Super Copy of Great Power Technology

Two hours later, Qiao Ruida arrived at Ruida Space City and landed in the front yard of Villa No. 1. He took the two suitcases out of the trunk and walked into the gate of the villa. When Villa No. 1 was built, it was equipped with many high-tech equipment, including various detectors, cameras, automatically controlled doors and windows, lights, air conditioners, etc. Later, Jarvis took full control of the entire villa, making it a truly intelligent mansion.

As Qiao Ruida walked in, the camera installed above the gate detected his appearance and walking posture, authenticated his identity as the owner of the villa, and the gate opened automatically to welcome him. At the same time, Jarvis' voice sounded in the loudspeaker, "Boss, welcome back to Villa No. 1. It's almost noon. Do you want me to order you a lunch?"

"Okay, please order one for me. I want to eat sweet and sour spare ribs, squirrel fish, and stir-fried green beans. For the staple food, I want steamed buns. Two will be enough."

"Okay, boss. I have placed an order with the staff canteen using your account. The food will be delivered within 20 minutes."

Qiao Ruida threw the suitcase into the bedroom, returned to the living room on the first floor, and threw herself on the sofa. "Jarvis, make me a pot of tea."

"Okay, boss, would you like green tea, black tea, or Pu'er tea?"

"It's almost time for lunch. Make me a pot of Pu'er tea. It's less irritating to my stomach."

"Understood. Prepare the Pu'er tea. Start robot number one and start boiling water and brewing tea."

After waiting for about five minutes, there was some noise from the kitchen, and then the kitchen door was opened by a mechanical hand wrapped in white silicone. Then, a humanoid robot over one meter tall walked out of the kitchen with steady steps. In the robot's hand, there was a steaming electric kettle.

Under Qiao Ruida's gaze, the robot sat on the sofa opposite and placed the electric kettle on the coffee table. Then the robot's head turned, and the electronic eyes marked the positions of the coffee table, tea leaves, and tea sets. Then the two robot arms raised up, accurately took the can of Pu'er tea, opened it, took out a little tea leaves, and put it into the teapot. Then the robot skillfully warmed the teapot, moistened the tea, brewed it, and divided the tea. The whole set of movements was smooth and continuous, and there was even a sense of beauty in it. Ignoring the appearance of the robot, it was almost no worse than those tea doctors who had been brewing tea for many years.

Qiao Ruida picked up the brewed tea and took a sip. The fragrance lingered on his lips and teeth, and the taste was pure. He couldn't help but give a thumbs up and praised: "The tea is good, the water is good, and the tea-making technique is also great. Jarvis, the robot control program you wrote has matured a lot."

"Thank you for the compliment. The robot control system I wrote is embedded with a primary artificial intelligence core, which can self-learn and self-update. In the past two months, I have controlled the intelligent lathe in the laboratory, processed hundreds of robots of the same model, loaded the control program, performed various movements, and completed various tasks to collect data and automatically optimize the control program. The version of the robot you see now has been updated and iterated for five versions in terms of hardware and nineteen versions in terms of control program. It is of course much more mature than the first version."

"Very good. The robots have been optimized to this extent. Their flexibility is no different from that of real people. We will most likely use these robots in our next exploration of the Proxima galaxy. You must be prepared."

With the aerospace technology that Reda Aerospace has mastered today, if you want to send humans to the Proxima Galaxy, you can only take a spaceship driven by an anti-gravity engine, starting from the earth, crossing the distant interstellar space, sending it to the edge of the inner solar system, entering the Star Stream Channel, and then experiencing a long flight of at least two months, passing through the Star Stream Channel, to reach the outer edge of the Proxima Galaxy. It will take at least more than a month to approach the rocky planets in the Proxima Galaxy. Comprehensive calculations show that just a trip to the Proxima Galaxy will take at least four months, plus the return trip, at least half a year has passed. Such a long space voyage, in order to maintain the survival of astronauts, requires carrying a large amount of oxygen, fresh water, and food, and also takes great risks. After all, the Naga people only took one trip through this Star Stream Channel, and the meteorites and other things inside were not cleaned up at all. Only the top space immigrant ship like the Home can forcibly cross it with a powerful stand shield. If it is replaced by the unprotected small spaceship currently produced by humans, crossing the Star Stream Channel is no different from sending oneself to death.

