"We have to capture it. An alien probe that can still work may contain many things," Wei Feng said. "When the leaves fall, you immediately add enough fuel to the propeller, and then they slow down and let them push the probe to the spacecraft."
"The four propellers will be launched in 20 minutes, and they will slow down continuously for two months. When they reach the signal source position, they will just slow down until they are stationary relative to the signal source. It will take them about thirteen years to push the detector to a position 100 kilometers away from the spacecraft and keep it stationary relative to the spacecraft. At that time, I will wake you up and let you decide the next action plan."
The long distance means that it is only a long time to catch a detector, and it will take Wei Feng more than thirteen years to finally arrive, but even if it takes 130 years, it will be worth it in Wei Feng.
"Good," Wei Feng replied, "I will stay awake until two months later, and I will hibernate until it reaches us after I confirm that I have successfully captured the signal source."
Chapter two hundred and twenty-five Quality limit
Four propellers were thrown out of the Xinghai spacecraft and kept rolling in the universe, but after they rolled for a moment, a light blue flame was ejected from their tails. These fireworks pushed them to move quickly and stably, and then they flew away to the distant universe.
This voyage to the signal source is all automatic and does not require Wei Feng’s intervention. After launching these four propellers, the defender wind has entered an idle state again.
The so-called leisure state doesn’t mean doing everything all day, but needs some boring and extremely restorative training. Every day, life is step by step, and then rest is repeated.
During the first six years of sleep, there were also some reports on the earth sent to Wei Feng. After reading them in Wei Feng, I found that most of them were compiled by the team of time travelers and sent to myself. Most of the things described in them were subtle changes in human language. Although these things have no exact value, they clearly describe the development trend of the event, which makes Wei Feng feel heavy again.
The longer it takes, the worse it gets. Wait until things get to a certain extreme … What will happen?
"I hope all I think is just alarmist," Wei Feng comforted himself. "There are so many wise men in human literature that I can think of things. How can they not think of them? They must have a solution, or my idea is wrong. I’d better do my thing first. An alien text detector must be of interest to the government. "
I spent two months chatting and waiting here. At this moment, the distance between Xinghai spacecraft and those four detectors has reached 15 billion kilometers, and this distance is still increasing rapidly with the passage of time. Every second past means that the distance between them has increased by 3 thousand kilometers.
The distance of 15 billion kilometers means that the one-way communication delay between the two sides has reached about 14 hours. Every instruction is sent from Xinghai spacecraft to the signal source and received by the propeller, and then the propeller returns the instruction result to Xinghai spacecraft. It takes a total of 20 hours, that is to say, it takes 20 hours to get the instruction execution result when Wei Feng reaches an instruction.
However, the execution of this is beyond the reach of artificial intelligence programs. At the same time, different instructions can’t be executed at the same time. They are causal, which means that Wei Feng needs an instruction feedback result basis to decide an instruction. This means that Wei Feng can’t send all instructions at once and then hand them over to the propeller for execution, but must wait patiently for one more instruction speed a day to slowly execute this.
And … every past day, the two-way communication delay will increase by about one hour.
This is a task that is more patient than testing people. Because there is no standard implementation process, Wei Feng has to constantly explore and rely on his own experience to judge the correct implementation of steps. A wrong implementation of a step may mean that the step department that was implemented ten days ago was washed away. Sometimes, when receiving wrong feedback data, Wei Feng was so mad that he wanted to rush out and do it himself.
Just when this situation was lost by a lot of waves, the final result was that it took Wei Feng more than a month to fix the four propellers on the signal source and set the propulsion and orbit parameter data.
However, this time has greatly exceeded Wei Feng’s expectation in the calculation of leaf fall. Even if everything goes well since then, it is far from enough to push the signal source to Xinghai spacecraft 100 kilometers away from the original calculation of 13 years. The latest calculation result is that it will take 47 years.
Forty-seven years … even for the average life span of human beings today, it is equivalent to a quarter of a person’s life cycle. When it is so long, all Wei Feng can do is bring a trivial little guy from the depths to his side.
Although the cost is huge, Wei Feng must do it because it is the only choice for Wei Feng.
"The ignition push command has been sent out." Ye Luo still maintained a calm tone. "We will receive feedback on the execution of the command in about 26 days."
"Shout …" Wei Feng breathed a sigh of relief for twenty-six days … plus these twenty-six days, Wei Feng woke up this time and it has been maintained for nearly five months. Compared with the previous two months, this time has exceeded too much.
In these five months, the real working hours are less than one day, and the communication delay has become more and more serious. Now, the two-way communication delay has risen to 26 days of terror.
Wei Feng has never been so eager to have long-range communication technology as it is now. If there was long-range communication technology, Wei Feng would have finished this matter long ago.
But at the same time, Wei Feng knows that the communication delay is not only bothering him, but also bothering all human beings in the sun. Although human beings have stepped on the cold land of Pluto, the shortest two-way communication delay between the earth and Pluto is ten and a half hours, which has seriously hindered people’s communication.
Scientists have done a lot of research on the technology of long-range communication, and many scientists have devoted their lives to this difficult problem, but it is a pity that by the time we set out for Wei Feng, humanity still did not see the dawn of mastering the technology of long-range communication.
