Conan: The Mechanic

New Zealand local time at 7:45 a.m. on January 17.

"Speaking of which," Yuan Tai suddenly asked. "I remember that the United States launched the Hubble Telescope into outer space, right?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Mitsuhiko nodded.

"Then why did Uncle Okita say...they want to get observation data from Africa?" Yuan Tai spread his hands. "In terms of observation capabilities, the Hubble telescope should be much stronger than those on the ground, right?"

"Uh..." Mitsuhiko was at a loss for words. "this……"

"It's because of the speed," At this moment, Ayumi, who was sitting on Conan's side, replied softly. "While the Hubble telescopes are indeed very efficient -- like other observing systems in space -- their biggest flaw is the efficiency of data transmission."

"Transmission efficiency?" Mitsuhiko and Genta looked at Ayumi together.

"That's right," Ayumi nodded. "Take the Hubble telescope as an example, this big guy doesn't output data anytime and anywhere - only twice a day, and it is not directly transmitted to the ground, but to a transit station also in space, It is then transported from the transfer station to the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico for amplification and processing before it becomes useful information and completes the archive.”

Conan raised his eyebrows and looked at Ayumi in surprise. "Ayumi, you..."

"What's wrong?" Ayumi looked a little nervous. "I, I, I... Did I say something wrong?"

"No," Conan shook his head. "I'm just surprised, I didn't expect you to know so much."

"Nope~" Ayumi smiled and scratched her head. "It just happened to be researching these..."

"..." Chiyu and Haibara Ai exchanged glances, and then sighed in their hearts.

At this moment, the screen in the movie projection room has been switched on - what is displayed on the screen does not look like a real image, but an electronic simulation image. At the same time, a series of paragraphs mixed with English and numbers appeared in the upper right corner of the screen.

"What is that?" Mitsuhiko asked, pointing to those paragraphs.

This time, Ayumi didn't give an answer - this kind of thing was still a little too difficult for her.

"The estimated collision time of the A fragments is 20:13 UTC on the 16th." Conan finally answered. "The current time is 19:51 UTC on the 16th."

"What's going on with this image?" Yuan Tai looked at the picture on the screen. "I thought we could see the images that those telescopes see..."

"I don't know." Conan shook his head.

"Don't worry," Suzuki Sonoko, who was sitting beside them, yawned and shook his head. "The most basic data transmission line has just been connected, and the follow-up advanced transmission line has not been connected yet. As long as the connection is completed, you can immediately see the live broadcast with a delay of only a few seconds."

"It's almost there anyway," Conan also said. "The scene of astronomical observation is far less exciting than you think. In fact, even now, there are still a large number of academic scholars who believe that the collision of Shoemaker Levi will not have any major impact, which means that for For laymen like you and me, this collision might be pretty boring—nothing at all to be seen."

"Why?" asked Maurilan, who was sitting on the other side of Conan.

"Because of the placement problem," Conan shrugged. "This time Shoemaker Levy's landing is actually on the backside, that is to say, the collision position is not on the side we can see. Although in fact the collision position is still very close to the ground, and Jupiter is not on the side that we can see. The rotation speed is also very fast, which means that we can see the situation of the landing point within a few minutes, but if Shoemaker Levi did not make a big move, we still have no visual impact to observe, even There are no traces at all - after all, it is a piece of debris about one kilometer in diameter, even if it can really hit the ground firmly, and a pit with a diameter of one kilometer emerges, it is difficult for us to observe it."

"I hope it won't be like that," Qianyu shook her head. "If that's the case, it's a big joke."

At the same time, the picture on the screen turned into pitch black after flickering for a while, and the stars began to appear in the pitch black after a while.

"This is it," Ayumi. "This should be Cape Town's observation base - the local time they're using should be... 20:54 and their sun set should be around 18:00, so it should be like this by now It was pitch black like that!"

"21:54," Conan reminded. "Although Cape Town is in the Eastern District, they are a special case because they use the time zone setting of the Eastern District."

"Is that so?" Ayumi was slightly taken aback, but quickly regrouped. "Then...can you teach me later about other places in the world where this kind of exception is like this?"

"No problem—" Conan said halfway through, but was taken aback by what was displayed on the screen.

"Radius?" Haibara muttered sadly~www.readwn.com~ This means..."

"It seems to be the radius of Jupiter?" Qianyu asked uncertainly. "I feel that the distance between the A fragment on the screen and Jupiter seems to be similar to the radius of Jupiter's great sphere?"

"That's right," Kogoro Mouri, who was on the other side of them, folded his arms on his chest and said with great interest. "It should be said that Fragment A is only one Jupiter's radius away from Jupiter - so speaking, the speed of this fragment may be about 60 kilometers per hour?"

As if receiving some signal, all the staff almost stopped working at this moment and left the movie screening room silently and quickly.

"What about them?" Ayumi asked in surprise.

"They'll look at those observations," explained Kogoro Mouri. "We look at these things that are more convenient to see, but as professionals, they will analyze all the first-hand information in the first place - it is not so convenient to do these things here."

After Kogoro Mori finished speaking, the entire movie screening room fell into a long silence for no reason. Everyone just kept the atmosphere of silence and looked at the red fragments gradually approaching Jupiter on the screen.

As the time approached 20:13, everyone was in a very tense situation, perhaps because they all had a premonition that they were about to witness something very important.

Haibara Ai suddenly showed a somewhat stunned look, and then looked beside her—before that, she had been intertwining fingers with Qianyu, but now she suddenly felt the hand that Qianyu was holding her suddenly trembling for a moment.

"Relax," Hai Yuanai's mouth twitched slightly, comforting softly. "Don't be too nervous, you're not a staff member, just watch the show."