Chapter 336: A Future Beyond 1,400 Light Years (Part II)
Hearing Liu Yuanzhou narrate in a bland tone—perhaps the two verbs narrating and stating are more appropriate—an epic that is enough to resonate with the hearts of future generations, Yang Xiaoqian's scalp felt tingling, and he only felt that every pore on his body was trembling.
The difference between the unbridgeable realms is finally fully revealed. While everyone is confused about how to meet tomorrow, Liu Yuanzhou has already set his eyes on 1,400 light years away and writes about the future.
"Therefore, science and technology will usher in all-round development with the birth of Zero One, and when the available spaceship is built, the mutants will be exiled forever, so that they can fend for themselves in the long universe, and they may find a habitable planet to develop their own civilization, or they may be destroyed by cosmic dust, asteroids or black holes that suddenly appeared out of nowhere, well, I am illiterate, and I don't know much about these, but compared to the safe arrival of the spaceship in this 'holy star', it seems that there is a greater possibility of a crash halfway?"
"Yes." Liu Yuanzhou didn't explain much.
"Is this what it is called, a future full of possibilities? All right. Yang Xiaoqian laughed sarcastically, "What about the food?" Mutants always want to eat people, right? On Earth, they can turn voluntarily donated corpses into commercial human flesh, and most people can accept this if they use the right propaganda tools. Where did they get the human flesh to eat when they left the earth? Is it possible to send a group of people to the spaceship to be breeding pigs with mutants? Also, the Holy Race cannot reproduce on its own, and must rely on human transformation, how can they expand their own race? After they've grown long enough and food can't keep up, how can you be sure they won't come back and invade Earth? ”
Yang Xiaoqian was very introverted when he asked this, he actually didn't have much confidence in his heart, Liu Yuanzhou could deliberately let go of the mutants in order to lay down this bureau, and it was entirely possible to buy one get one free and give a batch of humans as breeding food.
Previously, when discussing this matter with Yu Qian at Banshan Manor, Yang Xiaoqian had proposed a possibility: after the mutants received enough support, they were likely to make IVF and clones in batches like raising livestock to grow rice, and let them grow up in petri dishes and breeding rooms, so that they would never wake up from birth to grow up and then be eaten into the belly of the mutants, never waking up, never producing self-consciousness and spirit, and turning them from human beings into living commodity human flesh.
Purely from the perspective of gains and losses, this is a rational choice, but Yang Xiaoqian's long-held moral concept makes him unacceptable. Moreover, even if the mutant is driven into the vast space, Yang Xiaoqian can't rest assured, no matter where the mutant comes from and who creates it, this is a race that is naturally opposed to human beings, and it can even be said that it is the natural enemy of human beings.
"Theoretically, it is possible to send a batch of incurable human beings to the Holy Race for disposal, but in reality, this is completely insufficient to supply the Holy Race's food needs, so their main food source is infinitely proliferating tumors made up of cancer cells. As for whether they may return to invade the earth, there is no need to worry about this, the spaceship that sails will be equipped with a self-destruction device, and the aviation module will self-destruct when it reaches the destination, and the saints will waste too much precious time during the long journey, when they arrive at the destination, our technology is already several levels ahead of them, and they will only kill themselves when they return to invade the earth. Of course, as long as our technology system is based on Zero One to climb upward, then Zero One has enough control over the military power of the earth, and its core algorithm will not allow human beings to rush to the Holy Star to cut the grass and eradicate the roots after the technology is ahead. ”
"Hmm......" Yang Xiaoqian pondered for a moment, pointed to the holy star on the light screen and asked, "Why did you choose this planet?" The distance of 1,400 light years is simply impossible to cross with current technology. ”
At the same time as the questioning, Yang Xiaoqian also realized that the compromise in his heart had gained the upper hand, and if he could really solve the mutant crisis without moving a single soldier, there might not be any need to shed blood in vain. Now Yang Xiaoqian only hopes that the day when the mutants will roll out of the earth will come sooner, and he will build a spaceship that can travel 1,400 light years, this goal is still very far from the current level of science and technology, Yang Xiaoqian hopes that at least in his lifetime, he can witness the expulsion of all mutants by human beings.
"Because it is similar enough to the earth, you just mentioned a key point, the Holy Race cannot reproduce on its own, it needs to be transformed by humans, so the Holy Race wants to bring a group of humans with sound reproductive functions to leave together, Bai has already said his thoughts, these people taken by the Holy Race can only be believers who have voluntarily become the Holy Race, the Holy Race will not harm these humans, but will protect their safety, when they mate with each other and give birth to a certain number of offspring, they will be able to accept the transformation ceremony and become the Holy Race. In other words, these people will most likely need to live on the Holy Star, so the ship will carry not only the Holy Race and humans, but also various animals and plants. These humans, animals and plants from Earth are not as strong in adaptability and survival as the Holy Race, so they need to find a habitable planet similar to Earth. There is another major reason: the planet is far enough away. Liu Yuanzhou pressed the armrest of the wheelchair again, and the picture on the light screen quietly changed, this time becoming a space probe and a strange-looking spaceship.
"Take the Pluto probe launched by NASA in 06 as an example, its speed is about 75,000 kilometers per hour, assuming that this speed is maintained, it will take more than 20 million years to travel from the Earth to the holy star."
Yang Xiaoqian was taken aback by this number, one light year is about 9,460.8 billion kilometers, and it takes 14,400 years to travel a light year at a speed of 75,000 kilometers per hour, multiplying by 1,004, the result is 20.16 million years.
In 20 million years, how many civilizations will go from birth to extinction during this time, and the blood feud of that year is so small that it is worthless on the scale of the galaxy of the universe.
Of course, the mutants would not have set sail in a chemical-fueled spaceship, or they would not have had to wait for time to erase all traces of their existence, since they would not even be able to leave the solar system. Yang Xiaoqian patiently listened to Liu Yuanzhou continue.
"At present, there are two technologies that may be successfully developed in the short term: first, using Robert Ferward's analysis hypothesis in 1984, a high-power laser is fired at a large thin sail, and when the laser sail adopts a monolithic disc layout and carries a load of less than one ton, it can reach one-tenth of the speed of light in a century, then the time required to reach the holy star is about 15,000 years."
"However, this method does not have enough carrying capacity, so it is still necessary to consider another technology, the development of a non-working fluid fusion spacecraft equipped with an inertial confinement fusion engine, so as to carry a qualified ecological circulation system, conservatively estimated, the voyage time is about 10,000 years. Such a long distance is enough to give the Holy Race an undisturbed heaven and earth, and it is also enough for human beings to get rid of the Holy Race with peace of mind. ”
"On the other hand, the spaceship will continue to bring feedback to Zero One, and this voyage will not only be an adventure for the Holy Race, but also the first step for humanity to truly step into the galaxy."