368 strikes Saturn
Mordin asked Ah Niu to continue to control the spaceship, which made Lin Xuan very unhappy.
"This guy has made such a big mistake, how can you still rest assured of him?" Lin Xuan shouted at Mordin.
"People make mistakes, and Ah Niu is a good comrade if he changes!" Mei Qing said unconvinced.
"Will he change?" do you promise he's no longer an idiot?" Lin Xuan shouted as he pointed at Ah Niu.
"Why don't you take control of this spaceship?" Mei Qing retorted.
"......" Lin Xuan was speechless for a moment.
The control of this spaceship was extremely complicated, and it was impossible for Lin Xuan to be a layman.
"Mordin, it's okay!" Lin Xuan suddenly had an idea.
"I'm going to hurry up and cultivate, there's something big waiting for me to do!" Mordin immediately excused himself.
"You don't really plan to stay here forever, do you?" Lin Xuan said.
"What's your idea?"
"I can't think of it, but you must have!" Lin Xuan still absolutely believed in Mordine at the critical moment, this guy encountered so many dangers in the optical network, he could always turn the danger into a disaster, he must be a lieutenant general, so there must be a way to deal with the crisis in front of him.
"Then we have only one way to hit Saturn. Mordin said lightly.
"Hit Saturn?" Mei Qing and Lin Xuan exclaimed.
"Saturn is a gas planet that is ready to hit, and we can only slow down the spacecraft by hitting the thick atmosphere on Saturn's periphery. ”
"Can this work?" Lin Xuan expressed serious doubts.
Now that their speed is 139 kilometers per second and their 1,000-ton behemoth can rely on Saturn's atmospheric drag to consume the spacecraft's tremendous kinetic energy? What if it misses Saturn and falls into Saturn, will the spacecraft be burned up in the atmosphere due to high-speed friction?
"So let's do the math and see what kind of conditions are needed to be successful," Mordin explained.
"It's all left to Ah Niu to do, so what are you still doing in a hurry to cultivate?" Lin Xuan asked puzzled.
"This question is kept secret and cannot be known to the robot hiding in the ship, because this is our killer feature, the last hole card. Mordin replied lightly.
"Heh......" Lin Xuan was helpless.
"Mordin, are you really sure of success?" Mei Qing leaned forward and asked cautiously.
"Don't you want us to succeed?"
"Of course I hope so, but it won't be too sad if I don't succeed, after all, you're the only one to choose......!"
"Cut!" Lin Xuan glanced at her with disdain, and turned away angrily.
Mordin was made red-faced.
"Ah Niu's affairs will be left to you, you can chat with him more if you have nothing to do!" Mordin turned around and slipped away.
"Cut! stingy ghost!" Mei Qing scolded hatefully behind him.
"Come, Niu, tell me what you think......"
At the current rate, it would take them about 110 days to reach Saturn's orbit, if nothing else.
The distance between the Earth and Saturn is constantly changing, and after 160 days, the two planets in the solar system are the closest to each other, so they will not be able to contact Saturn after reaching the orbit of Saturn in advance, so they need to use Jupiter's gravity to make a change of orbit in order to let the spacecraft fly in the direction of Saturn.
In addition, the spaceship no longer needs to do any action, so, in order to save energy, Ah Niu turned off most of the nuclear power system, leaving only the minimum energy needs that can sustain life, and Mei Qing has nothing to do, except for sleeping all day and pestering Mordin to chat, everything else is normal.
The hidden robot never reappeared.
Lin Xuan didn't know which corner he was hiding in to cultivate, and he seemed to be very energetic recently.
Mordin stepped out of the ship and onto the top of the ship.
Ah Niu has calculated the data that the spacecraft will hit Saturn, and as Mordin expected, the result is very dangerous.
If the spacecraft were to reduce its speed from the current 139 to the predetermined 83.3 kilometers per second, it would need to travel 112 seconds and 12,000 miles through Saturn's atmosphere at a deceleration of 50 G.
In order to achieve a deceleration of 50 G, the spacecraft must withstand 50,000 tons of air resistance, and if you want to get this resistance, the disc-shaped spacecraft must stand up and walk "horizontally" in Saturn's atmosphere like a parachute, which is contrary to the principle of aerodynamics, so it is very easy to lose control, causing the spacecraft to deviate violently, either floating out of the atmosphere, or sliding into the surface of Saturn, and the ship will be destroyed.
In addition to flying in such a strange attitude that is not easy to control, they also face many other problems, such as the impact of ice crystals in Saturn's atmosphere, the disturbance caused by a terrifying storm, and the threat of strong pressure to the ship's structure. And the most difficult thing to solve is the huge heat generated by the high-speed friction of the spacecraft in the atmosphere, which will instantly produce tens of thousands of degrees of high temperature on the surface of the spacecraft.
All these difficulties must be addressed, otherwise they will never have a second chance.
Mordin sat there quietly, thinking about a solution.
There is no way to solve it by relying on the equipment and supplies on the ship, and the only thing that can be done at the moment is to repair the broken armor on both sides of the ship as much as possible.
