At the first base of the moon, Chen Xi was making a video call in the temporary dormitory where she had packed up the princess's heart, and after the number showed that it was dialed, Zhuo Mingqian's figure was projected on the opposite wall for about a second.

Tim Cook was right, a decade of promising things has indeed changed the pattern of the world's communications industry.

With the upgrading of holographic technology, long-distance information transmission technology, data compression and decompression technology, and the laying of cross-space relay lines, the communication time between the earth and the moon has been successfully pressed to less than one second.

You must know that according to the distance of 400,000 kilometers between the Earth and the Moon, even if you do not count the time consumed by the relay satellite and countless devices on the way to the information to accept, convert, and transmit signals, it takes about 1.28 seconds to make a trip at the pure speed of light, in short, the transmission of information exceeds the speed of light.

And the distance between the Earth and the Moon is too close. It doesn't fully reflect the strength of this technology. Theoretically, if the Martian environmental modification plan is successful in the future, as long as enough cross-space relay lines are laid, the information transmission from Mars to Earth can also achieve instant communication.

If we go one step further and lay enough beacon satellites along the route from Earth to Mars that can connect to transspace repeaters, then the slow spacecraft will also be able to interact with Earth in real time at the route node.

This shows how great this technology is.

Of course, the past decade has been an era of technological development, and if you are interested, you will find that all these technologies are pre-emptive technologies developed to achieve civilized space migration. For example, the speed of faster-than-light information transmission.

Think about it, according to the orbit of Mars and the Earth, when the speed of information transmission between the two will fluctuate within three minutes to half an hour, the connection between the earth and fire will be more annoying. Trying to make a call to Earth at apogee requires waiting half an hour to be connected, which is undoubtedly unacceptable for people who are used to the Internet age.

Mars is not that far from Earth.

Without innovations in communications technology, the more distant habitable planet could become an enclave relative to Earth. In the short term, it's okay to say, after a long time, the Earth's control over it will become weaker and weaker when it is impossible to communicate conveniently, and God knows what will happen in the end.

It can roughly refer to the degree of control over its territory by the huge empires of the feudal era. The farther a territory is from the center, the easier it is to be reversed or overturned.

The era of space voyages is actually much the same.

It takes months or even more than half a year to really contact a planet, and after tens or hundreds of years or more, it is really difficult to say whether the people there still admit that their civilization originated from the earth. History has fully proved that the collective memory of mankind can be reshaped, and it is only necessary to quietly revise the textbooks and wait quietly for three or five generations to grow into the middle force of society, and history will change beyond recognition, at least at a certain stage of civilization.

Now it seems that at least at this stage, this kind of thing is absolutely intolerable for the Earth as the home planet.

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"Uncle Zhuo, the task assigned to me by the teacher has been completed, my fake note senior brother has also been approved, and the information has been synchronized to the student management background on the official website, can you help me contact a ship to pick me up and take me back to Nuwa tomorrow?"

"Oh, wait for me to see. Well, your application has indeed been received. Chen Xi, do you want to go back to the branch on the Nuwa or do you want to go back to Earth?"

"Huh? I want to go home."

"Then let's go to the Wu Gang first. Nuwa has just received the task of scientific research and sample collection for Enceladus. It's going to be a hassle to get on the Nuwa now."

"Nuwa is going to Saturn again? What are you going to collect this time?"

"The base found many highly active organic cells from the samples captured last time, so it is suspected that there may already be single-celled organisms on Enceladus, so this time Nuwa brought more than 600 unmanned excavators over, and this time it intends to collect enough samples to determine whether Enceladus has life."

"Uncle Zhuo, the Nuwa is not an unmanned excavator, it is an exploration-level interstellar exploration and collection vehicle. But why Enceladus? Isn't it all ice on Enceladus? Don't have an atmosphere yet?"

