For them, resources that can be immediately monetized are more valuable than knowledge.
It takes time for knowledge to be put into practice.
For our country, knowledge is more valuable than resources. Here, knowledge refers to practical technical knowledge, not just theoretical knowledge.
The more technologically advanced a country is, the stronger its demand for knowledge will be.
Even just considering which direction the technology should develop in.
But the only thing of value here is knowledge.
There may also be biases.
Because I personally think that, taking Earth as an example, with millions of species, the genes and samples of these species should also be valuable, right?
For example, cats and dogs bred on Earth should have value in the universe.
Furthermore, in the case of more brutal civilizations, intelligent life forms might be treated as pets.
Therefore, I think it's a bit extreme to say that only knowledge has value.
The middle-aged man continued, "If the other party came from hundreds of thousands of light-years away, how could he not take these resources with him?"
Liu Cixin replied directly, "That depends on the communication technology and space transportation tools he has mastered."
For example, if the other party could contact their headquarters hundreds of thousands of light-years away, they could build a wormhole to reach Earth.
It could be hundreds of thousands of light-years away, which would only take about ten Earth days to reach.
Liu Cixin's idea has also been proposed by scientists within China.
However, it was quickly rejected.
The cost of just building a wormhole to reach Earth is enough to transform dozens of planets like Mars into Earth.
This is not worth it at all.
Unless the soul has a special function.
Artificially constructed planets cannot give rise to souls.
In fact, the experiment that China most wants to conduct is to see if humans can become pregnant and give birth successfully in outer space, and whether the babies born after birth can grow up smoothly.
There is speculation within China that planets with intelligent life are special.
Otherwise, magoin's system would not only be associated with the cosmic coordinates of planets where intelligent life exists.
Intelligent life can only be born on these planets.
Even if you transform a planet into a habitable one and then send intelligent life there, the intelligent life that migrates there will not be able to produce normal offspring.
If this hypothesis is confirmed, then the importance of Earth will increase significantly.
However, China has not yet found a suitable opportunity to conduct this experiment.
The middle-aged man did not refute Liu; he only asked questions.
Do you believe that civilization must be a continuous process of expansion and growth?
One theory suggests that after developed countries on Earth reached a certain level of development, their populations began to stop growing or even decline, instead of continuing to increase.
Without hesitation, Liu Cixin said, "Actually, when I was writing The Three-Body Problem, there wasn't much discussion about the issue of negative population growth in society."
Later, when I looked back at this question, this is what I think.
If we consider Earth as a whole, a unified civilization, then Earth is undoubtedly in a state of continuous expansion and growth.
Humanity's radiation boundary has expanded to almost every corner of the blue planet.
In recent years, our exploration frontiers have also expanded to the Moon and Mars.
However, this is not the case for specific countries.
Moreover, I'm only talking about the phenomenon, not the theory.
Because Earth's truly rapid development has only occurred in the last two hundred years.
The development over the past two hundred years has been faster than that of the past twenty thousand years.
Whether it will continue to expand and grow in the future, I honestly don't know.
However, one or two countries cannot represent an entire civilization.
"So what do you think of virtual reality technology, the real-world virtual reality technology?"
It's like a second world.
It is almost indistinguishable from the real world on a macro level.
Whether it's smell, touch, hearing, or sight, everything is very close to reality; only the sense of taste may have some slight deviations.
If an extraterrestrial life form brings such technology to Earth, would the advanced level of its civilization create a need for colonization of Earth?
"First, a few points need to be clarified."
The first question is whether the extraterrestrial life created it themselves, or whether they brought production equipment from Earth to create it.
There is a fundamental difference between the two.
For example, the difference in difficulty between bringing a CNC machine tool to ancient times and manually building one in ancient times is like night and day.
Secondly, what is the other party's status in the alien civilization? Are they an ordinary person, a scientist, or even a top scientist, comparable to a Nobel Prize winner on Earth?
Finally, what is the social structure of the other civilization?
To determine whether the other party has a need to colonize Earth, you need to understand these three points.
Moreover, it's possible that the other civilization wouldn't colonize Earth, but an individual might want to.
Even if an alien civilization is highly advanced, a prosperous and habitable planet is still of great value to an individual, right?
Furthermore, virtual reality technology is only one aspect of technology.
Of course, if this can be achieved, the overall technical strength must be quite high.
There is no doubt that it is many years ahead of Earth.
The other party's technology alone doesn't mean anything.
It's entirely possible that the other party lacks resources and therefore needs virtual reality to allow their people to live in a virtual world.
The middle-aged man nodded and said, "What you said makes a lot of sense."
If what you say is true, then how should we deal with such an enemy?
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