Black tech predators

Chapter 344 [NASA director urgently visits]

The latest data from the probe launched to the surface of Venus shows that beneath the dense clouds of Venus is a hot, dim surface.The data show that with changes in the terrain below the clouds, there will be climate-type ripples on the top of the clouds. The three elements of wind, water and clouds have a subtle relationship with the surface of Venus.

Gu Cheng didn't pay too much attention to other data, he only cared about whether the water on this planet is enough for the future transformation of the Earth's environment, which is also the biggest purpose of this exploration of Venus.

As for other research, interested scientific research institutions just go and make troubles if they like it.

Obviously, Gu Cheng was quite satisfied with the result.

Zhou Huang came to the extraterrestrial detection and control center at this time, "Boss, NASA Director Jim Bridenstine has come to the company and asked to meet with you immediately. It is extremely urgent."

Gu Cheng couldn't help being taken aback, what are the Americans doing?Still in a hurry?
"Wait, you mean the director of NASA came to the company in person? Already here?"

Seeing Zhou Huang nodding his head affirmatively, it seemed that he was really in a hurry. Gu Cheng immediately left the extraterrestrial planet detection and control center, went to meet with Jim Bridenstine, and returned to the hive headquarters in about 10 minutes. Meet again with the NASA director in a reception room.

When Gu Cheng was about to exchange some polite greetings, Jim Bridenstine and several North American scientists who followed him stood up. He took the lead and said, "Mr. Gu, human beings are in big trouble."

"???"

As soon as they met, Gu Cheng was stunned for a while. No matter what his reaction was, Jim Bridenstine quickly said: "Just 27 hours ago, PDCO was 87.5 kilometers away from the earth. The coordinates detected a near-Earth asteroid approximately 5 kilometers in diameter."

At this moment, Gu Cheng had come to his senses, and when he heard this, he subconsciously said, "Don't tell me that this thing will hit the earth?"

At this time, a man wearing glasses standing next to the director of NASA said: "Unfortunately, it is flying towards our earth, and the relative speed of approaching the earth has exceeded 33 kilometers per second."

Gu Cheng glanced at him: "Are you...?"

Jim Bridenstine was quick to explain briefly: "Walson, he's playing for PDCO."

The so-called PDCO, short for "Planetary Defense Coordination Office", is an agency established by NASA directly under its jurisdiction, but it was established not to deal with aliens, but to deal with the threat of asteroids.

Now Gu Cheng was also a little confused, he could already see from the other party's expression that he was not joking, and it was impossible for the then head of NASA to suddenly fly halfway around the world to tease him.

At this moment, the reception room was quiet, and Gu Cheng took a deep breath, "5 kilometers, 5 kilometers in diameter, why have such a large near-Earth object not been discovered until now?"

This news made it difficult for Gu Cheng to calm down. Its size is equivalent to half of the Chicxulub meteorite, and the Chicxulub meteorite is now generally considered to be the main cause of the mass extinction of dinosaurs.

If this asteroid that is flying towards the earth collides, there is no doubt that 99% of the achievements that humans have built so far will be destroyed. The disaster is global and devastating.

This collision, even if it will not completely destroy all human beings, will basically drive humans back to caves to live a life of primitive society.

Walson looked at Gu Cheng and said: "In fact, this asteroid was discovered in 1983 and has been listed as a 'potentially threatening asteroid' by PDCO. This asteroid is code-named '3200. Phaethon', this asteroid visited our planet on Christmas Eve in 2017, at a distance of about 1030 million kilometers from Earth at that time."

The name of the asteroid is named after "Phaethon", the son of the sun god Helios and the sea goddess Clymene in Greek mythology. This Greek mythological figure symbolizes "burning". , he lost control of the solar car driving Apollo, the sun god, and plunged the whole world into a sea of ​​flames.

Watson went on to say: "The last time it was close to the earth, we found that there was a stream of dust ejected from its surface, which is very similar to the process of comet tails, but its orbit shows that the birthplace of '3200 Phaethon' is in The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is rich in asteroids. It is unbelievable that '3200 Phaethon' should not be close to the earth at this time. After visiting the earth in 2017, it should not return until 33 years later. But it was more than 20 years earlier."

In the end, Gu Cheng didn't have the time to wonder, and immediately said: "How many hours are left until the impact time? Where is the specific impact location?"

He has passed within a million kilometers of space, and he doesn't even want to use days to calculate.

Walson said: "Up to ten days, maybe nine days, the specific impact location has not been calculated yet, this is a multi-body problem, the closer the asteroid is to us, the greater the uncertainty, the Earth and other celestial bodies have a great impact on it. The perturbation is gradually increasing, and it is not easy to calculate the precise orbital impact location."

Hearing this, Gu Cheng couldn't help but nodded, and immediately looked at Jim Bridenstine: "So, you guys are here and want to borrow my Tianhu No. [-]?"

Jim Bridenstine nodded affirmatively. Tianarc-[-] is currently the most advanced supercomputer in the world, and has undergone many upgrade iterations. I am afraid that only quantum computers can defeat it. Technology has not been broken.

In fact, this is not the main purpose of the other party's coming here. Another more important reason is that in the face of such a major threat from extraterrestrial objects, national-level power is secondary, because it is beyond the reach of others, such as Tianqing Technology. Heavyweight players in the field will have greater effect.

Simply put, scientific and technological workers are the protagonists, and everything else is secondary.

Gu Cheng noticed several Americans who followed Jim Bridenstine, and one of them was carrying a portable black box, which probably contained the parameter data brought by NASA this time.

"Come with me." Gu Cheng did not hesitate too much, and at the same time told Zhou Huang beside him: "Xiao Zhou, you immediately stop all the project processes currently running on Tianarc-[-], and use all computing power resources to Get out, be careful, don't make a fuss, it's a horror story."

"Understood." Zhou Huang nodded in response.

Of course he knows which is more important. If this is exposed, and the asteroid has not come, the human beings on the earth will definitely collapse first.

So far, the astronomical institutions of various countries on the earth have discovered this asteroid one after another, and roughly calculated its orbit, which has been suppressed by all countries, and all maintain the same caliber.

While planning for the worst, we are waiting for news from PDCO. In the field of near-Earth asteroid defense, only NASA has invested the most resources, and it has been a long time, so PDCO is the key at this time.

Now, the general public all over the world, what to do, don't know that "Phaethon" is coming.

……

Tianarc-[-] supercomputing room.

Americans like Gu Cheng and NASA are waiting for the results of the supercomputing. The calculation is expected to take about four and a half hours, and everyone is anxiously waiting.

While waiting, Zhou Huang took a whiteboard and made a sketch of the Earth-Moon system, and muttered to himself: "Is it possible that the Phaethon asteroid was captured by a satellite? I mean, the impact of the asteroid on the moon How big might it be?"

He didn't speak English, and Walson next to him listened to the translator and immediately said: "In this situation, the theoretical probability of hitting the moon is on the order of one in ten thousand."

One in ten thousand chance...

The implication is, don't have such unrealistic illusions.

Finally, after everyone had waited for more than four hours for the results of the supercomputer verification, it finally came out!
(End of this chapter)