"Haha, you really

It's the right question. I don't know anything, but I suggest you hurry up and get home and finish your errands, because when your teacher returns, he may have to give you another task. If all goes well this time, the implementation of the Enceladus relocation plan will probably begin. This is a big project, and the last time I heard them say that there are more than a dozen proposals under discussion. In three years, from more than 1,000 programs to more than 10 programs now...... According to Academician Ning's habit, I guess the last question may be your master's graduation project."

"Huh? Thank you, Uncle Zhuo, then I'll wait for the boat to come tomorrow."

"Well, keep an eye on your email, and I'll send you the time to pick you up when I've contacted the ship. You just need to get to the base port on time."

"Okay, goodbye Uncle Zhuo."

"Goodbye."

……

After hanging up the phone, Chen Xi's smiling face instantly collapsed and became sad.

Take Enceladus and give it to Mars as a satellite, so that you can use the abundant water resources on Enceladus to nourish Mars and completely transform the Martian environment. This plan was proposed five years ago, and it has not been moved yet, naturally because it is too difficult. The difficulty can be compared to the once famous sci-fi movie "Wandering! Little Wrecking Ball" is side by side.

Even though Enceladus is not about the size of the Earth, which is only about two-sevenths the size of the Moon, its advantage is that the entire planet is rich in water, or extremely rich in hydrogen and oxygen. As long as it can be successfully sent to the vicinity of Mars, after Mars gains enough gravity, the surface of Mars can become a small blue ball with more than 70% of the area of the ocean like the Earth.

The problem is that these stars are in constant motion in a system.

Saturn has 62 moons, and everyone is in a delicate balance, and it is almost impossible to remove Enceladus quietly. But at the very least, the impact must be manageable. In fact, these are still secondary, the forces of nature are very terrifying, even if there is some movement caused in the process of removing Enceladus, it can quickly adjust to another stable state.

Even if there will be some destruction in the middle, don't be afraid, anyway, there is no one in the entire Saturn system.

Well, radical environmentalists are probably going crazy, and this is definitely the greatest damage to the natural ecology in human history. Fortunately, if you zoom in to the entire solar system, this little change is almost negligible.

But it's still a hassle.

Although it has been reduced from more than 1,000 to more than 10 in three years, it is important to know that each plan is extremely complex. Once the implementation begins, each step means a massive investment of resources. It is no exaggeration to say that the amount of resources and engineering that needs to be made up for any mistake is massive, and the world's most profitable company can go bankrupt in an instant.

This is the interstellar project......

When human beings can only play on the earth, the pinnacle of micro technology - chips are considered to be the biggest miracle in the world, but when human beings can get out of the earth, the difficulty and cost of any macro project involving the planet and the comparison with the previous chip technology make the latter seem like a joke.

Take this kind of thing as her graduation project?

Chen Xi suddenly felt a lot of pressure on his body.

At this moment, she thought of the senior brother who had won the Nobel Prize for ten years but still failed to meet the requirements of her mentor and graduated successfully, and suddenly the whole person was not very good.

The senior brother is at least stuck in getting a doctorate, and she may be stuck in the master's diploma.

It's so hard!

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Earth, China, Yanbei Space Exploration University large-scale scientific research base.

Zhuo Mingqian, who hung up Chen Xi's phone, swiped his hand on the desktop, and under the gesture operation, a traditional smartphone dialing screen was directly displayed on the desktop of the desk.

"Xiaoyi, help me contact Mr. Dubonle." After the casual order, the dial-up screen disappeared, and the desktop appeared with recent information about Mr. Dupont in many private domains and public media. While waiting to be connected, you can learn what this person has done recently by clicking on the desktop, which can be said to be very considerate.

At least when greetings, there is no shortage of topics.

But

Zhuo Mingqian was obviously not very interested in what the old gentleman had done recently, and his eyes were still locked on the form being made on the other side.

It's National Day soon, and he has to sort out the new batch of lab upgrades.

Generally speaking, even the best incentives will become rigid and lose their original vitality after the past decade. This has nothing to do with whether the management is scientific or not, mainly after ten years of precipitation, often those cattle have been able to stand out and control enough resources. The rest became mainstays in another sense. For various reasons, I started to mess around, or I put my energy into internal friction.

