Chapter 37: The Eve of Contact (I)
The time of the probe arrived in the solar system was a month later, and in these days, human society did not make any difference because of the arrival of the Trisolaranan probe, the school that should go to school, the meal that should eat, the homework that should be done, and the exam when it was time to take the exam......
All in all, there is no tension or anxiety about to meet the "neighbors" in the universe. The connection between the earth and the three-body problem is too close, and after the completion of the construction of the "orbit" of the solar system, the head of the three-body people has announced that he will give up the position of head of state.
The Trisolaran, which has been divided into two camps, has finally been able to reunite again, and for special historical reasons, the Führer chose to dehydrate and wait for the moment when he really comes into contact with the earthlings, and the 1379 listener has become the first general secretary of the Trisolaran Republic because of his great prestige.
After serving as the general secretary of the three-body problem for nearly 80,000 years, he handed over the position of general secretary to the one who was ultimately elected among the three candidates.
In the days that followed, he opted for dehydration. Over the years, the Trisolarans' dehydration storage technology has matured, and the time that can be stored after dehydration is very long, enough for the Führer and Listener 1379 to wake up after the Earth has made real contact with the Trisolar.
In this way, the two most brilliant people of this era coincidentally chose to wait for the meeting with the earth.
Li Yi looked at Yang Dong in the hibernation warehouse and thought of the past time, what kind of emotion is this? Affection? Love? He didn't know exactly what it was.
The hibernation chamber next to it is Ye Wenjie's, she chose to hibernate before the quantization research of the Jupiter base and the research of Zhizi's autonominacy, and like the two people in the three-body problem, she is also looking forward to meeting the three-body person.
There are also people in the other hibernation chambers, all of them are about a hundred old people in the Jupiter base, although the advancement of technology has allowed them to extend their lifespan to nearly two hundred years, but when they are more than a hundred years old, they still choose to hibernate.
These people are the group of people who committed suicide but were saved by Li Yi, and they also chose to hibernate when their research was already mature.
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Two hundred years later, Luo Ji stood in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Beijing made up of people who had woken up from hibernation, and he found a place to live next to the great historian's house.
Zhang Beihai served on the "Natural Selection" in space, and as a pivotal figure in the Three-Body Plan, he automatically obtained the supreme command of this battleship. He didn't want to escape this time, because now in his eyes, the earth was completely comparable to the three-body problem.
In addition, he has learned that Tomoko's blockade has long since ceased to exist, so he is not ready to flee now, as a fugitive. Just a cautionary reminder that it is best to remain vigilant when in contact with the detector of the Trisolar.
His proposal was passed, and there was nothing incomprehensible about it. The lion fights the rabbit, and also uses all his strength. In the infinite expanse of the starry sky, human beings are not yet qualified to be great. Although humans can in some sense make certain types of spacecraft reach the speed of light in an accelerated orbit, the only way to slow down is to use nuclear fusion. So such an embarrassing thing will happen, taking the earth and the three-body problem as an example:
If there is an earthling who is going to visit the three-body star, then in the beginning, in order to take care of his physical capacity, there are other reasons, and he may spend as little as a month or as long as a year accelerating in the solar system to nearly the speed of light. Then it would take him almost four years to travel at the speed of light. In this way, it doesn't seem to take a long time, after all, it will take five years for the light to go?
But because the Trimaran does not have a supporting orbit to slow it down, it will take his spacecraft nearly a hundred years to complete the final five percent of its path. I have to say, it's a waste of time. Because of this, the earth has not sent a commissioner to visit the three-body galaxy for the time being. Just exiled some recalcitrant ETO elements.
As for the speed of those people? It takes about 400 years to get to the three-body problem. For their Lord's sake, this little time is nothing.
Taylor began his journey into space after a trip to what is now the Free Republic of America, where he was learning how to fly a space shuttle and preparing to travel around the rest of the solar system after this encounter.
Rediaz travels to his former homeland, where he loves it despite the forgetfulness of the people. But in the end, all that came to him was a large expanse of lush rainforest.
His homeland did not survive during the cataclysm, but had already collapsed like other small nations, after nearly 50 percent of the people starved to death, and then fell on the way to the five communist allies, and the last lucky ones to arrive were integrated into the country to which they went.
There, together with the indigenous people, they worked for the survival and evolution of human beings.
At this time, language and skin color are not enough to be barriers, and religion and belief cannot be barriers, because it is only through shared suffering that such experiences can truly connect different people. And those lazy guys who don't want to work hard, but want to be served, will be directly deported, and write down the identity information of this person, if they appear at the border again, they will be directly "educated", if they are still close, they will be killed on the spot! No one in this day and age is qualified to be pitied!
Only those who share hardships have the qualifications to be rich and prosperous are the general knowledge of all those who can survive that era.
In the early days of the cataclysm, there were some old-fashioned "virgins" in the European Community, who advocated accepting those who had defected. Then it led directly to the complete collapse of the capitalist system, which was already on the verge of collapse.
Later, with the help of the restored Soviet Union and China, which had stabilized by virtue of its wartime system, the European Community was established.
And then there are basically no major problems in Europe as a whole. As for the great "Virgins"? When they learned that they had to be responsible for the victims in real names on a one-to-one basis, including working on behalf of the victims, that is, the amount of labor should be equal to the number of people in any case; After the withdrawal of government aid to the "Virgins" (you all have the leisure to help those who do not work, it seems that the assistance is left to others), and other policies aimed at eliminating those who do not work, one by one, as if they were individuals, they began to slander the victims of the disaster in their lives and work.
Anyway, the words of those who helped the victims never seemed to come out of their compassionate mouths anymore.
Well, back to the present, Rediaz looked at the vanished motherland, looked at the sun in the sky, and suddenly thought of Mercury, and he wanted to stand on the big crater of Mercury that was blown up by a stellar hydrogen bomb, and look at the sun well, with peace of mind, and without fear.