Son of the Stars

Chapter 149 Vibration
Compared with the... creepy surprise brought by Director Li Xiaohui's hypothesis, Tang Qinglong was more concerned about the solution.

There are a lot of creepy things in this world, but not everything needs a fourth-level academician to think about it carefully.

If you want to confirm Li Xiaohui's hypothesis, you first need the participation of a large group of historians and anthropologists. Secondly, you need years or even decades of debate and even mutual criticism. Only then can you come up with a statement that seems like nonsense, and a bunch of A mystery that can haunt tens of thousands of humanities researchers for the rest of their lives.

As for Director Li Xiaohui's hypothesis... no one would have cared about it at that time.Anyway, the research method in the humanities and social sciences is such a slimy thing - many research groups rely on just one or two topics and slowly publish various unnutritious papers one after another.One subject is enough to feed them and their disciples for a lifetime.

The key is that humanities and social sciences are not like other science and engineering projects.An original document and a few cultural relics unearthed by archaeologists can stop other research groups working in the same direction.People are not worried at all that other research groups will be ahead of them, nor are they worried that humanities and social sciences are open-book like science and engineering.

The key discoveries are all in his own hands, who can touch them?
After shaking his head to dispel the stereotyped prejudice and malice toward the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in his mind, Tang Qinglong returned his attention to the screen in front of him.

Using the supercomputer of Central University, Tang Qinglong has simulated and verified several ending plans that are relatively easy to come up with.

For example, building thousands of thrusters on the earth, and then pushing the earth, chasing the "electron-rich zone" of [-] light-years to find a new home.Or build a large number of immigrant spacecraft according to the highest existing standards, and launch a large number of immigrant ships to Earth-like planets located in electron-rich areas.Anyway, all the "royal plans" in traditional science fiction works were used by Tang Qinglong.

Calculating this kind of science fiction plan is actually a very laborious task with a huge amount of engineering work.Merely calculating the feasibility of various plans is enough to give ordinary people a headache and throw up their hands in surrender.Although the data database is open, the capital costs required for engineering production of various cutting-edge technologies can also be roughly estimated.But...the amount of work is still too large.

For example, an earth thruster with a caliber of at least 12.7 mm must solve issues such as energy, propulsion medium, material properties, crustal stability, and even the total amount of various metal reserves on the earth.And that's just a small part of the Flyball program's engineering problems that need to be solved.

How to build a stable and airtight shelter within the earth's crust, how to maintain various circulation systems in the shelter, how to control the flight direction of the earth, how the earth navigates in the universe, and how to solve the problem of the earth being far away from the sun during the navigation process. The phenomenon of "gravity instability" in the earth's crust structure, etc...

Tang Qinglong himself had already sentenced this plan to death in his heart, but he still asked the supercomputer and his own scientific research AI Dirac to conduct a feasibility study.

Sure enough, Dirac on the screen handed Tang Qinglong two "envelopes" with a livid face.This scientific research AI with the same name as a certain great quantum physicist protested to Tang Qinglong very seriously, "Mr. Tang, I think you can spend our time on more meaningful issues. These stupid questions are not even Rigorous and detailed calculations are required, and you should be able to deduce that they are impossible to achieve.”

"If we only rely on our own imagination to conduct research, then only ridiculous mistakes await us." Tang Qinglong defended his behavior, and then clicked to read the two research reports.

The plan to push the earth to fly has completely lost hope.According to the current laboratory technology level and the same proportion, even if half of the earth is filled with non-working propellants and the energy problem is completely ignored and the energy problem is worked for 5000 years, the earth's orbit will not produce enough energy to be sensed by humans. to the changes.The idea is romantic, but it can't be done.

The idea of ​​a spaceship is even more outrageous.Even if human body cryopreservation technology is used, which is not known to be successful, it is impossible for mankind to create a chemical energy spacecraft that can travel through the vast space of 12 light-years with the current level of science and technology.

Teagarden B, the closest terrestrial planet to Earth (which may not yet support human survival), happens to be within a range of 12 light-years, and its distance from Earth is exactly [-] light-years.

A more likely plan to succeed is to carry a bunch of human genetic samples through a solar sail and search for planets in the universe in the form of a slow-speed drifting bottle - using shipboard AI to try to find a planet with a high proportion of green and blue and an atmosphere. A planet with the right temperature.

After the spacecraft lands, using the targeted culture of the brain, the brain-computer interface, and a batch of mechanical prosthetics stuffed in the spacecraft, it may be possible to allow these brains born on alien planets to take over the mechanical bodies after landing.Preparations are then made for directed culture of replicating human clones.

