Chapter 136: Redemption
Back at the command on the warship, Assanzi and Date were first evacuated to Hawaii, endlessly writing microwave weapons assessment reports, followed by quarantine reviews, and spent a year in Hawaii, and finally asked Assanzi to write a self-report of attacking civilians and sign it, "Know the consequences, if you dare to leak half a word when you return to the United States, this material is enough to send you to a military court." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Lin Shuangmian was unhappy when she saw this, Assanzi had been dating her for so many years, and he didn't say a word about these things, and he didn't seem to regard her as the most trusted person.
Lin Shuangmian vaguely remembers the scene two years before his suicide with Assanzi, when they returned to Cornell University from Puerto Dawn, Assanzi was particularly keen to analyze the data from the Arecivo telescope, and he often fought with other project leaders for resources at the computer center.
Lin Shuangmian remembers the good news that came the next year, the House of Representatives agreed to allocate $1 billion to connect the supercomputers in the United States with fiber optics, and Cornell was one of them, which allowed the supercomputers to share resources and assign additional tasks when other computers were idle.
Hearing Assanqi come back and tell himself happily, Lin Shuangmian finally couldn't help his curiosity, "I really can't understand you, I am bored staring at those signals every day, what is the fun in it?" ”
"You don't know, I grew up near the Arecivo telescope when I was a kid, I was born." Assanqi said seriously, looking at Assanqi's serious demeanor, Lin Shuangmian felt a little funny at the time, but now she faintly feels that it is not so simple.
The second part of the video about Assanzi is not finished, and the timeline of the second paragraph is February 22, 1993, when Clinton was elected president and announced the launch of the national information superhighway plan, which will network all computers in the country and officially establish the Internet on the basis of the Arpa network. When this exciting news was broadcast on the TV in Assanzi's office, Assanzi excitedly knocked over the water glass on the ground, "With these massive resources connected to the Internet, I am really going to find out!" ”
August 30 was Monday, the wedding anniversary of Assanzi and Lin Shuangmian, and Lin Shuangmian remembered that he did not go to work on this day, staying at home to pack up and prepare for the candlelight dinner in the evening. Assanzi came to the office to take a look at the signal processing program, and then began to wait for the end of work, just after lunch, the office came to the office with a few uninvited guests in military uniforms.
"Is that Mr. Assanzi? I'm Adrian from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency." The leader himself sat down, and the people who accompanied him stood behind him.
"I'm Mr. Adrian, do we have an appointment?" Assanzi thought these people were weird.
"There are no appointments, the situation is a bit sudden, I don't think we need to make an appointment." Adrian said, "Mr. Assanzi, you've been working on the Arecivo project for almost twenty years, how do you feel?" I haven't been able to find aliens, right? ”
Assanzi didn't answer his question, "I'll be honest, this project is ostensibly an astronomical project at Cornell University, and the real funder is our Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which used up almost half of our annual budget before the ARPANET, and it was not used to listen to extraterrestrial signals, but to listen to human signals reflected from the ionosphere." ”
Looking at the look of surprise on Assanzi's face, Adrian said, "It seems that Old Kerry's tone is quite tight, but unfortunately, he should have told you the truth earlier, so that you could prepare, even his own son is too cruel." ”
Adrian took a bag of papers from the person next to him and threw it over, "Mr. Assanzi, I now officially inform you that from now on, the Arecivo Observatory will cease to work and will be officially closed within a week, and all the data in the data processing center will be handed over to our Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Ministry of Defense. ”
"Why? Can you let it exist, isn't it always under your control, processing the ionospheric reflections for you? What an observatory, a trick of deception, has less than one percent of the resources used to process signals from outer space! Assanzi angrily asked.
"Old Kerry told you everything?" Adrian took a fresh look at Assanzi.
"Do you think everyone at the observatory is blind and can be toyed with by you? From the day I entered the radio department, I knew there were ghosts inside. Assanzi's heart aches when he thinks that nearly 20 years of hard work will be wasted.
Adrian stood up and prepared to leave Assanzi's office, "Mr. Assanzi, since you know everything and can work on this project for so many years, it is worthy of admiration, then I will also let you completely understand the current reality, the wireless era is over, now is the wired era, all the data on the earth will be exchanged through the Internet, I think you are so smart that you will understand." ”
After saying that, Adrian left the office, and several other people began to check Assanzi's computer, "Mr. Adrian, didn't you notice that now is the time for mobile phones to become popular?" How can we say that the wireless era is over? Assanzi didn't give up, and shouted at Adrian who was about to get into the car, and Adrian waved at him expressionlessly, got into the car and left.
Assanqi leaned against the door, looking up at the sky, countless invisible radio waves filled the vast blue sky, and when he looked at Assanqi in a daze, Lin Shuangmian recalled the memory data of the night of August 30.
The listless Assanqi returned home, Lin Shuangmian's dining table was ready, she saw that Assanqi looked wrong, and hurriedly asked what was going on, Assanqi sat down, poured some red wine by himself, he poured it for Lin Shuangmian again, raised the cup and touched Lin Shuangmian, took a sip of himself, Lin Shuangmian also lightly soaked, "Shuangmian, the Areciwo Observatory is about to close, I have to go to Puerto Rico to deal with the aftermath." ”
Lin Shuangmian put his heart down, "I thought something was going on, it turned out that you were going to lose your job, now is not the depression era of five years ago, you see how prosperous the United States is now, what are you afraid of, come to the spirit point, cheers for our silk wedding." Lin Shuangmian thought about how to comfort Assanzi, who looked preoccupied, and a night passed in this dull atmosphere.
The next day, Assanzi left Ithaca and left for New York to fly to Puerto Rico, and Lin Shuangmian drove him to the airport, where he held Lin Shuangmian tightly in his arms at the entrance.
Lin Shuangmian clearly remembers that August 31 was the day of Assanzi's suicide, and when she wanted to find more information about Assanzi in BU Online, she found nothing, why were these two incidents kept secret at such a high level? Lin Shuangmian couldn't figure it out, she could only conclude that Assanzi's Vietnam War experience was related to his later dedication to working for the Arecivo Observatory, and it was also the reason why he committed suicide. (To be continued.) )