Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 537: Gravitational pull plan (5,000 words!)

The latest website: Ding Peng's gaze floats to the distant sky. There are no stars here, just a bleak void. People will live and develop here for a long time.

At this moment, the male voice on the TV also became high-pitched: "...When the flame of the planetary engine shines on this starry sky, we will finally embark on the road of the fourth level of civilization!"

Many people cheered loudly and applauded for it. Even other geniuses selected from the virtual world, regardless of whether they are used to this world or not, are raising their glasses to celebrate, wanting to contribute their own strength.

But few people know that the beginning of a thing is always good. Especially for such a big project, if there is no bright future, how many people will pluck up the courage to do it?

The government did not say how long this project will eventually take...

However, when nearly 20 million people have consumed a huge amount of points, spent a hundred years on the road, enjoying reaching the end, and about to embark on a new journey, they did not know that there will be nearly three thousand years in the future. Hard times are waiting for them...

The loud cheers now may be the last cheers in the next three thousand years.

They have to repeat the same work until they die.

The 15,000 planetary engines that humans are responsible for are equivalent to 15,000 mountains weighing on the entire civilization. Many people will have to abandon their current careers and invest in the vast ocean of large construction projects.

They have to fight with excavators and earth boring machines all their lives, and use these tools to razor craters to the ground.

From the beginning, cheers and laughter, then gradually became numb, and finally brought deep despair to the grave...

The cultivation of talents for the subsequent generations will also tilt heavily in this direction.

A large proportion of engineers will appear, and many entertainment-related occupations will be banned. Even the work of many scientists had to be given up, because the entire civilization was no longer productive and provided them with experimental resources.

There is no passion that can last three thousand years. The first generation of people died silently, fighting for their own beliefs and ideals for life, but the second generation had to accept this reality, because social inertia continued Keep fighting...

The third generation is still doing the same thing. It is impossible for them to feel the ambition when people first came here.

This social inertia is slowly exhausted, and then the fourth, fifth, sixth generation...

Even if a generation is born in 50 years, it takes a relay of 40-60 generations to survive these thousands of years.

Without any enthusiasm, able to sustain 40 generations of people repeating the same work, they were born and began to see the world with their eyes open, without stars, without light, huge planetary engines ejecting plasma sparks, until they died, they were still there. The planetary engine is being built.

After another beautiful rainbow, after watching it for a lifetime, it has become a very boring and boring thing.

But they just have to spend a lifetime of energy doing this, and they must do it seriously. With the current robot system, there is no way to independently manufacture a giant planetary engine, and a large number of people must be required to work and maintain the entire system.

Especially, in the absence of any survival pressure, no one will force them, and there are no foreign enemies in this place.

The only spiritual support is a certain probability of becoming a Level 4 civilization.

However, the benefits of being a fourth-level civilization belong to all mankind, to future generations, and not to oneself.

"People have to rely on spontaneity to maintain their work, and'spontaneity' is nothing more than an unattainable dream for us."

"So, Mr. Captain, don’t think about the progress of the Tussian civilization first, and whether they can persist. The future expectations on our side are unreliable. Although everyone’s current enthusiasm is very high, But a long time can always wipe out all passion."

"They will gradually become lazy."

"The entire construction period is too long. It is so long that we, a short-lived species, feel desperate."

"Will you die if you don't work? It won't die! The work pressure is too small, and it is impossible for us to force workers to work by squeezing the labor force..."

On this day, the planetary fortress has reached its intended location.

Just after the curvature bubble came out, the two sides immediately dispatched a large number of scientific expedition experts to conduct a field investigation, which is expected to last for a month.

Various large-scale nuclear fusion flares with the equivalent of 10 million tons of TNT are shining in the starry sky. These flares are like bright little suns, temporarily illuminating this bleak universe.

After this, people will choose whether to stay or return.

If they want to stay here, the two civilizations will unload a large number of construction machinery in the planetary fortress and start the formal project. Of course, if there is nothing special, everyone's general opinion is to stay here.

Zhang Yuan and a small group of people are anxious, focusing their attention on a more distant time.

In the discussion these days, they feel more and more that people seem to have overestimated their determination and the ambitions of human beings.

The whole atmosphere is too optimistic, really too optimistic. The plan formulated by the new human government has great flaws, especially in terms of personnel mobilization, to a certain extent...

"When the time comes, you will be lazy, I will be lazy, and the entire construction period will be delayed. You will be lazy again, and I will be lazy again, and the entire civilization will immediately lose its original spirit. Although everyone is I know that this project is very beneficial to mankind, but... mankind is still a kind of self-interested creature."

