Even during the Spring Festival, there are still many people who volunteer to stick to their posts.

In this era, it is undoubtedly painful for many people, from the beginning of the last days, when corpses were strewn all over the field and completely destroyed, to the precarious era of the reconstruction area, the struggle for survival, and a strong sense of insecurity have always haunted everyone.

Even in today's era of technological explosion, society has become temporarily stable again, but it is about to flee to reality in embarrassment, and there is still a sense of anxiety lingering in the hearts of human beings.

But fortunately, this anxiety is not all bad, it makes human beings work harder, and pay more attention to selfless dedication, which is especially obvious in the group of scientific researchers, about 60% of them are working as usual, and even about 10% of people do not even go home on the day of the Spring Festival.

Of course, this is also due to the particularity of this type of people, for scientific research work, calmness is the most basic quality, most of them, almost every day is dealing with cold instruments and boring numbers, impatient people, the first will be eliminated. And for them, there is no sooner to break through the project, which will be more heart-wrenching and addictive, and at this time, even the family must be put aside.

And Luo Yuan, as the highest level, is also not idle.

On the third day of the Spring Festival, the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Department sent an email, and the specific information about Boxing had been sorted out.

The Extraterrestrial Intelligence Division is subordinate to Luo Yuan's foreign intelligence organization, and is an important part of the spacecraft space force, responsible for collecting all nearby star field intelligence, including but not limited to capturing extraterrestrial civilization signals, planning safe star routes, and detecting terrestrial planets in nearby star fields, so as to prepare for future voyages.

However, the main task at the moment is to collect information about the Boxing and analyze the technological level of the Boxing people.

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in the spaceship control room.

"Mayor, there are quite few images of the Brain's information about the Stars, and this is the only video we found on the spaceship Brain!" Wu Xinfan, the director of the extraterrestrial intelligence department, who was a professor of astronomy at the university, was recruited here and served as the director of the extraterrestrial intelligence department after the establishment of the spacecraft.

In fact, many people in this department are like this, because of the strong professionalism, do not have a certain academic ability, do not adapt to this position at all, many people here, in the past, are academics, among which the largest number in the fields of mathematics, astronomy and physics, it is not so much an intelligence department, but a special research institution.

Luo Yuan watched patiently for a while, this is a video of the Boxing people about to land on the spaceship, the surrounding crowds are crowded, surrounded by countless Boxing people, and the scene is quite lively.

He could imagine the frenzied scene at that time.

For the Bostellans, this expedition is undoubtedly of great significance, this is a leap forward in their civilization, representing the first step from the civilization in the star system to the development of interstellar civilization, and it is also the first time to wage war against aliens, but unfortunately the ending is not good.

The video was shot with a certain Bosxing as the main character.

Luo Yuan looked at it for a long time and couldn't tell which one it was, for their appearance, Luo Yuan had serious facial blindness, which didn't even help much with his perverted memory, but this Boxing man was obviously one of the ones killed by it, and seeing that it was in the crowd of people holding the moon and being in a long costume, it should be the captain without a doubt.

However, Luo Yuan didn't pay attention to these, the location here was obviously not on the planet, through the transparent walls like glass, Luo Yuan saw that it was a pitch-black space outside.

"It's a space dock! Look at these little points! Wu Yifan explained beside him.

Wu Xinfan pointed to a few imperceptible light spots in the corner of the screen: "These are several spaceships that are about to dock, which shows that their space voyages are very common." ”

Luo Yuan nodded, but he was not amazed by this, he had seen a lot of scenes of the Boxing society in the dream realm of the Boxing people, and he had long been accustomed to it, this is a highly prosperous society, and powerful technology has made space navigation a common means of transportation.

Otherwise, there would be no starship, just like human beings, who are sailing into the open ocean, and shallow sea navigation has long been popular.

Wu Yifan pointed to the picture and continued: "Fortunately, the angle of the video is very good and very clear, and we can see the star not far away, that is, the sun of Boxing." ”

Luo Yuan found that maybe the other party had been a teacher for a long time, and when he explained, there was always a taste of eloquence, but he didn't urge, obviously the other party was about to talk about the critical time.

"We can see that it is very bright, and according to calculations, it is one point three times brighter than the sun."

