Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 24 Technological Regression
Yue Yuan pondered for a moment and continued: "When a person who works hard and a person who eats, sleeps and eats receive equal treatment from society, then this society will not be far from chaos. If this society is The root of destruction for the entire human race has already been laid.

We cannot allow such disasters to be laid, so at this time of human rebirth, we should formulate a series of preventive measures."

Lying down, fishing, working hard, standing up may not seem like a big deal, but if we change the word, it is a serious matter that everyone knows.

That is: non-violent non-cooperation.

This is a behavior that can shake the foundation of human government, and in this context, it is very likely that human beings will destroy themselves because of this behavior.

Yue Yuan knew the seriousness of this situation, so he proposed this seemingly absurd plan.

The so-called non-violence and non-cooperation means non-violence and non-cooperation.

This is the super-evolved version of being a foreigner.

In the past, when there were many people, there would be no big problem if there were a group or even a large group of idlers, but now it is no longer possible. Yue Yuan never forgets the fragility of human beings. He must do everything he can to make the survivors work together.

In Yue Yuan's words, some of the participants who objected without thinking gradually became quiet. They began to think about the pros and cons, and began to think about the problem in the context of today's human situation.

Gradually, the number of people in favor became a majority, and the remaining minority did not object, but only voted a few abstentions.

It will not be implemented immediately after the vote is passed. After all, it is just a proposal. The specific content requires relevant legal experts from the Ministry of Justice. Of course, the financial content involved also requires the participation of the Ministry of Finance.

Of course there is the Treasury.

Although there are only so many people, as long as the ideological consciousness has not reached the state of everyone being a saint, then money is still needed.

The currency system of Callisto's new government also follows the previous system, except that the institution that issues virtual credit currency has become a newly established human bank.

Of course, if supplies become more abundant in the future, it will be necessary to implement communism on all kinds of survival supplies, but now is not the time.

The meeting is still going on.

On the issue of large-scale construction, none of the participants had any opinions. They all believed that mankind needs to work hard at full capacity.

Large-scale construction equipment needs to expand production, and a series of factories such as food processing, machinery manufacturing, material processing, power plants, mining processing, and steel plants need to be built.

There are also indispensable aviation industries and educational institutions.

Humanity will never forget the starry sky, nor will it abandon its inheritance.

"We plan to build an orbital mass accelerator on a relatively flat piece of land on Callisto." The Minister of Engineering said impassionedly at the meeting. "After the steel factory, machinery factory, electrical and other related factories are established, priority should be given to The materials needed to produce orbital mass accelerators. To do this, we also need to expand the workforce of technicians, we need more fully/semi-automated equipment, we need more engineering vehicles. In a word, we need people.”

"People are also needed to explore and mine minerals, and some machines cannot replace them." The person in charge of mining Callisto's mineral resources is no longer silent.

"For specific issues such as manpower, material resources, resource extraction, and exploration, your departments should go back and hold small meetings to find solutions." Yue Yuan interrupted the back-and-forth conversation at the meeting. He said: "This meeting mainly determines the general direction. , if you have any opinions on this aspect, please feel free to speak out.”

As soon as Yue Yuan finished speaking, Gan De, who had been prepared to speak, was the first to speak. As an astronomer, he needs to introduce the current cosmic environment that humans are in to everyone. He said: "According to the latest observation data and our Judging from the wandering direction of Callisto, the star systems closest to us in the future are the Van Manen star, Epsilon indi A, and the GJ9066 star system, but unfortunately, our moon Callisto will not pass through any of them. To take a step back, , even if Callisto will encounter a star system in the future, we cannot wait until that time. After all, it will take 30 years for Callisto to fly out of the original solar system at the current speed.

In other words, Callisto can only be our short-term habitat. If we humans want to survive, we must leave Callisto and find a new star system before its energy and resources are exhausted. "

Someone asked impatiently: "How far is the nearest star from us?"

"Currently Barnard's Star is 6 light-years away from us, followed by Wolf 359 at 7.7 light-years away from us. However, in the future, they will gradually move away from us." Gander said directly without looking at the information. .

"The future?" A representative at the conference hesitated for a while and then said: "We don't have to wait that long. As long as our industries are restored, we can build one or several large interstellar ships to leave Callisto directly. I think with our technology it shouldn’t be a problem to span a distance of six to seven light years.”

Yu Nanfeng, a doctor of mechanics, took over and replied: "With our current mature nuclear fission thrusters, we have enough fuel to continue accelerating, reaching a maximum of 1% of the speed of light."

"That's enough. Don't forget that we have a hibernation chamber. Calculating that it is eight light years away, we will arrive in 800 years." The representative did a simple calculation.

Yu Nanfeng shook his head: "But we are still in the stellar gas cloud. We cannot accelerate the spacecraft to 1% of the speed of light. Moreover, when sailing in such an environment, the spacecraft will encounter resistance and slow down slowly, so that we are likely to end up in the star gas cloud. Ran out of fuel on the way”

How about bringing more fuel?

If you bring more fuel, the total mass of the spacecraft will also increase, and accelerating the spacecraft to 1% will also consume more fuel.

If we weren't in a nebula formed by a supernova explosion, we might be able to reach our destination by traveling at 1% of the speed of light and in a hibernation cabin, but that's not possible now.

"What about controllable nuclear fusion? I heard before I came to Callisto that this thing seems to be successful. It seems that it is just missing some puzzle pieces?" another person asked.

"Normal temperature superconductivity." Xu Zhenyi, a Ph.D. in materials science, replied.

"Yes, yes, doesn't it mean that this thing will be out of the question after a few more years?" The man looked happy, as if he saw hope.

"Hey," Xu Zhenyi said bitterly, "That's on Earth, not Callisto."

"What do you mean?"

No one answered him, for all but a few were silent.

Xu Zhenyi made it clear that it was on the earth, not Callisto.In other words, it was the previous Earth that was about to successfully develop controllable nuclear fusion, and Callisto never had this project.

With the destruction of the earth, all the core information and equipment about controllable nuclear fusion disappeared.

Although Callisto claims to be the most well-equipped space base, it is impossible to have a controllable nuclear fusion laboratory or even core technical information.

It can be said that the technological regression that was thought to be far away has actually happened to the surviving humans.

(End of this chapter)