844 Ten Thousand Dollar Reward (1/2)
That evening, the Coro University forum was already filled with keywords related to the incomprehensible open elective course ”Cosmology”.
Many students filmed the class and uploaded it to the the forum, their personal profiles, and even social media sites such as YouTube. The videorose to top of trending on Future 1.0, Weibo, and other major social media sites.
”Cosmology? This is certainly new!”
”Future Group is going to heaven!”
”Being next to the Sun!”
”Extraterrestrial civilization? This subject is so simple! It must be... Dark Forest! Ten thousand dollars for me!”
”It seems that the space colonization plan announced by Celestial Trade is not fake after all, and even the most obscure extraterrestrial civilization exploration has been established as a research topic. If it is not a one-way ticket, I would like to try it out.”
Compared to the heated debate on the Internet, many news media have also made similar headlines filled with clickbait on this issue.
Rich professor driving Lamborghini is teaching a course? Who made the university become a profit-orientated place?
Homework, and the reward is 10,000 USD! The most expensive homework in history!
The study of extraterrestrial civilization becomes a Celestial Trade project? Is it an illusion or the hope of conquering the starry night?
Unexpected information revealed in the class, more details of the Celestial Trade space colonization plan were exposed...
”Up to today at noon, the number of applicants for space volunteer immigration has doubled from the previous month. If we do not expand the space training base, I am afraid that the training facility will be jam-packed. Should we not temporarily close to the public?” Kelvin proposed.
”No,” Jiang Chen shook his head. ”If you don't have enough money, apply to the Finance Department. The initial stage of the space industry is a money-losing project. Don't worry too much about this. As long as every penny is spent at the right place, you don't have to be polite with me.”
”Yes,” Kelvin was relieved and nodded.
To be honest, his team was the only one that constantly lost money in the entire group, and the losses have been particularly severe. They were all spending billions of dollars! Although Jiang Chen has been telling him not to worry about money, and focus on building the space elevator, but to say that there is no psychological burden would be absolutely impossible.
After Kelvin's departure, Jiang Chen set aside his work paper, opened the watch, clicked the mailbox, and browsed the assignments submitted by his students.
Perhaps because of the ten thousand dollar in reward, the assignment students turned in were all top quality! Especially Asian students studying abroad with inheritance to the academic culture easily wrote hundreds of thousands of words and cited dozens of articles. Finally, they wrote their own conclusions and attached a thank you note for the professor's hard work.
While Jiang Chen was moved by their effort, he was also embarrassed.
It was his negligence that he should have told the students that they only needed to make a conjecture. There was no need to write a lot of proof at all. Because this kind of problem has never happened before, even if they referenced many other people's literature, they could not conclude with an definitive answer.
He just wanted to take this opportunity to understand what opinions most people have on contact with aliens.
After all the papers have been searched, all the main ideas of each paper were outlined and sorted based on rules.
From a total of 1,173 papers, Jiang Chen surprisingly received 87 different perspectives.
Perhaps influenced by the political correctness common to western society, many students from the West, especially Western European students, put forward ideas that could be defined as Social Justice Warriors.