Annihilation of the solar system

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Zhou Cheng looked at something with empty eyes and was lost in thought. The gorgeous and prosperous reality and the epic history were intertwined in his mind. These evolutions with time-progressive logical relationships would not have caused confusion at first. But he happened to miss the entire six

For half a century, the blood and smoke seemed like just yesterday to him, but the prosperous age was right in front of him.

When he came back to his senses from the cage of thoughts, he was surrounded by stars.

"Where are we going?" Zhou Cheng asked.

"Go and see our near future." Qingwen's smile contained a hint of mystery.

The spaceship quickly approached a space station. This space station was completely different from the golden windmill Zhou Cheng had seen before. It was like a huge mace, with no glass and no rotation. The cylindrical station was covered with cloth

It is covered with trestles that look like wolf teeth, and countless cargo spaceships pass through them.

"This is a space material transfer station. Materials from Venus and Mars are transferred here and then transported to the Great Industrial Wall. Our spacecraft can only fly in space near the earth, so we have to change to an interplanetary spacecraft." Qing Qing.

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"Are we going to other planets?" Zhou Cheng asked, looking at the behemoth space station outside the cabin.

"Um!"

The spaceship flew in from a hatch of the space station. After Zhou Cheng and Qingwen left the spacecraft, they went to their respective maintenance rooms to change clothes. When Zhou Cheng saw Qingwen wearing a space suit, he couldn't help but feel a sense of being in another world.

, he looked at Qingwen blankly for a few seconds.

"Professor Zhou, is my face stained?" Qingwen asked a little embarrassed.

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Zhou Cheng quickly turned away his eyes and said with a bit of embarrassment:

"No, no. Let's go."

The spacecraft left the space station and flew towards the sun. As the spacecraft continued to accelerate, the blue planet behind it became smaller at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into a bright star in the sea of ​​stars.

When the deceleration began, a gradually larger blue-yellow planet appeared in front of us. When the deceleration was almost completed, the slowly flowing green-yellow atmosphere almost occupied the entire porthole of the spacecraft.

Zhou Cheng glanced at the radiant sun, then looked back at the starry sky behind him, and asked:

"Is this Venus?"

Qingwen smiled and nodded:

"Yes!"

"Shouldn't her atmosphere be orange?" Zhou Cheng asked puzzledly.

Qingwen said somewhat mysteriously:

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"You'll know when we go down and take a look."

The spacecraft fell into the atmosphere. After more than ten minutes of turbulence, the green-yellow landscape of Venus appeared in front of us. The mountains, rivers and rivers were very similar to the Earth except for their color.

In a huge canyon, large construction machinery can be seen everywhere on the ground excavating rocks. Mine carts transport the ore to the processing center like ants, and then brought back to the earth by cargo spacecraft. There are several huge airships floating in the sky.

And the spaceship Zhou Cheng was riding was approaching the largest one among them.

After the spacecraft docked in the hangar, Qingwen led Zhou Cheng through the long and narrow corridor to a semicircular hall surrounded by pure glass walls. The strange scenery in the canyon and the bustling scene of the collection site were all visible.

Close your eyes.

After coming to a dining table and sitting down, the service robot brought two cups of coffee. Qingwen added sugar to the coffee and said:

"The density of the lower atmosphere of Venus is dozens of times higher than that of the Earth's atmosphere, and the buoyancy is better. In addition to being used as an automatic command center for unmanned machinery in mining areas, it is also a planetary tourist attraction. Many people once liked to come here1

Eat dinner while enjoying the spectacle of Venus and the sun rising in the west and setting in the east."

"This is really romantic. In our era, the happiest thing was being able to have dinner with your family on time without working overtime." Zhou Cheng sighed.

Qingwen obviously couldn't understand the kind of happiness Zhou Cheng described. She pointed to the smoke-filled mining area below and said:

"There are a total of 70 collection areas like this on Venus. There are hundreds of balloons like the one we are riding in in the atmosphere.

But their role is to collect useful elements in the atmosphere of Venus and initially transform the atmosphere of Venus. This is why the color of the atmosphere of Venus has changed and the transformation is already underway. And the number of these devices will double several times in the future."