Optimism is a good thing. But being too optimistic can easily overestimate yourself.

Does the sun never set the empire to weaken? The sun never sets empire does not want to weaken, the nobles of the sun never sets empire do not want to weaken, and the common people do not want to weaken.

Do Americans want to be weak? The Americans don't want to, no one wants to be weak.

"However, the weakness of a country and even a civilization is not only an external challenger, but a strong competitor has kept them from competing, but more of its own internal reasons..."

"...It is because their society, their systems, policies, and the mental state of the people cannot keep up with the times, so that competitors can take advantage of this opportunity."

"Our civilization is the same. A civilization changes dynamically and will not remain unchanged. Our policies should change with the times to allow the entire civilization to move forward. But now there is an invariant, that is, we must Adhering to this big project all the time will cause big troubles in future policies..."

Faced with the eloquence, hundreds of senior officials jointly proposed, these high-level civilizations are all in a state of faint confusion, and special meetings have been held for this purpose.

Finally, Mr. Captain sighed and said, "So, Mr. Zhang Yuan, what better suggestion do you have? We can't force workers to be recruited to do work for thousands of years, otherwise this government will become The dictatorship will be overthrown sooner or later."

Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "Of course there are suggestions. The best way is to shorten the construction period. To shorten the project amount of the original two battle stars to one, you can refer to Alternative 17."

Alternative plan 17 is a plan designed by a good friend of Zhang Yuan, the physicist Professor John.

The general plan is to build two planetary fortresses, one of which is placed at a distance of 120-200 AU to observe the collision of neutron stars, and the other to interfere with the mutual rotation between the two neutron stars , Used to shorten the collision time.

Otherwise, humans will have to wait more than 100,000 years before they can wait for the neutron star to collide. This time is too long.

More than 100,000 years, it is absolutely unrealistic for humans. The Thos, who lived longer, couldn't wait for such a long time.

"So, this planetary fortress for shortening the collision of neutron stars is indispensable."

"But another battle star placed at 120 AU, can it be saved and not built?"

Professor John’s No. 17 backup plan, after careful calculation, believes that only one planetary fortress is sufficient under certain circumstances.

According to current astronomical observations, there is no suitable planet at 120 AU. The equipment for observing neutron star collisions is best built on planets, so that there is a greater chance of observing the required data.

Is it possible for people to push a planet to 120 AU without building a planetary engine?

Of course there are!

The answer is...Using the huge gravitational force that must build a planetary fortress, drag another planet over!

Since human beings have to build at least one planetary fortress, let it play more roles. The first is to use its own gravity to spur the motion of another planet and bring another planet to 120 astronomy After the target orbit of the unit, it is the second goal, to make a three-body motion with the neutron star, or some other way to shorten the mutual rotation between the two neutron stars.

The gravitational force between the planet and the planet, like two magnets attracting each other, can form a source of power between each other.

Take the previous Earth-Moon binary star system as an example. It is precisely because of the existence of universal gravitation that the two sides form a system.

The earth-moon system is not simply the moon orbiting the earth, but the earth and the moon together revolving around the center of mass of the earth-moon system, but the mass of the earth-moon system is large and the moon is small, and their common center of mass is approximately distance from the center of the earth. At 4,800 kilometers, wrapped in by the earth, it looks like a pure moon orbiting the earth.

Once a large number of planetary engines are installed on the earth to make the earth deviate from its own orbit, the moon will come along with it, and it will be impossible to get rid of it for a while.

For the same reason, installing an engine on the moon to make the moon move will also interfere with the movement of the earth.

If you really want to "wander the earth", letting the moon as a constant source of gravitation sway the earth is a more reliable solution. After all, the thin crust of the earth cannot support those powerful planetary engines.

This is the No. 17 plan recommended by Zhang Yuan and others. Only build a battle star, start it to hook another planet, and force it to change its orbit.

In this way, humans do not need to build a second planetary fortress, only need to install various observation devices on this big ice ball.

"It is undoubtedly good news for us if the project period is shortened by half."

These officials showed contemplative expressions. The plan sounds good, but the technical difficulty is undoubtedly an order of magnitude greater.

The movement of a planet is not about driving. It does not mean that if you want to turn left, you can turn left, if you want to turn right, you can turn right. Due to its huge inertia, you want to turn from left to right. , It may take a hundred years!

If you want to hook other planets, you need to use its own inertia and accurate calculations. Maybe you hit it accidentally. This is not alarmist!

