Chapter Eighty-Four: Star Journey, Expedition
This cockpit was much larger than the one Mark was in before, and the lighthouse told them that this was the ship's main control room, with the highest authority to control the ship, and that many of the main functions had to be used here.
Mark was startled at first by the reflection of the cold and silent cosmic space on the huge circular walls around the wheelhouse, but also because the lunar ground had cracked and the spaceship had rushed out of the rock shell, if that were the case, the 200 million people living on the surface of the moon would have no choice but to die.
Soon the lighthouse told him that they were still under the surface of the moon, and that all they saw were images it had taken with the base units it had released, and Mark calmed down.
The lighthouse is the name given to itself by the AI of the lost civilization, its great creator has long since left, leaving it alone to watch over everything they left behind, just like a lonely old man guarding the lighthouse by the sea, its life is very long, but sooner or later it will come to an end, when it can only face this endless nothingness and emptiness by itself, this is its own explanation. Does AI also sense fear? Will it also interpret life? All this seems to be unique to living beings, and the artificial intelligence that came into this world with the help of our hands, they also γγγγγγ from us Inherited and learned all this?
Mark discussed a lot with him about the name and death, his mind was not as advanced as Sun Tan, but it was simple and natural, and they were all the same rough level for the lighthouse, so it also preferred to talk to Mark.
"Where are we now?" Mark can't read the data displayed next to the screen, and he can't read alien text, but the former is of course more difficult.
"Lighthouse, can you convert these words?" Sun Tan asked.
"The translation is a bit imprecise, but I try my best." The electronic sound of the lighthouse is much more comfortable than the previous one, and both parties have benefited from the communication after putting down the barrier, but the lighthouse is more interested in human philosophy than emotion.
Just like when Mark was first dragged down, the white walls around them flashed twice, and countless characters from humans flowed quickly on them, and in less than a second, the words disappeared, and the words on the screen were transformed into the words of the earth.
There are English, there are Chinese, and there are some other types of text, depending on which one the lighthouse thinks is more appropriate for translation, Mark knows almost every word, but still can't read it, and these beating numbers and lines are much more difficult for him to understand than alien words.
"We're already at the edge of the solar system, where the Earth's second jump disappears, between the heliopause and the Kuiper belt." Sun Tan saw what was expressed on the radar chart, and was very surprised to point to a small dot at the bottom of the screen, and asked, "Lighthouse, can you help us enlarge it?"
"Absolutely." As soon as the words fell, the small dot was enlarged to the size of covering the entire screen, it was a dilapidated spacecraft, from the style and structure of the obvious human hand, it had a radar-like funnel-shaped device, dragging a long metal rod, two pairs of solar panels shrunk on both sides of the body, the top was cratered, covered with traces left by miniature meteorites in space, he was like a dying old man, dragging his staggering steps, walking indomitably in the vast cosmic space.
It is very slow, so slow that it seems to have stood still, but it is indeed still moving forward little by little by virtue of inertia, and it is burdened with the expectations and imagination of human beings, condensing the highest crystallization of human science and technology at the end of the twentieth century, and condensing the exploration and pursuit of the vast starry sky of human beings for thousands of years.
Voyager One.
The old satellite, launched in 1977, had run out of all its power, and after taking the last photo of Neptune's 1 satellite, it lost contact.
It will float quietly in the universe, wearing the golden disc that records the history, culture, and ideas of mankind.
It was expected to reach the next star system in 40,000 years, but now people have caught up with it, flying a supership from an alien civilization. It is composed of specially modified particles, and there is not a single blemish on the surface of the ship, and even if you zoom in many times, you can only see an absolutely smooth representation, on the other hand, Voyager 1, which is composed of alloy and silicon chips, seems to be an inferior product made by barbarians with stone hammers and furnaces.
The co-framing of the two at this moment is full of drama, like a surreal painting full of irony.
"Actually, if it weren't for this incident, we would have been able to catch up with Voyager 1 fifty years later, remember the new concept ship we got in the Geocenter? The laser-powered spacecraft will definitely enter the field of application in a few decades, and from the earth, the laser spacecraft will only need half a year to catch up with it. Sun Tan sighed and said.
The lighthouse is very disdainful of Sun Tan's laser power, which is still a working fluid driving method, which is too low-level in its opinion, and the chemical power spacecraft and laser spacecraft may be similar to the progress of chopping wood to boiling hot water to electric heating hot water, and it has never jumped out of the circle of boiling hot water.
"Lighthouse." Mark looked at the old spacecraft, his heart was full of emotion, and he said in a calm tone: "Can you help us destroy it?"
Through Voyager 1, Mark saw the longing and reverie of mankind for the stars, and also saw the ignorance of the time, when mankind had just stepped into outer space, like an excited child, dancing and singing, hoping that people in the distance could see him.
Completely unexpected, the danger hidden in the endless void, although this hijacking of the earth was not caused by human beings actively revealing their location, but Mark could not bear this naΓ―ve and unsuspecting move of people at the beginning, they did not expect that this move would expose a large amount of intelligence information of human civilization, if one day it was captured by a hostile civilization, the disaster would be far greater than this hijacking incident.
"So, you're really interesting." The lighthouse didn't say the word and unconsciously became more interested in the species.