Chapter 577: The Space Age and the Dark Forest
Luo Jia, together with the first batch of on-site scientific researchers, began the journey from Earth to Space Station Zero, and after twelve hours of continuous ascent, the elevator finally reached the geosynchronous orbit.
Luo Jia looked up and found that the space station zero had been fully presented in front of him, it was so majestic and shocking, the cylindrical central axis connected the front and rear berthing areas, and the huge annular structure was like a silver-white super Ferris wheel, slowly rotating non-stop.
The Ferris wheel structure has a total of three floors, namely the living area, the scientific research area, and the logistics support area, in the future, with the increase in the number of personnel stationed in the space station, the zero space station will continue to expand, and the large space dock will soon be put into operation to assemble the starship module transported from the Inner Mongolia base.
In short, it is the most incredible miracle in the history of mankind, and it is difficult for any words to describe the beauty of the space station zero, and from then on, mankind will establish a real home in space, and connect the earth and the universe more closely through the powerful transportation capacity of the space elevator.
"Please note that Elevator 1 is about to connect to Space Station Zero, and air pressure changes and mechanical collisions will inevitably occur during the connection, so please return to their respective positions and fasten their seat belts...", the synthesized female voice recalled.
Luo Jia had no choice but to apologize to the audience, end the live video, return to his position, straighten the seat, fasten the seat belt, and the staff of the elevator operation department checked them one by one, the process is a bit like the stage of aircraft take-off and landing, but the stability is incomparable to that of an airplane.
The elevator followed the graphene cableway and soon entered the interior of Space Station Zero, as if driving into a cave, first the mechanical device was docked and fixed, and then the safety gate and airtight door were closed one after another, and the space station released air to the docking module, adjusting the air pressure until it was similar to the Earth's atmosphere.
Click~
Under the guidance of the staff, Luo Jia unbuckled her seat belt, and then her body floated up, which felt very amazing.
This is a deliberately arranged weightlessness experience for this trip, and although there is no gravity generated by rotation in the central axis of the space station zero, there is also an electromagnetic gravity simulation device.
Soon after, the weightlessness experience activity ended, the electromagnetic gravity device was turned on, Luo Jia felt that the weightlessness state gradually disappeared, and the whole body fell to the ground, because there was a magnetic device in the space boots, so the feet landed first.
If you want to try it in the future, you can find a room in the central axis area at random, turn off the magnetogravity simulator, and you can enter the weightless state.
Click~
When the sealed door was opened, Luo Jia saw that the robot engineering team was neatly arranged, like a team of soldiers waiting to be reviewed, and the electronic eyes were staring curiously at the group of humans.
"Everyone has worked hard, the space station zero and the space elevator No. 1 have been successfully completed, and you are the number one hero!" Luo Jia said with a smile.
He praised the robot like a friend, and then asked them to disband, each of them returned to work, don't care too much about their arrival, in Luo Jia's mind, the robot is not a slave, but a partner, and in the future, he will join hands with humans to go to the sea of stars.
Under the leadership of Luo Jia, Xingchen Technology, and even the world's concept of robots are slowly changing, at this moment people do not know that in the long years to come, this kind of peaceful coexistence with robots, and the interracial friendship established by it, will have an unimaginable important role for the human beings on the earth to enter the crisis-ridden cosmic society, it is no exaggeration to say that it is Luo Jia's decision to save everyone.
The live broadcast channel is still continuing, after Luo Jia and others came to the zero space station, they added a sense of immersion to the live broadcast, watching the big boys excitedly drinking Coke, jumping into the swimming pool to play, or riding a bicycle in the gym, while facing the blue and beautiful earth, as if they were there.
"I'll go, this is too handsome! You can still swim in Space Station Zero! β
"Oh my God, when they are exercising, they are actually facing the floor-to-ceiling windows, and outside the floor-to-ceiling windows are the slowly rotating earth, the distant Jupiter and Mars, and the bright stars!"
"Humph! I'm not happy, compared with the zero space station, our family's invincible sea view room is not fragrant at all. β
"Your house faces the sea, and the space station zero faces the sea of stars, so it's not better than that."
"I don't know if Space Station Zero is open for tours? If you can stay at Station Zero for one night in this life, it's worth dying!. β
"It should be possible, Luo Jia said that he wants to develop space tourism, but according to his usual habit of turning his elbows inward, I'm afraid you have to get a Chinese nationality first..."
