Chapter 11 If you want to develop materials science, you have to tie up a robot
Although the decision was made very suddenly, Wang Chao himself really wanted to implement it like this.
The main underground awakened space necrons are cool or something, and if this is fake - then even cooler!
Before the crossing, Wang Chao had heard of the Martian riots in Britain or any country.
said that the British National Radio made a radio play of Wells's famous book "War of the Worlds" back then.
This book has a title that makes people think it is about World War II, but in fact, this book was published eight years before the outbreak of World War I, about the Martians invading the earth, and the countries of the world going to war with the Martians together.
This was the first of its kind in many places, such as the Martian driving a giant robot with elongated legs, which later became basically the standard template for alien invasions of Earth.
At the end of the story, the massive human resistance has been completely broken, the army no longer exists, and the rest of the people survive, and as a result, the invincible Martians are defeated by the virus on Earth - this ending is said to be a reference to the history of the extinction of the Inca Empire by the virus brought by European colonizers.
The most shocking thing is that this ending actually corresponds to the actual influenza pandemic after the end of World War I.
All in all, War of the Worlds was a sci-fi masterpiece that was then adapted into a radio drama by British radio stations.
As a result, the announcer's frightened shouting "Martian invasion" during the Martian invasion in the radio drama was too involved and was taken as true, which caused chaos throughout Britain and became a famous oolong event in world history.
When Wang Chao looked at this period of history before traveling, he really wanted to come again one day.
It's a pity that Wang Chao's life is similar to that of most small towns, that is, there is a line between school and home, and occasionally there will be a third point called an Internet cafΓ©, and there is really no stage for him to perform.
Now it's time to do it.
Of course, this is only one of the reasons, and the second reason is that you should do something big when you cross over!
To rebel in the Qing Dynasty, to launch the Industrial Revolution in the Ming Dynasty, and to ...... in the Three Kingdoms It's bad, the generals that everyone likes in the Three Kingdoms are different, and it is estimated that only marrying Diao Chan and rebuilding Tongquetai is ready to lock Er Qiao.
In this case, I, Wang Chao, have gained superpowers, so what's wrong with the whole scam that deceives the whole galaxy?
So Wang Chao began to plan: "Although we have the printing capacity, we don't have the raw materials, so we have to mine the basic minerals first." Are there any unmined veins on the planet? β
Nimeow: "You should ask what veins are mined on this planet." The planet has only been colonized for more than a decade, and the second generation of immigrants are not yet adults, and there are unexplored veins everywhere.
"Not only are there ore veins, but in fact, most of the mineral deposits on the planet have not been carefully surveyed, and the approximate distribution of mineral deposits can only be known through the results of the expedition scanning."
While speaking, Nimeow shared the ore vein exploration data searched from the Internet with everyone.
"You see, this has been carefully explored, and basically only the bare minimum of what keeps the colony running, we. Compare the distribution map telemetricated by the previous expedition team in space, and you can know where to get the minerals you need. β
After Nimeth finished speaking, Gale asked, "Didn't we originally plan to mine helium three here?" Now it's time to dig a big mine? β
Wang Chao: "What are you afraid of, it's not us who dig it personally." β
The new Jackdaw has LV5 printing capabilities, which can first print mining robots with the materials stored on the spaceship, airdrop them to mine, then print refining machines for refining, and then continue to print more mining and refining equipment with the refined materials.
That's how the so-called von Neumann machine works.
In the 21st century, it is easier for people to understand that the new Jackdaw is like the main base of the Terrans in the "StarCraft" series, as long as there are 50 mines that can build a "miner", that is, SCV, it can constantly use local resources to achieve self-replication.
The new Jackdaw was already carrying a certain amount of inorganic material.
The Jackdaw's furnace and printer can rework damaged parts into new ones, but there will be a certain amount of wear and tear in the process, plus parts wear and tear, and the inorganic materials carried on the ship are used to fill this shortfall.
Now these inorganic materials have become Wang Chao's start-up capital.
As he spoke, Wang Chao had already called up the drawings of the mining machine and issued a manufacturing order to the printing factory on the spaceship.
Nimew asked, "How to solve the problem of mineral exploration?" The scans only have a distribution map, with only a rough area on it, marking the depth of the deposit, and we need a geologist to complete the exploration. β
Wang Chao: "There are no geologists, Nia, you can go!" β
"Huh?" Nya was shocked.
