Earth.

The human expeditionary fleet returned to the Earth's spaceport half a month ago, and all the space force soldiers, scientific researchers, and engineers who participated in the Battle of the Monocaria V838 were given a long vacation, which was long enough to grow hair at home.

However, some people have almost no time off and have started working in new jobs.

Especially in the field of scientific research, in the face of the uncracked technology of the high-civilization spacecraft, scientists always have an inexhaustible passion.

This kind of enthusiasm for the universe, for advanced technology, and for the future can be brought by this kind of enthusiasm and knowledge, which is sometimes difficult to understand.

For scientists, there is a phrase that truly expresses their knowledge of the universe.

The more you know, the more you know your ignorance.

After Fang Yuan returned to Earth, he went to visit Yang Yuping.

As expected, after Yang Yuping got rid of the shackles of his body, he really spent 24 hours a day conducting scientific research.

Except for dinner every day, fixed for ten minutes.

In those ten minutes, Yang Yuping would use the coffee machine in the machine to make a cup of coffee, put it on the table, and quietly watch the smell of coffee rise.

He doesn't actually have a sense of smell anymore, and the machine doesn't have a smell module installed in the shell.

He has only two senses: sight and hearing.

So, I can't drink coffee anymore.

But he would still make a cup of coffee at dinner time, watch it for ten minutes, and then continue to work.

When Fang Yuan went to see him for the first time, he picked up the coffee and said, "I'll be responsible for helping you drink it in the future." ”

After that, I was ready to drink the coffee.

Yang Yuping said: "That cup is mine, I'll make you another cup." ”

Then, really boiled another cup.

Fang Yuan felt that the old professor actually liked to be a person of flesh and blood, but his flesh and blood hindered his pursuit of science and truth.

So, he gave up his body.

Fang Yuan looked at the old professor's worksheet and found that he was in charge of more than a dozen scientific research projects at the same time.

"Why not specialize in one project? Wouldn't that be faster? ”

"It's not fast, and the scientific research project is not something I can complete alone, and I need to design the experimental ideas, and I need a team to help the experiment, and the experiment will be militarized if the experiment is successful. I specialize in a project, and even if I arrange all the experimental plans for the next 20 years, it will take 20 years to digest, and it is useless. Yang Yuping explained slightly.

Fang Yuan understood it as soon as he thought about it.

Yang Yuping can work 24 hours a day alone, but other researchers can't work like this.

Moreover, the process of scientific theories going from the laboratory to the militarization takes time.

Yang Yuping is mainly responsible for the research of basic theories, and it is not possible to complete the process of applying basic theories to civilization science and technology.

Therefore, if Yang Yuping specializes in a scientific research project, the final results of the project will not be shortened much in the time it takes to apply it to reality.

Instead, the most efficient solution is to be responsible for the basic theoretical research of multiple research projects at the same time.

Although he is responsible for several scientific research projects at the same time, the scientific theories of these projects themselves are very similar.

Among them, there are as many as seven or eight projects in space and wormholes.

The efficiency research project of the curvature engine is related to the spatial curvature.

Therefore, each scientific research project is inextricably linked.

Bite!

The clock on the table rang.

At the end of the ten-minute coffee break, Yang Yuping raised the fingers of the robotic arm in his right hand and said, "My coffee time is over." However, since my work for today has been completed, I can chat with you for an extra half hour. ”

"You chatted with me, I thought I was chatting with you." Fang Yuan blinked.

"The question of who accompanies whom, from a theoretical point of view, depends on who has work to be busy. I still have sixteen scientific projects to undertake, and in comparison, you are not idle. Yang Yuping chatted very well.

"Makes sense!"

Fang Yuan had to give a thumbs up, this theoretical analysis could not find a flaw at all.

Yang Yuping put a pair of robotic hands on the table, a bit like the sitting posture of a primary school student in class.

I don't know why, his mechanical body always has a very cute feeling, maybe the shape is relatively round, and it looks a little Q.

Coupled with his age, it makes people feel like an old child.

Yang Yuping didn't seem to mind chatting for a while and wasn't in a hurry to work.

"Professor, you say, what level of civilization is the human race now?" Fang Yuan started to chatter mode.

"Lab Technology Level: 2.5, Military Level: 1.9, Civilian Level: 1.2. Overall Grade: 1.8. Yang Yuping gave a statistic.

"This ...... How is it calculated? Fang Yuan didn't expect such data.

In fact.

Regarding the current level of civilization of mankind, it is very confusing.

In terms of scientific and technological level, the level of the curvature engine is very high, and it not only does not belong to the planetary civilization, but also does not belong to the stellar civilization.

Curvature-driven, it is the first step of a civilization from a galaxy to a wider universe.

Therefore, curvature-driven technology is the starting point for civilization to move towards the civilization of the 3.0 galaxy.

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for a planetary civilization to master curvature-driven technology.

Now, humans have conquered the curvature drive in the laboratory, so according to the level of laboratory technology, it is okay to rate 2.5.

It can't be rated higher, because there is only one technology that surpasses the level of a stellar civilization.

However, this is only the level of science and technology of the laboratory, and does not represent the true level of civilization.

Militarily speaking.

The first is a solar furnace, the second is an antimatter bomb, and the third is a strong nuclear material.

Therefore, from the point of view of military rank, the civilization level of mankind can only reach level 1.9.

If you rate it from the civilian side, it is even lower.

The reason why the civilian rating can reach 1.2 is because the civilian use of solar furnace power generation has raised the rating.

"The energy output of the solar furnace has increased by thirty times compared to six years ago, and the laboratory has built the first faster-than-light curvature engine, and the level of civilization in science and technology is difficult to define, but it is still okay to evaluate it at a level of 1.8." Yang Yuping said this, a smile appeared on his face.

"If you have a level 1.8 score, you have almost entered the stage of stellar civilization, and according to the progress of civilization, should you develop to other planets?" Fang Yuan asked casually.

"Judging by the progress of civilization, it is. However, I suggest finding a hidden terrestrial planet in the galaxy to develop a second home. You can't put all your eggs in the basket of the solar system, which could become a battlefield in the future. Yang Yuping replied seriously.

The Earth has been exposed to the sight of advanced civilizations, and it could become the main battlefield of interstellar warfare at any time.

Humanity really needs a second home, to preserve the flame of civilization.