Chapter 136: Humans Leaving the Solar System
Because of the unstable state of Nanhesan, Yang Meng could not complete a lot of work near this galaxy.
For Yang Meng at this time, most of the work is to classify, sort out, and summarize the materials sent before.
Because the spaceship is accelerating,
The work is also going slowly,
Thanks to the assistance of an alien civilization with tool attributes like Xiaoguang, a lot of time has been saved in the refining of some materials.
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The velocity in the universe is relative,
At the beginning, Yang Meng spent a lot of time slowing down the speed of the spacecraft to the point where it could enter the orbit of the Marshmallow Star.
So now, he wants to add the speed of the ship back up,
It still takes a lot of time,
And because the weight of the ship has increased,
As the speed reaches a certain level, the amount of energy required to accelerate increases.
This is also thanks to the breakthrough of human beings in controlled nuclear fusion technology,
Otherwise, energy constraints alone will make it impossible for humans to leave the solar system.
If there is not enough and stable and sustainable energy,
Humans may be like the Rutans, who have distorted the technology tree and sunk in self-internal friction.
Even if it is the same as the Rutans, it has broken away from the life form and become an energy body structure, and has become an existence close to immortality,
But the sun has a lifespan limit after all,
When the sun's hydrogen is "burned", the sun will also enter the red giant phase.
At that time, the final end of the earth may not be as good as Marshmallow Star,
After all, Marshmallow Star has the opportunity to escape from its own galaxy,
The Earth is getting too close to the Sun, and there may not even be ashes left at that time.
Fortunately, human beings have broken through the limits of energy.
Controlled nuclear fusion technology has the ability to survive in a dark and cold dangerous environment, just as humans have mastered the use of drilling wood for fire
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The spacecraft continued to fly in one direction, trying to get out of the confines of the three gravitational disturbances of the South River.
Over time,
The disturbance effect of the Nanhe three-star system on the spacecraft is getting weaker and weaker.
Nan Hesan is about to erupt This sword of Damocles hanging above his head is finally not shaking,
At the same time, Xiaoguang's condition is getting better and better:
"I wonder how long we're going to have to fly before we're out of the Scourge zone?"
The small light flickered and asked Yang Meng this question,
Hearing Xiaoguang's question, Yang Meng also thought to himself:
He hypothesized the most dangerous situation,
Although it has begun to move away from the Nanhe three-star system,
But the danger brought to him by Nan Hesan has not been eliminated,
Only by getting rid of the gravitational disturbance of Nanhe 3, that is, the range of 1.3 to 1.5 light years from the gravitational center point of Nanhe 3,
Only then did he completely get rid of the danger of Nanhesan,
And the reason for such a gravitational range range,
Or is it because Nanhesan is a binary star system, and its gravitational sphere range is not a standard spherical shape,
Under the influence of Nanhe San,
There will be some slight changes in the range of gravitational disturbance throughout Nanhe San.
Calculated according to the degree of this change,
As long as he is more than 1.5 light-years away from Nanhesan,
Then even if Nanhe-san erupted immediately, at that distance, even his spacecraft would still be affected by the stellar explosion.
But he already had a chance to live,
And at that point, he may be able to use the energy released by the stellar explosion to provide the spacecraft with the possibility of further acceleration.
Yang Meng thought for a moment and then began to answer Xiaoguang's question.
It will take a long time to leave the range of the three gravitational disturbances of the South River!
At first, I felt south from Rutan
It took years for the three-star system to come.
You must know that it is only a distance of about a light year, and now it will only take him longer to leave the gravitational disturbance range of Nanhe San.
According to the estimation of the orbit calculator, in the case of smooth acceleration,
It will take at least 11 years.
And Xiaoguang flickered slightly when he heard such an answer,
Maybe it's because of the 11 years on the earth, the time it took for Xiao Yin to translate into a Rutan Star is not that long,
Therefore, the flickering frequency on Xiaoguang's body did not show some peculiar emotions.
It was the gravitational problem that Yang Meng said before, which made Xiaoguang show some doubts:
"In this way, my galaxy is also in the gravitational perturbation range of the calamity! But why aren't our galaxies attracted to the calamity?"