Wang Chao: "Aren't you studying celestial bodies?" β
He deliberately hid the word physics.
"Astrophysics and astrogeography are two different concepts, okay? Hey, forget it, I'll see if I can do it quickly."
Wang Chao: "Please, Ni Meow and I are both engineering, we can only be the chief engineer, and the chief engineer has to come to you!" β
Nimeow: "One, I don't have a higher education background, and second, you don't have either. β
I have! I finally got in! But it's all from the previous life.
This time, although Wang Chao did not actually send the words to the data link, it still attracted Helena's ridicule: "Have you forgotten his 'setting'?" He's a 21st-century college student, and he doesn't remember all the details, as if he actually went to college.
"But in fact, he watched it all on the Internet, and he forgot the source after watching too much, so his subconscious combined it all and regarded it as his own memory."
Nimeow: "He's pretty sick, then." β
Wang Chao suddenly felt that he might not be able to convince Helena that he was really a 21st century person in his life.
Nimeth changed her words: "Then what do we use to build ancient buildings?" Iron is the easiest in terms of smelting difficulty, and there is a note in the expedition's telemetry that there is a large area of iron ore that is in an open pit state, and it is easy to mine. β
Wang Chao: "Wouldn't the ancient civilization made of iron be a little LOW, isn't this the whole high-carbon steel, nanomaterials, neutron star materials or something?" β
Nimeow: "Neutron star material? Do you know how massive that thing is a cubic meter? β
"However, the machinery of an ancient civilization built with iron is really a drama." Wang Chao argued, "And it's easy to expose, what should I do if someone debunks?" Could it be that Helena was made a cognitive modification? β
Helena: "Yes, I can really make the person in charge of the test open his eyes and say nonsense, obviously the instrument measures iron, and the spectral view of iron is also the spectrum of iron, but he just thinks that this is some kind of extraordinary 'unknown material'."
"But I don't recommend it, because every time someone comes to test me, I have to revise my cognition, and there will always be a time when I miss out after a long time."
Wang Chao: "Then we will use steel to make it, and all the materials are the materials that have been discovered by human beings so far." Who said that the machines of ancient alien civilizations must be made of unknown materials? β
Nimeow: "Can it really work?" Steelmaking is going to carburize inside, right? What should I do if I encounter carbon 12 detection? All at once, you will know that this thing has just been made. β
Wang Chao: "Nonsense, super-civilization has long surpassed time, so time stops when super-civilized things are sealed, and the carbon atoms in the alloy do not have any decay!" Very reasonable! β
Gale: "Although I don't understand what you say, but you are my father-in-law, if you say it is reasonable, then it must be reasonable." β
Nimeow: "So how do you explain the sudden appearance of 'ancient machinery' that rusts and oxidizes the surface?" β
"Of course, the time seal has been broken!"
"No, no, it's too far-fetched." Helena's was transmitted to the ship after a second's delay.
Wang Chao touched his chin: "Then how do you look at this, we use aluminum to build ancient machinery." β
"Aluminum?" Almost at the same time, everyone asked rhetorically in the data chain.
Wang Chao: "Yes, you see that human beings use a lot of aluminum products, in the 20th and 21st centuries, aluminum alloy doors and windows and aluminum cans are everywhere, and now that we have entered the aerospace age, there is still aluminum everywhere on the spacecraft, so what is the problem with ancient civilizations all using aluminum to make equipment?"
"The question is that the ancient people have solved the problem of the strength of aluminum alloy, so a large number of aluminum is used.
"In the future, we'll find the materials science immortal - I mean, the materials science expert, turn her into a superpower, and then let her develop the real mystical materials."
Helena: "It's not impossible, but the mining robots made of aluminum are not strong enough, and the mine chisel is also very worn. β
At this time, Nia, who had just started to "go offline" for a while, suddenly went online again: "I'm done!" Now I'm a geologist with half a bucket of water, what are you discussing? β
After she finished posting this question, she turned her head and reviewed everyone's chat history during this time.
"You guys, what aluminum and what iron do you use, isn't it all over with polymer materials?"
