Planet Earth on an Extended Mission
?Planet Earth, can you hear me? This is your control organ on the line. Pray do ascertain that you don’t run out of resources during your extended mission duration!
From our gauges we can clearly read that you exceed the performance of your life support system. You are risking an anticipated oxygen depletion from your atmosphere, if you continue with infrastructure projects at the cost of photosynthesis plants.
Also we noticed a severe issue with your thermal control system. Planet Earth, we must strictly warn you not to destabilise the well-configured atmospheric gas composition that ideally balances the radiative energy exchange.
Your power subsystem is also in a poor condition, since you depleted most of your energy resources, without tapping sufficient regenerative or photovoltaic power from your central fusion reactor, the Sun.
And finally, Planet Earth, we are very worried about your crew health. We regretfully detected that large proportions of your specimen have drastically declined due to severe maltreatment and even violence. Planet Earth, this is strictly against any cosmic ecological and biological ethics and legislation.
We hope that your attitude control system has no degraded pointing stability, so that you may not loose contact with your guidance organ, in which case you may completely dismiss your moral compass.
These are existential threats, Planet Earth, that we urge you to take seriously and to address and solve. Otherwise your mission duration will be very limited and you risk a premature and catastrophic end, before you can reach your landing point, our safe haven.”
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5 个月Planet Earth replies... I appreciate your analysis, Dr. Koebel, in fact you don't know how welcome it is at this point in my history. Of course, it covers only a very tiny period in my existence. Everything was going great in our (the Universe) plotting for the establishment of the development of life. The first experiments on other faraway planets turned out to be very successful and we thought that giving life the capability of self-control powered with intellect would produce a body of life that would greatly improve biological existence. However, it looks like we may have screwed up with a species that can't control it's reproduction and can't seem to understand the necessity of maintenance of a controlled biological environment. Now, the galactic committee for intelligent biological evolution, recommended that Earth eliminate this experimental venture in self-control of life through intelligent evolution. But planet Earth came to the conclusion that there is more that we can learn more about intelligent life by allowing the human species to either survive and thrive, or lose its existence through inter-specific warfare. Thus the experiment continues. PE