Chapter 249: Human Footprints
The Tennessee case over evolution lived up to expectations, with a final ruling by the Supreme Court of the Confederate States of America, which historically declared "banning the spread of evolution in public schools" unconstitutional. , with you all the way! Believers have no choice but to pin their hopes on the next goal - to demand legislation that will give the study of Christianity as much importance as evolution.
There are also believers who incorporate resentment into practical actions, such as: a miner in California dug up a skull, put it in a relatively old formation, and then reported it to the California Academy of Sciences, trying to spoof, but unfortunately, it is difficult for archaeologists at this time to be fooled, through the detection of guò carbon-14, it is easy to find this miner's prank.
The British Museum, funded by Downing, spends a huge amount of money every year in its quest to make progress in anthropology, and their most creative move is to find mining companies around the world to work with them, asking their miners to report to the British Museum as soon as they dig up animal and human fossils. Thanks to the large number of skulls collected by anthropologists at the British Museum, a large number of skulls have been able to sketch out the possible routes of hominids from East Africa to the rest of the world.
Animals naturally have adventure genes, especially warm-blooded animals. Their ancestors are cold-blooded animals, their bodies can not withstand hypothermia in cold areas, but ferocious predators force them to take refuge in cold areas, in the process, animals that can raise body temperature by muscle movement gradually gain new survival advantages, and cold areas will harm the eggs of primitive warm-blooded animals, so some warm-blooded animals began to evolve the habit of incubating eggs in the body before giving birth, which is the origin of viviparous animals.
The common ancestor of mankind is called "Homo sapiens", and about 200,000 years ago, they lived in a vast warm area from southern to eastern Africa, and due to factors such as climate changes and the pressure of intra-ethnic competition, some primitive adventurers began to travel along the African side of the Red Sea coastline to the Egyptian region of North Africa.
The habit of migrating along the coastline is important because it is the only way to cross the Sahara Desert, which represents the forbidden area of life. After arriving in Egypt, the first major divergence of the migration route took place, some of which naturally went to the North African coast of the Mediterranean, and the other to the Arabian Peninsula, about 100,000 years ago.
The second route diverged in Syria on the Arabian Peninsula, with one group moving north along the Mediterranean Sea and into Europe via Turkey, where Homo sapiens was widely distributed to the continent about 40,000 years ago. Another group of Homo sapiens went eastward, through Eastern Europe, West Asia, and Central Asia, and entered the Indian subcontinent 70,000 years ago, and forked again in the process of eastward expansion, and one went south into Southeast Asia, where it seems that the archipelago is dense, and the straits are staggered, but this one actually ran relatively fast, 50,000 years ago through the Malay Archipelago into the Australian mainland, and the reason for its diffusion speed is because the sea level at that time was about 150 meters lower than now, which greatly facilitated the migration of primitive people.
A migratory army that branched north in Southeast Asia spread throughout Chinese mainland, separated in China's Bohai Bay region 25,000 years ago, one went northwest into North Asia, while the other entered the Siberian Far East along the northeast, experienced the test of severe cold, and the expeditionary force crossed the snow-covered Bering Strait and finally set foot on the North American continent. It will be the most spectacular migration of the Americas on Earth, in the almost impassable region of Alaska, in the bitterly cold, high snow-capped mountains, 15,000 years ago. Once again, Homo sapiens used the coastline for his most tenacious travel, making his journey south along the west coasts of Alaska, Canada, and the United States, conquering North America 12,000 years ago.
At this time, there was nothing to stop the human conquest of the whole of America, and almost at the same time as the conquest of North America, the migratory army of primitive people quickly moved south, passed through the narrow passage of Panama, came to the South American continent, and quickly conquered the whole of South America along the west coast of South America, until the southernmost point of Argentina. This great migration from East Africa to Argentina was one of the most magnificent in the history of animal migration, and only humans who had their intelligence swept away a moat could have done it.
When a clear road map of the migration of primitive man was published in Nature, Downing, once again inspired by the greatness of wisdom, decided to recreate the journey of "then" human ancestors to conquer the world, and to retrace the most magnificent migration route of mankind with the Siberian artery scheme, which had just been proven by experimental routes.
Of course, the Siberian artery still had to be built, but due to the extremely low-cost nature of such a transportation route, Downing decided to build a super "great artery of the earth". It emerges from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, passes through the eastern coastline of Africa in Mozambique, Tanzania, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt and other countries, passes through the northern Arabian Peninsula, the two river basins of Central Asia, India, enters Yunnan in China from Myanmar, and then enters Siberia in Guizhou, Hubei, Henan, Hebei, and Northeast China, and goes north along the coast of Siberia to the Bering Strait, the west coast of Alaska, Canada, and the United States, Mexico, Central American countries, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Argentina.
The earth's land artery is about 30,000 kilometers long, and it is expected to use 600 large windmills to power it, with the core factory in Sapporo, Hokkaido as the center, leading to two construction routes, one from the northeast into China, and the other along the north of Siberia, the estimated construction time is 50 kilometers per day in each construction direction, a total of 100 kilometers in both directions, and the whole journey of 30,000 kilometers only takes 300 days!