By violating almost all relevant laws and regulations set by the coalition government and launching approximately 2 similar drift bottles, this plan has a success rate of no more than [-]% and can achieve the reproduction and survival of human species on other planets.

With the current technological level of the coalition government, it will take at least 100 years to complete the launch of all [-] bottles.Such high-frequency and long-term rocket launches may even cause extremely serious damage to the atmosphere.

According to Dirac's calculations, when launches continue for 30 years, the ozone hole will begin to reappear in the Earth's atmosphere, leading to a rapid increase in the incidence of skin cancer on the ground.But there is no way around this - the fastest way to launch is to use highly polluting, high-thrust chemical rockets.The cost of clean fuel propulsion rockets is too high and the launch thrust is too weak.Protecting the atmosphere means that the launch will last for more than 300 years.Under the threat of the Great Collapse and Quantum Energy Release Syndrome, there is a big question mark as to whether human civilization can survive another 50 years.Under these conditions, the success rate of a launch mission that lasts for 300 years is no more than 2%... This plan is not so much about saving the human species and civilization, but it is more about the future of a civilization with a certain level of technology. At the moment of destruction, it is just a desperate and final struggle.

In short, the settings of science fiction novels may seem reasonable at first glance, but if you do a little careful calculation, you will find that these engineering tasks are completely impossible to achieve.

It's no wonder that Dirac was so angry that he started to get angry. If Tang Qinglong was the scientific research assistant AI, he would also be angry when he found that he still needed to take this kind of question seriously and calculate carefully to answer it.

The earth has not yet completely escaped from the radiation range of the Crab Cloud Pulsar, but is only in a thin zone on the edge of the radiation circle.Humanity still has a little time, but not much.

Dirac made calculations, but due to insufficient basic data, it could only give a rough estimate - the earth will completely leave the radiation circle in about three years.However, the reliability of this estimate is not very high. After all, before this, no one cared about how many of the electron radio bursts suffered by the earth came from the Crab Cloud Pulsar, and how many belonged to other celestial bodies in the universe.Due to the lack of sufficient and accurate statistics, Dirac lacked specific calculation parameters.He could only make an estimate based on the frequency and intensity of radio bursts recorded by the Earth's scientific research system in the past five months.

However, one thing can be clearly calculated. Due to the influence of its orbital position, Mars will leave the radiation zone before the Earth.The advance range is about 40 days to 60 days.

Tang Qinglong started to sigh again, which was not a good sign.

The manned mission to Mars has now reached an intermediate critical step, and the three surviving manned spacecraft are undergoing maneuvering orbit changes and deceleration.The unmanned cargo module, which set off earlier than the astronauts, is already in Mars orbit waiting for them to sign for it - as long as the astronauts enter orbit, the official landing operation can be completed within 48 hours.

This "high efficiency" is the fastest plan formulated by engineers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration after urgently optimizing the process.Obviously, they are also worried that astronauts will explode into brilliant fireworks in Mars orbit or on the surface.But the Mars landing mission is so important that it doesn’t matter if the coalition government’s huge investment is wasted, but the motivation for human exploration of the universe it represents cannot be let down no matter what.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration finally decided to simplify the landing operation as much as possible. The original mission policy of "two groups of landing work, two groups of orbits taking turns" was directly changed to start directly without taking turns.The mission time on the surface of Mars was also compressed to 25 days instead of the originally planned two months.

The first manned mission to Mars in human history almost gave up [-]% of the scientific mission. Now everyone just hopes that the astronauts can reach Mars safely and then return home safely.

It doesn’t matter if this exploration is criticized as an anticlimax, at least quantum release syndrome cannot completely deter human beings from exploring the universe.

Tang Qinglong was suddenly startled - something didn't seem right.

The coalition government and the academic committee are forcibly advancing the Mars manned landing plan because the "long-term slow technological development" may be the triggering condition for a major collapse.And now, the pathogenesis of the Great Collapse has been basically determined to be a quantum infectious disease... So why continue to forcibly advance the Mars landing plan?
Tang Qinglong looked at a series of calculation reports on his desk, and then took a deep breath.

Don't base everything on conspiracy theories.He warned himself this way, so much money has been invested in the Mars manned landing project, even if it is thrown into the water, it must at least make a sound, right?

There is an angular velocity difference between the orbit of Mars and the orbit of the Earth. It may take longer to return to Earth without landing on Mars than to return after landing for 25 days.

Tang Qinglong convinced himself, and then focused on the information in front of him again.

Just when he started to look at the parameter comparison chart of the two recent experimental data of the magnetic field accelerator of the Institute of Physics, Tang Qinglong's academician bag suddenly vibrated twice.

(End of this chapter)