Wednesday, April 24, 2013

In the future on some happentrack.....


The time is 2725.
It is the Space System Era, after the 7th post-Industrial Revolution.
The text below -in bold- was decoded from the microdot read-only array removed from the brainstem of a dead cyborg-soldier of MURF (Martian Underground Resistance Fighters). Although the Martian population database is virtually complete, identity of the cyborg-soldier could not be uncovered. During battle, focused sonic pulses emitted at close range from a 1-meter long floatship damaged its mekkaronic systems decisively. In reaction, self-destruct redraw-nanobots randomly distributed  throughout every one of its chromosomes were activated, scrambling its entire DNA.
The text was originally in an archaic dialect of SySpeak which is no longer extant. This helped date its origin to approximately 500 years in the past. Translation is as follows:

Mission Statement of the Chimericus ManiFold

The insects, a genus 200 hundred million years older than mammals, predating even the dinosaurs who ruled the large animal world for 160 million, have evolved amazing adaptations, enabling them to survive cataclysmic climate changes that have driven many other species to extinction – dragonflies invented flight 380 million years ago and they are still here! We humans, by contrast, are a very young species. Our only advantage is that we have a brain-driven culture and for this reason we may yet surpass the insects. The greatest danger we face in the present era is the competitive instinct for war which we have inherited from our chimpanzee ancestors. Is it a coincidence that technological prowess is coupled to a propensity for organized violence in the human brain? Why did not the ability to model and manipulate objects emerge in a more pacific species? There are many such, even among the primates. Are we confronted by a cosmic test? Beyond the relatively thin envelope of air and water at the surface of the earth is an indifferent, hostile universe. It would take tremendous vision and technical power to spread life into this inhospitable realm. We human beings may be life’s first attempt. We may fail. DNA-based life as a whole has billions of years, it is doubtful our species has that much time. In thousands of years at most, human beings will have a shot at living beyond the mother planet. To get there will be a long and arduous climb. Mistakes will be made, lessons will have to be learned, knowledge accumulated, new directions tried, generations unborn may have to undergo genetic alteration, but there is a chance that human beings will make it. This possibility was not open to those who lived a thousand years ago; in retrospect, however, we can see that they, or rather we, had the potential.
In every generation henceforth, there shall be those who dedicate their lives towards this great dream. Who must play the cards they are dealt with, of talent and circumstance, to the utmost of their skill, not for themselves, nor for their tribe, but to keep this possibility alive: a better humanity that can step out to the stars!


A search carried out in System InfoSpace and Classified Archives did not turn up any organization called the Chimericus ManiFold in the timespan minus 500 years to the present. This suggests, with probability of over 99%, that the text is a fictional construct. No further resources need be expended on it. The case is closed.    

2 comments:

  1. This guy feels competitive towards insects.

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  2. 从此以后,在地球上每一代有才能的年轻人必要决心努力把毕生的事业放入这个大梦想写文章.

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