Chapter 268: Command Suddenly Handed Over
The communication delay is really not easy to handle, the Earth is too far away from Mars.
With the current distance between earth and fire, even if the light takes a one-way trip, it takes about ten minutes, and a round trip is more than twenty minutes.
This is only the pure speed of light, and the signal converted by various devices is a little more delayed, so that the communication delay is longer.
And it can't be helped, because it involves the rules of physics.
The hyped "quantum communication" is actually only possible to achieve "quantum encrypted communication", so that the communication information cannot be deciphered, and the "ultra-distance communication" mode in science fiction works still only exists in science fiction works.
As for whether it can become a reality in the future, it's hard to say, but now or in the near future, there is no door.
It can't be solved now, and the people of the United Nations General Assembly will not waste time, let it go first, and solve other matters first.
After all, time is tight now, unlike other meetings usually, those meetings should be delayed, and this kind of "no way" thing has been determined to be no way, so other things must be guaranteed to be okay.
In addition to the communication delay problem that cannot be solved for the time being, the preparations made by the Navigator are also comprehensive, and the rest is the state of the aliens.
The latest information on Mars that is available to the general public is not updated for the time being, but in countries where there are probes on Mars, especially in countries with orbital probes, the information is updated in real time.
The United Nations has signed an information-sharing agreement, so the information is also updated in real time, plus there are several countries with orbital probes, all of which observe alien stations from the orbit of Mars, and what they see is basically the same, so there is no question of concealing or not concealing.
The most important thing is that the resolution of the pictures taken by various countries is not good, and the equipment with too high orbit can not even see the alien spacecraft, even if it descends to a low orbit, it can only see the blurry outline of the spacecraft, and then zoom in to the full screen of mosaics, resulting in the activity of the little aliens can not see clearly at all.
Therefore, in the real-time updated intelligence, it is basically a vague report.
"One day and one time, the alien spacecraft did not move."
"At a certain time and day, the reflective area near the alien spacecraft increased significantly, and it is suspected that the aliens have built some kind of facility out of spaceship parts."
"At a certain time and day, the reflective area of the alien station increased again, and it is suspected that the aliens are transforming the spaceship, and the most likely thing is to transform the spacecraft into a ground living facility."
This information, not to mention figuring out what the aliens are doing, even caused panic among representatives of certain countries for a time.
What if the aliens fix the spaceship?
What if aliens are building weapons facilities?
What if aliens are building a huge information emitting array and summoning an alien fleet?
All kinds of "what if" and "what to do" are intertwined in the brains of the delegates of various countries, causing the deputies of some countries to have a nervous breakdown.
And today, Navigator's "unmanned exploration spacecraft" entered the orbit of Mars, and a few hours later, the United Nations got clear photos of the alien station for the first time.
Although it is not as clear as the last video left behind by the Mars rover that was hijacked by Merrican, it has at least reached the level of a "satellite map" on Earth, and this time you can see the top view of the alien spacecraft, as well as a larger range of alien spacecraft dispersion.
After all, this alien spaceship fell, not landed there safely, so there are large pieces of debris scattered behind it, which cannot be shown in the previous pictures.
With this new information, combined with the "legacy" of the Merrican rover, scientists can analyze even more information.
"They are indeed trying to repair their ship, you see here, this is the pile of parts that they cleaned out of the ship, according to the previous blurry image, the parts pile has been reduced, there must be some relatively good parts that have been put back on."
"And over here, these should be two inflatable pressurized cabins, and they need to survive in them, which means that the damage to their ship should be so great that they can't even guarantee pressurized space."
"What is this, it looks like a shed built with spacecraft debris, I don't know if it's airtight, and the rover that hasn't found Merriken has been found, is it hiding under this shed?"
"I haven't seen anything like a weapon for the time being, of course, but I haven't seen a large one, I don't know if they will carry small hand-held weapons, and if so, the Helicopters of the Navigator Company are just as dangerous."
"It's hard to say now, and the other party's weapons are not necessarily our usual weapons, in case the other party uses laser weapons, the other party can fly to the solar system, at least it proves that some aspects of science and technology are more advanced than ours, and now some countries have begun to equip laser weapons, this alien spacecraft ...... It's hard to say no. ”
"I feel ......"
After a while, there are more unexpected situations that may occur than imagined.
There is no way, the technological level of human beings is like this, even if the technological level of human beings is a little higher, assuming that someone is stationed on Mars, they will have a way to minimize the risk of negotiation.
At the very least, there will be far fewer surprises due to communication delays.
As long as the front-line personnel are given enough authority, and then set up several situations, they can ensure that the task can be completed well.
Unfortunately, no, even the strongest Star Navigator company can't send someone to Mars right now.
It's just that whether it can succeed this time is still a big question mark.
Seeing that all the countries are pointing to the Navigator's equipment, and seeing that the Navigator is about to become the real Navigator, Merrican can't sit still.
So they had to put down their heads and have a private chat with Tang Chao.
After some time, everyone didn't know what happened during their meeting, only that Tang Chao suddenly changed his words.
"In view of the strict requirements and responsibilities of this contact mission, and the fact that Star Navigator is only a private company, we really can't afford this kind of responsibility, so we decided to hand over the control of the mission after an internal meeting and hand over the control to Merrican, who will be fully responsible for this contact mission......"
The delegates from all over the world at the conference were shocked, especially the representatives of Tianxia, whose hands holding the tea jar suddenly trembled a little, and looked at Tang Chao incredulously.
Then he suddenly looked at the representative of Miri, and found that the other party had become the appearance of an old god.
Holding his arms and calming down, he should have known in advance, and even glanced at himself, that attitude was like a provocation.
However, the representative of Tianxia knew that the Navigator side would not give up the leadership for no reason, so it must be that Merrican paid some price, a huge price that the Navigator Company could not refuse.
But he also knew that Merrican had never relaxed its public relations and temptation to the Star Navigator Company, and the Star Navigator Company had not accepted it before, so why did he suddenly accept it now?
Especially at such a critical time.
How critical is it?
According to the calculation of time, although the live broadcast on this side of the earth shows that it is still flying, the helicopter on Mars has landed, and it has been repaired for more than ten minutes, and it will take off again in another ten minutes, and then it will fly for five minutes to reach the alien station.
The initial greeting is set and asked as soon as it passes.
After all, the delay is too great, if the helicopter flies over people's heads for dozens of minutes, and then does nothing, they have to shoot you down.
So at this critical time, the leadership is handed over, what is the calculation of the Navigator Company?