不定项选择题 Personally, I have always been driven by the desire understand something new about the universe that would change our cosmic perspective and stimulate our aspirations for space. I assign meaning to my life by using the spectator perspective of an astronomer to motivate new challenges for our civilization on the cosmic stage. Given our many engineering accomplishments on Earth, a broader perspective could lead us to develop new technologies and modify our larger habitat through “space engineering”.
Among all astronomical data, the discovery of alien life could have the greatest impact on our broad outlook. The first traces of primitive life might be found as soon as the NASA and ESA rovers excavate the surface of Mars in 2021. In parallel, enigmatic signals or artificial infrastructure produced by technological civilization might be detected remotely from a much larger search volume through “space archaeology”.
A hypothetical example for a revelation that would assign new meaning to our existence is the finding that life was planted artificially Earth by another civilization. After all my colleagues at Harvard are getting close to producing synthetic life in the laboratory, and once they do so, exporting it on a spacecraft could be a simple matter. If we originated from such a process of directed panspermia then our life’s purpose must have been defined in the blueprint of the technological project that led to our synthetic origins. We were produced to address a goal. If so what was the purpose and have we fulfilled exasperation?
But even in the more likely case that life was the random outcome of natural circumstances in a soup of chemicals on isolated Earth, we might acquire a new meaning for it thanks to a communication from another civilization. If we ever establish contact with another intelligence species, the new perspective that it will bring could change our outlook. It is likely that we are not the smartest kid on the block. Since their scientific research and development could have lasted billions of years. A factor of 10 million longer than ours, the main benefit from an encounter with superior beings would be the opportunity to ask them the fundamental question that had been bothering us for ages “What’s the meaning of life?” I hope to live long enough and be around for their answer, stemming from numerous millenarian of acquired scientific knowledge. But at the same time, I worry that the response will be dead silence because they have not figured out the answer yet.
Which statement below is incorrect? ( )

A A broader perspective could lead us to develop new technology and modify our larger habitat through “space engineering”.

B Colleagues of the author’s at Harvard produced synthetic in the laboratory and will export it on a spacecraft.

C The influence of individuals is negligible on the cosmic scale.

D Within the next decade, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will deliver 500 petabytes of images from our cosmic environment.