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Chapter 406 Several major problems

"Science" does not mean praise or criticism. It is just a way to understand the world and study problems. To give a simple example, when people say that traditional Chinese medicine is not science, there is no derogatory meaning at all, because it itself is a method of accumulated experience. However, saying that traditional Chinese medicine is completely ineffective is a slander that ignores the facts.

I won’t talk much about this issue yet. At least scientism is more in line with objective laws than empiricism and can promote the development of productivity, which is enough.

As for the current Tep civilization, since the world is divided into more than 1,000 countries of all sizes, and their respective cultures are different, it becomes very difficult to truly unify the world and generate the cohesion of the entire civilization.

Under this premise, the professor on the stage came to the conclusion: "...so we speculate that in the next few hundred years, the planet Tep will not be fully integrated. It is possible that a country similar to the Xia Kingdom on Earth will appear, unite several major powers and rush out of its own planet."

"As for the remaining countries, they can only abandon what they should be abandoned."

"This is just one possibility...it is more likely that you cannot escape from your own planet, and you cannot even have the ability to create controlled nuclear fusion and become a mediocre civilization that is still standing."

After deducing this, many people sighed silently.

The reason why in the 20th and 21st century humans, major powers aided Asian, African and Latin America countries was just to obtain economic growth points. If there was no sufficient benefits, why should we provide assistance? If we really reached the point where we could develop an alien planet, the cake we could get was too big, so we no longer need to consider the issue of internal game on the planet, and there was no need to pay attention to the life and death of poor and small countries. It was too late to develop space, so who would pay attention to the poverty and backwardness on the other side of the planet?

A little humanitarian help is actually useless. If the entire cultural level is not good and the spiritual core is not good, such a country will not be able to rise after all.

There is a distinction between culture and culture. If a certain culture cannot promote the progress of the entire society, it is likely to be a dross culture. The most important thing is whether the people have the courage to give it up.

"The above is the rough history of the Tep civilization." The scientist bowed slightly, then walked off the stage.

This historical material is of great help to the historiography of new civilizations of mankind. It is not like the Riley civilization, but only some religious scriptures. In certain years, the emergence of some heroes, and the birth of certain ideologies, are truly valuable.

Many historians of new civilizations have begun to be enthusiastic about calculation, deduction, and verifying this discipline while predicting what the next step of this civilization should do.

Immediately afterwards, another geologist came to the stage and gave an important survey result: "Analysis of the Possibility Traces of the Enlightener Civilization on Tepstar".

This result directly aroused the interest of many people, and even Zhang Yuan was shocked.

Li Zhendong said on the side: "I can basically calculate the style of the enlightener civilization. They usually predict what difficulties a certain civilization will develop to a certain stage. Then, they will give a little help to this difficulty."

"As for whether this civilization can develop to this stage and overcome this level, it doesn't matter. The difficulties encountered by the Taipu civilization... are many, really many!"

"It should be like this." A deputy captain next door replied: "There are so many civilizations in the universe, how can we take care of them all?"

The same is true of the opinions of a large number of human scientists, so they focused on the difficulties faced by the Tep civilization.

First of all, in terms of civilization integration. Judging from the results, the Taipu civilization is completely divided, and more than a thousand countries have developed to this day, and there is no possibility of integration.

So it is believed that the enlightener civilization did not pay attention to this point, or that some measures had been taken, but it ultimately failed.

The second point is that industrial problems in high gravity environments, especially heavy industry, seem to be a bit difficult and slow to develop. Although they can build large airships and ships, the whole process took more than ten times the time for humans!

Originally, science and technology should have developed rapidly after the outbreak of the industrial revolution, but the Tep people found that the power of machines was not as powerful as traditional livestock. It took them hundreds of years to improve the steam engine.

"This question is easy to understand." An expert in machinery explained. "A simple example is a steam turbine, a rotary steam power plant. In different gravity environments, the flow direction of steam has a huge difference. The pressure flow needs to be changed to a flow gravity flow, and the impeller must also be changed accordingly to ensure the balance of the force."

The higher the gravity, the more difficult and complex it is for heavy industry.

The reason why heavy industry was moved to other low-gravity planets in the late stage of Earth civilization was because the low-gravity environment itself had its own advantages. For example, in a gravity-free environment, 3D printing of perfect metal products does not require welding in key areas, and the interface is directly cut and pressed flat together. This technology can be used for high-precision metal products or jewelry inlays, or for industrial production of integrated metal shells.

But on Earth, it is impossible to do this.

The gravity of Tepstar is far better than that of the earth. Various instruments can only be made very rough, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the performance is not high.

This is the second difficulty encountered by the Taipu civilization.

The third difficulty is that this large planet actually lacks rare earth elements!

This is almost a fatal blow to some cutting-edge industries!

"We investigated the technological system of the Taipu civilization and found that this planet lacks rare earths! Especially heavy rare earths!"

There are two types of rare earths, one is heavy rare earth and the other is light rare earth. Heavy rare earths are more important than light rare earths and are more valuable.

The land area of ​​this planet is far greater than that of the earth, but it actually lacks rare earth raw materials, which makes it difficult to get up to many materials.

The geologist played a simulation video of the natural birth of the planet on the screen and explained: "Why is rare earths lacking? It is mainly due to high gravity... As everyone knows, rare earths are mostly heavy elements with large atomic weight, which are easy to accumulate over time and sink to the underground core."

This planet is too big and has too much gravity, and it has existed for more than 5 billion years, which has caused a large number of heavy elements to sink to the ground. Therefore, the proportion of heavy rare earths in the crust is lower than that in the earth.

Then of course the Tep people were miserable.

Zhang Yuan sighed: "If this civilization can mine the core, then there is no shortage of rare earths, but the problem is that even we do not have such technology to mine the core, so of course they cannot."

In fact, in the crust of Tepstar, even the amount of gold, silver, copper and iron is even rarer. Fortunately, these are common minerals after all, and the base distributed on the surface is large and does not affect normal development.
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