This is the picture of cosmic civilization, and this is an explanation of the Fermi Paradox. .”
"I think Tony, as an outstanding scientist himself, should know the theory of Fermi Paradox most clearly."
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After Tony Stark heard what Constantine said, he immediately fell silent. He knew exactly what Constantine meant.
Tony himself believes that aliens exist!
Especially when magic, which is not materialistic at all, actually exists in the world, the existence of aliens seems so insignificant.
The Fermi Paradox is a contradiction that has existed for a long time. It was first published in an unpublished manuscript written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1933.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote: "People deny the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations because, if extraterrestrial civilizations really exist, two things should happen:"
"First, they should have visited the Earth, and second, they should have sent us some signals of their existence."
It was not until 1950 that Fermi came up with the question of where alien civilizations were while talking with his colleagues.
Fermi and his colleagues also thought that if aliens really exist in the universe, then humans should have discovered aliens.
But unlike Tsiolkovsky, Fermi made a simple calculation after the discussion and proposed that the probability of the existence of alien civilization is very high.
The question therefore becomes a paradox.
After Fermi's death, the above content was published by his colleagues, and this paradox is also known as Fermi's paradox.
The Fermi Paradox is a scientific paradox about aliens and interstellar travel. It describes the contradiction between the high possibility of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization and the lack of evidence to prove its existence in reality.
We can see that the two most important contradictory arguments of the Fermi Paradox are:
There should be a large number of alien civilizations in the galaxy
We have observed no signs of extraterrestrial civilizations
So for the first argument, how do we prove or falsify it?
Drake's formula can describe this problem very clearly.
The form of Drake's formula is as follows:
N=Ng×Fp×Ne×Fl×Fi×Fc×FL
The N on the left represents the number of extraterrestrial civilizations that should exist in the Milky Way and can be observed.
The first three items on the right represent the total number of planets in the Milky Way, and the following items represent multi-level conditional probabilities. Multiplying the probabilities of each step required for the birth of an alien civilization and sending out a signal gives a total probability.
Ng: number of stars in the Milky Way;
Fp: the proportion of stars with planets to all stars;
Ne: the average number of Earth-like planets around the star;
Fl: the probability of life evolving on Earth-like planets;
Fi: the probability of evolving from primitive life to highly intelligent life;
Fc: The probability that highly intelligent life emits a signal that can be observed by human civilization;
FL: the proportion of the duration of technological civilization in the planet’s life cycle;
The meaning of each item in the equation is progressive. The basic idea is to calculate "the probability of the next event occurring if the previous condition is met."
The entire Drake equation specifies the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization, so we can explore the issue of whether extraterrestrial life exists by studying the probability of each term.
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"I really didn't expect that Constantine, a magician like you, also knows a lot about science!!"
"Could it be that you are the Konstantin Tsiolkovsky of the wizarding world!?"
"No, I just learned something about aliens from the magical world of your world."
"If the current situation in the town is really caused by aliens, it may be better to solve the incident."
"What's the meaning?!"
"What I'm worried about is that those guys hiding in the inner world are much more difficult to deal with than the guys from aliens!"
The words that Constantine just said immediately sounded the alarm for Tony. The existence and development of some things may not necessarily proceed according to the content in the book.
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People outside want to get in, and people inside want to get out.
A wall separates the two worlds, and there is chaos under the dome.
Just one wall away, heaven and hell!
"Jane, how is Thor doing now!?"
Daisy struggled to carry the daily necessities she bought from outside and asked Jane Foster who was standing in front of Thor.
She just ran outside the supermarket and queued for a long time, finally buying these daily necessities.
“The situation is not good!!”
Jane Foster looked at Thor lying unconscious on the bed with a worried look. The strong body was now nestled on the small bed. This scene seemed so inconsistent.
Ever since the dome appeared, the town has been plunged into chaos. Residents began to flock to the major supermarkets in the town, each one frantically buying daily necessities and water.