Seeing that Xiaoguang asked such a basic question, Yang Meng shook his head gently,
To explain in simple language the problem of the refraction of mass and velocity in gravity,
The gravitational disturbance force possessed by a planet can be seen as a rope.
The closer you get to the planet,
The thicker and bigger the rope, the stronger the pulling force.
And the farther away from the planet, the thinner the rope becomes, and the weaker the pulling force.
In this case
With a galaxy of this size as Nanhesan, it is almost impossible to pull the Rutan Galaxy.
In addition to the Nanhe-3 and Rutan galaxies, in the process of orbiting the Milky Way Star, it has a great speed.
This makes it possible for
The gravitational pull exerted by Nanhe III on Rutan,
It's like two cars coming from different directions, at high speed,
When this car is about to pass by by mistake, the people in the larger car use a lasso made of ramen noodles to put on another car, and the result can be imagined.
"I see!"
After listening to Yang Meng's explanation, this small light flickered with a certain frequency, and it seemed that he was happy because he understood something.
Seeing Xiaoguang in such a state,
Although he had felt that something was wrong with this Xiaoguang before, Xiaoguang was very smart in the past, and he wouldn't ask him about this basic theoretical knowledge at all.
But after this period of time,
In the face of this somewhat wooden little light, Yang Meng's heart was a little easier,
After all, getting along with intelligent beings is a very laborious thing.
"In such a state, it should be affected by Nanhe San!"
"I don't know, how long will it last?"
"Maybe, when I get out of the gravitational disturbance range of Nanhesan, it will be able to return to normal!"
And Xiaoguang on the side saw that Yang Meng had been silent, with a contemplative look,
The flickering frequencies on its body also reveal a curious emotion,
It seemed to be curious about what Yang Meng was thinking.
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Over time,
The probe he left on Marshmallow also began to send back information,
Because there is a layer of dust on Marshmallow that is more than 5,000 meters thick,
Some of the detection devices reserved above have been in a state of drilling.
This drilling technique,
As early as a hundred years ago, when humans launched a rover to Mars, there was already a prototype.
It's just that the technology that humans had at that time,
Only through the unmanned Mars rover, an eye with a depth of more than ten centimeters can be punched on the surface of Mars.
Moreover, the Mars drilling rig at that time was often stuck in various positions for various reasons.
However, aerospace technology, after hundreds of years of iterative development,
This basic technology for exploring the geology of the planet has been very well developed.
In addition, the geological structure of the drilling is a dust layer, and judging from the news received by Yang Meng, the entire drilling process is quite smooth.
"It's a pity that I left in a hurry and didn't explore the strata of this planet!"
Thinking of this, Yang Meng sighed secretly,
After all, the situation of Marshmallow Star is a bit special, the core of this planet still has a certain temperature, and there is a thick layer of ice under the dust layer.
This ice structure is very normal for an ice-rock planet far from the stars.
But considering that the marshmallow star may have come from within the three-star system with the South River,
Maybe before the outbreak of Nanhe San, the marshmallow star that was still inside Nanhe San had a liquid ocean.
If there is an ocean, it is like a cradle for life to grow.
It is precisely these circumstances that make Yang Meng miss the marshmallow star who just left,
And there is no turning back from the bow,
Yang Meng could only sigh. After checking the progress of Marshmallow Star's exploration,
Yang Meng began to retrieve the data of the probe flying to Nanhe Sannei again,
See that the probe is still 1,200 astronomical units away from the interior of Nanhe San!
He shook his head gently, and didn't ask Xiaoguang why he was flying so slowly.
For he knows very well why it is.
In the case of limited energy, a flying machine, where the most fuel is consumed, is the process of braking and decelerating, and entering the orbit of the planet.
Therefore, even in the process of flying to Nanhe-3, the gravitational attraction of Nanhe-3 can be used to accelerate, and it can approach the interior of Nanhe at a very fast speed.
However, in order to allow the detector to detect more of the internal situation of Nanhe San, it is not just skimming the internal area of Nanhe San, and then it is thrown away from the Nanhe Sanxing system.
The speed of the detector needs to be controlled.