Difficulties in information exchange will inevitably lead to psychological and physical isolation, and the bulletin sent by the traveler team to Wei Feng clearly describes this problem. "We found that people born in the four large human settlements, the Earth Mars base, Jupiter base and Saturn base, have deep psychological barriers to other places. People often have a deep sense of identity with their birthplace, but they have a broad concept of the whole human language, but they don’t agree much." Naturally, they form their own small circle, but different small circles lie in the overall resource allocation and policy inclination of human culture, and fierce conflicts often break out. They look like leaders of different countries in the national era rather than regional leaders of a unified human government. "
This is the result of communication delay caused by inconvenient transportation. If the two can solve one problem, human language will definitely not form this situation.
Communication delay has not caused serious consequences in human language, but for Wei Feng, the consequences brought by communication delay have made Wei Feng bear some laws.
Because of the communication delay in Wei Feng, it is necessary to stay awake for a long time and maintain the continuity of execution. If it is necessary to stay awake for a long time, all the life-supporting equipment of the spacecraft must also ensure the health of Wei Feng at the same time, and the food will be consumed continuously, which will pose great challenges to the materials and energy reserves in the Xinghai spacecraft.
Wei Feng was scheduled to wake up for two months each time and hibernate for ten years each time, but now Wei Feng has been awake for five months in a row, which means that Wei Feng has consumed 25 years of materials in the budget this time.
This is a vast place where Wei Feng can’t be replenished with resources. Every resource in the spaceship must be carefully prepared for Wei Feng.
"I can’t wait any longer," Wei Feng said. "It’s a lot of resources to spend these 26 days waiting. Our materials can’t support it. I’ll go for a short-term hibernation. If there is a mistake in execution after 26 days, wake me up. If it goes well, I’ll change the short-term hibernation to the growing hibernation and wake me up ten years later."
"Good captain," Ye Luo said, "It is very wise of you to do so."
Wei Feng once again entered the hibernation, and the Xinghai spacecraft once again entered the cold state, but this cold state did not last too long, and even when Wei Feng woke up, Wei Feng felt the first question: "How long did I hibernate? I feel like I just slept for a while. "
"It was your hibernation for 26 days that woke you up because of an execution error," Ye Luo said quietly. "Our mass budget for that alien device is 50 tons to prevent accidents. In actual operation, we refueled the thrusters according to the mass of 100 tons, but four thrusters started the alien device without any movement, which means that its mass has far exceeded our expectations."
"How did this happen?" Wei Feng frowned deeply. "So … how much do you calculate its mass?"
"I can give you accurate data, but I can give you the mass limit of this device … if the propeller thrust is calculated according to my observation accuracy, the mass limit of this alien device is 5 million tons."
Chapter two hundred and twenty-six Crazy rotation
"Five … five million tons! How is that possible? ! That alien device is that big. How can it have a mass of 5 million tons? Ye Luo, did you have a new BUG? " After hearing Ye Luo’s answer, the defender Feng immediately stared at him.
"No, Captain, I didn’t have a BUG." Ye Luo replied in a calm tone. "If you don’t believe me, I can give you these data to calculate by yourself. Although it’s incredible, I have to say that it’s all true. Captain, wake you up again. When I say 5 million tons, the quality limit of this alien device is not its accurate quality. Its quality may be greater than 5 million tons, but it can’t be less than 5 million tons … I’m sorry that there is not enough data to calculate it. I can tell you the answer."
Wei Feng was silent. Because of the short hibernation, Wei Feng’s physical damage was not much. At the moment, Wei Feng’s head was very clear, but it was because his head was clear that Wei Feng found it difficult to accept this result.
Xinghai spacecraft is so big, what is its total mass? That alien device is only a little bigger. How can its mass be dozens of times that of the whole Xinghai spacecraft? What material is it made of? What material has such a large density?
Thought of here, Wei Feng immediately asked again, "What is its density limit? What kind of materials in our known materials have such a large density? "
Knowing the volume and mass limit of this device, it is very simple to calculate its density limit. The leaf immediately replied, "Its density limit is 76 kilograms per cubic centimeter, which is about 76 thousand times the density of water. No material in our known materials has such a large density. Compared with the density of white dwarfs, it is about 1000 kilograms per cubic centimeter. Although the density of white dwarfs is much higher than the density limit of this alien device, it can still be roughly recognized that its density belongs to the same order of magnitude as that of white dwarfs."
"How is that possible?" Wei Feng murmured, "So dense … is there no degeneracy pressure in this material?"
When ordinary matter is compressed to a certain extent, degeneracy pressure will stop it from shrinking further. Degenerate matter usually lies in the fact that white dwarfs are created by the great gravity of white dwarfs. If a white dwarf matter loses its great gravitational pressure, it will instantly explode and return to normal matter. This is because of degeneracy pressure.
Obviously, ordinary matter can’t have such a huge density, and it is even more obvious that this alien device is not in such a high-gravity environment as a white dwarf at the moment. According to common sense, it should be impossible to maintain this state, but it is the fact that Wei Feng has to believe this.
Then there is only one explanation that this device has a very high technical content, which is the unknown technology that made it stay in this state in low gravity environment.
This means that a lot of things, first of all, can make this kind of thing, and the technology must be very superb. If we can get it, analyze its construction mode and let human beings master this technology, human science and technology may make another leap, and it is not impossible to break that knot.
Its value is immeasurable, but the thing is contradictory. Its quality is too high, which means that it is impossible for Wei Feng to capture it, just like a poor man who sees a golden hill ahead but can’t move it because he is not strong enough.
This is a very frustrating thing. In the face of cruel reality, Wei Feng had to give up the idea of capturing it
But at this time Ye Luo spoke again.
"Captain … I have received some new data, which … I don’t know how to judge, so let’s take a look."
"Oh?" Wei Feng some curiosity in the heart so he got up from the hibernating cabin and came to the front of the display screen.