Son of the Stars

Chapter 167 Trouble

An electromagnetic wave is emitted from the earth. This information carrier, which can propagate at the speed of light, needs to travel through the vast space for nearly five minutes before it can be captured by the high-gain antenna of Dawn 7, and then decoded to become a "wave" on Dawn 7. information".

As the distance from Mars gets closer and closer, the propagation time of information will become longer and longer. According to the current orbit calculation, after reaching the Mars orbit, the communication delay between the Earth and Mars will increase to at least 16 minutes, and this delay will increase to at least 44 minutes. It will continue to increase as the Earth's orbit changes. Until the scheduled return of the Mars landing mission, the delay will reach its peak - the call delay between Mars and Earth will increase to minutes.

This delay, placed in a long-distance couple in love, is enough to cause 10,001 quarrels threatening to break up, and 10,000 doubts about "does he/she not care about me?"

Fortunately, neither Shuguang 6 nor 7 will suspect that the coalition government is planning to abandon them - this is the Mars manned landing plan, which uses the power of the whole world to consume countless manpower and material resources. It symbolizes that human civilization has overcome the great collapse and is moving towards development again. and exploration of representative systems engineering.

If one day the coalition government has to make an unreasonable and painful choice between the control team and the Mars landing plan, then the control team will definitely be abandoned without hesitation. After all, the senior administrative officers who manage and operate the coalition government can always find a few more plans, but the Mars landing plan... there is no alternative.

It is precisely because of the important nature of the mission that the "disobedient series" of Dawn 6 and 7 was tacitly approved. It is true that landing on Mars and conducting scientific research activities on Mars for about two and a half years is extremely risky for the current astronauts - quantum energy release syndrome may occur on Mars at any time - and once it occurs, it is almost There is no room for relaxation.

Of course, the astronauts collectively believe that there is really no need to pay too much attention to this level of risk. The moment everyone sat in the launch cabin, they basically regarded themselves as dead people - it was a launch and landing mission to distant Mars, and how long had human technology just recovered from the devastating blow of the Great Collapse? ?

However... even if I am prepared to sacrifice heroically in the universe, this situation is still a bit nervous.

This morning (the time schedule on Dawn 7 still refers to the ground control center time), during routine data communication exchanges, the ground control station suddenly sent an instruction to "suspend information exchange, and important news may be announced later."

Then the ground station stopped exchanging data with Dawn 7. Dawn 6 also confirmed that they received the same notification.

I don’t know what kind of important news can make the two manned spacecrafts in the universe put down all their work and wait. The data exchange also needs to provide today’s crew experiments and work content. If the exchange is not completed quickly, the entire The crew's work could not continue.

This kind of waiting has happened before - just after the explosion of Dawn 8.

For four hours, all the crew members on Dawn 7 and Dawn 6 waited in suffocating silence. But the "important news" that should have arrived long ago has not been released.

Just when Zheng Yan frowned and was about to ignore the command center for the time being and start today's spacewalk mission, Takuya Nakamura quietly floated next to her.

"Boss, you have to take a look at this." Nakamura Takuya handed Zheng Yan a palm-sized hard screen - this is a small personal homemade screen that Nakamura Takuya made to pass the time and to facilitate his daily maintenance work. terminal.

Zheng Yan took the terminal and saw a familiar interface on the screen - it was the social software interface on Earth, and almost all materials, layouts, videos and animations were removed. A simple UI with nothing but slightly misplaced text appeared in front of Zheng Yan, which surprised her. It is impossible to allow astronauts to use ordinary civilian networks during the Dawn 7 and 6 missions. Without even considering ordinary civilian network information security issues, just sending and receiving signals from a spacecraft 350 million to 50 million kilometers away from the earth, and keeping the signal stable and available for a long time... This itself is an impossible task.

The dedicated communication network between Dawn and the ground requires the use of several relay satellites to connect to each other to maintain communication stability. Of course, such an expensive and fragile communication network cannot be used by Shuguang for recreational networking.

But it seems that Nakamura Takuya has created a device... that can maintain communication with the civilian network on the earth.

Zheng Yan looked at the content on the terminal device carefully, and then her eyes widened.

News of explosions are spreading everywhere, and people turn into light and powerful bombs. Moreover, some people have included several powerful explosions that have occurred in the past as deeds of "people turning into light".

"Before we had to say, Houston, we are in trouble." Takuya Nakamura lowered his voice and said, "Now we have to say, Houston, we are in trouble."
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"We are in big trouble." Tong Zhen frowned at the emergency meeting of the joint government control team. "The General Investigation Bureau is tracing the source of those inexplicable messages and data, but there is no progress yet."

The control team held two emergency meetings a day, and everyone was exhausted, frustrated, and doubtful about life. In the first emergency meeting, the control team decided to investigate the explosions in South America as "unexplained explosions." On the one hand, this can provide an explanation internally, and at the same time, it also leaves enough room for maneuver for subsequent coalition government responses.

If the number of sporadic cases of quantum release syndrome increases significantly, then some details of quantum release syndrome should be announced as soon as possible, and then every effort should be made to maintain social stability. If there are no obvious changes, then continue to press for the announcement of the investigation results. Buy as much time as possible for Lu Chen's research team.

But shortly after the control team made its decision, countless content "revealing the truth about the explosion in South America" ​​suddenly appeared on social media and other Internet channels. What's even more terrible is that these disclosure posts are indeed informative - they almost all mention the "speculation" that the electrons outside the hydrogen element in the human body are abnormally excited, and that a drop in energy level will cause the human body to turn into a huge bomb.

Then, based on the observation data news that "ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 121.6nm was observed in explosions in South America", it was proved that what happened on the south side of Colonel Ismanio's town was not a terrorist attack, but a series of human explosions.

These posts even included the bombing of the Central Demonstration Hospital and the explosion of the particle accelerator at Chung-Ang University as human bombings. The accuracy was extremely high, and it directly put the coalition government into a very passive situation.

"Everyone, we must make a decision." Tong Xinzhen's tone was unexpectedly calm. "In order to stabilize its existence, the coalition government reached an exchange agreement with my Primarch. We formed a religious order and became the foundation of human civilization and orderly society. A permanent enemy in exchange for the cooperation and unity of the coalition government. Now, a real enemy appears in front of us - an enemy that may completely destroy human civilization." He clenched his fists, raised his hands and slowly lowered them.

"We no longer need the sect as an enemy. It's time to focus all our efforts on the research of quantum potential energy syndrome." Tong Ziyi leaned forward slightly and said sincerely, "I strongly recommend that the sect and its affiliates be completely eliminated. Organization. Announce the research progress and basic principles of quantum potential energy syndrome to the public, and fully carry out research on quantum energy release syndrome.”

(End of this chapter)