Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

April 1, 2016, was destined to be a different day.

Aurora will launch a groundbreaking new rocket starship today. Thanks to the comprehensive breakthrough brought by Black Velvet, the starship, which was originally planned to take two years to develop, is now ready for launch in just six months.

SpaceX is very confident, even stating directly that this first launch will be able to carry a payload.

Black Velvet is simply too perfect; it's safe, efficient, and easy to use, which directly led to a significant simplification in rocket design.

At this moment, tens of millions of people around the world are watching the live broadcast of this launch from Oasis.

Aurora has allocated all its computing resources to make this launch a nationwide celebration, allowing viewers to directly and realistically tour most parts of the rocket and even watch all the transmitted footage in real time after liftoff.

Of course, it's impossible to cram these thousands of people onto a single server, so Aurora set up numerous viewing platforms to accommodate the audience.

Each observation deck can accommodate a thousand people for close-up observation at the same time. At this time, it is also a social space, where many people start to greet and make friends with the people around them.

At that moment, two furtive individuals appeared simultaneously at a viewing platform.

Johann Dietrich Werner, the newly appointed Director General of the European Space Agency, looked at his friend with a dark expression.

"No, I don't mind making myself look younger on Oasis, but you've gone too far with this self-aggrandizement!"

The European Space Agency’s chief scientist, Bernard Fouvin, scoffed: “You old fogey, how could you rigid Germans understand the romance of us French? Now that we have such advanced technology, why not just do whatever looks cool? Otherwise, why bother with this aurora project?”

Look around you, where's the ugly one? You might see centaurs here, but there's definitely no ugly person. You should change your appearance. What if someone recognizes your natural face when you come in? You should at least try to look younger.

"I'm wearing a mask now. Besides, don't you know I look like the head of state? It's alright now that I'm old, but when I was young, I looked so much like the head of state that I was criticized for years."

The two chatted as they walked towards the side passage, entered the starship, and began to inspect the equipment inside.

As soon as you enter, a little red bird robot flies over and says, "Hey, do you two need an introduction? Do you need me to introduce you to Aurora's new rocket?"

Bernard nodded: "Yes, yes."

"Sincere offer, 1000% interest."

"................"

Both of them are senior scientists. Even if they are not super rich, they are not so poor that they cannot afford this amount of money.

However, Europe is still boycotting the Aurora, so the roamers they bring are all smuggled goods. They don't really have much on hand, and the limited resources they have are used to secretly assist in research by renting computing power. You could say they're both broke.

Seeing that the two people didn't speak, the little red bird hopped twice on the ground and said, "Ah, I checked, and you actually landed in Europe. So you're just poor bastards from the primitive continent. Alright then, fifty breaths will do."

The two men felt insulted; were they, French and German, now also being called primitive?

They paid the money reluctantly, staring at the little red bird, hoping it would say something to make their money worthwhile.

The little red bird said in a heavy tone, "Hey, you guys have to work hard! As primitive people, you Europeans will be abandoned by society if you don't work harder. Look at our brand new spaceship, it uses our Aurora's latest biofuel, Black Velvet."

The starship is 65 meters tall, 10 meters in diameter, has a takeoff mass of 600 tons, and a dry weight of 80 tons.

Although it is shorter than the Falcon 9, its new energy performance is unparalleled!

The starship's sea-level relative speed is 2000 seconds, and it can reach 3000 seconds in a vacuum!

Our single-trip near-Earth orbit payload capacity can reach 300 tons! Our single-trip lunar surface payload capacity can reach 250 tons.

Bernard quickly interrupted, asking, "Could you elaborate on this black velvet? We know Aurora has opened black velvet factories in many places around the world, but could you provide some specific details about it?"

The little red bird flew up, stared at Bernard for a moment, and said, "Ah, you want to know the specific performance values ​​of the black velvet, its breeding situation, and how it's extracted?"

"Yeah yeah."

"This is a revolutionary technology, something that will directly change the future of global energy. We're already using it to replace power plants in many places. Would you like to know more details?"

"Yes, yes."

"Do I look like a silly AI? This is our Aurora's technological secret!"

The little red bird gave them a very human-like look of disdain before flying away.

Werner began to complain: "Couldn't you have asked something you could have asked? We paid fifty cents, and we didn't get any service at all."

