Chapter 23: The Probe

Before you know it, the spaceship and the people on it have been traveling for more than ten years. In the past three years, for Duofan, Zhaoli, Lu Yuan and most other people who can only exist in the living cabin, life has been even faster. Because in the past three years, only in the months of awakening, out of the personal cabin, the temperature of the environment is suitable for human activities, and the other months can only be in a completely unconscious low temperature environment. Also, in the month after waking up, not long after the completion of a series of prescribed actions such as medical observation, taking medicine, and injections, it is time for most of these people to enter a hypothermic sleep. People at low temperatures have no memory, no consciousness, no pain, no love and hate, no intimacy, no good or bad, not even hungry and cold shivering, accompanied by nausea, vomiting and delirium, and the doctor's voice cannot distinguish the tone and meaning of the words at all. Himself, too, can only give a very low pitch and a long and vague answer: Hmm! -- This is another "normal reaction" of people who are sleeping at low temperatures after waking up again. Commanding the cockpit, Ivan was talking to people, and from the esoteric words that flowed from the words, they were discussing some technical issues. Zhao Li and Duo Fan didn't understand, and only watched Ivan's calm face expression from the side, and this made Zhao Li and Duo unable to guess whether it was joy or sadness. I know many times that I am still in a new space, and Ivan, as one of the newcomers, cannot understand all the situations very clearly. Although a large amount of data information on the two red dwarfs and their surrounding planets has been accumulated, it may be precisely because there is too much data that people are at a loss, so that they fall into a daze. After trying to search for Ivan's expression in a special situation in his memory many times, I felt that Ivan's facial expression did not have a specific format. Ivan is not a man of the kind who interprets his mood with the face of a politician, and the answer may be that Ivan is just that simple and Shinto - sometimes it feels complicated and actually simple questions can make people unpredictable about him! Ivan's conversation partner left, and he turned to Duoban and Zhaoli: "Are your family all right?" When he turned his face to look at the two, they noticed that Ivan's eyelids were swollen, and the whites of his eyes were no longer white, but bloodshot. OK! They are already in a state of recovery, and Lu Yuan's family, like Chade and his friends, is also recovering. Zhao Li replied in a series of ways, and also brought Lu Yuan and them, the purpose was also to ask Ivan Duoduo to rest assured. Ivan only replied: "Whew! Good! Good! "You haven't rested for a long time, haven't you?" His eyes were bloodshot. Ivan rubbed his right hand along the socket of his left and right eyes a few times, and said with a dry smile: "How bloodshot?" Hey! It's true that I haven't rested much, but isn't that the reason for weightlessness? Ay! I can't help it, but it's good to hold on for a while. After speaking, they fell into deep thought, and the scene of the three of them also fell silent. After pondering the doctor's words for a while: 'It would be nice to hold on a little longer', he said repeatedly, "Ah! Doctor, where is our ship now? Ivan was questioned from a state of contemplation to a state of thought: "Oh! Don't you know? He smiled many times: "We just woke up and didn't know anything!" "Hey! Sorry forgot! Ivan thought hard for a while: "Where did I tell you before?" Zhao Li: "Where did you say the two red dwarfs?" Duo Fan continued: "Just say where you are now, don't talk about it, don't you see that the doctor is very tired!" "I'm used to it, and I'm not as tired as you say." Ivan said slowly, "Where are we now?" It's already in the constellation Centauri. Zhao Li asked, "So you're getting close to those two red dwarfs?" "That's right! Not only did it approach the two red dwarfs, but it also detected the rocky planet near them. As soon as he heard that a rocky planet had been detected, he forgot about Ivan's tiredness and asked urgently, "How is the situation?" "It's away, oh! The rocky planet is about 68 million kilometers away from the two red dwarfs, and the temperature of its surface, that is, the surface temperature of the red dwarfs, can reach up to 178 degrees, and this temperature can only be reached near its equator. "Do you have any photos?" "Whew! I'm sorry, I was filmed a long time ago. Ivan said and said to the monitor: "Monitor, please show pictures of rocky planets." As soon as he finished speaking, a picture