After the meeting, Ye Ming returned to his suite at the Space City Expert Hotel and took a shower. After that, he didn't go out again. Instead, he asked the kitchen to get some food, and then sat in the room with Director Niu and Director Zhang.
Continue the discussion while eating.
The idea of building a space dock in advance was born temporarily after Ye Ming went into space.
What does that sentence mean? Only personal experience can make the most accurate judgment.
This time Ye Ming was in space for half a month, most of which he stayed at the Guanghan Base. He only stayed one night at the Space Observatory when he returned.
The person in charge of the Space Observatory is Li Lei. After using Skynet data to work with Ye Ming to confirm the ye-2023 black hole, Li Lei also successfully received an offer from the Electrical Engineering Science and Technology Corporation. After that, he presided over the design of the Space Observatory’s observation plan. In addition, he was young and powerful.
, and his personal will was very strong, so he naturally became the first director of the Space Observatory.
That night at the Space Observatory, Li Lei, who was very interested, took Ye Ming and chatted for a long time. The two talked about the formation of the universe, the wormhole network, the cradle of civilization, the future of space colonization, etc. from the big bang.
Frankly speaking, Li Lei gave Ye Ming a lot of inspiration.
After all, Li Lei is the only astrophysicist in Ye Ming's circle who can talk to him freely.
"Your greatest skill is that no one can object to any suggestion you make with a counterexample." After picking up a meatball for Ye Ming, Director Niu pulled out a napkin and smiled helplessly with emotion.
Said: "You can't even use lessons from past mistakes or anything like that."
Director Zhang also smiled and nodded.
Director Niu's emotion naturally refers to his opposition to Ye Ming's idea of launching a "space dock".
Ye Ming stuffed the meatball into his mouth, and felt happy for a while. After swallowing it, he smiled and said, "Why?"
"You and I know things well, so you don't need me to flatter you." Director Niu smiled and was about to give him a meatball, but Ye Ming dodged it with a bowl.
Ye Ming coughed lightly: "Well, actually I am not unaware of the current situation, so I said that the space city can continue to slow down for a while, and the space dock can be built first."
As Director Niu said, there is really no way to object to Ye Ming's proposal to build a space dock - because whether it is from the perspective of the future of mankind, the liberation of productivity, or from a technical perspective, the current conditions
They are all satisfied.
And more importantly, none of the projects proposed by Ye Ming so far are "useless"! They are all useful and of great use!
The only reason that can be opposed to him may be "money".
As we all know, the wealth, or power, of a civilization does not depend on how much gold you mine, or even how high your technology tree climbs...
Rather, it depends on the magnitude of available resources and the efficiency and manner in which they are used.
The former includes the type and quantity of resources, and the latter includes productivity and industrial methods.
This is the most essential standard.
Nowadays, mankind has strode into the era of intelligent robots, and productivity has been greatly liberated. But as far as the resources themselves are concerned...
Frankly speaking, it's still not enough.
Or in other words, humanity’s current resource extraction and utilization rates are not enough to simultaneously support both vigorously improving human living standards and vigorously expanding the universe.
This is the main contradiction at present.
Nowadays, human beings' investment in cosmic undertakings, settled in RMB, has reached tens of trillions. This money does not just require printing banknotes, or even just mining gold, but requires you to create something worth so much.
A lot of money comes from "material".
Otherwise, you are plundering the entire world.
But now that mankind has formed a community and the earth has entered a new space age, are you still allowed to enrich the people and the army?
If it were made public that mankind is facing a crisis of extinction, of course the people would be able to accept it, but the problem is that it has not been made public now, and it cannot be made public.
"I'm not good at economics, but I also know that it is definitely a good way to increase revenue, reduce expenditure, and redistribute." Ye Ming continued: "Our biggest problem at the moment is that if we look at the earth's economy as a whole, then the earth is a self-circulation
In a closed economy, in other words, we cannot make money and can only obtain an increase in material wealth by increasing productivity and improving the collection and utilization rate of resources including energy."
Director Niu and Director Zhang nodded at the same time.
