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Chapter 15 (Orion I): Re-counting

6500 million years ago, the Tasis Plateau on Mars

Humans have been landing on Mars for nearly a century. 70% of the surface of Mars is covered by oceans, and its atmosphere has a high carbon dioxide content, resulting in a warm and humid climate, but it is still somewhat colder than Venus.

The Venusian human's Mars base is located near the Tasis Plateau, which is rich in freshwater resources. The main purpose of the base is scientific research and breeding of cold-resistant crops.

Having just landed at the Mars base, Nikola Tesla and Abbott encountered their old acquaintance, Colonel Fellman, who, as a representative of the Venusian Federation's high command, was organizing and coordinating the expansion of the temporary Martian foothold.

"Colonel, when will the Alliance's high command's transfer plan begin? There must be many difficulties, right?" Abbott said to Colonel Fairman.

"Yes, there are too many difficulties. In addition to insufficient transport capacity, the bigger problem is that these bases on Mars can only accommodate a few thousand people at most. Expansion is the top priority now," Colonel Fellman replied.

Nikola Tesla considered the existing conditions and available resources on Mars; living space and location were not issues.

Mars has a large enough land area and better topographical conditions than Venus, with mountains, hills, deltas formed by the impact of large rivers, and fertile plains suitable for cultivation.

Agriculture and animal husbandry will develop rapidly as long as there is labor and intelligent robots are available.

Humans on Venus have long since entered the intelligent stage of the information age. Even if they could tolerate the huge changes in living conditions and quality of life after migrating to Mars, they probably wouldn't be able to tolerate reverting to the agricultural era.

Although Tesla and Abbott have finalized the construction plan for the pulse tube super-light wave power station, it is not something that can be accomplished overnight, not to mention that the construction of the pulse tube power station itself requires a large amount of electricity.

“Electricity is the foundation of civilization, Colonel. I suppose the expansion will begin with building more power plants?” Tesla asked.

Colonel Fellman confirmed Tesla's speculation that power plant construction was indeed the top priority of the expansion project.

Because Mars is far from the sun, its solar energy resources are far inferior to those of Venus and Earth. The existing power supply for the Mars base mainly relies on a small nuclear power plant built decades ago.

Abbott reminded Tesla that while he was in a coma, a nuclear power plant on Venus exploded, and the Venusian Union later passed legislation banning the construction of nuclear power plants on Venus.

"That's why you were so interested in my theory of faster-than-light waves, and built the first faster-than-light wave power station on Tasmania," Tesla asked Abbott.

"Sigh, let's not talk about Venus. Let's discuss the Mars power plant issue first." Colonel Fellman reminded the two tech geniuses helplessly, "Small nuclear power plants on Mars are built outside of Venus, so the risks are isolated. But if a large number of Venusians migrate there, then the nuclear ban law will be equally effective on Mars."

“Expanding nuclear power capacity is out of the question. We can utilize Mars’ abundant hydroelectric resources to build several dams and hydroelectric power stations,” Dean Abbott said, calculating the power output of the hydroelectric power station.

Suddenly, a thought struck him, and he asked Tesla, "The total installed capacity of hydroelectric power may be far from enough. Could we build a tower-type superluminal power station on the surface of Mars before the pulsar power station is built?"

Tesla was startled and looked up to ask, "Haven't we learned enough from the Venusian tower power station? Are you going to build another one on Mars?"

Abbott responded, "The power plant on Venus was too powerful, which caused a crisis. We can build a small mini power plant on Mars."

Nikola Tesla understood Abbott's meaning: the principle of a superluminal power station is to build a continuous structure with a length of more than 18 kilometers. Because its length exceeds a complete wavelength of superluminal light, that is, 170360 kilometers, the structure absorbs a large amount of energy when superluminal light is incident on it. The heat energy is converted into electrical energy, thus becoming a superluminal power station.

The output power of the ultra-light wave power station depends on the diameter of the structure. It can be understood as weaving carbon nanotubes into a rope, and the so-called power of the power station depends on the thickness of the rope.

“Nikola, let’s do the math. If we use a thin rope to build a small super-light wave power station and use it as a transition to the pulse power station, it should be feasible.”

As Abbott spoke, he popped up a holographic map of Mars, which was covered in blue oceans and had dense forests and rivers on land, clearly floating in front of the three of them.

Nikola Tesla's gaze fell upon the volcanic cluster of the Sahis Plateau. Pointing to three volcanoes neatly aligned in a straight line, he said:

“We can build the foundation of the tower power station on this crater in the middle. The terrain here is flat, and there is no need to cut down trees, so the construction conditions are relatively good.” “Another advantage is that the crater is a channel connecting to the magma inside Mars. We can better monitor the thermal reactions inside Mars. If we can’t detect significant changes in the terrain in the crater, then other areas are definitely safe,” Abbott added.

