Earth Era

In the large conference room, the host of the conference slammed the wooden hammer in his hand, and the more than 3,000 delegates present put their eyes on the rostrum at the same time. The red and green numbers that were beating on the big screen behind the podium also stopped at the same time. The green number is finally fixed at two thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and the red number is one hundred and thirty-eight.

The host of the meeting said: "The voting has ended. The "Island" plan was approved by the meeting."

There was a low hum in the conference room, and the delegates were whispering and discussing something. Everyone knows the importance of this meeting. To a certain extent, this meeting will determine the development direction of human civilization in the next hundreds or even thousands of years.

Although the average lifespan of human beings has developed to the current two hundred years, it is obvious that the lifespan of two hundred years is still insignificant compared to the time required by the "Island" project. Now the participants decided to carry out the island project, but at least the tenth generation from now on can see the final result of the island project.

In the entire history of human civilization, mankind has never carried out such a profound and time-consuming huge plan. Whether this plan is useful or not, and whether it can promote the development of human civilization, all will be judged by time.

Wei Feng was sitting in the first row of the conference room. In the past, Wei Feng had always been a staunch supporter of this plan, but now when the Gudao plan was officially approved by the meeting, Wei Feng was a little at a loss.

Wei Feng knew that the island plan had been planned for at least ten years ago. Even, the reason why he was taken out of the orphanage by the government and gave him all-round care both materially and spiritually, and constantly hired the most well-known experts and scholars in the civilization to be his teachers in the process of studying... Everything is preparing for the silo plan.

You are the best person to execute your siloed plan. Because I have no parents, no relatives. No lover, no children. Everything the government has taught me has to do with the island project, and I was born for the island project.

Of course. There are many other individuals on the government's shortlist of siloed plan executors, just like me. It is specially customized by the government for the island plan. But as time progressed to this day, his grades had already left them far behind, so as long as the Lonely Island Project was passed, then he was 99% sure that he would be selected.

"So... do you really want to leave the hometown that gave birth to me and raised me?" Wei Feng sighed secretly in his heart.

Wei Feng's thoughts were so chaotic that he didn't hear what the host of the meeting said next. Wei Feng stayed in a daze until the meeting ended, and only woke up after Chu Hai patted his shoulder next to him.

"It's time to go." Chu Hai said. "It is estimated that the training notice will be sent to us soon."

Chu Hai has the same background and life experience as Wei Feng, but Chu Hai's performance is not as good as Wei Feng's, so after the implementation of the island plan, Chu Hai will probably work on the ground and will not leave the earth.

There are dozens of candidates for the Island Project, but only Chu Hai and Wei Feng are from the same orphanage. If Wei Feng still has a friend in this world, that person can only be Chu Hai.

"Let's go." Wei Feng forced a smile, got up and left the venue with Chu Hai.

Sure enough, just as Chu Hai had predicted, three hours after Wei Feng returned to the staff dormitory. A training notice was sent to Wei Feng's portable computer. Chu Hai also received this notice at the same time. As a result, Wei Feng and Chu Hai, together with dozens of other candidates, took the fast-carrying spacecraft in the solar system provided by the government. It took a month to come to the deep space exploration training base above Pluto.

With the continuous development of science and technology, today's human beings have taken their footprints to every corner of the solar system. Not only Pluto, but even the more distant Kuiper Belt celestial bodies, such as Eris, Sedna and other stars, have also established scientific research bases of different sizes, and people have been stationed there for scientific research work. As the largest overseas celestial body closest to the inner solar system, there is naturally a scientific research base on Pluto, and the scale is still very large, with at least 5,000 people stationed here.

In fact. In today's human civilization, Pluto has become a supply station for voyages from the inner solar system to the path of overseas celestial bodies. has a very important strategic position. Ships to explore the Kuiper Belt and beyond usually make their last resupply here on Pluto, and only embark on their journey after they have replenished enough food, water, and fuel.