"The experience of the Blue Star people reminded me." Ye Ming looked at the two of them: "There is more than one civilization in the universe, and at present, it seems that the exchanges between civilizations are basically close to none - otherwise there would be no Fermi
It’s a paradox.”
The two nodded again.
The so-called Fermi Paradox refers to "If there are aliens, where are they?"
"To give an inappropriate example, the universe today is similar to that before mankind's voyage. Then why don't we look at other galaxies?"
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"We all know that in the Age of Discovery, whoever has the most ships will be the king - the ships here are not just battleships, in fact, the merchant ships are the most important." Lan
"Not to mention anything else, if we could deliver chips and robots ship by ship... what a huge market there would be!"
Ye Ming put down Kuaizi, his eyes burning.
The two looked at each other and then fell into deep thought.
After a long time, Director Niu said softly: "Maybe a unified currency can squeeze out money."
"Well, that's your business. I'll hand over the report later." Ye Ming said, twisting up the half bottle of beer next to him, pouring himself a small half cup, and said proudly: "Here, let's do it!"
Director Niu: "..."
Director Zhang: "..." Lan
Ye Ming stayed in the space city for three days. He did not return to the provincial capital until the Xunxingxing came back from Canglan Star with species and protein reagents.
After all, this was a treasure that was plundered from the rich and redistributed. He had to take a look for himself.
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After returning to the provincial capital, Ye Ming began to get busy.
On the one hand, he has to communicate with Utalisi in person and help them design artificial wormholes. On the other hand, he is also responsible for breakthroughs in the theory and technology of high-dimensional space. In the meantime, Utalisi also
I helped him a lot and it was mutually beneficial.
However, Udalisi was completely unaware of Ye Ming's true intention of unifying the spatial coordinate system.
In addition, Ye Ming also has to preside over experiments on the expansion of three-dimensional matter in a two-dimensional space membrane - this aspect is actually not difficult, because three-dimensional matter will naturally expand two-dimensionally after contacting a two-dimensional space membrane, but other
The structure will change. The trouble is to determine the coordinates of the three-dimensional substance in the two-dimensional expansion in the experiment.
For example, to give a simple example, circuits in a three-dimensional world can be infinitely interlaced in space without affecting each other. But would you try it in a two-dimensional space?
Fortunately, the three-dimensional to two-dimensional coordinate system was established smoothly - from this point we can see how high the utilization rate of high-dimensional space can be for low-dimensional space - under Aita's exhaustive design,
The design of the two-dimensional thruster was quickly completed.
With the completion of the two-dimensional thruster, it also marks the birth of a new two-dimensional space design discipline - you must know that a large number of scholars have been conducting research before, but they have not yet made concrete applications.
Time passed quietly in the busyness, and soon the weather gradually became hotter.
In early May, a new batch of detectors sailed toward the Blue Star Galaxy along with the last six Miantian ships.
According to the original plan, this time a Wenxing ship was to take people to replace Mo Gu and Zhou Xiangnan's Canglan Star scientific expedition team. However, due to the strong will of the opposite party, the replacement Wenxing ship was postponed for half a year.
The reason why those people are unwilling to return to Earth... A large part of the reason is that these people have realized that if they come back, they will probably never be able to return to Blue Star in this life.
After all, there are so many human scientists, and countless people are lining up behind them...
Of course, part of the reason may be that they hope to stay longer and obtain the right to individually distribute life proteins to their relatives.
——Life protein has been proven to be effective in the human body, so it is foreseeable that this thing will be a hot commodity before it becomes a bargain.
The country has also officially implemented the dual system of distribution system and free lottery - but even so, who is willing to take the chance of aging parents?
Therefore, in implementing the distribution policy, it is inevitable that those who have contributed to mankind, especially astronauts, will be included. In addition, relatives will be taken care of according to their contributions.
In June, the space dock plan was adopted and execution began simultaneously.
Ye Ming didn't know what measures the country had taken to gain global support, and what kind of commitments and interest concessions it had made. He only knew that the country had taken care of Australia.
The reason is simple... because Jizhi Technology's integrated factories have fully entered Australia and have begun to mine coal, iron and other resources on a large scale.
At the end of July, news came from Blue Star that their communication spacecraft had been officially completed and was about to set sail today.
