Chapter 20 The Scientific and Technological Revolution
April 12, 1961
Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut from the ancient country of the earth, flew around the earth for 100 and 1 minutes on the world's first manned spacecraft, Vostok 1, successfully completing the first space mission in human history and creating a ****** for human manned spaceflight.
……
July 20, 1969
The Apollo 11 spacecraft of the United States, an ancient country of the Earth, successfully landed on the Earth's satellite ——— the Moon.
American astronaut Neil? Armstrong was the first to set foot on the desolate and silent land of the moon, and uttered the famous phrase that has been quoted on countless occasions since: "It is a small step for man, but a giant step for mankind." "This is the first time that humans have stepped on a planet other than Earth with their feet.
……
March 18, 2070
Huaxia, the ancient country of the earth, has established an artificial base on Mars, a huge artificial ecology, covering the entire base and feeding three million people, which is the first successful migration of human beings, which marks that human beings no longer have to worry about the pressure of population expansion on the earth, and all countries ************ at the same time, and encourage people to have more children!
From this day on, the eyes of human beings officially turned from the earth to the universe, countless young people for their dreams towards the universe, the solar system and the surrounding planets have become people's goals, every suitable planet will be built artificial base, human beings are slowly spreading to the universe.
……
A.D. 2250
Aerospace technology has once again exploded, and the speed of spaceships has been greatly broken, and the speed of the most advanced spacecraft can reach the speed of one hundredth of light!
It's a revolution in technology!
Due to the increase in colonies and transformed planets, human beings have realized the dispersion and poor management of the power of a single country, so all the countries of the earth have jointly established the Earth Federation, canceling the national boundaries on the earth, realizing the sharing of troops, science and technology, education, and finance, and the government has set up a president, the speaker of the council, and the chief of defense of the Star Alliance.
This alliance has made the Earth Federation's aerospace technology take off again! It marks that mankind will go all out to develop into the universe, gather the strength of all mankind, and seize the resources of survival!
……
A.D. 2350
Due to the speed of the spaceship, the expansion of humanity has reached a bottleneck!
With the full attention of the Federation, the emergence of antimatter solved the problem of spaceship speed.
Warp speed technology has enabled a spacecraft to fly faster than light for the first time, although it is only a little bit of the speed of light, but this is also a breakthrough!
The spacecraft finally reached the closest star system to the solar system by traveling at warp speed, which was a pioneering feat that led to interstellar travel between star systems.
In the same year, an expeditionary team discovered a terrestrial planet, which was the first terrestrial planet discovered by humans, with a pleasant environment on it, and people could live without modification, scientists estimated that this planet alone could feed tens of billions of human beings, and all mankind was excited!
This planet is named Qiyu Star, which means that mankind will start its journey to the universe from here! There are many kinds of animals and plants on Qiyu Star, and it is the discovery of Qiyu Star that people once again realize that there may not be only one intelligent race of humans in the universe.
……
A.D. 2530
Mankind already has 746 planets of life and hundreds of billions of people!
Among them, there are thirteen terrestrial planets, and the rest are modified planets, and humanity is expanding the star field faster!
The continuous development of the Federation's spaceship warp navigation technology has made the spacecraft demand for energy more and more, and mankind has once again erupted in an energy crisis!
The energy produced by nuclear reactors has not kept up with the development of warp navigation technology, and due to the extreme energy consumption of warp speed, the most reasonable and advanced spacecraft in the Federation can only reach more than ten times the speed of light when traveling at warp speed, which is far from the theoretical value.
Just when human beings gradually set their eyes on the dark matter and dark energy that make up 96% of the entire universe, the explorers who went to the Storm Star Field discovered the Zerg, which is a very strange race, with a large number, amazing attack power, strong offensive consciousness, and eats all living things, including animals, plants, etc., and the rest of them are worthless wastelands.
This insect can also survive in the universe and has a strong vitality!
Fortunately, human beings have an overall advantage in weapons, whether it is the flight speed of the battleship, or the firepower, or even the strength of individual soldiers are better than the insects, although the specific information and number of insects have not yet been investigated, but people do not think that insects can harm them, even if one day humans really can't beat insects, humans with spaceships can also stay away from them at a speed of ten million times faster than insects.
What's more, there is also the natural terrain of the Storm Star Domain, which is the grave of insects, how many come, how many die!
According to experts' predictions, the bugs seem to be spreading slowly and unconsciously at will, and even without human intervention, it will be tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years later, when they bypass the Storm Star Domain and enter the human eye!
In the same year, the Earth Federation established a 10S base outside the Storm Star Domain! To study bugs and observe!
……
August 10, 2540 A.D
Due to the high financial consumption and high casualty rate of the 10S base, the public reacted strongly, and the parliament was overwhelmed by public opinion and decided to withdraw the 10S base!
Due to the long distance, it was already three months later when the order arrived at the base, and when the 10S base retreated, the Spirit God Squadron strayed into a bug meteorite due to the rescue mission, and all members were killed, including the biologist Dr. Shi who fell into it, which is a loss for all mankind!
Nowadays, the message transmission of the Federation is lagging behind more and more, and the electromagnetic waves that propagate at the speed of light can no longer meet the needs of information transmission, and the command issued from the earth reaches the farthest star field for several months or even a year, which is extremely unfavorable to the unity of the Federation.
The boundaries of human beings are increasing every day, but communication technology has been difficult to break through for a long time, and the fastest physical speed in the universe is still the speed of light, and human beings cannot make breakthroughs.
Warp navigation is the use of antimatter-driven warp engines to create an artificial warp force field around moving objects, so that the spacecraft can move faster than light in this distorted space-time bubble, so the spacecraft itself still does not reach the speed of light, but only reverses space, and travels faster than light relative to other objects.
Facts have proved that when the earth just explored the universe, it has been discovered that the closer an object is to the speed of light, the theory of infinite increase in mass is correct, and the photon can reach the speed of light because it has no mass, and no matter how much propulsion energy the spacecraft has, as the speed approaches the speed of light, the acceleration will become smaller and smaller, and it can only approach the speed of light infinitely, but cannot reach the speed of light.
The physical speed of the Federation's most advanced warships can only reach one-third of the speed of light, which is called sub-light speed by the scientific community, and at this speed, it is no longer possible to increase the speed by increasing the energy supply, which seems to be a bottleneck that is difficult to break through.
Scientists speculate that even with a mature fourth-level energy source, it can only increase the warp speed of the spacecraft, while the normal speed of the warship is difficult to increase significantly.
Electromagnetic waves at the speed of light are still the fastest way to transmit information that humans can use!
Warp navigation requires a huge amount of energy and a large amount of antimatter, and the electromagnetic waves carrying information cannot do it, which limits the propagation speed of communication, and often can only be achieved in the same star system to achieve real-time communication with little time difference, the Federation has become a bloated, uncontrollable polity, full of dangers!