Just when Zheng Bai and others were busy building the No. 1 artificial earth.

The Homo sapiens corporate headquarters in the solar system were not idle either.

After more than 20 years of development, New Mankind has finally made a breakthrough in the manufacturing technology of dual neutron materials.

Previously, Homo sapiens could only produce a few hundred kilograms of two-neutron materials a year, but after adopting the new technology, the production capacity has increased dozens of times, and the unit energy consumption has also decreased by 55%.

At the same time, the production equipment has also been compressed from the previous scale of hundreds of kilometers to tens of kilometers.

As the most important colony of Homo sapiens, the Superstar Colony Branch received the relevant technical information as soon as possible.

In less than half a month, it transformed 8 double neutron material manufacturing machines, which can produce about 8 tons of double neutron materials per year.

Dual neutron materials have become far more important to Homo sapiens than any other material.

Whether it is in the field of energy, or in the field of military industry, or in the field of engineering and construction, or in the field of thrusters, dual neutron materials play an irreplaceable role.

Without binary neutron materials, it would be difficult for Homo sapiens' spacecraft to travel faster than 3% of the speed of light.

Now, the company's latest spacecraft has soared to 7.8% of the speed of light.

The core technology of the new spacecraft is a magnetic field offset shield made of dual neutron materials, a strong magnetic plasma thruster and a strong magnetic nuclear fusion power generation system.

In particular, the magnetic field offset shield is too important for a spaceship in a super-high-speed flight state.

Without this, if the spacecraft travels faster than 2% of the speed of light, the ship's head will be damaged beyond repair.

During one test, Homo sapiens replaced the magnetic field shield of the experimental spacecraft with ordinary materials, and the result was that after the spacecraft exceeded 2% of the speed of light, the head of the spacecraft collided with an asteroid a few centimeters in size, and then the head of the spacecraft was opened.

Asteroids with a diameter of a few centimeters basically cover the entire interstellar space, although from a large space scale, the probability of a spacecraft and a miniature asteroid colliding is not large.

However, when the speed of the spaceship increases and the sailing distance is extended, a small probability event will become an inevitable event.

For example, in the previous Homo sapiens expeditionary fleet, almost all warships collided with miniature asteroids during the voyage.

If it weren't for the super magnetic field offset shield made of dual neutron materials, the head of the battleship would have been smashed into a hornet's nest long ago.

Why can't the Hexapons develop a faster spaceship?

The answer is not only because the thruster technology is not good, but also because of the shield technology.

In the age of the earth, human planes collided with birds, resulting in accidents on airplanes, which is such a reason.

In the space age, the initial spacecraft did not exceed 20 kilometers per second, the flight range was not far, and the risk of collision with micro-asteroids was very high.

Not to mention that the spacecraft has a speed of more than 2% of the speed of light, and as long as there is a collision, an asteroid a few centimeters in size is no less powerful than hundreds of tons of TNT.

The largest asteroid hit by the expeditionary fleet reached a diameter of about 12 meters, and the impact power was equivalent to millions of tons of TNT.

Without super shield technology, an impact of this level can directly smash the entire space battleship to pieces.

Why is the latest version of Homo Sapiens spacecraft getting stuck at 7.8% of the speed of light?

The reason is that when the speed of a spacecraft exceeds 8% of the speed of light, even a super magnetic field made of binary neutron materials cannot 100% offset the miniature asteroids in its path.

And with the increase in the speed of the spacecraft, an asteroid with a diameter of a few centimeters, after impact, can produce a destructive force equivalent to hundreds of thousands of tons of TNT, plus the impact object is more hit, it may instantly break through the magnetic field offset shield.

After all, with the thrusters and power generation systems mastered by Homo sapiens at this stage, if continuous acceleration at any cost is adopted, as long as the acceleration time is long enough, the speed of the spacecraft can be increased to about 20% of the speed of light.

The consequence of this is that the ship will turn into a pile of scrap metal in the middle of the process.

The safety of the ship cannot be guaranteed, what is the use of such speed?

Fortunately, the speed of ICBMs can reach more than a dozen Machs, which is much faster than that of civil airliners, so why not use ICBMs to transform them into transport aircraft?

It was also because of this reason that the speed of the spaceship could not be increased in the original intelligent civilization.

And the quasi-second-level civilization that defeated the intelligent machine civilization, the speed of the spaceship can exceed 30% of the speed of light, and its power can be seen.

Now the company's spacecraft R&D department is trying to develop a more powerful magnetic field offset shield, but the management, including Li Qingye, knows very well that the magnetic field of the dual-neutron material has reached its limit.

Unless a material with a stronger magnetic field than a two-neutron material can be developed, the maximum speed of Homo sapiens' spacecraft will stop at 7.8% of the speed of light.

Materials are the foundation of technology.

For the research and development ideas of new materials, in fact, Dr. Yuri and others, who developed dual neutron materials, already have some ideas.

That is an upgraded version of the study of two-neutron materials, that is, the synthesis of neutron materials such as four-neutron and six-neutron.

It's a pity that the binary neutron material was also made by mistake, and even the clear theory was not fully understood.

As for how to synthesize other neutron materials, various neutron materials research institutes can only continue to experiment, hoping to synthesize new neutron materials.

But materials science is really a bit of luck.

Of course, in addition to luck, to do a good job of materials, you also need to have a rich material foundation, without a large amount of resource investment, even if there is luck, it is useless.

For example, the two-neutron material, a single Mars equatorial ring particle collider, the resources it needs to consume are astronomical.

The free world, which is still surviving on the earth, cannot produce this level of experimental equipment even if it does not eat or drink for a hundred years.

There was not even experimental equipment, and it was not possible to develop a two-neutron material against luck.

In the process of scientific and technological development, the threshold will become higher and higher as the technology becomes more and more advanced.

The gap between the first-level civilization and the zero-level civilization is the difference between the abyss, without special opportunities and the determination to unite, the probability of the zero-level civilization successfully advancing to the first-level civilization is only about 0.36%.

This data comes from the Intelligent Civilizations, which originally counted all the civilizations in the ZoC Zone.

In the end, it is concluded that the probability of a zero-level civilization being promoted to a first-level civilization is only about 0.36%.

In other words, if the Homo sapiens company is not born, there is a high probability that human civilization will continue to hover in the zero-level civilization stage, and then encounter the six-clawed people who have crossed the starry sky hundreds of years later.

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