After all, it is a humane society, as long as you stay long enough, once the circle is formed, there will always be a difference between relatives and distances.

But there are apparently no such problems at this base.

The big bulls who upgraded quickly in the early days have been assigned to the labs in space. Of course, there will be some scientific research bulls who are not interested in those grand projects in space, and want to stay in the base to be the boss, but such bulls are really a minority, and secondly, if the results on the earth are not up to standard, the laboratory specifications will regress, and even people may be persuaded to retire.

Moreover, the so-called factional and personal relationships that exist in any research laboratory are of no use here. Because it is now a secret that all individual laboratories are upgraded and downgraded, and the amount of resources that the laboratory leader can control, is managed by the artificial intelligence system. There is almost no human affection to tell.

In almost two words, there are still people who can influence the system's decision-making.

For example, Zhuo Mingqian, Chen Yonggang, and a few base directors. But it can only affect, it is nothing more than adding some points to the allocation weight, if the punishment regulations designed by artificial intelligence are touched, it is said that you can only find Ning Xiao to modify the background decision of the system. For example, when it comes to internal unfair competition, or the suppression of achievements, it is one of the most taboo behaviors in artificial intelligence.

But so far, Ning Xiao has never opened a mouth for any punitive decision, so the only loophole can only be said.

As for how Academician Ning, who protects his shortcomings, decides how his family or his students will not be affected by this system, it is actually very simple, that is, not to join the scientific research system of the base.

That's right, Ning Xiao's students are not in the management sequence of the base, and naturally they will not compete for the resources within the scientific research base. When they need the cooperation of the scientific research base, they can issue tasks through the scientific research system. Just like Chen Luo's nuclear fusion project, there is no shortage of support from within the base.

This proves that the artificial intelligence management system is more scientific and efficient than human management, at least in the small scope of the scientific research base. The addition of various incentive policies has also kept the entire research base extremely vigorous.

On the contrary, every year, the base will release about 10 to 100 places around the world, and then receive at least thousands or even tens of thousands of applications, including scientists working in world-renowned laboratories, and these applications will eventually be selected by the system for their three to five years of scientific research success.

Therefore, the day when the base releases the quota every year has been ridiculed by the Chinese people as the college entrance examination for the world's scientific research community. No way, having a lab on the base is the easiest way to have labs in various battlestars.

Take Wu Gang, which seems to be the oldest and has the most rudimentary facilities, as an example. If you want to have a laboratory of about 100 square meters on the Wu Gang, the rent alone will cost nearly 20 million Huaxia yuan a month. This is only the most basic cost, not counting the cost of leasing or transporting various research instruments to the Wu Gang.

What's even more annoying is that even if the rent is paid, the laboratory dispatches personnel to collect additional tickets when Wu Gang shuttles with the earth. Therefore, for personal laboratories, if there is no mine at home, they will definitely not be able to rent it. What's even more frustrating is that in order to ensure safety, research equipment and instruments that are not on the official approval list need to go through more than a dozen safety reviews before they can be sent on board.

However, if it is a laboratory provided by the base, not only all the above fees are free, but also a full set of supporting laboratory equipment and instruments can be sent, even if new equipment is needed, it can also be through the unique channels of the base, simplifying the approval and progress.

There is no way, in this era, out of the research of the theme of space

In fact, they are basically outdated. At this time, mankind around the world has been whetted by space migration, and the most concerned science and technology news is about the progress made in the great cause of space migration. The collective will in the context of the great era has basically taken shape, and any person or organization with different opinions can only be a praying mantis blocking the car.

In particular, the Mars transformation project has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and when the migration of the earth is just around the corner, countless people hope to get a piece of the pie when this great era officially begins. Therefore, no matter how high the price is, countless people are flocking to it.

The development of science and technology is changing with each passing day, but the world's most advanced operating rules have never changed, and scarcity is expensive, so monopoly can maximize benefits.