Chapter 52: Electromagnetic Waves Beyond the Heavens

August 30, 2013, 14:32 p.m

New Mexico, USA

Located in the great desert of New Mexico, there is no rain all year round, and more than ten hours in a day are shrouded in the light of the scorching sun, and the radius of thousands of miles is a vast and dry sandy land, with strange rocks and no people. This is a forbidden place for human beings, a forbidden area for life, and there is no green life at a glance except for the hot sand.

It was in this area where there was no sign of human activity that a path zigzagged among a clump of dead bushes, and along the path through a sand dune to the side of a hill, a slightly tattered wooden sign was inserted next to the path, which read: "NASAintelligence Research Station." (NASA Intelligence Research Station)

On the top of the hill, there are two huge parabolic antenna disks for signal reception, with a diameter of more than 100 feet. This intelligence research station in New Mexico, which was invested and built by NASA in 1985, is a subordinate research institution under the supervision of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with the purpose of staying away from the hustle and bustle of the city and electromagnetic interference, using giant radio telescopes to intercept and search for electromagnetic signals from outside the sky, so as to help mankind solve the puzzle that has plagued mankind for a hundred years.

Under the scorching light, the two parabolic antenna disks slowly rotated, like two sunflowers, unremittingly pursuing their goals. Everything is calm and leisurely, and in this law of action, since the successful construction began in 1986, it has been a whole decades of operation according to the same law, if there is no change, then the two radio telescopes will continue to operate for more than ten years, until the equipment is completely aged and can no longer be upgraded.

The radio telescope is the basic equipment for observing and studying extraterrestrial radio waves, which can measure the intensity, spectrum and polarization of extraterrestrial radio waves, capture the sound emitted from countless planets and celestial bodies, and automatically record and process information by computers.

However, although the total amount of electromagnetic signals that are overwhelmingly shot into the earth is very large, the energy is actually very low, and the total energy is not as large as the energy generated by a stone falling on the ground, so these antennas are extremely sensitive, and no clue can escape its ears. All the received radio signals are collected by the antenna, transmitted along the cable to the configuration bungalow next to it, and then classified and analyzed by the world's most advanced signal processing mechanism, and finally the processed signal is stored in a computer, and a copy is remotely backed up to NASA's data center.

It can be said that everything looks complicated, but it is all in order, and Ian Brenton knows this very well.

He sat in the duty room, sipping coffee leisurely, yawning as he watched the data flowing on multiple monitors. He shouldn't have been on duty during the day today, because the person on duty last night was him Brenton, but who asked his friend Nathan to go to the doctor, he had to continue to be on duty instead of Nathan, looking at the screen and feeling sleepy.

"Hey, damn Nathan, curse you for not being able to cure your own toothache."

Brenton forced himself to open his eyes, hoping that the coffee would have an effect, but unfortunately the more he drank the coffee, the more he wanted to sleep, and the flowing data in front of him was almost the object of hypnotizing him.

"Jingle bells."

The wind chimes made a noisy noise, and the door to the duty room was opened.

"Ha, Brenton, you're sleeping again, be careful I tell Dr. Jason."

The sound woke Brenton from sleep, and he opened his eyes and frowned at the visit.

"Cavill, what's wrong with you?"

Cavill took off his sunglasses and expertly picked up the coffee machine in the duty room and poured himself a cup of coffee.

"Not bad." Taking a sip of coffee from the duty room, Cavill said, "Well, aren't you welcoming me back?" ”

"Welcome? You've enjoyed the beauty and beaches of Honolulu, do you want me to welcome you back? ”

"Don't be discouraged, man, look at what I brought back for you."

Cavill pulled out an item from his backpack, and it seemed to be clothes, "Hawaiian-specific cotton striped beach pants!" ”

Brenton took the present, not knowing what to say, and finally he stared at Cavill seriously and said, "Can you wear beach pants in the desert?" ”

"Of course, deserts and beaches are made of sand, so why can't you wear them?"

"I think you're taking me for a fool."

"Don't blame yourself buddy, it's not anyone's fault to be stupid, that's God's responsibility." Cavill patted Brenton on the shoulder, and the subject changed, "Okay, since I gave you a gift, shouldn't you have a treat tonight?" Right in town, there's a fat butt bar, that place, tsk, there's always some lonely girl you need to save. ”

Why is it always a lot of anger to talk to Cavill? Brenton thought to himself, he really wanted to throw his beach pants on Cavill's head and tell him, "Get out, you're not welcome here."

