The "forbidden zone for humans", as the name suggests, is the area where humans are not allowed to enter.
Some of these places are terrible, some are dangerous, some have a long history, some are inaccessible, and some are even life-threatening...
Artificial Forbidden Zone: "Dome of Doom"
If humanity is nearly extinct, how can the last tinder be preserved?
The seeds of all the crops on earth can perpetuate civilization.
Near Longyearbyen, norway, the northernmost town on Earth and the loneliest city in the world, there is an international seed bank, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which Norwegians call the "Dome of Doom".
The seed bank is far from the crowd, hidden deep under the permafrost, like a huge refrigerator of pure nature, standing in a deserted area that is inaccessible, with millions of seed samples, silently guarding the last line of defense of mankind.
In order to protect the seeds, this area is of course not allowed to be visited by humans at will. But then again, even the nearby City of Longyearbyen is not an ordinary place—
In Longyearbyen, if you are sick or old, you need to leave early, go to other places for treatment, and are not allowed to die in the city; at the same time, there are no children in the city, and pregnant women must go to other places to give birth before they can return.
No death, no procreation, seemingly impersonal rules protect the frozen soil under the city, but also guard the future of mankind:
The frozen soil keeps buried bodies from decaying and germs from dying. Once harmful bacteria are infested, they will have unintended and serious consequences.
Civilized Forbidden Zone: "The Last Island"
In 2018, American tourist John Chau stumbled into an island and was killed directly by local natives.
The island is the Northern Sentinel Island in India, where the indigenous Santinel people have lived on the island for 6,000 years (another 60,000 years), and they live by hunting, fishing, and picking wild fruits, and never have contact with the outside world.
The island has beautiful scenery and has not developed into a tourist attraction, but has become a forbidden area for human beings, mainly for two reasons.
One is because of the xenophobia of the Santinells. If a plane appeared over the island, all the natives would go out and throw stones and wooden arrows into the sky to drive away the invaders.
The second is because of the Indian government's warning: it is strictly forbidden to enter the island, and it is likely to lose life without any reason, and the consequences are at your own risk.
Here we have to talk about why the attitude of both sides is like this.
In the 19th century, the First Successful Exploration of Northern Sentinel Island was the first time, when the Santinels were not extremely xenophobic, and there were even other "tribes" of indigenous people on the island. However, modern humans carry a virus that the indigenous people cannot bear, which directly led to the extinction of two tribes.
For indigenous people, outsiders are mortal danger, which is why they attack indiscriminately.
The Indian government said that on the one hand, the policy is to protect the residents of the island from being disturbed, and on the other hand, to avoid unnecessary armed conflict, because the island's residents are not friendly to outsiders, so it is very dangerous to rush closer.
Legend Forbidden Zone: "Pluto's Gate"
In Roman legend, the Gate of Pluto is the gate to hell. When scientists found a door in the ancient city of Hierapolis in Turkey that could kill people and had the Greek word "Puluto" inscribed on the lintel, they gave it the name "Gate of Pluto" without much thought.
This place has become a forbidden area for humans because as soon as they approach the gate, humans will feel suffocated - there have been several careless tourists who have suffocated for no reason while entering the door and died on the spot!
Later, scientists measured the gas near the gate and found that the carbon dioxide here was seriously exceeded. During the day, when night falls, carbon dioxide will converge at a low place to form a "field of death".
The hard-to-dissipate carbon dioxide undoubtedly casts a mysterious and terrifying veil here, researcher Austin Considine explains:
"The 'Gates of Hell' is actually a natural phenomenon, an opening in the earth's crust, like a cave, emitting a foul odor and poisonous gases."
In short, don't get too close.
Bio Forbidden Zone: "Snake Island"
On the island of Ilha da Queimada Grande in the Atlantic Ocean, there are at least 4,000 deadly golden spearhead pit vipers, hence the name "Snake Island" – a place that sounds like a martial arts novel setting, but is actually real.
However, don't think that you can run rampant on this island by drinking Xionghuang wine.
In addition to encountering deadly venomous snakes every three steps, you'll also encounter oversized sized locusts and cockroaches. For the golden spearhead viper, bugs are food; for humans, the giant cockroach, which is more disgusting than the flying southern cockroach, is the end of the world...
Snake Island was set up as a no-go zone for humans, partly to protect endangered vipers from poachers, and on the other hand, perhaps to protect the fragile minds of humanity...
Forbidden Zone for the Dead – The Catacombs
The catacombs in Paris should be the most forbidden areas: dark basements, mountains of human skeletons, and at the entrance to the tomb, warning signs from the 18th-century French poet Delaire —
"Stop! This is the land of the dead."
Originally a quarry, the catacombs were reduced from quarries to tombs, mainly because of a plague at the end of the 17th century.
At that time, more than 200,000 people died of the plague throughout Paris, and there was no place to bury the corpses, so the government urgently transformed the underground quarry and disposed of thousands of corpses and piled them together.
Today, the catacombs are about 280 kilometers long and contain about 6-7 million skeletons, more than three times the population of Paris today...
By the way, the catacombs are allowed to be visited by tourists, but only a very small part of the outside world is open, and more places are still absolutely forbidden areas for humans, if they are trapped in it and can't get out, they can be less fierce...
In addition to the above types of different types of forbidden areas, there are some that can be classified and summarized.
For example, the Italian island of Povilia, the new home island of Hawaii and the North Brother Island of the United States have all become forbidden areas like the "Cursed Island" due to the outbreak of the plague.
Another example is the famous U.S. Area 51, Russia's Metro-2 D6 line and the Vatican Secret Archives, which are "no snooping" forbidden areas imposed by the state apparatus.
Oh, and there's one of the most special. Take, for example, the Lascaux Cave in the Vézère Gorge in France, which is not dangerous, does not involve the maintenance of state secrets, and has no animals and indigenous peoples to protect, only beautiful frescoes on the wall depicting the life of primitive humans 15,000 years ago.
So, why did it become a forbidden area?
Originally, due to the lack of restrictions and protection, Lascaux Caves received thousands of visitors a day at the beginning of its development. The carbon dioxide exhaled by humans has severely damaged the mural, causing irreversible damage.
Later, in order to prevent the fresco from continuing to be destroyed, the French government made it a forbidden area in 1963, allowing only a few researchers to enter.
Human beings are indeed creatures standing at the top of the food chain, and human footsteps have long been everywhere on the earth. But I think that in addition to the unscrupulousness of the earth, we should still have a sense of awe.
The coronavirus that is ravaging the world and the extreme weather brought about by global warming are reminding us not to try to break the rules, let alone try to conquer everything.
In the face of certain forbidden areas, do not just try to test. Only by stopping one's deeds can one attain true freedom.
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