of the sphere was revealed. Most of the sphere is covered in white, except for a ribbon in the middle about one-fifth to one-sixth of the center, which is black, gray, and earthy yellow. "The middle strip is the sea and the land, and the black is the ocean, and the other gray and earthy yellow is the land." Ivan explained, pointing. Zhao Li blurted out: "And the ocean!" Ivan smiled: "Not only that, but the area is also very large!" It's just that except near the equator, everything else is covered with snow and ice. "Which white part is snow and ice?" He blinked many times and said. Zhao Li knew his habit: which was the characteristic of his eyes when his brain was flying. "Hmmm! Because the surface temperature of the planet is not as high as the 40 or 50 degrees Celsius on the surface of the Earth, except for the two red dwarfs near the equator, which receive radiation from the higher ones, and there is no ice and snow accumulation, the other surfaces are covered with ice and snow. "So it looks like there's very little of it that shows off the ground and the sea!" Zhaoli Road. Ivan didn't answer, only nodded. "This isn't the first planet to be found, is it?" Asked many times. "What do you think?! Hey! There must have been a lot of searching, but with our technology, we got closer and looked at each other? Ivan stared at it many times. That's right! You must first guess the approximate caste of these planets based on the characteristics of the earth, and then select the one that is most similar to the characteristics of the earth for key exploration, right? Of course, the focus is on the distance from the star, whether it is a rocky planet, whether the surface temperature is within forty or fifty degrees above zero, and so on, right? "Yes!" "Hey! That's right! Does it have a magnetic field? "Yes!" "Then it proves that it is still a planet with iron cores!" As a bystander, Zhao Li could only watch Ivan speak for a while, and watch Ivan speak for a while, but the two of them never said whether the result was good or bad, he hurriedly said: "You have been talking for a long time, in the end, this planet, is it okay or not for us to settle on it?" The two of them looked at Zhao Li and gave him a "hehe" pouting smile with a fork. "Of course." Ivan explained. Many times: "Actually, when we came in to see your expression just now, we thought it wouldn't work!" Ay! Doctor, why don't you see you happy? "I didn't feel anything when I was too busy in front, but I relaxed for a while, but I felt too tired. In fact, we don't expect anything anymore, we just want to sleep well, and it would be better if we could sleep on it for a year. After saying that, he grinned, perhaps proving that he was in a happy mood at the moment, but his body was tired. Zhao Li and many times couldn't help him continue, so he left quickly. On the way back to the cabin, the two were already excited. Zhao Li said: "This state of not being able to step on the ground every day is really unbearable, if only I could go up to that planet right away, what is the first thing I want to do after going up I can't think of it, right?" "Do what?" "Jump as many times as you like, and then roll on the ground as many times as you like." "You're so beautiful, it's still early, buddy." "Is it really early?" "Do you know, what is the substance in the air up there? Is it suitable for us to breathe? What should I do if it doesn't fit? Is it to wear a spacesuit all the time, or do you have to build a biosphere completely cut off from the air of that planet first? Wait, wait, there's so much more to know about places. """How?" Deflated? "Hey, hey! That's not true, it's just that I feel like I'm going to have to wait a little bit longer, and I'm a little disappointed. "Where we go is not here for sightseeing, where are we going to survive in these places, can we go up again if we don't understand it thoroughly?" "I know what you say." "I've survived the journey for so long, and now I don't care about waiting another month. You tell me? "That's it!" "Do you think we can talk to the family, Lu Yuan, and find out what they do." Zhao Li thought for a while: "Hmm! I think it's time to notify everyone, through the loudspeaker. "Oh! I think it's okay for you to say that. Finally, there is good news, I guess there will be no changes in the future, huh! When it comes to change, my heart is like beating a drum. I have good news to tell them, and it can also boost the mood of the big guys! Don't say it, it's not a long time to enter a low-temperature sleep state! Hey! Maybe someone will be suffocated from mental illness. For the next two days, he asked through Ivan's assistant how he was doing physically and mentally. Sure enough, Ivan, who had been asleep for three