Gale: "Oh, half a bucket of water geologists have joined the debate!" β
Wang Chao: "Don't make a mess of Gale, we also want to use polymer materials, but isn't there no materials scientist?" β
"How long does it take for a group of cyber people to learn polymer materials? Polymer materials, the key lies in polymers. β
Wang Chao: "What you just said is like saying a word. β
"No, no, no, the structure of polymer materials is very complex, and there will be all kinds of strange properties, even if material experts see this material, they don't dare to say what properties it has, they have to test it to know."
Wang Chao also followed Nia's train of thought at this time: "It doesn't matter if some of the materials are seized, they can't detect the unique properties after a long time, but it will make them suspect that they have encountered technological barriers, don't you mean that?" β
Helena added, "The premise is that the person who tested it is convinced that this material is from a supercivilization." If they lie that this is a newly developed material in a laboratory, and find a good materials scientist to test it, the materials scientist will think that the material is mediocre. β
Wang Chao: "If they do this, it means that they have not been deceived, and they already suspect that we have forged this super civilization, which is your dereliction of duty!" β
"Huh?" Helena was shocked, "How did it become my dereliction of duty?" β
Wang Chao: "What? You can't be derelict in your duties? Obviously, I just drove a big iron lump to fly at a low altitude and supersonic speed and shattered my eardrum, such an obvious dereliction of duty! β
"No, no, no, I mean why do you blame me if someone else didn't fall for it?"
"You're our oldest liar here! Don't blame you, do you blame us fledgling little hairy heads? β
Gale followed: "Father-in-law is right! β
It seems that as long as Wang Chao asks her not to interrupt, she will automatically enter the role of praise.
Helena: "You're a strong word!" But it's true that I'm the one with the most experience in deceiving people, and although you're telling a big lie now, it's passive. β
Wang Chao: "Yes, I don't have the subjective desire to lie, I always thought that it would be exposed soon." β
Helena: "Alright, I'll take care of cognitive deception." Nia is responsible for choosing what polymer material to print. β
Nia: "Most of the polymer materials use carbon, so we need to find a place with dense vegetation and rare metal mines that are easy to mine underground.
"I'm looking at the telemetry map...... It seems fitting that there is a place named Georgia Vein Group, presumed to contain at least 20 elements, and there is a large number of broad-leaved deciduous forests on the surface, and it is still autumn and we can go to see the fallen leaves. β
Wang Chao: "While parking and sitting in love with Fenglin, do you want to build an ancient mechanical group from scratch?" How do you solve the problem? Have you made a new polymer material? β
"You don't know?" Nia asked in surprise, "Now materials science adopts the exhaustive method, the computer randomly generates material macromolecules according to the random number table, and the materials scientist only tests the random materials. Wouldn't it be nice if we also let the computer get a few materials that are still strong and pass the test - oh, most of the polymer materials are strong enough for mining. β
This time it was Wang Chao's turn to be shocked, he did hear a saying before he crossed, saying that materials science is now a lottery, for example, carbon nanomaterial materials, sometimes the angle of nanotubes is a little off, and the properties are very different.
Therefore, materials scientists are now blind every day, testing the properties when they come up with new things, and continuing to make new materials when the properties are not suitable.
Of course, Wang Chao didn't believe this statement, because it sounded more like a big pineapple brushing equipment or a two-word game brushing holy relics, too much like the conjecture of a dead house who had never touched scientific research at all.
I didn't expect materials scientists in the cosmic age to really start doing this.
Chao Wang: "Does materials science no longer exist?" β
"It exists, but now materials science really doesn't need too strong professionalism, and anyone can use it as a materials scientist after a quick grasp."
Nia paused, and then said, "By the way, the Terran material science is unique in the galaxy, mainly because they can sleep endlessly.
"After a while, the materials scientists of the human race will start to wonder if this is the right direction, and the materials scientists of the robot peopleβoh, they seem to be called material supervisors, will try to go in a set direction."
Helena continued, "Some people have studied the psychology of robot people, and the conclusion is that they are not human beings for a long time, and robot people do not need a sense of identity, self-realization, and curiosity. Not only materials science, but their scientists will only continue to experiment in a set direction. β
Nia took over the conversation again: "The current technological level of the robot people looks good, mainly because they have strong computing power, but they are inferior in cutting-edge disciplines. I mean, if materials science is not a cutting-edge discipline. β
Wang Chao: "And in terms of materials science, the machine is unique? β
"Yes."
Wang Chao clapped his hands: "Understood, if I want to be a material scientist, I should tie up a robot." β
(End of chapter)