A scientist raised his brows and slowly said: "Mr. Zhang, the large ice hockey puck selected in Project No. 17 is quite big, with a diameter of 2,000 kilometers, although it is very dense. Low and low quality... But if we want this big hockey puck to run with our planetary fortress, the distance between the two sides must be close enough to the gravitational force to be large enough for the plan to succeed."

"After more than five hundred years, the distance between the two planets will reach the closest degree, and there will be a chance of gravitational pull. Therefore, our planetary fortress, it is best to move the orbit to Same height..."

"But if the two planets are too close...too dangerous! The two planets no longer revolve, but a pattern of one after the other."

"Our battle star must run fast enough, and the planetary engine must have enough horsepower, otherwise the distance between the two sides will get closer and closer under the action of gravitation, and they may collide with each other. That's it!"

Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "Yes, because of this, it is the driving force for all human beings to work hard! If they don't work hard, the two planets will just hit it!"

"This is called work oppression. There is no oppression. For such a large project, I don't know how long it will take to work. Who can guarantee that it will be completed on time and in quantity for thousands of years?"

Everyone was taken aback.

Zhang Yuan continued: "But this kind of oppression is still far from enough. We still need to expand a part of the population, especially in the early stage of the project, the population must reach more than 100 million."

"One hundred million?" Mr. Captain frowned and thought. The previous plan was to expand the population, but it didn't need that much.

Another professor who supported this project took the conversation and replied: "The construction period of the No.17 project is very tight, and it is far more tense than the other projects. Without exploding the population, our industrial production capacity cannot reach the standard."

"On the other hand, after a large population expansion, our current spacecraft can’t hold so many people...or, after so many people, it’s not so comfortable. Many people have to live underground. At this time If you can witness the big hockey puck following behind, you will feel more oppressed."

"But..."

A member of a government think tank asked: "With such a large population, it will be very difficult to escape by then... Our amoeba points are not enough, and there are not enough spacecraft leased, so we can only carry 40 million people in the end. "

Zhang Yuan explained: "Your problem is very good, but don't forget that people will grow old and die. In 1,400 years, as long as the planning is good, the final population can be reduced to 40 million. Below."

The congressman immediately retorted: "But that would lead to serious aging and all kinds of problems. In an aging society, the labor force will be very scarce. Maybe even the elderly have to participate in the work. , Delay the retirement age! This will cause many social problems!"

For a while in the air, I fell silent for a while, or it took more than three thousand years to work slowly, and the future is unpredictable. Maybe it will take four thousand years, five thousand years is possible, or even possible. give up halfway. Even if the new civilization historiography is strong, it is impossible to predict the time of three thousand years.

Either the engineering quantity is cut in half, but it may have to endure the aging crisis for a long time. The people are persecuted and complained.

Zhang Yuan shook his head and sighed softly, "There is no way, everything can't be perfect. With a population of one hundred million, it took 400 years to work harder and increase the working time. 40%-50%. The amount of engineering left and right can only be handed over to future generations."

"How can the fourth-level civilization be so simple, it always has to endure hardship."

"This whole set of combinations will last around 1400 years. Therefore, we can agree with Huantai Civilization that after 1400, we will lease some transport spacecraft to transport our population a light-year away. Place. Counting the past one hundred years, a total of 1,500 years."

"If a human fleet comes to the trading market after this, you can also send them news about Curvature Technology, or simply let them sell the news in the trading market. Hey, if our civilization does not complete the plan , Stopped progress, then let the rest of the human branch progress..."

This feeling is very bitter, everyone knows what Zhang Yuan is talking about...

Actually, it makes sense.

But how should people choose?

Should I choose a project that can be completed in 1400 years~IndoMTL.com~ or a project that is three or four thousand years long?

This is the problem of long and short pain.

One thousand and four hundred years, we must bear risks and suffer hardships. Even a population of 100 million people will have to suffer a lot in the face of a huge amount of engineering. For example, the daily working hours will be extended to 10 Hours.

Various less important occupations will be banned, and people will no longer be able to play robot war games freely. The government cannot allocate resources to do this.

The plan for three to four thousand years... is too long to plan. It is difficult to predict whether there will be conflicts with the Tussian civilization during this period, and whether there will be greater variables.

Whether planning can be done is also a question.

In fact, Zhang Yuan didn't believe in his heart that even if human beings have completed this project like a foreign worker, can they go further.

There are also four-level civilizations of sinkers in the galaxy...