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标 题: 科幻元素周期表:氟(消息)
发信站: 饮水思源 (Sun Apr 6 02:43:22 2003)
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科幻元素周期表——009氟(F,Fluorine,18.9984)
消息(The Message)
Michael Swanwick原著/SCIFI.COM连载/armrow编译
约翰·伯奇协会是正确的。添加氟化物确实是一种阴谋。然而,绝非是来自共X党人
士的。
牙膏,被证明是一种来自外太空的病毒。
在距我们异常遥远的地方,高度进化的外星人很久以前便探测到我们的存在了。由
于他们是如空气般纯洁的仁慈生物,因此他们决心尽其所能改善我们的生活。耗费了大
量的金钱后,他们发明出了异常微小的病毒使者,并将它们穿越空间发射过来。
这些尘埃在两颗星球间漂浮了上百万年。正如预料的那样,原始人类从非洲的草原
上出现了,并建立了文明社会。最终,到了二十世纪五十年代末、六十年代初时,病毒
使者到达了,从夜晚的天空中不被察觉地飘落下来。
毫微级计算机将自身释放出来。自然而然地在人类的大脑里展开了调查。经过一系
列似乎合乎逻辑的判断,氟化物被(它们)投入到饮用水中。
令人遗憾的是,外星生物很久以前便克服了它们那些低级的本能,因此它们完全忽
略了战争、种族歧视、侵略,以及所有我们人类自找的无数的灾难。这些事情它们很容
易就能消除,可是它们却对其毫未觉察。因此它们将这种自以为最珍贵的礼物赠送给了
我们。
添加氟化物的目的就是为了预防蛀牙。
2003年3月24日于太一斋
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9
F
Fluorine
18.9984
The Message
The John Birch Society was right. Fluoridation is a plot. Not of Communists,
however.
Toothpaste, it turns out, is a virus from outer space.
Impossibly distant, wonderfully evolved aliens detected our existence long
eons ago. Benevolent creatures of ethereal purity, they resolved to do what
they could to improve our lives. At enormous cost, they devised viral
messengers of great subtlety and launched them across the void.
For a million years, the dust floated between stars. Hominids emerged from
the African veldt and, as foreseen, built civilizations. Finally, in the
late 1950s and early 1960s, the viral messengers arrived, floating down
unnoticed from the night sky.
Nanomachines unpacked themselves. Insights spontaneously blossomed within
human brains. By a series of what seemed logical decisions, fluoride was
introduced into the drinking water.
Unfortunately, the aliens had conquered their baser instincts so long ago
that they had completely forgotten about war, racism, aggression, and all
the myriad woes we humans bring upon ourselves. These they could easily
have cured. But they knew nothing of them. So they gave us the greatest
gift they could think of.
The purpose of fluoridation is to prevent tooth decay.
The End
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