Hot Wavelength

Chapter 31 (Impact Point 1): Safe House

6500 million years ago, Venus
Nikola Tesla's residence and his studio were both on the 33rd floor of the same hotel. His residence was room 3327, and his studio was room 3328, which was connected to it.

Dean Abbott was tasked with working with Tesla to quickly develop a plan to save Venus from the crisis, so he moved into the hotel as well, and room 3328 became their shared studio.

Tesla's proposal is both bold and challenging, and there are simply too many factors to consider.

As the dean of the Academy of Sciences, who oversees all research activities on Venus, Abbott meticulously analyzed the situation, requiring the entire team to prioritize the most important issues that would determine the success or failure of the project.

If Mars were to explode, it would instantly eject millions of fragments into space and release enormous energy. How would this affect the other planets in the solar system, including Venus and Earth? What orbital positions would be considered safe for each planet?

According to Tesla's plan, isn't it supposed to involve extracting genes and uploading consciousness? Aren't these issues equally important? Why consider the so-called security issues of each planet first?
The answer is simple: the explosion of Mars was to stabilize or save the structure of the solar system. If the planets themselves are not safe, how can we talk about humans on Venus?
“Nikola, where in the planet’s orbit would the impact be minimal when Mars explodes?” Abbott asked.

"Of course, it's far away from Mars, but not on the opposite side of Mars, because then the planet, Mars, and the Sun would be in a straight line, triggering a superluminal reaction of planetary opposition. So the best safe angle is 8 hours apart in the 24-hour celestial region, which is 120 degrees of ecliptic longitude," Tesla replied.

Abbott, who is very knowledgeable about celestial dynamics, further analyzed: "The effects of 120 degrees ahead and 120 degrees behind Mars' orbit should be quite different."

"Yes, when Mars explodes, the fragments will be ejected outward and backward due to centrifugal force. Obviously, the front 120 degrees of Mars is safer."

"According to your plan, Earth is our future home and we must protect it. It will explode 120 degrees ahead of Mars, right?" Abbott asked.

"Yes, at the time of the explosion, Earth not only needs to be 120 degrees ahead of Mars in longitude, but also far away from the ecliptic plane in latitude. Ideally, it should be on the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, because it is closer to perihelion than the summer solstice, which means it is farther away from Mars," Tesla explained.

“There’s another problem. Saturn’s giant ice mass acts like a lens, and Venus happens to be at the focal point of the superluminal diffraction. If Venus and Saturn were also located 120 degrees in front of Mars, the shockwave from Mars’s explosion would trigger extremely strong solar activity, disrupting the stability of Earth’s orbit,” Abbott said.

Tesla admired his old friend's expertise and said, "Yes, we need to position Venus and Saturn 120 degrees behind Mars' orbit. The advantage is that after the Sun is disturbed by the extra energy from Mars, it will release powerful flares in the direction where Venus and Saturn are conjunct, thus making the direction of Earth safer."

Tesla connected to the external brain via the Lightning Ball to further confirm his and Abbott's calculations, and the answer given by the external brain was basically consistent with their ideas.

The only addition was that Mercury should also be in the conjunction of Venus and Saturn to absorb and block the large amount of energy released by the sun in the form of flares.

The two opened the holographic celestial map and calculated their respective orbital periods and relative positions. On the winter solstice, Mars is 120 degrees away from Earth, while Venus, Mercury, and Saturn are at the same longitude. At the 120-degree position on the other side of Earth, Earth, Mars, and Venus perfectly divide the 360 ​​degrees of longitude of the celestial sphere into a standard equilateral triangle.

The two were so eager to calculate celestial coordinates because "placing" the planets in their orbits was purely theoretical. The exact time when the planets, moving along their respective orbits, would form the ideal positional relationship designed in the plan depended on their synodic periods.

Tesla once again connected to an external computer, calling upon and calculating the synodic periods of relevant planets. Taking the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere as the fixed time point, and the Earth's orbital period as 365 days, the synodic periods of Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Saturn with Earth are 117 days, 584 days, 780 days, and 378 days, respectively.

The least common multiple of the five days is 7174440 days, approximately 19643 Earth years. This is the synodic period when the longitudes of the celestial bodies are perfectly aligned. Even a slight deviation in the position of the celestial bodies, such as a difference of plus or minus 1 degree, still counts as a synodic period. According to Tesla's calculations, the synodic period is approximately 5125 years.