"You have to rely on the strength you have cultivated to turn things around in one fell swoop!" he said secretly in his heart.
110 days is a very short moment for a cultivator, and even a regular meditation is more than that.
But for Mo Ding, 110 days is a very ample time, looking at his cultivation process, he can have such a long time to sit down and meditate and comprehend, except for the time when he was locked in the cave under the Broken Mind Cliff by the master, the rest of the cultivation time adds up to less than 100 days, but his realm has broken through from the initial level of the Yuan Shen to the current initial level of the Transformation of the God, which cannot but be said to be a miracle.
"If you change the environment, you may get something else!"
He exerted a slight force, and his body suddenly left the top of the spaceship, and slowly walked away from the outside of the spaceship.
There is no gravity in space, there is no force to rely on, the body is upside down, there is no shape, but it doesn't matter.
He crossed his legs on his knees, put his hands on his legs, held his palms half-handed, held eggs in his palms, and touched his thumb and the middle finger of the index finger, like a flower;
The eyes are slightly closed, the eyebrows and eyes are dilated, the tip of the nose is seen, the nose covers the lower lip, and the two lips are slightly open;
The earlobes are on the shoulders, the shoulders and neck are relaxed, the chest is expanded and the abdomen is closed, and the lower plate is like a falling floating cloud;
After "sitting" the posture, slowly enter the visualization.
It's the same visualization, but it's different in the environment, and the angle of visualization is different.
He was from a distance of thousands of kilometers to visualize what was happening on that distant blue planet, things related to himself and things related to others.
On that planet, life was born 4 billion years ago due to all kinds of ingenious accidents, so it is a special planet, and Mordin is now observing the occasional * event of the birth of life on this planet from a distance, and also observing the extremely ordinary but incredible phenomenon of life in the universe.
"Is life a natural occurrence?"
"Is life inevitable?"
"Is life a necessary part of the universe?"
"What is life?"
"Are robots life?"
"If life and matter are fully united, is the universe living or material?
These are naturally occurring visualization questions, just like the doubts that an alien consciousness inevitably arises when observing life on earth.
Is life naturally generated?
In Europe in the 17th century, it was generally believed that a pair of stinky socks and a pair of rags in a corner would naturally give birth to small mice, so they believed that life was naturally generated and determined by material conditions.
Similarly, modern biochemical theories also believe that in the early days of the earth, inorganic matter was affected by lightning, temperature, Under natural conditions such as pressure, organic matter was born, and then in some areas these organic matter happened to be concentrated, and the concentration became higher, and then more complex organic matter was produced, such as amino acids, etc., amino acids are the basic substances of life, and are the basis for forming proteins.
Therefore, life is material, and when the material conditions are met, life will inevitably be born.
Therefore, human scientists have spared no effort to take the conditions for the birth of life as the standard, and look for the possibility of life on other planets other than the earth in the whole universe, that is, looking for those places with smelly socks and rags, because there, there must be little mice born.
What is the essence of life? What is the difference between it and matter? Is life another form of activity of matter?
This problem is not a problem that science can solve, it belongs to the category of philosophy, and it also belongs to the scope of Mordin's visualization.
From birth to death, life originates from matter and also returns to matter, which is a cycle, and the activity of life is actually another form of activity of matter.
From the body, to the body tissue, to the cell, to the protein, to the amino acid, to the organic matter, to the compounds of various structures, and then to the molecular forces of various elements, everything in life is the same as the material structure in nature, so life is also a substance.
From words, to information, to the memory electromagnetic signals that store information, to language, culture, thought, thinking, and belief, all so-called virtual things exist in the form of matter, and are all based on the results of several basic forces in the universe, so life is the evolution of matter, and its essence is still material.
But, on the other hand, what if life was not born naturally from matter?
Is there a need for conditions other than matter, without which matter cannot produce life on its own?
What is this condition?
The universe is made up of matter, and even if this condition is some kind of field or other force that our current technology has not yet discovered, it still cannot escape the realm of matter.
Unless, the components that make up the universe are something else.
That's right, that's the consciousness of life.
There are many forms of matter, real matter, virtual matter, dark matter, antimatter, etc., but none of them can replace the consciousness of life.
What is consciousness? It is a tendency that is beyond all the forces of nature. The forces of nature interact with each other, evolve with each other, are interconnected, and operate with each other according to the laws of nature, but it is absolutely impossible for them to produce this particular tendency, which is the expansion of life.
Life needs to survive, life needs to continue, life needs exclusivity, life needs to strengthen itself, all these characteristics are characteristics that natural things do not have, and they are things that cannot be contained in natural laws.
If the laws of nature are a highly automated machine, then the consciousness of life is an attempt to change the operating procedures of this machine. It is this attempt that gives life a different character from matter.
The spaceship was far away from Mordin, and there was no trace of it in sight, but Mordin was still "sitting" there, his mind looking beyond the blue planet, as if it could encompass the entire universe.
Suddenly, a lightning bolt appeared imperceptibly on his body, and the time was so short that Mordin's divine sense did not even notice the appearance of this lightning.
After the lightning, an invisible "membrane" enveloped his body, as if it became one with his body.