Including the 70 days of the Siberian artery, it is only 370 days. This is the miracle of transportation history that is free from tunnels, bridges, and detours. The main artery of the earth passes through 24 national-level regions, and the "Human Footprint Company" has submitted an application to the political or colonial government of these 24 countries, of course, to a warring country like Russia, which is a "notice", Russia is the only country that says cool and strange things to the Human Footprint Company, while the Great Qing State has a ** attitude, noncommittal, Li Hongzhang is not a fool, he knows that if he wrestles with Windsor imperialism in this matter, it is likely to provoke the Tang Emperor.
"Human Footprint Company" is a strange name, and people may think that the main artery of the earth is a transportation artery built to develop the economy. Downing may have been like this when he conceived the Siberian artery, but when the scale scales globally, the flavor of the project is different.
As mentioned earlier, competition within the human population may have been the biggest factor in the abandonment of the homeland of primitive adventurers into danger and the unknown, and this principle still holds true to this day. Humans are the ultimate predators over apex predators such as golden eagles, African lions, Siberian tigers, polar bears, killer whales, etc., and only their own competition within the population is the most brutal competition.
You may develop the human economy with great goodwill towards humanity as a whole, but this does not mean that those primitive African tribes will be grateful to you, or even that they hate you the most, because you have made them realize what it means to be backward, poor, and ignorant. Therefore, it is not Downing's job to help all mankind get rich at all, only some people who can talk about it will benefit from the strength of the Windsor Empire. Human Footprint's Artery of the Earth is built with this in mind, and it is a selective project built with this in mind.
Human Footprint is not a good guy company, it's an organization that calls friends. The principle of the whole route is not to pass through human settlements, preferably in no-man's land. This strange setting is to make the whole route full of exotic mysticism, it will pass through beautiful mountains, canyons, rivers, and countless birds, animals, and insects along the way. It's -- it's free.
Free is also a business model, and it is a future-oriented business model, which includes several parts: first, transportation; the second is food; The third is accommodation. Therefore, free transportation does not mean that you can go on the road without a coil, and Footprints deliberately avoids human settlements precisely to attract tourists by free and monopolize commercial facilities such as food, accommodation, and souvenirs.
The footprint company will enclose a closed commercial area in a no-man's land, and lease the real estate to business owners in the form of a one-year visa, and there are all kinds of restaurants, hotels, and shops. This is the purest tourist city in the world, and it will even give priority to building in the depths of the primeval forest, the core of the reckless steppe, the middle of the isolated island in the lake, and the halfway up the mountainside, in order to realistically simulate the wild age enjoyed by the primitive ancestors. Since cable airships can fly freely at any time without cables, these wild landings don't need to be built on the perimeter of the main line, they can be very far away.
Capable of transporting up to 150 passengers and with plenty of space, the Blue Whale is the most luxurious and comfortable travel vehicle in the world, with stops along fixed routes and stops. If you want more freedom, you'll have to buy a VIP seat, which allows you to get off the fixed route and travel freely in a Beluga-class airship. The most luxurious trips can be made by renting an airship.
Tangning is confident that he will make a fortune by monopolizing the real estate of the "tourist city" and earn back all the investment. And this is just one branch of big business. And, of course, the huge transportation capacity of the Blue Whale-class airship, which can be called the "air train".
The business of wholesale supermarkets will expand strongly with the "human footprint" to major countries, first 24 countries, and then to five continents. The Wind Island mail order company will also be able to penetrate because of the revolutionary cheap shipping rates of the world's land transportation arteries. From the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa to the Strait of Magellan in Chile about 6,000 kilometers, with a speed of 25 kilometers per hour, it takes 240 hours, by land it is the farthest distance of the earth's artery, 30,000 kilometers, it takes 300 hours, this is the most extreme sea and the comparison of land transportation in the era of the main artery, it is almost the same, and the main artery that is purely powered by windmills basically does not need fuel, and the traditional steam ship of 6,000 kilometers needs to consume a lot of coal, which shows the logistics power of the main artery.
As for the logistics within the continents, it is even more advantageous, except for Russia, China, the United States, Canada, Chile and other strange countries, almost all of them are within the "24-hour economic circle" of the air train.
In order to show the grace of the Windsor consortium, Footprints will pay 5% of the annual profits to the local government of 24 countries as a toll, but this friendly gesture is said by people with ulterior motives to "how can you occupy the land of other countries and set a super low toll by yourself?" "I'm sorry, our Windsor Empire is so domineering. (http://.)。 Just like Britain and France set the tariff for the Qing Dynasty at 5 percent of 100.
What should I do if the Windsor consortium cheats tax evasion? I'm sorry, but there really isn't a way to deal with it in my country. Every foothold located in a no-man's land is located in the depths of mountains, waters, forests, etc., and cannot be approached without an air force, and each of these cities is guarded by helicopter battle formations, which is equivalent to an air base and a military fortress wherever the main artery passes.
Most of the countries through which the artery passes are countries friendly to the Windsor consortium, such as South Africa, Israel, India, Alaska, Canada, California, Central and South America, and the Qing Dynasty is a master of Li with a certain amount of political wisdom, and it is impossible not to know the consequences of provoking the Windsor Great.
At this time, Africa was still largely indigenous territory, and even in South Africa, the British colonizers only occupied a small part of the south. The entire human footprint seems to be the only possible way for Russian partisans to harass the strongholds. Therefore, the Far Eastern coast was a place to be heavily guarded, and fortunately, the Japanese attached great importance to this transportation line, and there was a large supply of troops.