Chapter 413

The metal sheets were turned over one by one. Except for the first one, which was centered on the artistic image of the starry sky, the rest were all small, exquisite texts and supporting pictures.

These texts were densely packed and looked a bit like Arabic, full of alien beauty.

"With more than 200 pages of images and text materials, and a lot of references, we should be able to come up with a specific translation, right?" asked Security Minister Xu Yunjin.

"Of course!"

An information science expert was busy transferring data to the computer, and he answered without looking back.

People have been studying the translation of alien texts for hundreds of years, and it is impossible to make a fool of themselves like before. In particular, with the steady rise of artificial intelligence, the new human civilization has translated many alien texts.

Some hibernating experts were also urgently awakened and rushed over with hungry stomachs. Seeing their sleepy expressions, Yu Yifeng scolded them again and asked them to run to the cafeteria to eat first and come back after they were full.

"These text images... should be similar to our Arabic numerals. Hey, their mathematics actually uses binary directly?! Amazing... Is this a symbol of calculus?

"It should be..."

"This is the coordinate axis and trigonometric function image... Is the image of genetic material just a single-chain structure? These images represent their biological development... The information is very comprehensive..."

"If it is a lower-level civilization, it would probably learn a lot from this information."

These experts input and rely on the images to draw certain conclusions. In fact, when they see these things for the first time, they almost understand them.

Images are always the easiest to understand, and mathematics is the universal language of the universe and the foundation of natural science.

A race that cannot learn mathematics will always be inferior and stupid.

"Wow! What is this, their portrait? Why does it look a bit like... It's hard to describe, a bit like an owl." A scientist exclaimed, immediately attracting a lot of attention.

"...The cylinder behind should be this detector, right? In contrast, the average height is two meters... I wonder if they can fly..."

The information in the gold-plated aluminum sheet is highly concentrated, and often a large amount of information is contained in an image, which needs to be interpreted by humans.

For example, their height is described in the form of binary code with the wavelength of the 21 cm spectrum line of hydrogen at 1420 MHz as a unit. And this spectrum line is the most widely distributed electromagnetic radiation spectrum line in the universe.

If the technology is not in place, there is no way to understand these hidden codes.

This feeling is a bit like the archaeology of the interstellar era, and it is like interpreting the code of Sherlock Holmes. It is an exchange across the long river of time.

Yu Yifeng listened to the various conclusions with interest, "Our interstellar history museum will add a cultural relic of an ancient civilization. ”

What happened to them in 150 million years?

Did they develop? Or did they decline?

The dim starry sky, the latter is more likely...

The world has changed so much, perhaps the entire civilization has completely declined, and even the planets have disappeared... Only this information is the complete witness of their existence...

The decline of civilization is the cruelest fact in the starry sky. No matter whether it is a great man or a commoner, they have all turned into a pile of yellow earth. In the vast starry sky, there is no trace of their existence.

This cruelty is difficult to describe in words. It is the end of a civilization. From then on, there will be no one to talk to.

It is unknown whether the declining civilization will be discovered by other civilizations.

But for the entire universe, what does your existence have to do with it?

Whether it is a K-level civilization or an L-level civilization, they will slowly age due to the increase of entropy. Nothing is eternal. .

When thinking of this, many people feel empty in their hearts, because people have witnessed the rise, glory, decline and destruction of civilization.

It slowly decayed, aged and died.

One day, humans will be like this. This is the eternal theme of the universe, from individuals to civilizations...

With the development of artificial intelligence technology, the translation system is no longer a big problem. After three days, with the complete input of data, the information has been basically translated.

More than two hundred metal sheets, like a condensed version of an encyclopedia, introduce the culture, history and science of the civilization in detail.

The metal disc is engraved with a simple information code that is easily deciphered by humans. People have specially made a translation reading device that will automatically display the read information on the screen.

The content inside is surprising.

"This is a gift from a distant, small world. It records our words, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and feelings..."

"We are trying to bring our past traces to the unknown you..."

"It has traveled through an inestimable amount of time and space and has been delivered to you. I wonder if you like this gift."

"If you are stronger than us... I'm sorry that in our despair, we chose to confide this pain to another unknown civilization that we will never meet."

"If you are weaker than us, I hope that our spark of wisdom can be passed on in the universe and will never be extinguished... At least, it can promote your development."

"We are the Turk civilization from the Sagittarius Arm. We don't know if we have been destroyed when you, the unknown, see this information."

"It is highly likely that we have been destroyed, but it is less likely that we have been reborn."

"Because we have observed that a supernova about to explode 168 light years away has already aligned its rotation axis with our planetary system."

"Sometimes, ignorance is also a kind of luck. We have worked hard to develop modern science, but we have observed such a sensational fact. We would rather not have science, otherwise we will go to destruction in ignorance and joy..."

"Unfortunately, if this supernova explodes completely, under the sweep of the gamma-ray burst, there will be no grass here, and no life will survive. We don't know when it will explode. Maybe it will explode in a thousand years, or maybe it has already exploded at this moment, but we haven't observed it."

"Even, in the next moment, we will all die."

"There is not much time left for us..."

"These ecosystems carry the simplest and most tenacious ecological chains. More than 95% of the microorganisms in them have genetic structures similar to our own."

"Due to the limitations of science and technology, I Our bodies may never be able to step into the starry sky. Our lifespan and navigation speed are far from reaching the level of interstellar navigation. But our genes can..."

"Put our genes in a glass bottle and throw it to a planet that seems to be able to support life. Maybe... we can still hear some echoes. Maybe there is no echo, but it doesn't matter... In the universe, we are not individuals, nor are we this group. We are just a set of unique genetic codes, a difficult code to decipher."

"This string of genetic codes will change, increase in value, and evolve. In the infinite time, we may be reborn on another planet in another way."

"Of course, the premise is that these microorganisms can reach that planet alive..."

"In short, we have tried our best. Whether this probe is captured by another intelligent civilization or falls on another planet that can support life. Our heritage is still left after all...either spirit or genes..."

"We look forward to it."

"Unknown civilization, if you decipher this text, it means that you have a higher level of wisdom. If you pick it up on your own planet. I'm sorry, maybe you are our descendants..."