At the beginning of this century.

People think that technology will always advance and be fast, but it is not.

The bottleneck appeared almost in the mid-twenties of this century.

In the more than ten years since then, although many things have been developed one after another, it is really only progress, not innovation.

Limited by factors such as energy, the pace of rapid development since the advent of the digital age in the last century has slowed down all of a sudden, and it can only consolidate the achievements of the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, and it feels like it has come to an end.

It was also in the mid-twenties of this century that the vast majority of fuel vehicles began to withdraw from the stage of history, and electric energy-powered cars became the mainstream, and the cruising range gradually increased to about 1,500 kilometers, followed by the development of more advanced high-performance batteries.

In 2037, a meteorite rain changed the situation.

A meteorite with a diameter of about 10 meters disintegrated over Asia, and then fell all over Southeast Asia, the large one was about a ton, hit a cargo ship, and slowly sank into the port, the small one weighed only a few grams, and it was difficult to find it when it fell to the ground.

At first, the news circle was fresh and reported a few articles, but more than two months later, there was news that those meteorites contained natural superconductor materials that had plagued the scientific community for more than half a century!

What does this mean?

It means that a superconducting maglev train with a vacuum pipeline at a speed of thousands of kilometers per hour is possible!

This means that solar energy from the Sahara region of Africa can power North America!

This means that the performance of the computer can increase by hundreds or even thousands of times!

What is even more shocking is that the nuclear fusion project seems to have a chance to come true - the "magnetic enclosure" technology of nuclear fusion reactors.

During nuclear fusion reactions, the internal temperature is as high as 100 million to 200 million degrees Celsius, and no conventional material can contain these substances.

The strong magnetic field generated by the superconductor can act as a "magnetic enclosure" to surround and confine the ultra-high temperature plasma in the thermonuclear reactor, and then slowly release it, so that the controlled nuclear fusion energy source has a promising new energy.

Due to the wide range of raw materials for nuclear fusion, it is expected that the energy problem will be completely solved, and even long-distance space travel will become possible.

Of course, these are only "possible", people have been looking for this ambient superconducting material for too long!

After the revelry, the bad news came because people couldn't analyze the material, and it was true that its superconducting properties could be used at room temperature, but there was no clue how to produce it on a large scale.

People know that superconductors at room temperature do exist, but they can't have this kind of iron-based superconducting material on a large scale, I have to say that this is a kind of sadness, a total of only six tons of meteorites, mixed with a small amount of useless impurities, usable only more than four tons, enough for what? can't even make a long wire.

This is what will happen in 2037.

When it comes to this, we have to talk about a person...... Su Beidou's cheap dad, Su Baichuan.

At that time, he was already fascinated by astronomy, this meteorite was staring all the way, flying from the vicinity of Mars, combined with other components analyzed from the meteorite, as well as the super-large meteorite collision with Mars at that time, from the surface of Mars "passing" event, it was concluded that this meteorite is inseparable from Mars.

The originally abandoned manned exploration of Mars was put on the agenda, and a new "God of War Project" was born, hoping to get more ore to bring back for research, or use mining technology to get more delivery equipment to Earth.

As for why there are competitors, it can only be said that he is not the only smart person.

When Su Baichuan was still young, if he had to do this thing on a hunger strike, other parents might beat him up, Su Beidou's grandfather was different, he was young and ambitious, he really believed it, and started to do it.

Su Baichuan and his father, both father and son are not ordinary people, so let's not mention this for the time being.

Anyway, the prelude to the fifth industrial revolution was quietly opened after the meteorite rain that year......

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Su Beidou dreams almost every night.

There are all kinds of people in the dream, and there are all kinds of scenes, which seem to be real, but not like they are real.

In the dream, he was in a hurry, a young man whose face he couldn't see clearly ran to find the toilet, and it took him a while to find him, and he was releasing water to relieve the water in his bladder, when suddenly a feeling of wetness came, all the way to his waist.

Well, when I opened my eyes, I was stunned for a while, and I knew that I was wetting the bed again.

Turning over and crawling to the side with great difficulty, the drowsiness hit again, so I lay down on the dry mattress and continued to sleep.

The rotation time of Mars and the rotation time of the Earth are different, since the first astronaut from the Ares base came here and stepped on the first footprint, the "Martian Era" was officially launched.

It is of no significance to the planet under our feet, it is just an ordinary and insignificant existence among countless celestial bodies in the universe, but for all mankind, this is simply the top priority of the 21 st century, and the viewership of the live broadcast is as high as 5 billion! There are only more than 8 billion people in the whole human race.

I had nothing to do but sleep, until I was in the early four o'clock in the morning, and Su Beidou woke up again.

The water stains on the back of the open crotch pants have long since dried, and there is a familiar smell, so it doesn't matter if you get used to it.

I didn't think about having children, the clothes I was wearing were cut from adults' clothes, rough workmanship, onesies, the kind of open files, humiliation or something, there would be at first, but now there is none, and it is really convenient to save trouble.

The stomach was so hungry that he was gurgling, and the six-and-a-half-month-old child, who was occasionally able to eat some dry rice, emitted a faint white light around him, and a man and a woman were sleeping on the bed.

I probably have some understanding of my situation at the moment.

Squatting with difficulty, through the window, I could see two moons hanging in the sky, one large and irregularly shaped, and the other small, like stars.

There is no atmosphere, no light pollution, suspended matter in the air, the stars in the sky are very bright, a whole Milky Way hangs there, I have seen it several times, but every time it can make Su Beidou feel shocked.

By daytime, the sky was reddish-brown, and it had never rained, but windy weather often appeared, and there was a return capsule standing quietly there, and the red flag sign on it made Su Beidou feel familiar.

He remembered some things, such as always thinking that the sky should be blue, and there were buildings and many people, as he often dreamed of.

The reality and the dream were so disconnected that he couldn't figure out which one was real, and when he looked down at the fleshy little slap, it was hard to believe that it was his own hand.

I don't know how to stand up, but when I came back to my senses, Su Beidou was already standing, standing on the bed with his hand by the window.

His mother Zhao Xin seemed to have noticed something, and was recently tossed by the little guy and couldn't figure it out, opened her eyes in a daze, and was suddenly startled when she saw this scene!

"Wake up, Baichuan, wake up, our son will stand!"

In her sleep, Su Baichuan slapped her arm away, held the quilt between her legs, turned over, and murmured: "I don't have milk, you go feed ...... first"