Deep Space Fleet

Even so, there are still many people who believe in the natural existence of silicon-based organisms, because humans cannot be omnipotent, and silicon-based life is too popular in various science fictions, so popular that people desperately want to discover them.

Maybe on a certain planet, what is called a miracle?

In the face of this argument, some good people even wrote a lengthy argument to refute this view.

The connection ability including silicon is very bad, the silane silicon number can only reach 8 and is unstable, and the composition of the material cannot be too complicated; silane and its derivatives have poor thermal stability and easy condensation, which is undoubtedly related to the high temperature environment required for silicon-based life Are contrary

Silicon-hydrogen bonds and silicon-silicon bonds are easily destroyed by various protic solvents, which means that common solvents such as water, ammonia, and even hydrogen fluoride cannot be used as carriers of silicon-based life, and so on ...

Shu Xiao said seriously: "In fact, I don't believe in natural silicon-based organisms. Even if there is a high probability that it is artificial life, on the contrary, boron-based life with boron as the core is more likely! Hey, create a life The difficulty is really comparable to the Creator. We are far from this! "

越 The more we know about the universe, the more we can exclude certain options.

猜测 This speculation is not to say much. In short, people have great expectations for the complex life of this planet.

The large and vigorous design is continuing. Anyway, it is about to reach its destination. In a few years, it will be able to replenish resources. Various high-performance materials don't cost money. There is a small centrifugal wheel inside Kunlun Mountain, which can rotate at high speed to simulate a high gravity environment. It turns out that no matter how difficult it is, as long as it is smashed with massive resources, it is easy to create a breakthrough.

张 When Zhang Yuan saw this list of needed materials, he was stunned. He looked at the menacing scientists in front of him and couldn't help swallowing.

"You mean, the current budget is enough to build a Hawk-class destroyer?"

This scientist is also not embarrassed. He is afraid that the world will open the chaos and say: "Lord Captain, exploration under high gravity environment is an area that human beings have not explored. So far, there are not many areas that human beings have not explored yet , The rest are big fish that no one can catch. This is a rare little fish that can survive ... "

"Everyone doesn't have a very good research direction anyway ... even if it's just a small fish."

Zhang Yuan nodded slightly. People are better at low-gravity industrial systems. Especially in heavy industry, low gravity is better than high gravity environment. I don't know how many times it is superior.

"You're not just referring to a few robots, but a whole set of industrial systems that operate under high gravity?"

"Yes, it is true ... Although this system cannot theoretically be compared with a low gravity environment, maybe there will be any special inspirations? It is always good to be able to develop more science."

Zhang Yuan sighed in his heart. The progress of scientific development is too slow, and there has been no major progress for decades. So that the scientists started to pick up those things that they had abandoned in the past and planned to start over again, the whole process was actually very painful.

It sounds like nothing to find, but just like the biochip technology that was abandoned at the beginning, who knows that it has so much potential if it is not implemented?

There are many things that cannot be imagined by imagination alone. You must know the mysteries through practice. The breakthrough point of the entire civilization may be among these things that have been abandoned.

He nodded: "Well, I still support it for the time being ... but this resolution needs to be demonstrated by the scientific conference. Anyway, it is just some resources. There should be no big problems."

科学家 The scientist was relieved. "We also applied for two interstellar ram engines to be installed on our scientific spaceship."

远 Zhang Yuan raised his eyebrows, this guy has to go in!

He is not angry, but just looks at each other meaningfully. If a qualified reason can be given, it is not impossible: "It is a military engine ... The yield is very low, and often one is qualified to make five or six. , These qualified products must be used as military reserves. "

"That's it ... As technology advances, the cost of ram engines will gradually decrease. It's better to take this opportunity to test the performance of civilian spacecraft. On this planet, although ordinary nuclear fusion engines are also sufficient Now, but what about higher-gravity planets? Since the ram engines need to be installed in the transport sooner or later, it is better to be early. "

"Is that so ... it sounds reasonable." Zhang Yuan frowned, thinking. This young scientist can really speak.

Uh ...

That's it. Three years of preparation time passed quickly, and the Kunlun Mountain Fleet has gradually approached its destination.

In accordance with the traditional conservative policy, in order to strictly ensure the safety of the mother ship, people will choose a peripheral planet similar to Pluto in the solar system as the landing point.

In this way, if a strong civilization is looming here, the entire fleet can also calmly communicate with it, and can leave directly if it does not help, and no positive conflicts will occur.

And, in general, an atmosphereless planet is more suitable for mineral mining.

Observatory is always the most lively area. After the spacecraft has chosen the landing position, scientists are closely watching the specific movement of "Tapstar".

The first man-made detection satellite has also been launched in advance.

Yes, this super-earth that may have life has been officially named-"Taiping", instead of only one code as before.

There are three satellites around it ~ www.readwn.com ~ one of which has a mass of 88% of the moon, and is about 360,000 kilometers away from Taipuxing.

Another is smaller, with a mass of 7.5% of the moon.

The last third is a large meteorite with a diameter of 20 kilometers. It is not a true satellite. It orbits in a large outer circle. There should be no risk of collision in a while.

Taiping has a much larger mass than the Earth, and it has many satellites, but it is nothing. Like Jupiter and Saturn in the solar system, there are at least seventy or eighty moons, and the small Mars also has two natural satellites. As long as the mass gap between these satellites and the surrounding planets is relatively large, so-called "three-body movements" will not form.

经过 After these days of observations, people have not observed traces of artificial satellites above the atmosphere of "Taiping".

This news also relieved all the scientists, at the same time feeling a bit regretful, can not tell what the psychology is.

"The absence of satellites does not necessarily mean that there is no intelligent civilization, because the planet ’s gravity and air pressure are all too great, which makes launching satellites extremely difficult. Even we have to rely on interstellar ram engine technology to be able to barely conduct aerospace activity."

"That's right ... Our detection satellite should be in orbit soon!"

"Yes, first-hand information will be returned soon!"

Everyone is curious about the first document. Although it is time to get off work, everyone is still waiting quietly in front of the big screen of the Astronomical Observatory.