War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 160 Trinary and Venus Project
Under Alili's leadership, everyone walked around the other rooms full of weapons on the second floor before continuing to climb up the stairs.

But to Wei Ran's disappointment, no matter the third or fourth floor or the fifth floor, their layout is similar to that of the second floor, except that the number of various weapons and ammunition is much larger than expected, the only difference is that there are more floors on the fifth floor Some computing units and consoles with their core components removed.

It was also on one of the consoles that Wei Ran found a newspaper from August 1990, which undoubtedly proved his previous guess that this place might really have been abandoned after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Putting the newspaper back in place, Aliri took them to the roof of the building to look at the snow-covered cauldron antennas.

These big guys are extremely rusted. Even though the cold wind here is not strong because of the cover of the distant mountains, the big pot antennas still make horrible creaking noises from time to time.

Wei Ran, who found nothing, raised his binoculars and looked at the hemispherical building on the top of the mountain in the distance. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "It seems that we can only go to the building on the top of the mountain to have a look."

"Take this and use it later."

While Alili was talking, he dug out several pairs of iron feet for mountaineering from his bag and handed them to Wei Ran, Sui Sui, and Ji Ma who was taking a selfie with his mobile phone.

A group of people returned to the fifth floor of the building on the left, and after each tied their iron feet to their shoes, Alili was the first to walk over the rusty suspended plank road.

"Let's go up and have a look too." Wei Ran waited for Suisui, who was following behind, to nod, and then stepped up to follow Alili.

Stepping on the creaking rusty steps all the way up, they became more careful when they stepped on the steps carved out of the mountain. At least there were handrails on both sides of the suspended plank road that was only ten meters long just now, but this The handrails on both sides of the steps on the mountain are just two finger-thick, rusty steel wire ropes. Even because the supporting pillars in the middle have been broken, these two steel wire ropes may not even protect the people on the steps. It's just hard to support yourself and it's hard to protect yourself.

After emptying the bullets in the rifle chamber, Wei Ran returned it to Suisui to use as a trekking pole. Seeing this, Ji Ma, who was following Wei Ran, also immediately emptied the chamber of the rifle in his hand, and graciously gave it to Sui Sui, who was walking on both sides. Spikes in front of people.

Under the leadership of Alili, the group climbed carefully for nearly half an hour on the snow-covered steps, and finally stood at the foot of the hemispherical building on the top of the mountain.

It is not obvious from the foot of the mountain, but it can be clearly seen from the top of the mountain that this hemispherical building with several floors is surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and there is even a metal sign on it that looks like no entry for idlers. .

But now that the Soviet Union is gone, this brand naturally has no way to stop anyone.Even the padlock on the gate of this barbed wire fence was changed by Alili a long time ago.

After he used the key to open the iron door of the hemispherical building and the two glass doors behind the iron door that were also locked, the three people behind him immediately attracted all the attention of the huge optical astronomical telescope in the center of the inner space. Power and the beam of light from the flashlight.

This huge telescope has a diameter of at least four meters. The huge lens is facing a long glass skylight on the hemispherical dome, but because of the snow cover outside, this skylight can only reveal a little light. .

And on one side of this large telescope, there is a row of cabinets covered with plastic sheets against the wall, and a console that is also tightly covered.

Wei Ran pointed the beam of the flashlight at the optical telescope above his head again, "This thing is not cheap, but the lens on it is worth a lot of money if it can still be used."

"How about we take it down and take it away?" Jima said impatiently.

"Take it away?" Wei Ran laughed dumbly, "That lens probably weighs at least a dozen tons. If it was so easy to take away, I'm afraid it was taken away in the 70s."

"Break it and take it away?" Ji Ma asked still unwillingly.

"Put away your bandit logic, it's worthless if you break it."

When Wei Ran said this, he suddenly stopped, and all his attention was attracted by the trademark on the console not far away.

"What's wrong?" Sui Sui, who had been standing beside Wei Ran, asked.

"Don't tell me, there are really valuable treasures here."

While speaking, Wei Ran lifted the thick plastic sheet covering the console, "There is such an old guy here."

"Is this very valuable?" Jima leaned forward and asked, "Isn't there one in the building on the right just now?"

"Can that be the same?"

Wei Ran walked to the wall and tore off the plastic sheeting from the iron cabinets. He was completely relieved when he saw that all kinds of wiring and indicator lights were extremely complete.

