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"Engine and navigation?" Mint felt a little strange, "Why put these two together?"

"This question is on the point." Yuan Yu clapped his hands and said, "For conventional drive interstellar navigation, navigation planning is completely unnecessary, because you can't run faster than the speed of light, So you can always see what is in front of you to avoid 'crashing'. But for curvature drive, considering the frame of reference of other planets, the speed of your space bubble is faster than the speed of light, so it is completely impossible to 'crash' See what's in front of you before you arrive. In order to avoid collisions, you must do navigation planning and determine the course of the curvature spacecraft in advance to prevent collisions with other spacecraft or space stations. Of course, there are other measures, such as arranging and The early warning detector jointly driven by the main ship detects objects in the expected orbit ahead of the movement, and sends information through the wormhole to inform the main ship in advance to avoid it, but it is still necessary to plan the route in advance.”

Mint seemed to understand what she said, and just about to nod in agreement, Yuan Yu said again: "But the above is not enough to explain why the engine and navigation are together. In fact, for most of the curvature spaceships in the fleet, the engine It is not designed together with the route, because the universe is so vast, there is no need to worry about the lack of space and the need to modify the size of the engine.”

"Oh, by the way," Yuan Yu explained, "I'm afraid you don't know very well that the 'true volume' of the curvature spacecraft is not calculated according to the volume of the hull, but according to the maximum influence range of the engine when it distorts space. Therefore, in order to fit two routes into a certain space, what needs to be adjusted is not the volume of the hull, but the power of the engine.”

"Under normal circumstances, the curvature spacecraft of the fleet will not go to star fields with relatively narrow space. Because, you know, there are many other spacecraft, and the places where the space is not so rich are mostly around colonized planets. We usually go to those places through wormholes "Yuan Yu continued, "As for places where the space around the colonized planets is not so rich, if you want to drive the curvature spacecraft safely, you must make accurate calculations based on the space influence range of the engine and the routes of other aircraft. Those curvature spacecraft that cannot fit into the existing remaining space need to adjust their engines and routes, such as increasing power levels of different curvatures, adopting routes that avoid major aircraft groups, etc., to ensure that the spacecraft can operate in a safe environment. The premise is sufficiently close to the planet."

"So far, I have updated the third-generation curvature engine for the public curvature spacecraft that travels between the five colonial planets. And this time I came to Zhuyu to test whether this new route is reasonable." Yuan Yu said with a smile , "So, do you probably understand, my mint cutie?"

Mint shook his head completely incomprehensible.He didn't study aerospace in college, so how could he understand all these things at once.However, perhaps in universities at the base level, even aerospace majors don't teach these things.He remembered that when he was in college, there was a very cynical professor in the school, who always said that cutting-edge technology had been blocked by the apex class, and children of the base class could not learn any real knowledge at all.He was actually right. Mint had a high school classmate majoring in aerospace at the best university in the base class, but once chatting online, he complained to his classmates disappointedly that he was only learning recoil drive technology.

"It's normal not to understand." Yuan Yu said with a smile, "There is so much knowledge in this world, how can people understand it all when they are alive?"

Mint agrees very much. It seems that an ancient person said: "My life has a limit, but knowledge has no limit. If there is a limit, follow the limitless, and perish yourself." However, can the dead know all knowledge?In fact, he doesn't really believe in sayings like heaven and hell.

"It's just that some knowledge is very beautiful and charming, and they tempt people to understand." Yuan Yu seemed to think of something, and said to himself, "They confuse people to clear those happy memories, thus occupying their brains, and then Create more knowledge..."

"But learning knowledge itself is a happy thing, right?" Mint asked tentatively.

Yuan Yu looked at him, smiled and said, "Of course."

She stood up from the bench and said to Mint: "Want to see my spaceship? It's in the hangar of your tourist station."

Mint stood up in a panic: "Are you leaving?!"

"I don't care." Yuan Yu said indifferently, but smiled at Mint, "It's you, my little cutie, do you want to go outside the atmosphere?"

Go outside the atmosphere?Are you leaving Zhuyu?This was something that the former Mint had never thought of, and it was something that he had never even dared to think about for the previous Mint.He used to think that the money he earned for a lifetime would not be enough to pay for an interstellar trip, but now standing in front of him is a citizen of the fleet who can give him this opportunity to make something that he can never achieve on his own. matter.

Mint's heart was pounding, and he was afraid that when he answered "yes", Yuan Yu smiled and told him that she was just joking.However, he still suppressed his excitement and said, "I want to."

"Well, when shall we leave?" Yuan Yu put his hands into the pockets of his smart temperature-regulating jacket and asked him with his head tilted.

when?Mint really wanted to answer "now" directly, but it suddenly occurred to him that he didn't know what to pay attention to when he entered space, such as whether he would be under a lot of pressure when riding a curvature spacecraft, or what equipment he needed to wear and what training he received— He never thought that he could leave Zhuyu before, so he never knew anything about interstellar travel!

"I..." Thinking that he still doesn't know how to travel between stars, Mint couldn't help but feel a little confused, "What should I bring?"

"It depends on what you want to bring." Yuan Yu said with a smile, "I don't know, such as a wristband (a portable computer with a holographic interface, similar to a mobile phone in the early 21st century)? Drinks? Snacks? Oh, if you want If you bring a cosmetic case, it is recommended to close the lids, because there will be a short period of weightlessness during the acceleration before entering the curvature drive state, and some things may spill out."

Mint stared at her blankly, thinking that this sounds like just taking the high-speed train to another city for fun, does interstellar travel really only need so many things?But then he thought that the top class received by the guides at the tourist station did not seem to be carrying big bags when they arrived at the station. It seems that interstellar travel is indeed not what he imagined in the space station in isolation suits. The way it floats around.

But Mint still sincerely reminded: "Well... I don't have a good sense of direction, can I go like this?"

"Of course, no problem." Yuan Yu said with certainty.

"But if it is under weightless conditions, I may not be able to find where to go at all." Mint said with some concern.After all, he can turn in only four directions on the two-dimensional ground, and it may be more serious in six directions in three dimensions.

"I won't stay in weightless conditions for a long time." Yuan Yu smiled, "Besides, you are in my spaceship during weightlessness, even if you vomit, you won't lose face in front of others. There is nothing to worry about."