As a friendly civilization, they promised to unconditionally inform humans about the situation in the star field detected during this trip.
Of course, mankind also promises to unconditionally report the discovery of extrasolar civilizations involved in the star path by human detectors and pilot ships.
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Brain-computer center.
In Ye Ming's office, the air conditioner was only turned on to 24 degrees.
The reason why it is turned up so high is not to save energy, nor is it because Ye Ming is weak, but because He Mo is a little weak - she has not come down since she accompanied Ye Ming to the moon, and due to work reasons, she has not been back for a long time.
She stayed in the non-artificial gravity area all the time, causing her body to be affected.
Now that she is allowed to return to Earth, she will undergo a comprehensive examination.
"Are you okay with your health?" Ye Ming saw that the flesh on He Mo's face was a little loose, and he looked obviously "older"... so he didn't dare to joke with her, but asked with concern.
"It's okay, it's just a typical moon disease." He Mo waved his hand nonchalantly, then touched his face and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Yeah, you look young on the moon, but you look old when you come back."
"It's okay. The next batch of protein will be back soon. It's better than Botox." Ye Ming said with a smile.
"It's not a rejuvenating protein." Even though He Mo said this, his eyes could not hide the charm.
Which woman doesn’t want to keep her youth longer?
She is only in her thirties... Okay, okay, even though she has passed her youth, I have to say shamelessly that she can still hold on to her youth!
As he spoke, He Mo looked around again: "Next, the detector is going to the Triangulum Galaxy. Are you going to Xichang or will you direct it here?"
"Well... right here. If you go to Xichang, there will be many face-to-face meetings, which is a waste of time." Ye Ming glanced at the time and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Damn it, industrial civilization can't compare with the biological civilization of the Blue Star people.
, why do you think we have the shame to waste time?"
He Mo then laughed.
Of course she knew what Ye Ming was talking about - the construction speed of the Blue Star people.
Well... to be precise, it is the shipbuilding speed of the Blue Planet people.
When the Blue Stars decided to come to Earth, humans and the Blue Stars reached a consensus, and then both sides started designing battleships at the same time - Ye Ming was deeply involved in the design of the opposite party, which meant that the Blue Stars would not cheat.
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During this period, the Blue Star people also took a look at semiconductor technology and developed LCD panels and low-power processors.
Nowadays, the Blue Planet people's return research ship is ready to take off, and the spacecraft built simultaneously by humans is still being put into final assembly in the Dalian dock. According to the plan, it is estimated that it will have to wait at least three months.
Set off.
Of course, there are reasons why humans are lagging behind in shipbuilding.
The most fundamental thing is that it is made by humans on the earth... Naturally, the effect must be against gravity, and take-off and landing on the ground must also be taken into consideration.
The Blue Planet people are in the space city themselves, and they build pure spaceships.
But no matter what, human shipbuilding is an industrialized behavior, and Blue Star shipbuilding is a small handicraft workshop...
This can't be compared, it's really a bit embarrassing.
"By the way, let's do the interview. Do you have any thoughts about the Triangulum Galaxy?" After laughing, He Mo blinked again, with a curious look on his face.
Ye Ming heard the words and took a gentle breath, then narrowed his eyes.
A week ago, a new batch of human detectors arrived in the Blue Star Galaxy, and the detectors also arrived at the entrance of the wormhole.
Today, the "Match the Sky" also completed the "Match the Sky Project" of the last wormhole entrance of the Blue Star.
Then tomorrow, it is time for the probe to pass through the star gate again and go to the galaxy beyond the Blue Star.
To be on the safe side, humans will send two probes to the Triangulum Galaxy this time.
According to the information from the Blue Star people, there was civilization in the Triangulum Galaxy five thousand years ago, and its level of civilization was the same as that of humans at that time. It was also in a barbaric period.
So five thousand years later, has their civilization been improved? To what extent?
Also, according to the Blue Star people, the executor came through the star gate of the Triangulum...
So, did the Executor successfully destroy the Triangulum Galaxy? Or can the traces left by the Executor five thousand years ago be found?
All these unknowns have contributed to this exploration of the Triangulum Galaxy.