"Can you explain quickly?" Sui Sui chased after her and asked.

"these cabinets"

While speaking, Wei Ran pointed to the cabinet placed against the wall, and then pointed to the console behind him, "And that console, they are a computer."

"Isn't this kind of thing outdated?" Sui Sui asked suspiciously, "Maybe its calculation speed is not as fast as the cheapest laptop computer today."

"You can't say that"

Wei Ran walked to the front of the console again, bent down and wiped the metal plate with the word "Сетунь" on the console with his sleeve, and said, "It is different from the mainframe computers that have become mainstream today, and even various home computers. The ternary computer that had a brief glory in the 60s for less than a decade."

"What's the difference?" Jima asked in confusion.

"I'm not a computer major, how do I know the difference?"

Wei Ran stood up and changed the subject, "However, according to the records of the modern history of the Soviet Union that I have learned, this kind of ternary computer runs very stably, even the maintenance is simpler than other computers of the same period, and even the production cost It was also the lowest at the time.

But unfortunately, the Soviet Union produced a total of about 50 units at that time.And soon, it was replaced by more expensive binary computers. "

"Since there are so many advantages, why not continue to develop?"

Sui Sui said puzzledly, even though her father is a history professor, this girl has no interest in what happened before she was born.

"The mainstream theory is that it is because of the bureaucracy of the Soviet Union. Although the cost of this ternary computer is lower, it was born at an untimely time. It happened to catch up with the years when Brezhnev was in power. At that time, the Soviet Union was This kind of high-tech product that cannot make people get more oil and water naturally cannot receive financial support. If Moscow State University, which studies it, can insist on killing Brezhnev for a few more years, maybe it will Really have a chance to flourish.

But on the other hand, I remember Professor Alexis once mentioned that although this kind of ternary computer is more in line with the logic of the computer in actual use, it consumes more power than the binary system of the same period.Especially in the era dominated by electronic tubes, the difference in power consumption was magnified by the electronic tubes that consume a lot of power, making it easy to make up the advantages brought by the manufacturing cost by the cost of use. "

Speaking of this, Wei Ran spread his hands, "It doesn't matter whether it was born at the wrong time or it was not selected by the times. In short, the greatest value of this kind of ternary computer today is only a rare existence and Time gives it collection value."

"But who would be willing to buy this kind of thing?" Jima asked disappointedly.

"Why don't you ask my dad how?" Sui Sui expressed her thoughts.

Wei Ran shook his head when he heard the words, and looked up at the huge optical telescope not far away, "Better than selling it to someone, I think it's better to find out why there is a forgotten observatory here. .”

"Victor, come and take a look at this." Alili, who had been silent just now, pointed to a metal cabinet that he had pried open.

When the three of them heard the words, they immediately crowded around, and then found that there were square black plastic boxes neatly placed in the iron cabinet.

And on the side of each box facing everyone, the time accurate to the second is written in neat pen handwriting.Even on the bottom shelf of the cabinet, there is an old-fashioned movie projector in a wooden box.

Randomly pulled out a heavy plastic box, with a label the size of a cigarette pack on the front cover, in addition to the printed "CCCP" and "Soviet Academy of Sciences", the words "Venus Project-359" were also handwritten.

"Project Venus? 359?"

Wei Ran froze for a moment, then a look of surprise appeared on his face, and subconsciously turned his head to look at the huge telescope again.

As if to verify his guess, Wei Ran carefully opened the plastic box in his hand, and after seeing the full roll of movie film inside, he completely confirmed his judgment just now.

"Can you see anything?" asked Arily, who was standing aside.

Wei Ran clasped the plastic box in his hand again, and after putting it back in place, he exclaimed, "This may be an observatory set up by the Soviet Union in the 60s of the last century when it was exploring Venus. As for these films, they should be about The content related to the various types of detectors launched at that time.”

While speaking, Wei Ran compared the labels on the side of these film film protection boxes, found the latest one and took it out, pointing to the writing on the front cover and said, "This is the last roll of film film, and the record on it is In 1972, Venera 8."

"Will aliens be photographed here?" Jima asked expectantly
Hearing this, Wei Ran pointed to the old-fashioned projector at the bottom of the cabinet with his toe, "Why don't we try to see if that projector still works, and then we'll know what's being filmed inside."

"That's a good idea!" Before Ji Ma could finish his sentence, he had already lifted out the wooden box containing the projector and put it on a table not far away.

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