The reason why the Star Stream 1 probe was able to successfully pass through the Star Stream channel and reach the Proxima Galaxy was that, on the one hand, it was small in size and not easy to collide with meteorites or comet fragments, and on the other hand, it relied on the anti-gravity shield and force field deflection shield installed on it to resist any dangerous objects. The official probe launched at about the same time as the Star Stream 1 probe was not so lucky. It completely lost the signal shortly after entering the Star Stream channel. This also shows how dangerous it is to cross the Star Stream channel.

For the initial explorations of the Star Stream Channel and the Proxima Galaxy, Qiao Ruida did not want to send astronauts to take risks. However, some tasks, such as landing on rocky planets and conducting various sampling tests, are difficult to complete with one or two small probes. At this time, it is the turn of intelligent robots to appear. They can replace humans and complete most of the landing and exploration work. They do not need to consume oxygen and food, and can carry less supplies. Moreover, robots are more adaptable to the environment than humans, do not need to rest, are not afraid of risks, and are much better than human astronauts. Of course, robots are not without shortcomings. For example, their intelligence is limited, they cannot cope with some emergencies, their hands and feet are not flexible enough, and some delicate work cannot be completed. However, most of these defects can be compensated by remote control by humans.

Qiao Ruida sat on the sofa and drank tea for a while. Then two canteen staff members brought him the food he ordered. Qiao Ruida has always been willing to invest in food. The chefs in the canteen of Ruida Aerospace City were all hired by the company at a high price from star-rated hotels across the country. They were at least senior chefs and had a full range of cuisines, so that the employees could eat and drink well and devote themselves to work in a better state. Now that the canteen has received an order from the big boss, it naturally dares not neglect it. The only special chef in the canteen personally cooked these dishes using the best ingredients and seasonings, packed them in boxes, and sent them to Villa No. 1.

Qiao Ruida brought the beautifully shaped food box to the restaurant and opened the lid. An alluring aroma wafted out. Qiao Ruida twitched his nose and sniffed the aroma in the air, his face full of intoxication, "This must be the cooking skills of Chef Zhang. Only he can make ordinary dishes look good, smell good, and turn decayed into something magical."

Qiao Ruida brought out several dishes, placed them on the table, picked up the chopsticks, and started eating eagerly. It must be said that the cooking skills of this top chef were really overbearing. Ordinary home-cooked dishes tasted like a state banquet. After eating and drinking, Qiao Ruida took a nap. It was not until two o'clock in the afternoon that he got up and went to the spacecraft flight control hall.

At this time, hundreds of people gathered in the flight control hall, sitting in their respective seats, listening to the speech of an old professor. Qiao Ruida did not disturb them, but walked into the flight control hall quietly, sat in the empty seat in the front row, and listened to the lecture with everyone.

"Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to the solar system, about 4.24 light years away. It consists of three stars, potential planets, and interstellar matter. Its structure is as follows:
Binary star system: Alpha Centauri A and B, where Alpha Centauri A is a yellow dwarf (similar to the Sun), with a mass 1.1 times that of the Sun, a surface temperature of about 5K, and a brightness 790 times that of the Sun. Alpha Centauri B is an orange dwarf, with a mass 1.5 times that of the Sun, a temperature of 0.9K, and a brightness 5 times that of the Sun. The two stars form a close binary, with an average distance of about 260 AU, a mutual orbit period of 0.45 years, and an elliptical orbit eccentricity of 23.

Proxima Centauri is Alpha Centauri C, the closest star to our solar system. It is a red dwarf (M-type main sequence star) with a mass of about 12% of the sun, a surface temperature of 3K, and a brightness of only 000% of the sun. It is about 0.17 AU (13 light years) away from the A/B binary system and may orbit the binary with a period of 000 years. Whether it is gravitationally bound is still controversial.

Now the Star Stream 1 probe is approaching Proxima Centauri, which can be seen from the photos and videos sent back. After analyzing several of the clearest photos, we can determine that there are at least three planets around Proxima Centauri, named Proxima b, Proxima c, and Proxima d.

