Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 890 Crazy Civilization?
"Everything about them is designed to resist time," said Xiang Shan.

"Why do you say that?" Ingrid glanced at the notebook in her hand, and then carefully looked at the alien slates.

"They choose this method to record information, which means that they have prepared for a voyage of 10 or even millions of years-they have prepared enough noise immunity to resist the possible 10-year voyage. All information present is lost."

What is the concept of "10 years"?

A leading physicist has quoted an ancient prophet who claimed that "the mountains flow before God".The properties exhibited by fluids and solids are related to the duration of physical processes.Under such a long time scale, hard rocks can also exhibit fluid properties, and the earth undulates in an orderly manner like waves. 10 years, in places where orogeny is intense, it is enough to make a thousand-meter-high mountain grow on the flat ground.

Under such a long time, the transmutation of materials is a challenge that must be faced.Even if it is the best material, it is impossible to store it in such an environment for 10 years without a little change.

At this time, the most important thing is to be "big".

As long as the storage device is made large enough, the noise caused by material transmutation is insignificant.

Probably so.

"In fact, the way those guys store uranium-235 is also like this." Xiang Shan sighed: "Those aliens even considered at the beginning 'in case Ogun's casing is penetrated by a meteorite and hits the fuel storage device, how to prevent the uranium Blocks flying away. Many things inside Ogun are not resistant to ionizing radiation. Uranium blocks will affect the drone's work efficiency."

"The space between the uranium blocks is filled with energy-absorbing materials with natural magnetism. Even if an interstellar meteorite crashes through Ogun, enters it, and hits the pair of nuclear fuels, these nuclear fuels will not be taken carelessly. Overturned, but the energy-absorbing material with lower strength on the outside is broken first, but because of its own magnetism, it can be bonded as much as possible, or automatically enriched on the steel column. David feels that considering the overall weight, this It’s a viable approach.”

"There is also the idea of ​​using 'structural strength as a cushion for hard landing' as well..."

"But increasing the size in this way creates another problem."

"NASA surveyed the structure of this thing. They determined that there was a rocket at the tail of Ogun, which should have been abandoned when it left its own solar system. Ogun is so big, and its material can provide the shear resistance The stability is limited. Such a large spacecraft is very soft on the whole - Ogun can only maintain a low acceleration before leaving the parent galaxy, otherwise it may deform itself!"

"And what does that mean? It means that it has to maintain a low acceleration for a long time - which is equivalent to leaving the atmosphere at a very slow speed. It will go through a long period of acceleration. During this process, the propellant The consumption will be an astronomical figure!"

"The rocket abandoned by Ogun cannot be bigger. Otherwise, the material will not be able to support it anyway. But if the size of the abandoned rocket is limited, it means that Ogun's launch must be arranged in advance. I refueled that rocket many times in my home galaxy..."

"This kind of hard-on method actually drove this huge thing away from its home galaxy!"

"And the machines... I'm sure those machines must have come from some kind of self-replicating. Their technology wasn't good enough to keep the machines running for so long. But I still don't think how they did it—the aliens!"

Xiang Shan scratched his hair and messed up the release: "All the technologies of these guys are only slightly better than humans, and all the technologies are within the theoretical framework of human beings today, which is completely understandable. But their behavior is so inexplicable !A civilization that is only a little more advanced than humans, why would it cost such a big price? Why do such a rocket? Why can such an engineering miracle be assembled?"

This is really a difficult puzzle.

Until the 21st century, Voyager 10 and Voyager 1977, the two spacecraft as a whole, only spent [-] billion US dollars.In [-], when Voyager [-] was launched, the gross national product of the United States exceeded two trillion U.S. dollars.

Compared with the total wealth of human beings, what Voyager [-] and [-] spent is just a drop in the bucket.

But what about Ogun?
Even if the research and development and careful design are excluded.From construction to launch, every step in it will consume manpower and material resources that are unimaginable to humans today.

Can humans do something similar?

Probably yes.

But that requires all human beings to unite, completely ignore the general laws of production activities and economic activities, and invest in it regardless of the cost. Only then can it be possible to build the "Ogun" belonging to the earth within one generation.

As for why "a generation"?
If this time is placed on "several generations", then technology will inevitably be upgraded.

When this project is finally completed, the gadgets launched by humans will definitely be much more advanced than "Ogun".

For the builders of "Ogun", what kind of magical power does the starry sky have, and is it worth doing so?

unless……

The level of technology shown by "Ogun", that is, the level of technology that human beings are about to touch, is the highest level of technology that can be born from the paradigm of "science".

This universe can only support such a level of technology.

It's a dark and bleak possibility indeed.

After listening to Xiang Shan's chatter, Ingrid said: "I don't think you need to be too pessimistic on this issue. Perhaps the social structure of the Ogun builders is very different from that of us humans? For us humans, this kind of behavior It's kind of crazy, but maybe it's a normal thing in their culture?"

"what?"

"Massacre and blood sacrifice are of course quite uneconomical from an economic point of view. Why don't you keep those people as slaves, but kill them? Especially the Third Reich, they even streamlined the massacre-- If a slave owner from the slave era came, he would probably express his incomprehension, right? But human beings sometimes need such uneconomical behaviors to maintain their self-identity.”

Ingrid was quite satisfied with her conjecture: "Well, it sounds like a crazy civilization. Let's write this down..."

Xiang Shan squinted at Ingrid writing and drawing in his notebook: "What are you looking at? Do you have a clue to decipher this language?"

(End of this chapter)