Chapter 10: The Heroes of the Sky
Leaving the Jupiter system, Xiao Yu's mood was extremely happy. Although he had been frightened before, Xiao Yu believed that the frightening was completely worth it. The value of these bizarre radiation sources goes beyond simply improving the properties of the material.
The most important value is the mechanism by which the material is modified, that is, after the influence of these radiation sources, the metal will have a significant increase in various properties? If this problem is clarified, Xiao Yu can use this as a basis to develop more and stronger materials.
This is the greatest value of these radiation sources. There is no doubt that studying this problem requires a huge amount of data computing power, and Xiao Yu is the most important thing to do.
The ability to improve the human soul and the computer after combining is not as simple as one plus one. A true electronic life is in no way weaker than the entire human society as a whole. Because he is supported by the near-infinite ability to learn, calculate, innovate, and achieve precision that cannot be matched by human beings. Combining the two major advantages of humans and computers, Xiao Yu's strength is beyond doubt.
Looking at Jupiter, which was gradually fading away and getting smaller, Xiao Yu set his eyes on a bright star in the distance, which was Saturn.
After observing the positions and other data of several neutron stars in the universe, Xiao Yu determined his position. At present, there are still 700 million kilometers away from Saturn.
Determining one's place in the universe is a difficult thing. However, human beings have studied this area and basically solved this problem. That is to locate by pulsars.
When massive stars evolve to their later years and supernova erupts, if the remaining core mass is less than the Oppenheimer limit, a neutron star will be formed, and the balance between its own gravity and neutron degeneracy pressure will gain its stability. Pulsars are a type of neutron star that rotates at an extremely fast speed and emits extremely powerful radiation at the poles, making it extremely stable. It's like a bright beacon in the universe. In this way, one can infer one's own position by observing several pulsars relative to one's parameters.
Of course, this is premised on the fact that the positions of these neutron stars have been determined beforehand. Before Xiao Yu escaped from the earth, he had copied all the astronomical data observed by human beings to his hard drive, which naturally also contained the data of these neutron stars.
The journey of the universe is long, and another six months have passed. Looking at the gradually growing Saturn in front of him, Xiao Yu's mood lifted.
If it weren't for the need to slow down when approaching Saturn, this time could have been shortened by about a month.
In the past six months, Xiao Yu has calculated the new data obtained from Jupiter, made a modification to his previous theory, and now, he is more sure of mastering controlled nuclear fusion.
Moreover, during these five months, Xiao Yu also conducted a detailed study of the strange radiation source that was locked in the box. For the sake of convenience, Xiao Yu also gave this peculiar Jupiter creature a name, calling it "Number One".
Of course, Xiao Yu didn't dare to release No. 1. In that case, the inside of the ship will be burned and melted in an instant. Studying through a thick metal box is like scratching an itch in a boot, and it's better than nothing.
Even so, Xiao Yu has obtained quite a lot of data. He had already found out that it was indeed a creature, a strange creature. It possesses all the characteristics of life except that it has no physical mass.
For example, when Xiao Yu emits an extremely high frequency radio wave to it, it will show irritability fluctuations, and its radiation intensity will be reduced a little. But no matter how Xiao Yu operated, he could never increase his radiation intensity a little.
After a large number of shiyan, Xiao Yu measured that No. 1's intelligence level was roughly equivalent to that of a trilobite in ancient times. That is, they are still in the early stages of evolution.
During this time, the metal material that makes up the box has been strengthened a lot, and its various performance indicators have almost tripled as much as the original. But after reaching this level, there has been no improvement since then, and it seems that there is an upper limit to the performance improvement of the metal in the first one.
Corresponding to the improvement of the properties of the metal material, the radiation intensity of No. 1 has been reduced by 0.03 percentage points.
Xiao Yu estimated that if the performance of one ton of metal material is doubled, the total radiation intensity of No. 1 will be reduced by 0.01 percentage points.
In other words, with the radiation intensity of No. 1, it is enough to improve the performance of 10,000 tons of metal materials! That's enough metal to build the skeleton of a medium-sized spaceship.
You must know that before the destruction of the earth, in addition to the spaceship secretly built by Xiao Yu, the heaviest aircraft of mankind, the International Space Station, weighed less than five hundred tons. Even Xiao Yu's spaceship, after being fully loaded with fuel, weighs only a few thousand tons, and the metal materials used are no more than two thousand tons at most.