Colonel Fellman looked at the four volcanoes—one large and three small—on the surface of Mars and asked curiously:
"These three small volcanoes are almost identical in height and diameter, lined up side by side with almost equal spacing, forming a triangle with the large volcano. The large volcano is right at the apex of the triangle. The shape is too regular. It looks like it was man-made."

Abbott recalled the conjecture Tesla had mentioned to him over a hundred years ago, when they were both students. He pointed at Tesla and mysteriously said to Colonel Felman:
"Mr. Tesla once had a very insightful idea about this issue."

During his student years, Nikola Tesla was passionate about astronomical observation. He would spend entire nights using a telescope to observe the Martian landscape, and he was particularly interested in the Martian craters.

Mars is dotted with volcanoes, but there aren't many large ones. The largest volcanoes are arranged in regular geometric shapes, making it hard to believe that they were formed naturally.

After Venusian humans launched a Mars orbiter, more high-resolution images were transmitted back to Venus. One night, Nikola Tesla burst into Abbott's dormitory waving two pictures and said to him out of the blue:
"Look, this is a map showing the distribution of Mars' large and three small craters, and this is a map showing the distribution of Orion's four stars, large and three small. Their geometry is almost identical."

Abbott's major was physics, but he was also well-versed in astronomy.

The main star in Orion is Betelgeuse, which has a mass more than 900 times that of the Sun and is the tenth brightest star visible to the naked eye in the sky.

To the southeast of Betelgeuse are three smaller stars, namely Aldebaran, Aldebaran, and Betelgeuse. These three small stars are arranged in a straight line from the lower left to the upper right, with almost equal apparent distance between them.

"Wow, these two pictures are indeed exactly the same shape. What's amazing is that they are also perfect geometric shapes. The universe is truly a masterpiece!" Abbott exclaimed.

Nikola Tesla put forward his bold conjecture: he thought that the constellation Orion in the sky might be a clever arrangement of the universe, but could the crater on Mars with the exact same shape be a man-made object modeled after Orion?

Colonel Fellman listened to Tesla's deduction with a bewildered look and asked, "The crater was man-made? Then it certainly wasn't done by Venusians. Are you saying there were humans on Mars?"

"There are dinosaurs on Earth and fish on Mars, so why assume that only Venus can harbor intelligent life? Perhaps many years ago, there were humans on Mars, but they simply went extinct," Tesla replied logically.

"Martians? According to you, these craters were left behind by extinct Martian humans? Then why would they create such symmetrical geometric shapes?" Fellman asked.

“I think it’s a hint that millions or even tens of millions of years ago, when the Martians were on the verge of extinction, they left these symbols to indicate the possible emergence of new intelligent life in the solar system, such as us Venusians.”

Mars has one large and three small craters, which reflect the four stars of Orion. In the early stages of primitive evolution, intelligent life in various tribes learned to count pebbles. The three small stars arranged in a neat row can be easily understood as "111". A series of "1"s arranged in a row is called a "double one" in mathematics. It is the easiest number (pebble) arrangement form for primitive humans to understand.

The same number can represent different values ​​in different number systems. Nikola Tesla pondered, if there really were Martians before, what did they mean by "111" to the Venusians?

Betelgeuse is the tenth brightest star visible to the naked eye. Martians believe that even in our primitive times, we Venusians could still discern the order of brightness of stars in the sky, reminding us that "10" is a special number, implying the decimal system.

If this idea is somewhat far-fetched, then the possibility of the craters being arranged in the shape of "111" is obviously much smaller.

"111" is 7 in binary and 13 in ternary, so its meaning isn't unique! Besides, what does "triangle" mean? Is it an architectural form?
Tesla thought to himself that if it were him, with the aim of reminding future generations, he would definitely leave more specific clues.

Thinking of this, Tesla gave a wry smile, hoping he would never encounter a situation where he needed to remind future generations in this way.

As a keen scientist, he intuitively felt that "111" implied "7" in binary.

In other words, if Martians really did exist, they might be implying that we use decimal and binary numbers.

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The poem composed of collected verses at the end of the chapter:
The afterglow still shines on the neighbors, Song Dynasty, Wei Xiang

Quietly lingering in the late sun, I learn to follow the natural order. (Song Dynasty, Zhang Bi)

In what year did the Jin people surrender on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month? (Tang Dynasty, Chen Tao)
Recreating the dreamlike state of the Three-Three. Song Dynasty, Gauss.
(End of this chapter)