From black technology to super engineering

After the meeting, Ye Ming went back to his suite at the Expert Hotel in Space City and took a shower. He didn't go out again after the meeting, but ordered the kitchen to get something to eat, and then sat in the room with Director Niu and Director Zhang. Continue the discussion while eating.

The idea of ​​building a space dock in advance was born temporarily after Ye Ming went into space.

How do you say that? Only personal experience can make the most accurate judgment.

This time, Ye Ming spent half a month in the sky, and most of them stayed at the Guanghan base. He just stayed at the space observatory for one night when he returned.

The person in charge of the Space Observatory is Li Lei. After confirming the YE-2023 black hole with the data of Skynet and Ye Ming, Li Lei also successfully got the offer from Dianke. , and his personal will was very strong, so he became the director of the first space observatory logically.

That night at the Space Observatory, the enthusiastic Li Lei chatted with Ye Ming for a long time. The two chatted from the big bang to the formation of the universe, the wormhole network, the cradle of civilization, the future of space colonization, and so on.

Frankly speaking, Li Lei inspired Ye Ming a lot.

After all, Li Lei is the only astrophysicist in Ye Ming's circle who can talk to him freely.

"Your greatest ability is that no one can use counterexamples to object to any suggestion you make." After holding a meatball for Ye Ming, Director Niu tore a napkin, and smiled with a little helplessness in his emotion Said: "You can't even use lessons learned from the past."

Director Zhang also nodded with a smile.

Director Niu's emotion naturally refers to his opposition to Ye Ming's idea of ​​launching a "space dock".

Ye Ming stuffed the ball into his mouth, he was happy for a while, and after swallowing it anyway, he smiled and said, "Why?"

"If you and I know something well, you don't need me to flatter you." Director Niu smiled, and was about to give him a meatball, but Ye Ming avoided it with a bowl.

Ye Ming coughed lightly: "Well, it's not that I don't know the current situation, so I said, Space City can continue to slow down first, and the space dock can be built first."

As Director Niu said, there is really no way to object to Ye Ming's proposal to build a space dock—because whether it is from the perspective of the future of mankind, the liberation of productivity, or the perspective of technology, the current conditions are all satisfied.

And more importantly, so far, all the engineering projects proposed by Ye Ming are not "useless"! They are all useful and useful!

The only reason to oppose him may be "money".

As we all know, the wealth or strength of a civilization does not depend on how much gold you have dug up, or even how high your technology tree has climbed...

Instead, look at the magnitude of available resources and the efficiency and manner in which resources are used.

The former includes the type and quantity of resources, and the latter includes productivity and industrial methods.

This is the most essential standard.

Now that mankind is striding into the era of intelligent robots, productivity has been greatly liberated. But as far as the resource itself is concerned...

Frankly, it's not enough.

Or in other words, the current exploitation and utilization rate of human resources are not enough to support at the same time, on the one hand, vigorously improve the living standards of human beings, and on the other hand, vigorously carry out the expansion of the universe.

This is the main contradiction at present.

Today, human beings’ investment in the cause of the universe, settled in RMB, has reached tens of trillions—this money is not just printing banknotes, or even digging gold, but requires you to create such a value. Much money for "substance" to come.

Otherwise, you are plundering the whole world.

But now that human beings have formed a community, and the earth has entered a new space age, are you still allowed to engage in the affairs of the poor and the rich?

If it is made public that human beings are facing a crisis of extinction, then of course the common people will accept it, but the problem is that it has not been made public and cannot be made public.

"I'm not good at economics, but I also know that redistribution must be a good way." Ye Ming continued: "At present, our biggest problem is that if we look at the earth's economy as a whole, then the earth is a self-circulation And a closed economy, in other words, we can’t make money, and we can only increase material wealth by increasing productivity, increasing the rate of resource collection and utilization, including energy.”

Director Niu and Director Zhang nodded at the same time.

"The experience of the Canglan people reminded me." Ye Ming looked at the two of them: "In the universe, there is not only human civilization, and at present, the communication between civilizations is basically close to nothing—otherwise, Fermi would not Paradox."