"Come on, you didn't stop me when I asked, didn't you want to know too? Besides, it's my money, I'll go see if there's any way to file a complaint."

There was nowhere to file a complaint, of course; the two of them could only circle the rocket, looking left and right.

Both of them are experts, unlike most of the casual spectators who go inside the rocket to see the robots.

The two of them stared at the engine at the bottom of the rocket for a long time.

"Indeed, a completely different engine."

"According to their additional description, their performance is revolutionary, making it easy to go directly to Mars."

The two men admired each other for a long time, and Werner sighed and said, "I still don't support wet parts. The technology of Aurora looks too scary and not elegant enough."

Bernard hesitated for a moment and said, "What's the use of your support? The world is ultimately dominated by those strongmen. What's the point of our opinions? I've already made up my mind. If their moon launch is successful this time, I'm going to immigrate to Hawaii! I want to work in the Aurora Borealis."

"................."

"Why aren't you saying anything? Didn't you say you didn't support wet products? Why don't you try to persuade me?"

"I don't support wet components, but I support my old friend. I know your dedication to the moon. It seems like they're about to launch. Let's see if they're just talking the talk or if they'll actually start leading humanity into the stars."

Launch time arrived, and they were forcibly teleported back to the observation deck.

When the timer reached T0, the ground ignition began. In order to reduce specific impulse and increase thrust, the engine started the water mixing mode.

Unlike any rocket before it, Starship was made of black velvet, so it produced no smoke or fire, only carbon dioxide and water vapor.

The observation deck in the oasis flew upwards in real time along with the rocket, and everyone could clearly see that the bottom of the rocket was a white-blue light with almost transparent edges.

The sound of the rocket was also different from before; it was much sharper.

Seeing the little mechanical red bird flying around answering questions, Bernard shamelessly went over and asked, "What we saw in the oasis were all real sounds and images, right?"

The little red bird seemed insulted, waving its little wings and saying, "Of course, we launched so many Starlink satellites and so many cameras in real time, just so that everyone can have a better viewing experience today."

While it lacks the tactile feedback of a typical oasis, what you see is absolutely real feedback! Even in space, what you see are real images captured by starship cameras!

Most of the surrounding audience were loyal fans of the aurora borealis and began to speak up for the bird.

"Who do you think you are, daring to question the aurora borealis?"

"Alright, maybe they're just some bumpkin Europeans. Let's be lenient with them. By today's standards, we'll all be on Mars in a few decades, and these people will still be having a meeting to discuss ethical issues."

"Are they from Europe?"

"Yes, the little bird navigator just told us that they were poor and had ulterior motives, spending fifty breaths to inquire about Aurora Technology's secrets."

"Shameless, typical of Europeans."

"Maybe it's British. The British are the most shameless."

Bernard felt too ashamed to continue watching, but then his eyes lit up, and he said with a pained expression, "I'm sorry, we are British. We British are just this lowly. We are bumpkins."

Then he pulled Werner away and quickly moved to a viewing platform where no one recognized them to continue watching.

The starship started very slowly, and when they changed observation decks, they found that the rockets still weren't getting going.

"This acceleration curve is far too smooth."

"It's not a chemical rocket, which makes sense. Look at this contrail, it looks more like a passenger plane."

To their surprise, there was also a bird robot here, but it was blue and had a completely different personality from the previous one. It didn't ask for money and kept introducing the starship to everyone from the air.

"Starships don't have a classification system. It's been two minutes now. It has now broken through the dense atmosphere, jettisoned its fairing, and begun its journey to the moon."

Now that we're about to enter orbit, the engine mode needs to be switched. Launch requires more thrust, so we're switching to pure fuel cruise mode to achieve a higher specific impulse.

Forty minutes later, the starship glided in orbit and ignited, directly entering the Earth-Moon transfer orbit.

The journey became noticeably less exciting after that, but Little Bluebird tried very hard to chat with people, making most of the people present feel embarrassed to simply leave.

People simply set up camp there, took out tents from their backpacks and started to rest, preparing to just follow them all the way to the moon. Except for occasionally logging off to take care of their bodily needs, some people even slept with their helmets on.

Thirty hours later, most of the people present were either asleep or watching other programs on Oasis through another window.