days, was in a good state. Ivan apologized: "I'm sorry for what happened a few days ago!" Duofan and Zhaoli hurried: "It should be us who say I'm sorry!" After so many years, you have been working hard, but we can't understand how tired you are, hey! I hope you don't mind!" Ivan smiled: "It's over, isn't it?" Come, you two sit down on either side of me, and I'll give you some introduction. As he spoke, he adjusted the display on the screen in front of him. After many times, the two of them saw two glowing spheres on the screen, and there was a certain distance between the two luminous spheres, the larger one was in the middle, and the small luminous sphere, which was only about half the large, was rotating around the large one. Ivan pointed to the two luminous objects: "They are two red dwarfs." He pointed to a non-luminous sphere far away from the two luminous bodies: "This is the planet, you think it's big, don't you?" In fact, this is just a computer-built space model, and if you want to build a model according to the actual distance, the planets can only be represented by a single point, and there is no clear way to show the spatial structure between them. Also, this non-luminous planet, after discussion with several scientists, decided to temporarily name it as a 'lucky' planet. Where is our ship now? Here! Probably in this location. Ivan pointed to a location: "This is a simulation of space compiled from the data collected by the probe." Many times he was anxious to know the information about the "lucky" planet: "What about the "lucky" planet? Did the probe go to this planet? "It's about half the size of the Earth, and it has an atmosphere, water, and air. The detector has gone up, and the detection data sent back shows that the main elements in its air are also composed of nitrogen, oxygen and noble gases, and the proportion of these gaseous elements is not bad, respectively, the nitrogen content is 74%, the oxygen content is 25%, and the rest is rare gases. Although its oxygen content is slightly higher than 21% of the earth's, the impact on us humans is not only not harmful, but has more benefits. He said, "Yes! You said it earlier. Ivan continued: "The gravitational pull on the surface is slightly smaller than that of the Earth, and the acceleration due to gravity is about 7.3 meters per second. It will be much easier for us to walk on it than on Earth, but it also depends on our physical condition. If you have exercised less over the years and your muscles have atrophied a lot, you may not be able to walk on it either. Since the air contains the oxygen molecules we need, it means that we can breathe freely, and there is no need to build a specially isolated space with oxygen. Something that doesn't make people accustomed to it is that it's about the Earth, oh! By the way, let me remind you that whatever I have said before and what I will say in the future is to refer to it in relation to the earth. Where did I go earlier? Oh! Not used to, yes, we probably won't get used to the time period from dark to daylight. One day on the earth, but two days have passed here, so if you compare it with the 24 hours of a day on the earth, it is about ten hours on the earth! Specifically, we have to discuss how to redivide the time. Let's talk about this kind of thing that needs to be done artificially later! As for its time in a year, it orbits two red dwarf stars, which is about 163 days based on the 24 hours of the earth's day. At the moment, some of the items are not important, so they are estimated, and we need to make accurate measurements when we have determined some of the details of the 'lucky' surface. It's imperative that we land on its surface as soon as possible, right? "It sounds exciting, and I can't help but want to set foot on that land now." Zhao Li sighed: "After more than ten years of hard work, I finally waited for this ending - I can build a new home!" He asked many times: "I have seen some information about red giants, oh, red dwarfs, which say that under normal circumstances, the planet does not rotate but only one side always rotates towards the parent star, like the earth, because the moon accompanies the earth, and then through the gravitational effect of the moon and the earth, it causes the earth to rotate." Right? "Yes! At first, I didn't understand how I was 'lucky' to have a rotation, and then we knew the result through calculations and simulations. It turned out that the gravitational pull of the two red dwarfs on the 'lucky' planet was caused by the difference in the size of the two red dwarf stars, the magnitude of gravity and the distance of action, and then there was a gravitational difference in their gravitational pull, and this gravitational difference