I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

Class B base.

It is now three o'clock in the morning on July 20. Xiao Gangtian has stayed up all night and is sitting tiredly on a chair to take a nap.

Although the rest of the staff are also on duty, they are in a relatively relaxed state, and their professionalism is not even as good as that of the security guards in the guard room.

"Thanks."

After taking the coffee with sugar and milk, Shen Zuozhou glanced at everyone who was not in a good state, and his face couldn't help but twitch.

In the evening, the two Venus probes "Taibai" and "Venus 1" sent back signals of their imminent arrival. Then the deep space exploration team waited here for seven or eight hours to upload photos after the probes entered orbit. They haven't entered orbit yet.

He asked Xiao Gangtian if there was something wrong. The latter just waved his hand calmly and expressed his belief in AI. The two Venus probes were equipped with the most advanced ternary chips, and no abnormalities were found in the power system, so everything would be fine. .

But Shen Zuozhou is not that arrogant. This is China's first extraterrestrial planet detection project, and it is Venus, which has a huge agenda. The Aerospace Development Commission has been waiting for news!

However, there is really nothing the base can do now. Humanity’s understanding of Venus is much less than that of Mars, especially in China where it is almost 0. We still have to trust the professional team.

Shen Zuozhou focused his attention on the No. 2 robot standing quietly in the corner. He felt that the artificial intelligence was too radical.

For example, Robot No. 2 has produced more than 20 units in an attempt to replace the service industry within the base. In the past few months, except for the chef in the canteen who still persisted because the employees asked for "soul", all other cleaning and daily services have been basically eliminated. Robot monopoly.

At the beginning, the robot was just for fun, and the skin and head mold were customized by domestic adult manufacturers. But then the base began to develop related technologies on its own, so the robot became more and more human-like in appearance, and finally the skin was almost the same as a real person. Coupled with the increasingly sophisticated AI training, it is almost difficult for ordinary people to recognize it in terms of posture and appearance.

Moreover, these robots are individually customized, with different heights and shapes. It feels like an omnic crisis when exposed to them for a long time.

Not to mention the production process, the equipment in the base is still undergoing automation transformation. Basically, everything here can be controlled by supercomputer, so as to continue to greatly improve production efficiency without innovating the hardware.

Although the Jingu Rocket Manufacturing Base that came here to study did not dare to be so radical, it has also begun trial operation of AI logistics warehousing and production planning management. It is said that after internal testing, it was found that local efficiency can be increased by 500%, and the overall efficiency is over 40%, which is particularly scary.

Everything here is advanced, and no one knows how many amazing technologies are hidden under the mysterious appearance.

Oh, and there are some unconfirmed legends about the base:

An expert wanted to send his uneducated son who came back from abroad to work, but Lin Ju readily agreed and gave him a mid-level technical management position.

Experts from the space agency who were informed at the time thought that the man must be up to something. Unexpectedly, after entering the base, the unlearned guy suddenly began to study hard and work seriously. He was also extremely loyal to the company and refused to say anything when asked. It was almost the same as He was a completely different person before.

Outsiders are saying that the base is evil and brainwashing, but Shen Zuozhou admires it and thinks that the atmosphere here is really positive and it is a pure land for scientific research.

What the space agency needs to learn is not only production, but more importantly, the working environment!

"Beep beep - beep beep -"

"coming!"

Xiao Gangtian, who was half lying down, stood up immediately, and the other engineers who were about to fall asleep immediately got into work.

Of course, in fact, it is the best situation if they have nothing to do. Under normal conditions, the detector's own planning is the optimal solution.

The distance between Venus and the Earth is now almost 50 million kilometers, and electromagnetic waves take more than two minutes to travel. The delay is much greater than that on the moon.

Pictures gradually began to load on the screen in the center of the control room. This was a problem with ultra-long-distance communication: the transmission bandwidth capacity was small, and the photos taken by the detector were large in size. It took 10 minutes to send back a photo, which was considered "extremely fast." , it is commonplace to post a message for several hours.

But a higher priority than the pictures was the orbital data, and the positions of the two detectors were immediately confirmed through these simple digital control rooms.

Although it was launched one day apart, the arrival time was only a few hours away. "Taibai" had already completed its entry into orbit and was using its Hall thrusters to correct its orbit. It was it that was sending back the first photo.

Venus 1 will be a while away. It does not slow down to enter orbit but directly enters the atmosphere. It is expected to contact the atmosphere in two or three hours and carry out an atmospheric sampling return mission.

Among them, Venus 1 is the focus of attention. As long as Taibai can be put into orbit, there will be no major problems. It can run there for at least more than ten years and continuously collect data.

It took almost 13 minutes, and the first picture returned by "Taibai" was finally completely loaded.

This is a photo taken when it was at a distance of 3,400 kilometers. Although Venus is very close, it still only occupies a small part of the huge picture.

But it doesn’t matter, the clarity brought by the 4.1-meter diameter ultra-large lens manufactured by Changchun Optical is also extremely amazing.

This ultra-high-definition picture, which is more than hundreds of megabytes in size, was directly enlarged by Xiao Okada until the outline of the surface of Venus was completely revealed.

From the perspective of that time, Venus now is a perfect and true golden planet, with astonishingly full details.

The volcanoes on its surface are shown extremely clearly in the photo, and a river valley through which liquid once flowed can be seen at a glance.

Ignoring its extremely harsh atmosphere, Venus is indeed more like a planet than Mars that has had life - and perhaps still does.

Xiao Gangtian continued to zoom in. Taibai's resolution at this distance was also 1 meter, which was enough to see its surface topography.

The enlarged floor was filled with a huge screen that fit into the corner of the wall. Shen Zuozhou looked at it obsessively, refusing to let go of every detail.

This is the terrestrial planet most similar to the Earth in the solar system, but it rotates in the opposite direction. Its revolution period is 225 days, but its rotation period is 243 days. Every day is getting longer than the year, and it is full of mystery.

A large number of studies have even speculated that there are likely to be microorganisms on the planet. No matter what type of ghost they are, they will be the first real extraterrestrial life discovered by humans.

With strong expectations, he immediately began to check various data of "Venus 1". Only it could hope to discover life on Venus.

In addition to the flyers that collect samples from the outer atmosphere and return them, the landers will also deliberately slow down and try to collect microorganisms when passing through sulfuric acid clouds, struggling to survive against 90 times atmospheric pressure, sulfuric acid rain, 400-degree temperatures and storms, and faithfully perform their missions.