The two nodded again.

The so-called Fermi paradox refers to "if there are aliens, where are they?"

"To give an inappropriate example, the universe today is similar to before the great voyages of mankind. Then why don't we look to other galaxies?"

"We all know that in the age of great voyages, whoever has the most ships is the king. The ships here are not just warships. In fact, merchant ships are the most important."

"Not to mention anything else, if we can sell chips and robots to the outside world one by one... what a huge market there will be!"

Ye Ming put down his chopsticks, his eyes burning.

The two looked at each other, then fell into deep thought.

After a long time, Director Niu said softly: "Perhaps, the unified currency can squeeze out money."

"Well, that's your business. I'll hand over the report later." Ye Ming said as he twisted up the half bottle of beer next to him, poured himself a small half glass, and said proudly, "Come on, do it!"

Director Niu: "..."

Director Zhang: "..."

Ye Ming stayed in Aerospace City for three days, and he did not return to the provincial capital until Xunxing returned from Canglan Star with species and protein reagents.

After all, this is a treasure that robs the rich and redistributes it, and he has to see it for himself.

...

After returning to the provincial capital, Ye Ming started to get busy.

On the one hand, he has to personally communicate with Wu Dalisi to help him design the artificial wormhole; It helped him a lot, and it was a mutual benefit.

It's just that Wu Dalisi didn't know Ye Ming's real intention to unify the space coordinate system.

In addition, Ye Ming also presides over the experiment of three-dimensional matter unfolding in a two-dimensional space membrane-this aspect is actually not difficult, because three-dimensional matter will naturally expand two-dimensionally after it comes into contact with a two-dimensional space membrane, but other The structure would change, and the trouble would be to experimentally determine the coordinates of the three-dimensional matter in the two-dimensional unfolding.

For example, to give a simple example, circuits in a three-dimensional world can be infinitely interlaced in space without affecting each other. But try it in two dimensions?

Fortunately, the three-dimensional to two-dimensional coordinate system was established smoothly—from this point, we can know how high the utilization rate of high-dimensional space to low-dimensional space can be—under Aita’s exhaustive design, The design of the two-dimensional thruster was quickly completed.

With the completion of the two-dimensional thruster, it also marks the birth of a new two-dimensional space design discipline - it must be known that a large number of scholars have been conducting research before, but they have not yet carried out specific applications.

Time passed quietly in the busyness, and soon the weather gradually heated up.

At the beginning of May, a new batch of probes sailed to the Canglan Star System along with the last six Mending Sky ships.

According to the original plan, this time, an Asterisk was to take people to replace Mo Gu and Zhou Xiangnan's Canglan Star Scientific Expedition Team, but due to the strong wishes of the other party, the replacement of Asterisk was postponed for half a year.

The reason why those people are unwilling to go back to Earth...a large part of the reason is that this group of people have realized that if they come back, then it is estimated that they will never be able to return to Canglan Star in this lifetime.

After all, there are so many human scientists, and countless people are lining up behind them...

Of course, part of the reason may be that they hope to stay longer and give their relatives the right to distribute life protein alone.

——Life protein has been proven effective by the human body, so it is foreseeable that before it becomes the price of cabbage, this thing is a sought-after item.

And the country has also officially implemented the dual system of distribution system and free lottery—but even so, who is willing to take the odds with their aging parents?

Therefore, in the implementation of the distribution policy, it is inevitable for those who have made contributions to mankind, especially the astronauts. In addition, they will also take care of their relatives according to their contributions.

In June, the plan for the Space Dock was adopted and executed simultaneously.

Ye Ming didn't know what measures the country had taken in order to gain global support, and what kind of promises and interest concessions it had made. He only knew that the country had taken care of Australia.

The reason is simple...Because the integrated factories of Jizhi Technology have entered Australia in an all-round way, and began to mine coal, iron and other resources on a large scale.

Then at the end of July, news came from Canglan Star that their liaison spacecraft had been officially completed and was about to set sail today.

