Genius Club

Chapter 755

Chapter 755: Chapter 6 Big Face Cat, CC, Old Friends!

(Monthly ticket extra update!)_6 Chapter 755: Chapter 6 Big Face Cat, CC, Old Friends!

(Monthly ticket extra update!)_6 Wei Shengjin turned his head in confusion, looked at Lin Xian:

“Are you trying to comfort me, Lin Xian?

Hahaha...

you worry too much.

At my age, why would I get disheartened over such a trivial matter?

Hahaha...

...

But still, thank you, I was just too tired earlier, momentarily at a loss for words.

After all, I am 70 years old; I can’t compare with you young folks in terms of physical strength.”

Wei Shengjin picked up his water bottle, and gulped down a few sips, then with a chuckle, handed it to Lin Xian.

Seeing the good spirits of this 70-year-old chasing his youthful dreams, Lin Xian also felt relieved and waved his hand to show he wasn’t thirsty.

Then he stepped forward, sat on the newly unearthed Hafnium Alloy Safe, and together with Wei Shengjin, looked towards the deep forest:

“Old Wei, I have some historical questions I’d like to ask.”

“Ah, why so formal all the time, Lin Xian.”

Wei Shengjin waved his hand:

“You really haven’t adjusted to this era yet, making me feel a bit constrained.

You don’t need to keep calling me ‘old,’ just call me Wei Shengjin like you call me by my full name!”

“Um...”

Lin Xian decided to skip the formalities and dive straight into the main topic:

“I want to ask two questions, the first one is...”

“[Why in 2400 A.D., after the super disaster, when Jask came from Mars to pick people up, everyone left without hesitation?

Lin Xian nodded his head.

He continued:

“Exactly, that’s the second question I wanted to ask——”

“[You mentioned before that in 2500 A.D., after the last fleet of Martian immigrant ships left, there were still several million, or even tens of millions of people who chose to stay on Earth.

Now, over a hundred years have passed and there is some degree of knowledge preservation, why hasn’t it developed to the stage of industrial civilization?]”

Wei Shengjin screwed on the cap of his water bottle.

He placed it aside.

He continued to explain to Lin Xian:

“100 years is indeed a long time, sufficient for a technological leap.

But it requires that the population be sufficiently concentrated and that knowledge and basic equipment can be sustained.

“Space-T’s space ships took decades to evacuate everyone from Earth willing to leave; the remaining people, aside from some die-hard individuals, mostly had various physical ailments that prevented them from traveling in space or adapting to a weightless environment for long periods.”

“To say that the remaining ones were the old, weak, sick, and disabled is no exaggeration; under such preconditions, with the population also being severely fragmented, it’s hard to truly unite.

Managing to gather even tens of thousands into a large organization is already significant.”

“But then...

with a population of only tens of thousands, including old and young, what can you achieve in industrial development?

It would be quite an achievement to maintain an agricultural economy.

Thus, after over a hundred years of reproduction, the total human population on Earth breaking past 30 million and advancing to a medieval level of living is already a miracle.”

“The explosion of civilization and technology indeed comes swiftly, but no civilization can experience a sudden, unearned technological explosion.

Each industrial revolution seems rapid, but it is actually the culmination of centuries of accumulation.”

“This form of accumulation isn’t just in knowledge and basic equipment but more so in talent, even ‘geniuses.’ Only geniuses truly drive historical progress, and with the population base being what it is, over just a hundred years spanning a few generations, the probability of a genius emerging is incredibly small.”

“You might not believe it, but even with nearly a thousand years gone by, Einstein, Newton, and Gauss are still listed as geniuses in children’s textbooks today...

in fact, there was more than a hundred years between Newton and Gauss; and another hundred between Gauss and Einstein.”