Lao Niu arrived very quickly, and took a military plane directly to Xichang that night. Along with him, there was also the domestic liaison officer from Taiyue "Taiyue" - who is currently in charge of the specific work of "Taiyue"
people.
This means that the discovery of "engine jet traces on an asteroid" has really affected the hearts of senior officials.
Without too many pleasantries, Director Niu went directly to the topic.
"The above requires a specific... model, or inference." Director Niu drank half a jar of herbal tea in one breath and stared at Ye Ming with a serious expression: "Then we will do a safety assessment, and if necessary, it may be necessary
You come to do a public science popularization and explanation."
Ye Ming also frowned, but still nodded.
In just two days, the news of the discovery of explosion traces on the asteroid spread overwhelmingly on the Internet. Not only that, omnipotent netizens even found and pieced together pictures based on the live broadcast video that almost 100% restored the impact surface of the asteroid.
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And how could netizens be as rigorous as scientists like Ye Ming?
As a result, the news that an alien spacecraft had appeared in the asteroid belt spread like wildfire, and some people even speculated that the journey of the asteroid belt was caused by that alien spacecraft.
How did it get broken into pieces? Of course it was the legendary Star Destroyer—an alien that arrived in the solar system thousands of years ago! It must be omnipotent.
Why is it said to be thousands of years ago? Of course it is because no planet-level objects have been discovered in the asteroid belt since human beings began recording.
Just guessing, the vast majority of netizens still hope for an accurate letter from the asteroid research team.
But this accurate letter... is really hard to give.
Ye Ming pursed his lips, and after looking at each other with Director Zhang and Professor Xiao who specialized in explosive traces beside him, he said softly: "Although from a scientific point of view, we do not agree to directly judge it as
Wherever the engine jets go - unless we can find the same traces in the asteroid belt."
After a pause, Ye Ming immediately added: "Of course, this probability is very small, because the asteroid belt is not like the dense scenes in film and television works where rocks are constantly bumping into it. It is extremely empty."
"But from a long-term and complete perspective, we should really regard it as a trace left by an alien civilization entering the solar system."
"Here, we do not make assumptions about the origin of the asteroid belt."
"Then there are currently three possibilities."
"The first one is that civilization was born in the solar system at the beginning of the birth of human beings. It may be Mars or Venus. Of course, it may also be the Earth or within Europa - here, we have no evidence and are just guessing.
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"The second type is that the civilization's aircraft has mastered extremely high speeds that can enable interstellar travel." Ye Ming paused again as he spoke: "Well, to be more precise, it must be super-light speed."
Director Niu immediately asked: "Why are you sure it's faster than light speed?"
"If it does not exceed the speed of light, then the distance between the civilization where the spacecraft is located and us has a relative upper limit. It is very likely that we will receive their signals, or simply observe them."
Seeing that Director Niu was still a little hard to understand, Director Zhang explained from the side: "If it cannot exceed the speed of light, the civilization where this spacecraft is located is most likely next door to our solar system - because a spacecraft that cannot exceed the speed of light needs to carry out interstellar navigation.
It’s unlikely to run too far.”
Ye Ming also added: "From the modeling point of view, the model's jet has an upper limit of distance. Based on the upper limit, we believe that the output power of the engine will not be much greater than that of the Yaoyue, at least not exponential.
And from the point of view of using jet propulsion, the spacecraft should not be outside the scope of what we can imagine."
Hearing this, Director Niu breathed a sigh of relief and motioned for Ye Ming to continue.
"The third possibility is that the spacecraft is similar to the Yao Yue. It also uses controllable nuclear fusion jets, and its level of civilization will not surpass ours by much."
Director Niu's eyes lit up for an instant, but then he became confused: "What did you say before...?"
Ye Ming knew that the third possibility that Lao Niu was referring to was contradictory to the second possibility - similar to the Yaoyuehao, which meant that its distance would not be farther than the Yaoyuehao.
No matter how awesome the civilization is, it is unlikely that a spacecraft can run for decades or hundreds of years to conduct detection - unless the humans there live to be a hundred years old, or time and space are distorted, and the spacecraft can run for hundreds of years.
It's only been a day since I was there.
But that would... be too much.
"We discussed it and planned to reconstruct the black hole model." Ye Mingyan said concisely: "Perhaps, this black hole does not conform to all currently known black hole models. It is a combination of a black hole and a white hole."
"To be more precise, it is a two-way, stable wormhole."
As Ye Ming's voice fell, Director Niu frowned deeply.
He knew that Ye Ming was just listing all the possibilities as rigorously as possible from a scientific perspective.
"So, which one is most likely?"
Ye Ming raised three fingers.
Yes, although there are three possibilities, the first and second are currently unverifiable - just like God.
It can be explained, but not proven.
But the third type can indeed be put into action and can be proven.
How to confirm?
The black hole is there, and the intention is to drill it.
At this time, the "Taijue" liaison officer who had been silent and listening attentively suddenly asked: "I have a question, when did it come?"
Ye Ming fell silent.
After half a day, he gently gave a time.
"Maybe... ten thousand years? Twenty thousand years."
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It's night, and the breeze is blowing.
Ye Ming and Director Niu walked side by side in the small garden of the space center.
Sitting under the moonlight, Director Niu looked up at the sky, and then he lit a cigarette with a click.
Ye Ming watched him puff away, hesitated for a few seconds and then whispered softly: "I'll take one too."
"Farewell?"
"Have one."
"...Okay, just one, don't get addicted."
Holding the cigarette in his mouth, Director Niu lit the fire for him. Ye Ming took a deep breath, but was choked to tears. He immediately threw the cigarette to the ground, and finally stepped on it.
Director Niu laughed loudly: "Where is Hua Zi, you are so wasteful."
Ye Ming took a few deep breaths, put his hands behind his head, leaned on the back of the bench and looked up at the sky.
This afternoon, Lao Niu has reported all the information.
Put it this way, a battleship may have appeared in the solar system ten or twenty thousand years ago, when humans were still tribes... This realization is indeed a bit too shocking.
If in the past, the opposite side really was a civilization that was tens of thousands of years ahead of mankind... then to what extent would it have developed in these ten thousand years?
It has to be at least a star-level civilization, right?
The kind that can easily use the resources of the entire star system, even the Dyson sphere and the like, right?
Comparing human beings, they are probably only as far apart as the primitive African tribesmen in space cities...
How do you greet people?
Or do you really place your hopes on people's kindness?
Therefore, even Ye Ming, who came up with the concept of "relics" from system tasks, did not dare to make up his mind without a way out.