Immediately, Wu Xinfan removed the video and replaced it with a pattern: "This is a map of the star system where the glass star we photographed, and after light source compensation and correction, we have basically restored the scene of that star system!" ”

Luo Yuan found that he saw three blue and white planets similar to the earth in the star system map, and couldn't help but interrupt: "Which one is the glass star?" ”

He didn't know much about astronomy, but he did know that the planets were distinctly colored, partly blue, and had a stable climate, a moderate temperature, and plenty of water.

"It's impossible to tell now, because these three planets are habitable planets, and the Boxing people already have the ability to transform planets!" Wu Xinfan replied, saying that he enlarged one of the planets, Luo Yuan suddenly saw that there were many black spots floating outside the planet, and he could also see the undulations of the terrain on the surface of the planet, and there were traces of artificial development in many places.

"Can you continue to zoom in?"

Wu Xinfan shook his head: "Mayor, there is no point in zooming in, it is nearly thirty light years away from here, and the precise distance is 28.5 light years (revised above), no matter how huge an object is, even if it is a planet, at such a long distance, it becomes smaller than the tip of a needle."

In addition, the light of the planet is much weaker than that of the star, even if the spacecraft's advanced optical detection system captures the image, which is still in a state of serious distortion, and the scene we see now is only the result of light source compensation and correction. ”

Luo Yuan nodded clearly.

Wu Xinfan continued the previous topic: "Through the comparison of images and patterns, we have found an important information, the actual brightness of this star is brighter than what we observed.

Originally, we didn't care much, after all, the distance is far away, there will always be some distortion, even if the intelligent light source compensation of this optical detection system is not possible to restore perfectly. It wasn't until recently, when we compared images taken a year ago, that we were able to confirm a point. ”

Luo Yuan frowned and asked, "What do you think is the reason?" ”

"There are many reasons, such as the recent shooting of a stellar flare, or the last image was obscured by an asteroid, all of them maybe, but the biggest possibility is that part of the sun is artificially occluded."

"You're talking about the Dyson ball?" Luo Yuan's mind was sharp, and he suddenly thought of a famous theory.

"It's very likely, and we've found some key evidence for this!" Wu Xinfan enlarged the stars in the two patterns taken a year apart.

Luo Yuan took a closer look and immediately found that there was a black dot on the surface of the two patterns, if it was just one pair, it might be thought that it was a meteorite or some other obstruction, but both of them were there, and they were already obvious after a year.

What's more, compared to the most recent photo, the black dots are significantly larger than the former.

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Dyson sphere is a theory put forward by Freeman Dyson as early as 1960, which believes that the energy contained in a planet like the earth is very limited, far from enough to support the development of civilization on it to an advanced stage; And in a star-planetary system, most of the energy – the radiation from the stars – is wasted.

The sun radiates 2,860 billion trillion megawatts of light every second, and based on the total amount of energy consumed by the seven billion production activities before the end of the world, it can supply mankind for 270,000 years, which is longer than the history of mankind, and this is only the energy emitted by the sun in one second, if it is a day, if it is a year, this will be an extremely terrifying astronomical amount.

Therefore, this theory holds that a highly developed civilization must have the ability to surround the sun with a huge spherical structure, so that most of the sun's radiant energy is intercepted, and only in this way can it support the civilization for a long time and make it develop to a sufficient height.

As soon as this theory was proposed, it was immediately recognized by many scientists, believing that it was a necessary step for civilization to get out of the star system, but in any case, this is just a hypothesis, and human beings are far from being able to verify it.

Although this dark spot is not large, compared to the cross-section of the star is only about one-fiftieth of the area, it is far from a complete Dyson sphere, but this star is 28.5 light-years away from the Earth, and even the images taken now are 28.5 years ago. After so many years, I am afraid that it is no longer the same as it used to be.

The total amount of energy produced and used by a civilized race often reflects the degree of science and technology and civilization level of a civilization, from the era of coal and steam in the human industrial revolution, to the era of thermal power, and then to the current era of nuclear fusion, the total amount of energy produced and used has increased almost geometrically.

And even if the Bosnian is still an incomplete Dyson sphere, the energy it produces is also desperate for humans, and its strength is far more than the strength of a spaceship, and it may not even be one ten-thousandth.

This is undoubtedly a blow to Luo Yuan, who is still thinking of revenge on Boxing one day.

(End of chapter)