"God, so envious! I really want to be a Chinese citizen! β
The barrage is frantically refreshed, as if all human beings around the world have turned into lemon essence in an instant, not to mention the sourness, the Western melon-eating masses seem to have witnessed a historical reincarnation, when the United States and the Soviet Union space race, China was poor and white, and nothing could be done except to look at it.
Today, Huaxia has returned to the stage of history and become one of the biggest players on the stage, while at the same time, the protagonists of the past are gradually becoming audiences.
"What you're seeing now is the design of the fourth ring of Space Station Zero." Luo Jia faced the camera, pointed to the blueprint hanging in the conference room and said: "The fourth ring will be built after the Spring Festival, and by that time we will welcome the first visitors to the space station, outstanding student representatives of Xingchen University, meritorious employees in the company, elites from all walks of life, and so on." β
"They will have the opportunity to spend an unforgettable three days and three nights in the space station Zero, due to space constraints, there are not many opportunities to travel to space, but with the continuous expansion of the space station, with the opening of the moon base and the Mars base, one day, we will enter the real space society, everyone can start space travel as easily and conveniently as home."
Luo Jia drew a big pie for all the audience in the way he is good at, and in the face of such a wonderful and beautiful future, people don't know how to describe it except for the real fragrance.
"Hooray! Long live Xingchen Technology! β
"The era of the universe has finally arrived!"
"We will definitely conquer Mars, conquer the solar system, conquer the galaxy!"
"Little wrecking ball, rush, rush!"
The barrage is crazy refreshed, full of optimism and arrogance, it seems that because of the inspiration of Xingchen Technology, now everyone thinks that the road to the sea of stars is not a difficult thing...
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Far away in the dark stars, a small, ancient, dilapidated flying machine is heading for the center of the galaxy at a speed of seventeen kilometers per second.
Loneliness is its fate, and since Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 AD, it has always been a lonely existence, day after day, year after year.
From today's point of view, the technical equipment of Voyager 1 is very backward, and for many years, it has relied on a high-gain antenna with a diameter of 3.7 meters to barely maintain contact with the earth.
The strength of the radio signal will decay with the increase of the transmission distance, and in order to receive the negligible signal, NASA built the Deep Space Network, or DSN for short.
The DSN consists of three 120-degree deep space communication facilities, located in California in North America, Madrid in Spain, and Canberra in Australia, to achieve signal transmission with Voyager 1 and is not affected by the Earth's rotation.
The Voyager 1 communicates at frequencies up to 8 GHz, and in this band, there is hardly any interference and a very high signal-to-noise ratio.
Voyager 1 is equipped with a high-precision gyroscope to ensure that it can always align its antenna in the direction of the Earth in deep space.
All in all, scientists have tried their best to maintain a very difficult connection between Earth and Voyager 1, which is the greatest explorer ever created, and no probe has ever been able to go as far as it.
Although Voyager 1 is definitely qualified to go down in history, there are still voices against it, and people's biggest fear of Voyager 1 comes from the gold record.
NASA's group of naΓ―ve scientists are very eager to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations, so they placed a gold record in the cabin of Voyager 1, which not only contains the detailed position symbol of the earth, but also a lot of history and information about human beings.
I believe that all those who have seen Liu Cixin's three-body problem will be very impressed by the law of the dark forest, especially the Chinese people, because as the oldest civilization on the earth, we understand better than anyone, any country, or any group organization that it is not easy for a civilization to continue, and it is really difficult to live!
All the civilizations that were once parallel to Huaxia, one is counted as one, and all of them perished, because in this world, the continuation of civilization has never been the norm, and the destruction of civilization is!
Liu Cixin said that the universe is like a dark forest, and every civilization is a hunter with a gun, sneaking through the forest like a ghost, gently brushing away the branches that stand in the way, trying not to make a sound from his footsteps, and even breathing must be careful.
He had to be very careful, because the forest was full of hunters who were just like him, and if he found another life, there was only one thing he could do, shoot them.
In this forest, others are hell, an eternal threat, and any life that reveals its existence will soon be annihilated.
In the eighth year of the establishment of Xingchen Technology, on January 1, the zero space station and the No. 1 space elevator were officially put into operation.
Everyone was so happy that no one noticed that another "little thing" had happened on this day, the farthest probe ever traveled, Voyager 1, had lost contact with Earth for more than seventy-two hours.