May 2060, Lunar Base.

This year, the GDP of East Galaxy Company officially exceeded 50 trillion yuan, and the population reached 30 million.

The exploration of Centaur Alpha has not yet fed back more useful information, so the projects that have passed have been temporarily concentrated on a few traditional projects.

For example, the third batch of Centaur Alpha support plan, due to inflation, the allocation has increased to 120 billion, and the number of support teams has increased to 1,500, and at the same time, it is still the same as 10 years ago, carrying many new products from East Galaxy, and intends to send them to the front to avoid possible backwardness.

For example, the development plan for the outer edge of the solar system has allocated 500 billion yuan, and the specific content is to establish three permanent observation stations on the asteroid 2055U005 at a distance of 52 astronomical units from the sun, Eris at a distance of 97 astronomical units, and 2055U005 asteroid with 420 astronomical units.

On the other hand, in this way, the solar system has almost been explored, and even in those remote corners, there are many countries occupying territory, whether it is Mercury, or Neptune, or even the moons of some planets, or even near the sun.

"The map of the solar system looks a little more lively." Cao Chuan came to such a conclusion, however, that one-third of the area, and even the most shining area, were all owned by the East Galaxy Company, and he was not worried about their future in the slightest.

The development progress of the solar system is actually quite rudimentary, and 99% of the population of all mankind still remains on the earth, because of the difficulty of giving birth in space, resulting in the lunar city and the port of zero. The population growth in several parts of Taoyuan Port and Paradise City is mainly dominated by foreign space immigrants.

The two most prosperous alien cities are the closest lunar city to Earth, with a population of 9 million, and the worldly paradise city, with a population of 7 million.

Their utilization rate of resources is also very low, the helium-3 consumption above the lunar sea is less than 1%, and there are endless huge mineral deposits on the planets waiting for them to exploit and utilize. Manufacturing.

Even the richest part of the solar system, the sun itself, they have not yet touched, and if they can create the Dyson sphere that scientists envisioned, wrapping their stars to draw abundant solar energy, it may lead mankind to a completely luxurious era of endless energy.

"But since the solar system still has to develop for quite some time... Why do novels often see that human civilization has just developed a planet, and then has to move all kinds of families? ”

This is what he has always puzzled, and similar plots often appear in many novels he has read. Fortunately, reality has proved that this prophecy or fatalistic way of development is completely wrong, and human beings can peacefully plant fields in this place for another 100 years, 200 years, until it can accommodate 20 billion, 30 billion people.

"Nana, Minister Sophia's proposal for the exploration of 14 star systems around the solar system, you have read it."

"Yes. Hosts, this time it was definitely a big deal. Before the exploration of Centaur Alpha is completed, learn about the world around you and do new work. Nana is also full of confidence.

"Yes, although it is a little expensive, the investment of 2 trillion yuan is almost 4% of our GDP. It is a good thing for the benefit of the future, and it must be paid. ”

"The immigrants within the East Galaxy Company are all benefiting from the development of the planet, so they are overwhelmingly supportive of spending money on this kind of thing."

"That's it. In case the exploration of Half of the Centaur Alpha does not have any particularly good results, we can find a way to come up with a new round of exploration plans through the exploration of other star systems, maybe we can continue to develop? ”

Cao Chuan had already expected that something might happen to the Centaur Alpha, and in this case, it would be a big blow to their confidence, so he had to prepare a plan for the transfer of contradictions in advance, that is, to continue to explore other planets.

Anyway, decades ago, scientists' observations of Centaur Alpha showed that it was unlikely that life or habitable planets would be born here.

I'm sure the people will understand them.

"When the time comes, as long as one is found, the human race can continue to develop outside, and the trade department and the development department will follow one after another, even if there are still unknown troublemakers, it will be a big deal for the combat department to come on the field."

"Besides, master, don't you know that this time a new mental model will be created?"

"Uh..."Cao Chuan pondered for a moment and shook his head: "No, there are not so many accidents that will happen in this plan, first, there is no need to send people, and second, it completely relies on the existing artificial intelligence, which is enough to meet our exploration conditions." ”

"In total, Barnard, Wolf 359, Brand's 2147, Sirius A/B, Rutan 726-8A, Ross 154, Ross 248, Poe ε, Lacaille 9352, Ross 128, a total of 10 star systems 10 light-years from the solar system."

"Together with Wolf 1061c, Scorpio Gliese 667C, Gliese 581d, HD85512b, a total of 4 targets for potentially habitable planets."

"With 14 Hengyue-class spacecraft equipped with heavy sodium fusion energy reactors, it will take about 50 to 100 years to complete all the exploration activities."

"By the time we reach around 2160, we will have complete and sufficient information and will have the means to freely explore these neighboring star systems." Cao Chuan checked the final plan with satisfaction, and when such a huge plan was proposed, everyone was still worried.

However, if they think about it carefully, the cost of a Hengyue-class spacecraft equipped with a new reactor is about 15 billion, even if 14 ships are launched in a row, it doesn't seem expensive.

Naturally, the plan was unanimously approved as a matter of course, and whoever made everyone know very little about their neighboring star systems except for the Centaur Alpha, and the information told to them through astronomical telescopes was simply not enough.

Spending 2 trillion yuan to understand these will take 100 years to finish, no matter how you look at it, it is a cost-effective business, and some people even proposed on the spot that they could double or double the number and expand the scale to the range of 20 light years.

This seems like a good proposal, considering that there is also a geographical relationship between star systems, and it is easy for several star systems to develop next to each other, right? Let's wait until the results of Centaur Alpha's exploration returns, and then think about it.

So, in 2061, the East Galaxy Company launched 14 Hengyue-class spacecraft in a row to officially start the exploration program of the star systems around the solar system, but the year after all the spacecraft departed, a sudden thing befell them. (To be continued.) )

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