After lunch, the Senior Scientists returned to their seats with pale, worried faces. No matter how you looked at it, they would eventually have to face the final, brutal truth of the Great Filter.
The conference resumed, diving into the next chapter of the Nix Civilization's history.
Great Sage Oppenheimer's mass-energy equivalence equation, E=mc^2 , fundamentally solved the Nix people's energy crisis. It was a breakthrough far more powerful than the discovery of electricity!
Nuclear power plants appeared, bringing an unprecedented abundance of electricity. Nuclear reactors made their world richer and more peaceful. For the first time, the Nix didn't have to wage life-or-death struggles over active volcanic zones, and the endless wars that had raged since antiquity were finally extinguished. Nuclear energy could easily support a massive population explosion!
At the time, their surface uranium reserves were enough to supply the Nix for 100,000 years!
