Let's go back to the fact that the cycle of making games is so long, so Cao Chuan has not done these things alone in the past few years.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the results of the exploration of the Oort Cloud have come out, let's do a small sharing meeting, let's think about what the East Galaxy will do in the future, what inspiration the exploration of the Ortyun will give us, and the second batch of support that will soon leave for the Centaur Alpha." Cao Chuan stood in the conference room, and there were several ministers, mayors, and popes, in short, all the bigwigs of the current East Galaxy Company.

If they can't overcome it, even if the Centaur Alpha Advance Team completes the exploration and even establishes a sub-base on it, their footsteps will at most stay on conquering the surrounding star systems within a few light-years.

"The communication problem is really the most headache." Quite a few mentioned that their communication with the advance team had been delayed for more than one year, so that there was no way to respond in any timely manner.

Professor Russell said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the prototype of the Quantum Entanglement Communicator in the research department has been completed, which carries 10MB of entangled quantum, and will follow the second batch of support, so that some urgent messages can be transmitted through the Quantum Entanglement Communicator. ”

Cao Chuan nodded slightly, he already knew this consumable quantum entanglement transfer method, in order to work, he had to prepare enough entangled quanta as a medium to carry information, and then through the spaceship, bring the other pair of entangled quanta to the other side of the starry sky, like this. The entangled quanta on the other side of the starry sky will naturally produce a correlation reaction and play a role in transmitting information.

This is the basic working principle of quantum entanglement communicators. It relies on the overdistance effect of two quanta in the entangled state, easily crossing the barrier of time and space.

But as Cao Chuan said, it is really imperfect, the preparation cost is high, it can only carry a very small amount of information, and there is no way to directly supplement it, so it must complete a pair of entangled quanta locally. It can only be operated by transporting it to the other end.

In any case, this quantum entanglement communicator still has many advantages compared with the past, and it is also better than the 10s of the 21st century. In the 20s, the quantum entanglement communicator made at a distance of 100 km and 1000 km is much more advanced, everyone thinks. Although the quantum entanglement communicator is too immature. Bringing it to Centaur Alpha is still worth supporting, after all, interstellar communication is the best stage for it to work, if you don't try it, will you have to wait patiently for decades?

In this way, at least their communication predicament will be much better.

"In addition, the problem of observation is a new crisis." It was Professor Russell who spoke, and he seemed worried, and the crises were closely related to their sector, as far as the trade sector was concerned. The development department, in the stellar-level planet development is still in the soy sauce stage. Naturally, there are more auditors and staff officers.

"The speed of the spacecraft is getting faster and faster, and we can still only rely on light and electromagnetic waves to perceive the world around us. Many of the targets that are far away from us beyond the light will become inaccurate due to delay, even if through correction, there is a way to completely repair the error... And in another case, an object moving at sub-light speeds, we will be completely helpless to observe it..."

"So we need a stronger way of perceiving the world, being able to understand what is in the world around us more quickly, even to see the world more distant, even if it is moving at sub-light speeds, we can react in time," Professor Russell said. ”

"I wonder if you've seen the recent accident reports? The overall accident rate of second-generation spacecraft is higher than that of the old-fashioned moon-by-month, moon-class, and even Earth-based spacecraft, which is why our observation methods are too backward. Cao Chuan added that he said that the question raised by Professor Russell is indeed a key one, and if they have no way to perceive the world, they will become blind and unable to move an inch in the universe.

"So, there's no solution to this yet, right?"

Professor Russell shook his head: "Yes, some young people have come up with some ideas, but they are too crude or even illogical, so I won't talk about them at the meeting." ”

Cao Chuan nodded: "Okay, let's record this problem and see if the East Galaxy Company has a way to solve it in the future." ”

After he finished speaking, "Next, let me talk about the enlightenment given to us by the exploration of Oort Cloud, these are valuable information sent by the advance team, which we have not confirmed before, and have important reference value, please listen carefully." ”

"First, let's talk about the Oort cloud itself, through the in-depth exploration of the advance team, it has been confirmed that its area covers a space with a diameter of 1 light year, and there are many stars with amazing mass distributed in it, and there may even be dwarf planets with a diameter of more than 800 kilometers, as well as a huge amount of stardust material. Therefore, if we have the effort to find out these stars and establish a series of temporary camps, it will be very helpful to open up a stable route from the solar system to Centaur Alpha in the future, so that we can continue to maintain communication and obtain resource supplies along the way, and the biggest advantage is that the length of the entire route is shortened, and it is divided into more stages to avoid risks. ”

"The second is the comet, the Oort cloud is the hotbed of comets, if you add the asteroid belt, the Kuiper belt, we have almost all the neighbors who may pose a threat to the solar system to explore, with the in-depth development of human beings in the solar system, we are bound to one day come into contact with cosmic disasters from the edge of the star system, or even beyond, so it is necessary to establish observation stations in these places to avoid possible crises."

Cao Chuan said, the bigwigs below nodded their heads, this exploration of Oultyun has confirmed the conclusions inferred by many scholars, so that they can let go and do some things without worrying about risks.

"Finally, let's talk about the second batch of support."

It is still a modified version of the Changyang-class spaceship, the White Lotus Princess, and the support team has been increased to 500 people, which will be composed of young people between 15 and 20 years old, to make up for the lack of manpower in the advance team. ‘

As Cao Chuan originally promised, Sophia and Qiao Canal's son, Qiao Qianshan, had been selected at an earlier point in time to join the second batch of support.

The number of 500 is no more and no less, and there are no too strong characters in it, and after the Centaur Alpha, it will become relatively easy to manage and avoid causing conflicts between old and new immigrants.

Although it was also mentioned that clones could be used to solve the population shortage of Centaur Alpha, even if Cao Chuan thought it was a good idea, since they had not been forced to this extent, the proposal was put on hold for the time being, and finally chose to select people from the base camp.

The second batch of support will still cost 100 billion, but from the cost point of view, it is not a big problem for the now rich East Galaxy Company, the only thing to note is that considering the long distance between the stars, if they can't find any development value in Centaur Alpha, it means that it will inevitably be a loss-making business.

There are so many planets in the universe, in other words, the planets that do not have development value, Barnard's star, which is closest to the solar system, Woolf's 359 star, and Brand's 2147 star, may not have development value.

Therefore, everyone is mentally prepared, planning to lose trillions, tens of trillions in it, they are now like a free beacon country 50 years ago, facing the chaotic and dark space industry, when the development of the moon, Mars and Venus could not bring substantial benefits, until the advent of fusion energy reactors and new spacecraft, it was completely announced that the wave of planetary development swept the world.

Therefore, this exploration of Centaur Alpha must be sufficient, persistent, idealistic, and experimental in nature, without accounting for too many monetary gains and losses.

It is only in the past few decades that their economies have swelled again and their technology has leaped again, and it is possible to consider spending 100 years to visit the nearest habitable planets such as Wolf 1061c in Ophiuchus, Gliese 667C in Scorpio, Gliese 581d, HD85512b, etc.

At that time, the exploration of planets between star systems will be truly on the right track. (To be continued.) )