Because of the existence of rapid transportation network in the solar system. The transportation between the major planets within Pluto and the major bases is very convenient. Driven by the explosion of technology again and again, the fastest speed of the spacecraft built by human civilization has reached an astonishing 2,000 kilometers per second. At such a high speed, it only takes one month to reach Pluto from the earth. It's only time. For people today, a trip to Neptune or Pluto is probably similar to a trip abroad in the age of nations.

Wei Feng and Chu Hai came to the Pluto base like this. Wei Feng knew that it would take at least 20 years to build a large spacecraft to implement the island plan—this does not include the process of spacecraft design and feasibility verification, because these processes were carried out in the previous 20 years or so. It will be completed within the time limit. If these preliminary preparations are counted, the construction period of this spacecraft will be at least thirty years.

This spacecraft will take twenty years to build, which means that this training camp on Pluto will last for almost twenty years.

It takes twenty years to build a spaceship is an incredible thing for people today. Thanks to the huge industrial base, the construction of the spacecraft has long entered the era of mass production of the assembly line. People have become accustomed to submitting orders one month in advance, and the spacecraft will be delivered to their own hands a month later. It takes twenty years of work. Time to build a ship... what kind of ship takes so long?

Wei Feng knew the answer to this question very well. Because this spaceship is not an ordinary spaceship, it is fundamentally different from all the spaceships in human civilization today. Because those ships are only doing interplanetary voyages within the solar system, and this ship... it's an interstellar ship.

The fastest spacecraft made by human civilization today can reach a speed of 2,000 kilometers per second, and the design maximum speed of this epoch-making spacecraft that has not yet been built is 3,000 kilometers per second.

The reliable working time of the components and spare parts it is equipped with must be more than a thousand years, and the fuel stored on it can continuously run the spacecraft at 70% of the overall power for 1,200 years. The antenna on it must be extremely sensitive, sensitive enough to detect radio signals sent from four light-years away, and its hull and modules must be reliable enough and tough enough, because only in this way, the spacecraft It is possible to survive in a variety of extreme environments.

It must carry as many tools as possible, because the destination of its voyage has no way to receive support from human civilization, and any accidents there must be solved by itself, and its artificial intelligence system must be extremely reliable, Because during the voyage, most of the time the astronauts are in a deep sleep, and everything about the spacecraft must be manipulated by the artificial intelligence system, and it takes hundreds of years to manipulate.

It is such a great ship across the ages. Even with the technological strength of today's human civilization, it would have taken twenty years to build it, and more than 10 million engineers of all kinds had to be involved. In order to build it, the human government must invest in the next time a huge wealth of 1.5% of the total annual economy.

Today, the total population of human civilization has exceeded 200 billion, that is to say, the total wealth created by the hard work of more than 200 billion people in one year is only enough to build 66 such spaceships.

If there is no accident, after 20 years of intensive training, astronaut Wei Feng will take this spacecraft to travel from the solar system to the Nanmen two galaxies and then return, UU reading www.uukanshu.com personally verified Consider the feasibility of interstellar travel.

The Nanmen II galaxy is a triple galaxy in which the larger a star and b star form a binary star system, and the smaller c star, also known as Proxima Centauri, orbits around a on a farther orbit. The star and b star rotate. At present, it has been determined that there is an terrestrial planet in the two-three-star Nanmen, and its size is about the same as that of Mars. The target of the first interstellar voyage in the history of human civilization is the planet named "Blue Night Star".

The debate within human civilization on whether to build this spacecraft has lasted for more than ten years, and it has only been approved by the meeting until now, and it has received the official name of the "Island" project. Because in this vast galaxy universe, the solar system that has allowed human civilization to thrive and survive to this day is like an island in the sea.

There are many people who wonder if this task is necessary. Even at a high speed of 3,000 kilometers per second, it would take more than 430 years to travel from the solar system to the Nanmen II galaxy. The total time it takes for the two galaxies to return to the solar system will also reach almost nine hundred years, while the average human lifespan today is only two hundred years. To be continued

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