was the reason for the final 'lucky' autobiography. We also found that the gravitational force of the 'lucky' planet itself is not evenly distributed, and after calculation, we have come to the conclusion that when the gravitational pull of the two red dwarfs on the 'lucky' crosses and overlaps, the gravitational pull of the two red dwarfs will reach the maximum, and then the gravitational pull of the 'lucky' itself is partially canceled out, so we will be more relaxed when we walk on the 'lucky' in the future when the gravitational pull of the red dwarf is the largest. Zhao Li: "How long will it be before we can go to 'Lucky'?" Ivan smiled: "Another anxious!" We have to wait until our probe is more comprehensive and clear before landing on it, right? "Hey, hey! We'll have to find out. He replied to Zhao Li several times, "Do you know why Dr. Ivan did this?" "For safety?" Said many times: "Yes! A completely unfamiliar environment, if you don't understand it clearly, you should not be the work of scientists, if something happens, it is not an ordinary trivial matter. Ivan emphasized: "Lao Duo is right, that's what we mean!" "Where! Doctor, you mean, we're just waiting for your announcement? "Hmm!" "Let's give it to our family and Lu Yuan, they can also talk about it, right?" "Absolutely." "Not only can it be, but it also has to be hyped up, right? Doctor. He laughed a lot. It's even more exciting to be able to see the planet through a window. "Zhao Li is like a proposal, like eager, like talking to himself." This can't be done, this is not an ordinary spaceship, all its surfaces in contact with the outside world are closed, only various probes are on the surface of contact with space, and we also control the spacecraft through these probes. Ivan explained Zhaoli's words. Lao Zhao,Actually, it's okay to have a video screen taken by a detector.,Which pictures have you already seen?,Didn't you say it's good! "Many disappreciative persuasions." Doctor, when are you going to play it? If you release it right away, we'll go back and let you know and tell everyone to watch it. Zhaoli asked Ivan. Since you asked, let's put it right away! "In the recreation room, fitness room and living cabin, there are a lot of men, women and children gathered everywhere there are monitors, they laugh and talk with each other, and children in their teens and twenties are also playing in groups of two or three. These people all got together after listening to Duofan's introduction to Zhaoli, and the noise they made made Duofan, Zhaoli and Cha made it difficult for the three of them to hear each other very clearly, even if they gathered tightly and spoke loudly. Although this is not very comfortable, the three of them can still understand very well, they understand that these people who have been tortured for more than ten years are temporarily relaxing and even indulging themselves when they are about to suffer to the end - this relaxation and indulgence is just a louder voice, not to mention their own family and the two friends they have found are also among them. While people were still gathering in these places, the monitor played soft music, and the display screen was still the same old picture of the earth's landscapes. The monitor screen didn't move, but a man's voice came out: "Please pay attention, now we are going to start playing the footage taken by the probe on the 'lucky' planet." After many times, several people recognized that the person who spoke was Wen He. Wen He's words fell, the crowd of people was no longer noisy, and the whole scene was quiet. Zhaoli found that both adults and children were staring at the picture with round eyes. The picture appeared. The screen of the monitor is a slowly approaching mountain ravine, and suddenly a picture jumps, which shows the uneven mountain turning around, and there are things with different looks swaying one by one: "These are plants, they are swaying by the wind." A man in the crowd said, "Wow! If there are plants, there must be animals. "The plants in the picture are pulled closer, and these plants should feel tall by referencing them to their surroundings, but they grow strangely: from where the main stem of the plant is supposed to be close to the ground to the top of the plant, there is a thin stick-like thing stretched upward, and it is still grayish-black. Another voice said: "Why is the color of the things that this probe shoots, shouldn't it only be black and white?" A voice next to this voice, also a male voice: "Impossible, what years have this been, and there is a machine that shoots black and white pictures." The previous voice: "Impossible!" No way! The plants on this screen look only black. ”

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