But reality can't do what you want, so Brenton has no choice but to accept this hateful gift and put it in his own box.

"Toot ......"

Suddenly, the red light on the main control board began to flash incessantly, and the display in the middle showed the letters of warning, and the peace of the entire duty room was suddenly shattered.

"Ahem......" Brenton was startled, and the coffee suddenly fell into his throat, which couldn't help but cause a cough, but these didn't affect him anymore, Brenton hurriedly got up from his seat, came to the computer and quickly tapped the keyboard, and soon a series of coordinate data appeared on the display.

"What happened?" Cavill came up with a relaxed face.

"I don't know yet." Brenton shook his head, frowning, and put on his headphones with questions.

"Boom, boom...... Boom......" The loud, high-pitched sound almost made him shake off his headphones, and with a shudder of horror, Brenton pressed his hands down on the headphones and listened intently to the strange sound. Listening to this, Brenton immediately noticed this strange rumbling hissing sound, which he had not heard in more than ten years, and a trace of horror flashed across his face, and he put down his headphones.

"I guess it's Carolan's scream?"

Cavill grabbed the headphones and put them on his ear, and immediately heard the strange sound as well.

"This, this voice ......"

Cavill's face changed, as a celestial, although he was a half-existence in academics, he could also hear the unusual part of this voice at this time.

"We must inform the Doctor immediately!"

Brenton nodded, dialed the phone next to him, and the phone was quickly connected, and a thick voice came from inside: "What's the matter?" ”

"Doctor, hurry up, we've found a strange source here."

"Not a glitch?"

"Well, wait a minute, okay, I checked the instrument, it's not a fault."

"I'll be back soon, and you guys will immediately monitor the signal and find out the coordinates."

"Yes, Doctor."

Putting down the phone, the two looked at each other, and they could see a trace of horror and uneasy joy on each other's faces.

Twenty minutes later, Dr. Jason hurried back, his face dusty, his forehead covered with sweat, he didn't bother to take a sip of water, and hurriedly said, "Where?" Gone? ”

"Everything is documented, but it's not gone now."

Brenton gave way for the doctor to sit down and put on his headphones.

The sound of "boom ......" is thick but slowly undulating, and the law of modulation and frustration tells Jason that this is definitely a big discovery.

The doctor calmed down, took a deep breath, took a sip of the water Brenton handed over, and a little smile appeared on his face: "Connect the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, let's see what this interesting thing is." ”

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSD) is a National Science Foundation-funded radio astronomy research institute headquartered at the University of Virginia, where it is home to the world's largest fully movable radio telescope, the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope.

The sky is as clear as a wash, and the brilliant sunlight is shining down from the cracks in the dense trees, forming a beam of thick and thin pillars of light.

When the data information was transmitted, other experiments were being done in the observatory, Yas tore off the printing paper impatiently, frowned at the dense coordinate data on it, thought about it, walked to the monitoring center room and handed the printing paper to the deputy director Xibo.

"What is this?"

"It's coordinate data from New Mexico."

Taking the printer paper, Xibo glanced at ten lines, and finally stopped one line behind the printer paper, and said cautiously: "Immediately stop all experiments and deflect all antennas according to the coordinates." ”

"All?" Yas was taken aback.

"All!"

Tourists and students who came to visit the Green Bank of the University of Virginia were amazed to see that the parabolic antenna disk, which had not been moving, began to move rapidly, aligning in one direction of the sky, and the neatly planned scene surprised the tourists.

"What are they doing?" Otley asked, closing his book and sitting on the lawn.

"Well, maybe it's some kind of experiment." Larinda took out the mirror unconcernedly, she had to maintain her beauty at all times.

"They hadn't done that before."

"Maybe they've changed their minds now." After making sure that her beauty had not changed, Lorinda withdrew the mirror and said to Otley, "Are you here tomorrow night?" ”

"I'm not going." Otley stood up and walked out of the lawn.

"Are you going back to playing with your radio station again?" From behind came Lorinda's shouts.

It's none of your business, Otley thought to himself.

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