For No. 1's performance, Xiao Yu is full of expectations.
The study of controlled nuclear fusion and the study of No. 1 only accounted for less than 10 percent of Xiao Yu's calculations. During these five months, most of Xiao Yu's energy was spent on discovering new stars and supplementing the data of old stars.
Xiao Yu is compiling a huge catalog of all stars. Of course, this is just the beginning.
This work was almost impossible to accomplish in the eyes of previous humans. Because the number of stars in the universe is too large. The Milky Way alone contains between 1,000 and 400 billion stars.
Therefore, for convenience, human beings have compiled many star catalogs that classify various different types of stars, and the commonly used types are HD, SAO, BD, etc. But Xiao Yu doesn't care about this, he plans to compile all types of stars, nebulae, star clusters, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, galaxies, etc. into a star catalog.
Because Xiao Yu has an almost incredibly powerful storage capacity and retrieval ability, the huge number is not an obstacle for him.
Now, in the past few months, Xiao Yu has preliminarily numbered more than 5 million stars through the detection system on his spacecraft, which is not weaker than that of the Hubble Space Telescope, combined with the data that originally existed in human beings, and also attached the corresponding observation data. Such as mass, volume, age, absolute magnitude, spectrum, amount of metal, angular diameter, rotation speed, orbiting speed, position information, etc.
This catalog is dynamic. Because the stars in the universe are all moving, the star catalog compiled by Xiao Yu will slowly change its data over time.
"Such a great catalog deserves a shocking name. Well...... Let's name this great catalog the Heroes of the Sky. The sky is the universe, and the heroes are the stars in the universe! ”
"Heroes of the Sky!" Reading this resounding name, Xiao Yu was secretly proud in his heart.
In the Heroes Sky Record, the star numbered one is undoubtedly the sun, and the sun has a special meaning for Xiao Yu.
Jupiter is getting closer and closer, and in Xiao Yu's field of vision, Saturn, which surrounds the spectacular rings of Saturn, is like a peerless beauty dancing like a peerless beauty.
Saturn's rings have amazing physical properties. It's huge, but it's extremely thin. Saturn's rings have a radius of about 110,000 kilometers and a thickness of only about 20 meters, and are mainly composed of meteorites and ice particles.
Saturn has a similar structure to Jupiter, which means that the resources that can be obtained at Jupiter are also available at Saturn.
Moreover, Titan's resource richness is no worse than Europa for Xiao Yu.
Reducing his speed relative to Saturn to 30 kilometers per second, Xiao Yu entered the orbit around Saturn, and then slowly adjusted his speed to reduce his speed relative to Titan to 2 kilometers per second, and successfully entered the orbit around Titan.
At this point, there are more things that need to be done. Because with Xiao Yu's current technology, he can't take off directly from the stars without the rocket. Even on a small star like Titan, which has an escape speed of only 2.6 kilometers, it will not work.
In other words, Xiao Yu landed this time, and there was no possibility of moving his position in a short period of time. Therefore, Xiao Yu must choose the most suitable area to land, this area must be land, but there must be a methane lake nearby to provide energy, and in order to obtain sufficient building materials, the landing location must be close to an area with relatively sufficient iron elements.
Xiao Yu began a long journey around Titan. In the tens of thousands of rounds, Xiao Yu gradually drew a three-dimensional map of Titan. On this map, Xiao Yu marked the differences in the terrain of various places, such as where there are mountains, where there are volcanoes, where areas are rich in iron, where areas are rich in silicon, where areas are lakes, and where areas are land.
After careful analysis, Xiao Yu finally chose a place.
Shangdu District, also known as Shangri-La, is a highly bright reflective area located in Titan's leading hemisphere, the size of Australia.
Conventional theories suggest that this is a huge methane lake, but after field observations, Xiao Yu denied this theory.
Through the dense atmosphere, the surface situation of the Shangdu District entered Xiao Yu's lens. What was shown in front of Xiao Yu was a magical shijie.
There is a solid surface, there are lakes, but they are not very large. At the same time, there are rivers made entirely of liquid methane that flow slowly, just like on Earth.
Geological exploration reports show that there is an extremely rich iron ore in an area of Shangdu District. Xiao Yu thought about it and chose the landing place here.
After detailed orbit calculations, Xiao Yu slowly lowered his altitude and speed, and began to slowly approach the smooth surface of Titan.