In order to maintain efficiency, and also to avoid flying overhead and not being able to enter the orbital orbit, the probe is close to the interior of the Nanhe Samsung system at a certain speed.
Seeing that the two detection methods he worked out by himself did not get substantial results,
Yang Meng could only continue his previous work,
But the resource sorting work will eventually be done.
Faced with the upcoming free time, Yang Meng was thinking about whether to hibernate or not.
As a carbon-based organism with a very short lifespan,
It's a shameful thing to do nothing and just waste your life there.
As for the data on the internal detection of Marshmallow Star and Nanhe San,
Although Yang Meng was very interested,
But these two detection jobs have entered the stage of automatic exploration.
The data sent back to the spacecraft can also be sorted out and analyzed by Xiao Yin.
And no matter what Nanhe Sanxing Department finds, it is impossible for him to turn around and go back to see him.
In this case, the detection information from Nan Hesan can be viewed after he wakes up.
As a pioneer astronaut, you have to make a decision immediately after taking into account all kinds of factors.
Therefore, when he decided to go to hibernation, Yang Meng no longer hesitated,
It's just that before going into hibernation,
He needs to determine if the gravitational disturbance of Nanhesan will affect his physical condition.
As for whether Nan Ha San will break out while he is dormant,
Yang Meng didn't think much about it, in his opinion, at such a distance, facing the explosion of stars,
It doesn't make much difference whether he's awake or asleep.
However, it was also during the days when Yang Meng was debugging the hibernation cabin
A sudden arrival temporarily interrupted Yang Meng's plan,
"The message of the Earth has arrived again!"
"So fast!"
At this time, Yang Meng noticed that he woke up from his hibernation, and then rushed to Marshmallow Star.
After encountering Nanhesan's abnormality, he urgently left Nanhesan, to where he is now,
It's been a year,
Seeing the years passing so inexorably, Yang Meng began to check the letters from the earth with mixed feelings.
He first examined the data packet encryption program on the earth side,
Seeing that it is just a normal encryption program, I can't help but be a little disappointed in my heart,
But he quickly restrained his emotions and began to decrypt according to the previous decryption method.
Soon the data packet was unpacked, and a large amount of data appeared in front of Yang Meng's eyes.
As with the previous packets,
The information in it is divided into two major contents, one is the major events that have happened on the earth in the past year,
and some entertainment content sent by the Earth Command Center based on some of the information registered by the astronauts when they left the Earth.
And in addition to these,
Another major content is to adapt to the equipment carried by pioneer astronauts before departure, and can be upgraded and iterated with technology.
Generally speaking, this part of the content is very important for Yang Meng.
Although the magnitude of these technological equipment upgrades is not large,
But a little adds up,
The technology used in the spacecraft today is completely different from when he first left Earth.
However, compared with the iterative content of science and technology,
At this time, Yang Meng was more interested in some big news among human beings.
From the previous information, Yang Meng learned that
The situation of mankind is not stable, and the ground command center does not want him to return to Earth after a hundred years.
Yang Meng was curious about what kind of change,
Will it lead to a change in the pattern of mankind in the past 100 years?
So in the process of debugging the sleeping cabin, as long as it was in the rest stage, he opened the huge information package sent by the earth and looked for something.
Fortunately, after a few days of digging in the sea of information, he finally made a discovery.
At this time, Yang Meng had just completed a debugging of the hibernation cabin, and was floating in the dining cabin, eating while browsing the letters from the ground
"According to the letter from Earth, the most important thing in humanity twelve years ago was still the war of extermination against the gray forces of the Ke Yin Bo belt."
"It's a pity that the extermination war is not going well, and it is difficult to completely eradicate the gray forces hidden in the Ke Yin Bo belt!"
Yang Meng sighed at the toothpaste-like food in his hand, frowning slightly,
But at this moment, he seemed to see something, and the movements on his mouth stopped:
"Wanted!"
"Some gray forces are unable to resist the chaotic situation around the Coyinbo Belt and have begun to flee the solar system!"
"This kind of thing......
Seeing this, Yang Meng's expression was a little sudden,
The solar system has never constrained humans,
Here come and go freely,
As long as you have the ability, as long as there is a spacecraft with controlled nuclear fusion, it is not difficult to leave the solar system.