“Huh? We can’t wait more than 5000 years. Let’s quickly check which year this celestial phenomenon last occurred.” Abbott said as he rapidly changed the time corresponding to the celestial coordinates.

Was it a coincidence? Was it luck? Abbott didn't have time to think it through. He stopped the celestial sphere at a certain point in time and shouted:

"Thirteen years! God bless the people of Venus, and in thirteen years the celestial phenomenon we desire will appear." Nikola Tesla had already received this answer from his external brain, but before he could voice it, seeing his old friend's delighted expression, he couldn't hide his excitement. Without waiting for his friend to ask further questions, he proactively shared the other ideas he had gleaned from the external brain:
"Although Earth is in a so-called safe position 120 degrees ahead of Mars' orbit, a small amount of explosive ejecta will inevitably hit Earth. We must protect the Tower Island power plant on Earth, so the impact point must be chosen on the back side of the power plant."

“We Venusians use Earth merely as a place of exile and haven’t even defined its prime meridian. If we define the island of Tass in the Neo-Tethys Ocean as 90 degrees east longitude, then the impact site we chose should be at 90 degrees west longitude, right?” Abbott asked.

“Yes, I’ve only been to the Eastern Hemisphere of the Earth, including the Victoria wetlands and the island of Tass in the Neo-Tethys Ocean. The back of Tass is this location in the Western Hemisphere,” Tesla said, pointing to a bay between two continents in the Western Hemisphere.

“Those two continents are teeming with dinosaurs. Not only you, but we Venusians probably haven’t been there either, so this place doesn’t have a name. Why don’t you give this chosen impact point a name?” Abbott said.

Tesla couldn't think of a name for it right away, but the moment he connected to the Lightning Ball, his external brain gave him an answer: MAYA.

Having considered the safety of the planet and the solar system structure, Dean Abbott began to think about the safety of the carriers of Venusian human genes and consciousness. He asked:
"According to the plan, before Mars explodes, we need to successfully extract the genes of Venusian humans and upload their consciousness. The corresponding carriers will need to be protected by researchers and engineers, including you and me. Where will we hide then?"

“Yes, when Mars explodes, Jupiter and all the planets inside its orbit will be scorched by the flames, and we must stay away from that area,” Tesla said.

Nikola Tesla's plan was that before Mars exploded, the genes of the vast majority of Venusian humans would be extracted and their consciousness uploaded. These samples would be carefully preserved and taken on a spaceship with researchers and engineers to a moon in the Saturnian system to avoid the impact of the collision.

Tesla chose Iapetus, a moon that orbits Saturn in 79 days and has a semi-major axis of 356 million kilometers, far from the nearly one million-kilometer-diameter icy mass of Saturn.

When the spacecraft landed on Iapetus, Mars exploded, but Iapetus was shielded from the impact by the massive Saturn and its icy mass. Tesla aptly described Iapetus as a safe house.

The plan seemed theoretically feasible, Abbott asked with a hint of sadness:

"To protect Earth, we placed Venus at the focal point of the two major shockwaves: the Martian explosion and the solar wind. What will it look like after that?"

As a Venusian, Tesla understood Abbott's attachment to and reluctance to leave his Venusian mother. Instead of immediately giving that despairing answer, he first described the changes on Mars.

After Mars exploded, only a thin part of its outer crust peeled away, while the remaining body was still a planet and could still be called Mars.

Its revolution and rotation will not change significantly. An external brain predicts that Mars' eccentricity will change from around 0.01 (similar to Earth) to 0.09, and its orbit will become a more elliptical shape.

Abbott stared into Tesla's eyes, as if asking: What about Venus?
Tesla helplessly spread his hands and said in a low voice, "Our Venusian axis of rotation will reverse, completely stall, and produce a reversal phenomenon."

According to Tesla, after Mars explodes, Venus's rotation period will be more than 240 days, meaning that one rotation will take longer than one year for Venus to orbit the sun.

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The poem composed of collected verses at the end of the chapter:
The jade cup struck, and the situation changed drastically. (Song Dynasty, Su Dong)
A moment can determine prosperity and decline in the human world. — Huang Jin (Ming Dynasty)

Do not ask about the journey before it is completed. - Yang Wanli, Song Dynasty

"To reach up and touch the stars, one can call upon the heavens." (Ming Dynasty, Shi Runzhang)
(End of this chapter)