As a friendly civilization, they promise that they will unconditionally inform humans about the situation in the star field they explored during this trip.

Of course, human beings also promise that they will unconditionally report the discovery of extraterrestrial civilizations involved in the star road by human probes and pilot ships.

...

Brain Center.

In Ye Ming's office, the air conditioner was only turned on to 24 degrees.

The reason why it is so high is not for energy saving, nor is Ye Ming weak, but He Mo's body is a little weak - she has never come down since she accompanied Ye Ming to the moon, and because of work, it has been a long time. Nedu stayed in the non-artificial gravity area, which affected her body.

Letting her return to Earth now is also a comprehensive inspection.

"Is your body okay?" Seeing that the flesh on He Mo's face was a little slack, Ye Ming looked obviously "old" a lot...so he didn't dare to joke with her, but asked with concern.

"It's not bad, it's a typical moon disease." He Mo waved his hand indifferently, then touched his face, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Well, you look young on the moon, but you'll be old when you come back."

"It's okay, the next batch of protein will be back soon, it's better than Botox." Ye Ming said with a smile.

"It's not just rejuvenation." Despite He Mo's words, his eyes couldn't hide his demeanor.

Which woman doesn't want to keep her youth longer!

She's only in her thirties... Well, even though she's already past her youth, she has to be ashamed to say that she can still grab the tail of her youth!

As he said that, He Mo looked around again: "The probe will go to the Triangulum galaxy next, are you going to Xichang or are you here to command?"

"Well... it's here. If you go to Xichang, there will be many face-to-face meetings in reality, which is a waste of time." Ye Ming glanced at the time and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Damn, the industrial civilization is not as good as the biological civilization of the Canglan Star." , What do you think we have the face to waste time?"

He Mo then laughed.

Of course she knew what Ye Ming was talking about—it was about the construction speed of the Canglan Star people.

Hmm... To be precise, it is the shipbuilding speed of the Canglan Stars.

When the Canglan Stars decided to come to Earth, humans and the Canglan Stars reached a consensus, and then both sides began to design warships at the same time—Ye Ming was deeply involved in the design of the opposite side, which means that the Canglan Stars will not cheat. .

During the period, the Canglan Star people also took a look at semiconductor technology by the way, and came up with LCD panels and low-power processors.

Now, the returning research ships of the Canglan Stars are ready to take off, and the spaceships built simultaneously by humans are still undergoing final assembly in the Dalian Dockyard. According to the plan, it is estimated that we will have to wait at least three months before we can start.

Of course, there are also reasons why humans lag behind in shipbuilding.

The most fundamental thing is that humans are made on the earth...Naturally, it is necessary to fight against gravity in terms of results, and take into account take-off and landing on the ground.

The Canglan Stars themselves are in the space city, and they build pure spaceships.

But in any case, human shipbuilding is an industrialized behavior, and Canglan Star's man-made ship is a small handicraft workshop...

It's a bit embarrassing indeed.

"By the way, let's do an interview. Do you have any thoughts about the Triangulum galaxy?" After laughing, He Mo blinked again, with a curious expression on his face.

Ye Ming heard the words and took a light breath, then narrowed his eyes.

A week ago, a new batch of human probes arrived at the Canglan Star Galaxy, and the probes also arrived at the entrance of the wormhole.

Today, the Mending Sky also completed the "Sky Mending Project" at the entrance of the last wormhole on Canglan Star.

Then tomorrow, it is time for the probe to go through the star gate again and go to the galaxy outside the blue star.

To be on the safe side, humans will send two probes to the Triangulum galaxy this time.

According to the information of the Canglan people, there was civilization in the Triangulum galaxy five thousand years ago, and its level of civilization was the same as that of humans at that time, and it was also in a barbaric period.

So after five thousand years, has their civilization improved? To what extent has it been raised?

Also, according to the Canglan Star, the executor came through the star gate of the Triangulum...

So, did the executor successfully destroy the Triangulum galaxy? Or can we find the traces left by the executor five thousand years ago?

All these unknowns have contributed to this exploration of the Triangulum galaxy.

"Let's see."