More than 200 years ago, the international political situation on earth was chaotic and the ecological environment was in devastation.
Perhaps people living under the federal system now have a hard time imagining that terrible scenario.
Because at that time, the concept of a "community with a shared future for mankind" had just begun to take shape, and the entire world was still shrouded in the haze of the so-called "Third World War."
But in the end the war didn't happen.
Just like the "Spanish Flu" 350 years ago that ended the First World War early.
About 150 years ago, the intensifying ecological crisis also led to the formation of a global value system.
This value is the concept of "a community with a shared future for mankind". It aims to respond to the common challenges of mankind and has gradually gained international consensus.
Between 1918 and 1919, the "Spanish Flu" infected one-third of the world's population. Conservative estimates put the death toll at as many as 40 million, more than those who died in World War I.
In the 21st century 150 years ago, the world was also facing changes unseen in a century.
Political multipolarization, economic globalization, cultural diversification and social informatization trends have become irreversible since the end of the 20th century.
With the increasing integration of economy and culture, the connections and dependence between countries are gradually deepening.
Behind the glamour, there is population explosion, climate change, environmental pollution and resource shortages.
At the same time, non-traditional security issues around the world, such as food security, disease epidemics and transnational crimes, are emerging one after another, posing severe challenges to the international order and human survival.
No matter which country or region people are in, what philosophy they hold, or whether they are willing or not. In fact, at that moment, everyone was already in a community of destiny.
What was the world like at that time?
Violently infectious viruses with biosafety levels exceeding level 4 are constantly mutating, earthquakes, wildfires, insect plagues have appeared successively in various places, and regional armed conflicts are escalating...
It's all crowded and weird enough. It looks full of doomsday, making people uneasy and frightened. It reminds people of the great flood that destroyed the world at the beginning of creation.
The international community needs to face these global problems together, and no country or person can be immune to them alone.
Because survival is the common interest of mankind.
And this interest is under unprecedented threat.
Finally, under international consensus, a global political community—the Earth Federation—came into being.
The rare peace has promoted economic development and accelerated cultural integration. Ultimately, it led to a transformation in the global political landscape.
After the loose federation was established in accordance with the "Regional High Level Autonomy Act", it eliminated most of the regional armed conflicts and accelerated the disarmament process worldwide.
When the manpower, financial and material resources saved from armament were invested in other fields, it wildly stimulated the economic and technological take-off.
Then people were surprised to discover that the steel behemoth of war turned out to be the most expensive steam locomotive.
And when the train stops, the remaining "fuel" is almost beyond people's imagination.
In addition to aerospace, basic physics and biological sciences, the relevant fields that will benefit also include the research and development and application of many practical technologies.
Scientific and technological progress feeds back into society and then transforms into productivity, spawning a series of military-to-civilian facilities.
The federal real-time forum "FS Community" is a typical representative.
At that time, the official common languages of the Earth Federation Government were English and Chinese, and most international conventions still continued the English signs from the old century.
The Federal Instant Forum is UNIM-BBS, which is the abbreviation of the United Nations Instant Messaging Bulletin Board System.
BBS is a forum, which translated into Chinese is "electronic bulletin board system".
Forums first appeared hundreds of years ago in the old century and were used to publish information such as stock market prices. They did not even have basic file transfer functions. Early forums were of the same nature as general bulletin boards, except that they spread or obtained information through the Internet.
But later on, people could not only obtain the latest information at any time through the BBS system, but also discuss various interesting topics with others through the BBS system. They could even use the BBS system to post announcements and invite more people to participate. discuss.
After a certain stage of development, BBS was based on the early forum system and finally formed into the current community collection platform - "Federal Instant Forum".
Among the federal real-time forums, the "FS Community" has the widest range of users.
FS is the abbreviation of Femtosecond, also called femtosecond, which is a unit of measurement for measuring the length of time.
In the measurement rules expressed in Chinese, millimeter, micro, nanometer, and picometer are separated by a thousand times.
1 second = 1000 milliseconds, 1 millisecond = 1000 microseconds, 1 microsecond = 1000 nanoseconds, 1 nanosecond = 1000 picoseconds. By analogy, after picoseconds there are femtoseconds, deciseconds, unitary seconds, microseconds, etc.
The time interval represented by the smallest "microsecond" is unimaginably short, only one billionth of a billionth of a second. It is a tool used in microphysics to time instantaneous events.
So a femtosecond, which is a quadrillionth of a second. A femtosecond is only one quadrillionth of a second.
Even at a speed of 300,000 kilometers per second, light can only travel 0.3 microns in one femtosecond, less than one hundredth of a human hair.
The identity of the founder of "FS Community" is mysterious and he never appears in public.
Some people speculate that the reason why he named it this way is because "femtosecond" symbolizes the ever-changing information age.
There are also those who firmly believe that he is a cutting-edge physicist.
Because someone discovered that in the field of pressure sensing, %FS represents accuracy and percentage of full scale.
It is also because femtoseconds have been associated with many emerging practical technologies in the past century.
For example, a more peculiar laser, the femtosecond laser, was discovered in the laboratory a hundred years ago. It emits huge power in an instant, which is greater than the total power generated in the world.
Media people once said that this is enough to inspire and guide the direction of new energy generation.
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The instant messaging forum later developed and integrated the IM developer community in the early years, which was the most popular instant messaging method on the Internet at that time - Instant Messaging.
Later, it was lucky enough to catch up with the global satellite communication network "Teledesic II", which is a real information highway. From the perspective of computer network engineering applications, BBS applies different modules to share logical components, and implements a feasible C/S architecture through programming. Using the software system architecture between the client and the server, making full use of the advantages of the hardware environment at both ends, the tasks are reasonably allocated to the two terminals, speeding up the flow of information, and reducing the system operating overhead...
Slowly, the Federal Real-time Forum rose rapidly and gradually became one of the oligarchs in the international information exchange platform.
