Planetary Museum

"It seems that they regard us as saviors." Wu Xiaoqing sighed when he saw the latest report from Wu Qing.

Then he called Shen Changwen and wanted him to come to the company to discuss, but it was the search and rescue team who answered the call.

"Professor Shen is on the rescue ship," the search and rescue team said. "He knew the news while you were sleeping, and is now verifying the truth."

"How to verify?" Wu Xiaoqing immediately thought of Xu Yan, "Could it be to let him go?"

"No one is needed for the time being," said the search and rescue team. "For the reserved coordinates, we only need to pass in a mobile phone, keep shooting, and take it back immediately after a few seconds."

"Is a few seconds enough?"

"enough."

"Okay." Wu Xiaoqing got up from the bed and began to dress.

I just bought a few steamed buns at the nearest small shop. Wu Xiaoqing went to the company while nibbling, but met Yan Yan and Chen She downstairs. They were in a hurry and didn't notice that Wu Xiaoqing was behind them. It seems that they have been very busy recently.

"There are a lot of consultation sessions recently." He Yuqing lowered her head to check the list of just confirmed, "There are three sessions in the morning alone."

"Is it from the Internet?"

"Yes, it's all online these days, which saves money compared to hiring a real person."

"But the boss said that it would be better to invite a real person."

"That's right, it was found that many people said while Baidu... really think the company is an idiot." He Yuqing said angrily.

In fact, if it wasn't for the supervision of the search and rescue team, the entire company would be an idiot. The person who used Baidu and various forums to ask questions had already participated in several meetings before, but luckily, all the people he encountered were when the search and rescue team was away. When Wu Xiaoqing, Shen Changwen, and Yan Yan were in charge, not only did they not notice it at all, but some of them answered Wu Xiaoqing and felt that they answered well.

"Actually, it's not the company's fault," Chen She had talked with the search and rescue team about this issue before—of course he thought it was communication with Wu Xiaoqing, "With the expansion of the company's business, the company's future consulting direction will also change. Do you feel that the scale and cost of consulting in our company are getting bigger and bigger."

"Does this mean that the company is growing fast?"

"Although this is our business...but it is a cost for the company," Chen She said. "The company will soon set up a dedicated online questioning department. It will discuss some relatively low-tech issues in online forums, but Questions that require more associative skills.”

"Then we should cooperate directly with the website."

"Yes, this is one aspect...but...Mr. Wu!" When entering the elevator, Chen She turned around and finally saw Wu Xiaoqing who followed quietly.

Wu Xiaoqing nodded: "Would you like to continue talking? I think it's very good. You can also exchange business knowledge when chatting."

"After all, did we get paid?" Chen She said, "Why do we eat steamed buns for breakfast..."

Yan Yan's eyes were sharp: "This steamed bun is not delicious, why don't I go and buy another one for you, their fried buns are great."

Wu Qing shook her head: "No need, this is almost finished." Besides, the elevator was also closed.

After arriving at the company, Wu Xiaoqing went to his computer immediately, wanting to see what new and interesting results were in the report of the consultation meeting yesterday, but found that a consultation meeting was going on now, he joined in, and the person who chaired the meeting was Rao Xin.

"President Wu is here." Rao Xin's voice was a little hoarse, and he knew it was the sequelae of talking too much.Both Shen Changwen and Wu Xiaoqing have this symptom in their throats. Although it seems that they are just listening with their ears, when it comes to what they care about, they still can't help but get involved in the debate.

"Stay up all night?"

"Yes, there are Americans over there, and the time difference is reversed." In the wicked capitalist world, as long as money is given, the so-called "family first, companionship is important, and never work overtime" is immediately bullshit. ——It's a pity that the project is too urgent, and the Americans alone are not enough to stay up all night, so they have to work overtime 24 hours a day.

The topic of the meeting was sent by Wu Qing and the others. This latest report—in the report, they claimed to have received the support of some federal people, and now they have identified many transmission points for the Second Earth server. They can find a way to manufacture storage devices corresponding to the federal civilization. In theory, they can take Wu Qing and the others back at any time, completely avoiding the possibility of them being captured by the federal people.

The most important content of this consultation meeting now is to verify the possibility of this "theory".

Those who came were all information and program experts from all over the world, and some of them were even technical leaders of leading technology industries. The attraction of inviting them to this conference did not come from the consulting fee of Qinglan Consulting.

In fact, these people are limited by professional ethics and necessary confidentiality regulations, and they will not agree to any form of paid technical consultation. The biggest reason they come here is because the consulting meeting of Qinglan Company has become a new trend in many academic circles .

In the past year or so, the academic circles all over the world have begun to pay attention to this mysterious Qinglan Consulting——in the nearly one year since the company appeared, it has gradually become absurd issues, rich The remuneration and meticulous reasoning have begun to be known to more and more people. Recently, the consultation meeting has not spared the cost, and has carried out a large number of repeated consultations around the world, including some important topics. Consult most academics.