The residents of the beautiful country are very worried-minded "high-end talents." In order to avoid such terrible things as happy "zero-dollar purchases" from happening, residents of New Mexico are basically able to own firearms.
Although the town is still in a relatively stable state, large-scale chaos and violence have not yet occurred.
But the undercurrent hidden under the surface has begun to surge. After more than ten hours have passed and the incident has not been effectively resolved, people's minds have finally undergone some subtle changes.
Maybe "Under the Dome" is not a book that everyone in the town has read!
But among the residents of the small town, there are smart people after all.
These people know very well that if the dome problem cannot be solved, the effective order in the town will definitely collapse in the long run.
Anarchy will soon be rampant in this town! !
This town is likely to become a playground for some thoughtful people to have fun in it.
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"Thor's condition has not improved much. He fell to the ground with the other residents and started convulsing. He has not recovered until now."
Jane Foster grabbed the towel next to her and dipped it in water, then used the water to cool Thor's forehead.
The temperature on the unconscious Thor's forehead was very scary. Thor had been running a high fever since he passed out of coma, and his entire consciousness fell into a deep sleep.
This situation also made Jane and others feel very scared!
In today's small town, due to the sudden appearance of the dome, many residents have fainted for unknown reasons. The town's medical system is on the verge of collapse, and even many doctors have fallen ill.
Thor's bad situation is not unique, but few people are as serious as Thor. Most people just fall into a coma, then have a high fever for a while, and then disappear naturally.
It's not like Thor who has been having a high fever, and the high fever on his body shows no sign of subside.
This is a very dangerous phenomenon after all! !
Now, people outside can't get in, and people inside can't get out. If Thor himself wants to recover, he may have to rely on his own willpower.
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"How long has this been happening!"
"Sir, if the time calculation is correct, since the dome appeared, residents have been unconscious one after another, including some of our agents."
In front of a hospital bed in the S.H.I.E.L.D. base, Agent Coulson was standing in front of an unconscious agent, calling Nick Fury in the S.H.I.E.L.D. Trident Building, reporting what was happening in the town.
The frantic rush to buy food and water that happened in the small town was actually expected by SHIELD agents.
But what really makes S.H.I.E.L.D. feel uneasy is the inexplicable fainting of small town residents and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
"Agent Bol and other agents have been controlled. Although they are now in a coma. But the previous attack shows that there may still be potential dangers on them."
Agent Coulson looked at Agent Bol who was tied to the bed. His body was tightly tied to the bed with strong restraints.
The reason for doing this to Agent Boer was to prevent him from hurting others again.
Not long ago, after Agent Bol and some other agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fainted, their whole bodies began to twitch continuously, and their whole bodies were lying on the ground with high fevers.
The whole person looked like an epileptic patient, causing other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents present to rush forward and begin emergency rescue.
But what no one expected was that the unconscious agents seemed to sense the arrival of others. They suddenly opened their eyes and rushed towards the medical staff in front of them.
The golden pupils, the sharp claws and scales that suddenly stretched out from the hand.
That powerful attack caught several rescue workers off guard and killed them on the spot.
So after spending a long time, these unconscious SHIELD agents were physically anesthetized and each one was tied to the hospital bed and kept under strict supervision.
"Not only that, Director, this bad situation does not only happen to our fainted members, some very strange changes have also been discovered in some residents of the town."
"After some residents woke up, they suddenly had great strength and were able to lift several tons of objects at once."
"Some residents have super hearing after waking up, so exaggerated that they can even hear small sounds within several kilometers."
"The changes in the production of these residents can be called benign mutations, while some residents, like our agents, have bad mutations in their bodies."
"Scales grow on the skin, and sharp claws grow on the palms. The whole person looks like a lizard man!!"
"But whether it is a benign mutation or a bad mutation, these people all have a unified characteristic, that is, they all have a pair of golden pupils, as hot as molten gold."
Agent Coulson summarizes these strange phenomena and identifies common characteristics among these patients.
Golden eyes! !
This is a trait shared by those who passed out and the SHIELD agents.