Only a small number of people kept staring at the surrounding starry sky.

The aurora truly brought the universe to life. Their observation deck followed the starship all the way into space, and many people were so fascinated by looking back at Earth that they could stare at it for ages.

At this moment, the little bluebird excitedly shouted, "We're here! We're going to the moon! We need to slow down soon!"

After more than 30 hours of flight, the starship successfully reached the moon and, using booster mode for retro-propulsion, successfully landed on the lunar surface.

Cheers erupted from the observation deck.

Although it was just a simulated scene seen in the oasis, people could still feel the joy that went straight to their bones.

It's a feeling of stepping out of your home planet and looking towards a more distant future.

Then they saw a hatch on the starship open, and countless robots rushed out and began to work.

They first disassembled the starship, breaking down the engines and fuel lines according to a pre-defined structure, turning it into the skeleton of a base.

The little bluebird then cheerfully began its introduction: "Look, this is the largest humanoid robot, codenamed Earthworker. They have flexible hands and are responsible for assembly, welding, pipeline work, and precision operations."

This thing that transports things is called the "Carrying Beast," and it's responsible for transferring goods.

These excavators are specifically designed for digging soil; their code name is Mole.

These two are lunar soil sintering machines; we will try to fire bricks here.

Over there, that's the most important Black Velvet ecological module. We will cultivate more Black Velvet on the moon. They can not only serve as an energy source, but also absorb the carbon dioxide produced by humans.

Of course, in addition to water ice, there is also dry ice in the permanently shadowed craters at the lunar south pole, which we will try to collect.

Oh, and there's this communication module too. From now on, this place will also shine with Starlink's light. Everyone can come down and explore freely! We already have real-time images of all the places we've explored with the aurora borealis. Although it doesn't have a physical feel, you can still see it!

The audience, who had waited for so long, were finally on the moon. Although there was no physical feedback and it couldn't compare to the usual Oasis experience, they were still very excited.

This is more exciting than ordinary games; it's a real view of the moon!

Bernard and Werner also came down from the observation deck. Unlike most people, they didn't stare at the robots building houses and fantasize about whether they might actually live on the moon someday.

They followed the robots that were exploring outwards, searching along the way.

The robot piled up a lot of human-made items together, including many things that looked like trash.

12 pairs of space boots, discarded gloves, and a Hasselblad camera.

A family photo taken by Duke during Apollo 16.

A hammer and a feather were used in Apollo 15 to demonstrate Galileo's free fall.

They also brought a hundred $2 bills with them, intending to have them signed on the moon. They originally planned to bring them back to Earth to auction off and achieve financial freedom, but then they forgot about them.

The Apollo 14 astronauts forcibly brought up the two golf balls and clubs they were swinging.

There are also six American flags, all tattered, an aluminum statue of "Fallen Astronauts," and a memorial plaque engraved with the names of the 14 fallen astronauts.

It was also a nail clipper and a self-portrait that an American astronaut deliberately discarded.

There is also the only known lunar burial in human history, containing the ashes of Eugene Shoemaker, who pioneered the study of astro-geology.

Of course, there are also quite a few more serious things.

The lunar module, weighing several tons, left behind by the six Apollo moon landings.

Several manned lunar rovers, and probes that have been deliberately rammed into the moon several times in history.

There were even two Soviet lunar rovers.

There's also China's Yutu lunar rover, which malfunctioned in 2014.

But most importantly, there are the 96 bags of excrement that the United States has historically dumped here.

Bernard was a little excited: "Those excrements are so important, they have great research value! I really want to know if there are any microorganisms still alive in them. Although Europe and the aurora borealis don't have a very good relationship, since you're doing this for scientific research, is there any possibility of cooperation?"

Werner sighed: "Just peek over and you'll know the answer."

Bernard stopped staring at the excrement bag on the ground; when he looked up, he felt numb.

The Aurora robot violently destroyed the still-operating lunar seismic monitoring station, as well as the magnetic field detectors, soil radiation analyzers, and water vapor detectors placed by various countries.

Even the lunar laser reflectors placed by Apollo 11 were not spared; they were all destroyed.

Aurora made their stance almost explicitly clear: they didn't want to share the moon with anyone.