According to these scholars, they often feel unable to cope with and accept their academic level when faced with doubts from the organizers. After these people came back, they began to speculate whether the topics of these consultations might involve a large-scale confidential project.

For example, in the last consultation meeting, some experts were even convinced that he had seen a whole set of technical processes related to antimatter batteries. This feeling was like a physicist in the Newton era seeing the theory of relativity for the first time—for people on earth , this kind of technology is definitely not feasible in reality at all, and the energy consumed in the preparation of antimatter batteries alone is a terrible astronomical figure for the people on earth.

The people on earth are now unable to meet even the basic power guarantee, let alone spend expensive electricity to prepare antimatter batteries.

It's as if a poor beggar saw a recipe of a top-notch Huaiyang dish. Apart from drooling, this recipe has no practical meaning to the beggar.

But academia is an industry that likes to drool most - many high-energy physicists have successively given affirmation to these preparation processes, that is to say, if the earth has enough materials now, theoretically they are easy to make for this recipe.

This makes people feel curious about the author of this recipe.

Technical directors of many companies come to the consulting meeting, not to talk in essence, but to listen to others, and to "look" at the materials provided by the organizers for free. Commercial companies are always sensitive to the possibility of advanced technology. It is stronger than the government department-so far the government department has not sent talents of this level.

And this meeting undoubtedly satisfied the desire of most people.

But the consultation meeting is a consultation meeting after all, no matter what purpose they come with, they still have to say what they have to say-otherwise there will be no invitation letter next time.

A designer engaged in the manufacture of computer hardware just stood up and was about to speak, but he opened his mouth, his face was flushed, but he didn't say a word. After drinking water twice to relieve the pain, he said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I'm a little too excited. First of all, I want to apologize, because I have been reading technical materials before, thinking about the possibility of this civilization's hardware technology..."

"Of course I know that this is a fictional setting, but out of professional habits, I think you can all understand that I can't help but want to find out where he is not technically rigorous. But..."

"...the meeting went on for three hours, and I thought about it for three hours. During the three hours, I didn't hear a single word that the other speakers said."

"There is only one thing I want to say. From the perspective of my professional level, this kind of setting is completely feasible technically. Of course, it is a pity that it is impossible for our earth to replicate it at present, because it means that the computer principle And the complete subversion of the basic process of industrial manufacturing..."

"Here I just want to express my personal respect for Qinglan Consulting. Although this is only a virtual idea, it allows me to see a more shocking reality.

"Another point I want to say about this issue is whether our earth can manufacture the memory of the Federation people."

"My answer would be yes, but it would be very expensive and inconvenient to use - very inconvenient."

"It has probably been calculated from the data that the amount of storage that a simulated AI needs to occupy is about a dozen petabytes. With the current technology of the earth, the smallest volume we can achieve with a petabyte is about the size of a laptop."

"That is to say, even if we can rescue all three virtual people, the "container" we need will end up like a large suitcase."

"But even if we do make him, we still can't deal with the next problem - how do we put such a huge program in it."

"Programs are not banknotes, not gold bars. If we just rob a bank and sneak into the vault with such a huge suitcase, then the problem is very simple, just open the box and put it inside."

"What limits the operation of the entire operation is the storage speed compared with this kind of memory."

"In the industry, even the top data centers can now achieve the most extreme storage speed, which will not exceed 15g per second, and the average speed that can be achieved in engineering is around 10g - usually we don't use it so many."

"Let's not say whether this kind of portable memory can achieve such a high speed -- if it can."

"Which ai data is there now, the total amount of data is estimated to be about 50pb, and then the necessary environment for running them is added, which is larger than the ai data itself. Even if we only plan to ship out the ai data itself, and There is no need for an environment - 50pb of data, that is nearly 500 million seconds - more than 1300 hours, almost two months."

"In the setting, the rescue time is required to be as short as possible - the idea of ​​the planners seems to be the same as that of an ordinary company stealing key technical secrets. The hard disk is inserted, copied and pasted, and then taken away, no more than a few minutes , the longest will not exceed a few hours."

"I have to say that the proponent of this technology really overestimated the technological level of the earth. It's like using a disk 30 years ago to steal a large game in a modern computer. The amount of data on both sides and the computer hardware The requirements are not at the same level at all."

After Wu Xiaoqing listened, he touched his nose in embarrassment, because this plan was proposed by him—of course, what he raised was only a conceptual opinion. In his subconscious mind, he seemed to think that the theft of data was a comparative " "Convenience and quickness", obviously, "Wu Qing" thought the same thing as himself, so they have now sent all the storage addresses of the servers.

But apparently they were all wrong.