The wait of more than half a month was agonizing. For the first time, people felt that the speed of light was frustratingly slow. A simple round-trip message took over ten days...
During this agonizing period, a frenzy of debate surrounding the "Dark Forest Theory" swept through the Noah. People obsessively analyzed the theory, desperate to find logical loopholes and calculate the actual probability of humanity going to war with the approaching alien vessel.
"The Dark Forest Theory relies on several strict prerequisites: an unbreakable chain of suspicion, the fact that destroying a civilization is easier than communicating with it, sudden technological explosions, and the existence of world-ending weaponry. However, I believe the core flaw in the theory is the assumption regarding the density of interstellar civilizations!"