Among them, Proxima b is a terrestrial planet with a mass of about 1.3 times that of the Earth. It is located in the habitable zone and may have liquid water on its surface. Its orbital period is 11.2 days, and its rotation period is close to its orbital period. The planet is likely to be tidally locked. It is worth mentioning that in the photos of Proxima b taken by the previous Thousand Miles Space Telescope and the Star Stream probe this time, large areas of green matter were found, which are suspected to be large areas of green plants.

Proxima c: Known as a super-Earth or mini-Neptune, it has a mass seven times that of the Earth and an orbital period of 7 years. Because it is too far away from Proxima Centauri, the surface temperature of the planet is extremely low at about -5.3°C, making it difficult for life to survive.

Proxima d: Its mass is about 26% of the Earth, its orbital period is 5 days, and it is very close to Proxima Centauri. Most of the time, it is submerged in the light of Proxima Centauri, making it difficult to observe. It is speculated that it may be a rocky planet.

From the above data analysis, the focus of Star Stream 1's observation this time is undoubtedly Proxima b. If the green traces in the photo are really large tracts of green plants, this means that Proxima b is a habitable planet and may be developed into a second home for humans.

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The old man was still speaking. Qiao Ruida nudged Wu Ziqiang who was sitting next to him and asked in a low voice, "Director Wu, who is this old man speaking on the stage?"

Wu Ziqiang was listening intently when someone suddenly touched his arm. He frowned and turned to look over here. When he saw his boss, he smiled and said, "Boss Qiao, the old man on the stage is Academician Jia Huaijin, who was invited by the Manned Spaceflight Office. He is a famous astronomer and deep space exploration expert in my country. He has been in charge of the country's extraterrestrial life exploration project. This time, he heard that our Star Stream 1 probe had passed through the Star Stream Channel and reached the Proxima Galaxy. The old man took the initiative to contact the Manned Spaceflight Office and asked to participate in this Proxima Galaxy exploration activity."

Qiao Ruida nodded in understanding. He was an academician in astronomy. No wonder he was so clear about the situation in the Proxima galaxy. At this time, Academician Jia had finished his speech and entered the question-and-answer session. Qiao Ruida raised his hand and asked, "Academician Jia, I would like to ask, if Proxima b is really in a tidally locked state, always facing Proxima Centauri, the temperature difference between the front and back of the planet must be very huge. Can life still be nurtured in such a harsh environment?"

Jia Huaijin had just arrived at Ruida Aerospace City this morning and did not know Qiao Ruida. He only regarded him as an ordinary researcher. Ruida Aerospace was established only a few years ago and many young people were recruited. Qiao Ruida sat among them and was not noticeable.

"This young comrade has hit the nail on the head. Let's assume that Proxima b is in a tidally locked state. The temperature on the side illuminated by the star's light must be very good, while the temperature on the side not illuminated is lower, and it is not surprising that the temperature can even reach minus 100 degrees Celsius. This extremely hot and cold environment is naturally not suitable for the survival of plants and animals. However, near the terminator where the two regions meet, the temperature is still relatively suitable. It is very likely that there is liquid water here, which can breed plants and animals, or other forms of life. It is not surprising. In addition, there is another possibility. If the atmosphere of Proxima b is relatively thick, and even the outer layer is protected by a relatively strong magnetic field, the air flow is relatively strong, and part of the planet or even the entire planet has a moderate temperature, which is also possible for the survival of organisms."

Qiao Ruida nodded and sat down. Behind him, several researchers raised their hands to ask questions, and Academician Jia Huaijin also gave detailed answers. It can be seen that this old man's astronomical knowledge is really rich.

After Jia Huaijin, several experts and professors took the podium to analyze the situation of the neighboring galaxy or propose detection plans for everyone's reference and discussion. These people included researchers from Ruida Aerospace Company and aerospace experts invited by the National Manned Spaceflight Office. Everyone gathered together, actively spoke and discussed, brainstormed, and formulated a detailed detection plan. Finally, Qiao Ruida also took the podium and made some arrangements for the subsequent detection plan. (End of this chapter)