"So much? Is the Eternal City's consumption so huge?" Zhou Cheng asked doubtfully.

Qingwen smiled and shook her head:

"Of course you won't use so much. The material utilization rate of molecular synthesizers is very high. This is preparing for the next step of the atomic industrial revolution."

Zhou Cheng frowned slightly, his doubts aggravating:

"According to the principles of the molecular industrial revolution, the atomic industrial revolution can build materials from the atomic level, and the material utilization rate should be higher. Why do we still need to hoard large amounts of industrial raw materials?"

Qingwen said:

"After the atomic industrial revolution is completed, there will definitely be another leap in material utilization. But before the first atomic generator is manufactured, we can only use the technology of the molecular industrial revolution to build the core components of the atomic generator.

This requires a large amount of special metal materials. We cannot synthesize these materials ourselves and can only find them from natural minerals, so a large amount of raw materials are needed. The theory of the atomic industrial revolution has been very complete, and we are actually just waiting for enough materials to be manufactured.

Once the first atomic synthesis machine is produced, everything will be simple from now on."

Zhou Cheng nodded slowly. He looked at the hazy spots of the sun in the blue-yellow sky and suddenly remembered something:

"You just said that in addition to collecting minerals, these machines are also transforming the environment of Venus?"

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Qingwen's eyebrows bloomed with pride and pride:

"This is an ambitious plan. Greenhouse gases and harmful gases in the atmosphere of Venus will be neutralized and recycled. In less than 300 years, the atmospheric pressure will be reduced to the level of the Earth, the air will become transparent, and the surface temperature will

It will drop to 25 degrees.

The excess water from the two-level glaciers on Earth will be transferred to Venus, where new rivers, lakes and seas will be formed during heavy rains. If the atomic revolution can be completed in advance, this progress can be accelerated.

By then, this place will become a paradise for life like the Earth, and the livable transformation of Mars will also begin after the completion of the atomic industrial revolution. By then, our solar system will be perfect!"

When Zhou Cheng heard the word "Paradise of Life", Zhou Cheng's heart "thumped". His eyes glanced around in the turbid blue atmosphere, and his expression gradually became serious:

"The native organisms on Venus, are they still there?"

The proud smile on Qingwen's face suddenly solidified. Although the smile returned to her face only after a short period of time, the smile was a little far-fetched and panicked.

She obviously did not expect Zhou Cheng to ask this question, because even if we go back to 649 years ago, few remaining humans know about the life on Venus that was just discovered 13 years ago and was submerged in the crisis era. And now, even less

Will anyone know that humans discovered the existence of life in the upper atmosphere of Venus more than 6 centuries ago.

Seeing that Qingwen didn't speak for a long time, Zhou Cheng asked again:

"Are they still there?"

The smile on Qingwen's face was very forced, as if she was struggling with something. Finally she said:

"The resource collection and transformation plan of Venus has been carried out for 400 years. Now the temperature of the surface of Venus' atmosphere has dropped from 420 degrees to 300 degrees. The pressure, composition and temperature of the atmosphere have changed greatly compared with the original conditions. The upper layers

Atmospheric air-sac organisms were confirmed to be completely extinct 150 years ago."

Qingwen's tone of voice was no longer brisk and hearty as before, instead it was trembling with faint panic and apology.

Zhou Cheng closed his eyes, was silent for a while, and said lightly:

"Is the so-called paradise of life built on piles of skeletons?"

His voice was very calm, without even a questioning tone. But there was heavy sorrow and accusation between the lines. The smile on Qingwen's face could no longer be maintained. Her face turned pale, and her expression was between embarrassment and forced laughter.

The weather was uncertain. After a while, he finally forced a smile and said:

"Before the Venus terraforming project began in full, scientists at the time conducted research on them. They showed no sociality, let alone intelligence, and they did not belong to the earth.

We don’t have to bear unnecessary moral burdens. This may be the big filter they must go through in the process of evolution. It’s just that they failed to pass. This is the law of survival of the universe.”

Zhou Chenggan laughed a few times and glanced at Qingwen briefly. His lips were slightly opened, and he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't. After a long silence, he just muttered something to himself:

"The Great Filter."