Earth Era

Time was still passing quietly, and the sudden appearance of a star in the sky did not attract too many people's attention. But Zhao Huasheng is different. When the star suddenly appeared, gazing at the stars on the couch in the courtyard every night became one of Zhao Huasheng's must-do things.

The star continued to increase its brightness in Zhao Huasheng's eyes. Ten days have passed since the star first appeared. During these ten days, its brightness increased from fifth magnitude to fourth magnitude. This means that its assembly is nearing completion and almost complete.

Generally speaking, if it is a comet, when its brightness increases to this level, its tail can probably be seen with the naked eye. However, the tail of a real comet is bright only when the material ejected from the comet core reflects the sun's rays. Of course, the false comet created by humans does not have such ability, and it is impossible for it to stretch out a spectacular tail. So it can probably only disguise itself as an asteroid, but not a comet. The Comet Deterrence Program should also be renamed the Asteroid Deterrence Program.

When people change the orbit of Comet Arthur, they mainly rely on the power of the eruption of material from the comet's core to achieve their goals. There is no such rich gas material on the asteroid, so people have no way to use this to change the orbit of the asteroid. And it would be too false to directly claim that humans rely on high-thrust engines to change the orbits of asteroids - because it is obvious that human civilization does not have such strong technical capabilities.

So how to reconcile the contradiction between the two is a very tricky thing. However, Zhao Huasheng was not worried about this. Zhao Huasheng knew that the head of state and those in the Scientific Research Department would be able to find a reasonable explanation.

After the brightness of this false asteroid increased to the fourth magnitude, its brightness basically stabilized. It no longer increased rapidly, but began to slowly increase its brightness at a very slow speed. Zhao Huasheng knew that this process of slowly increasing brightness was actually simulating the natural movement of asteroids, approaching the sun along their orbits.

This false asteroid needs to deceive not only plasma life forms, but also the vast majority of humans on earth. Even some scientists. The reason is simple, if too many people know that this asteroid is fake. Then confidentiality will face great difficulties, and it is difficult to avoid these things being discovered by plasma life forms by accident. In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, the only way is to deceive most of the people on the earth. So it has to be made as realistic as possible. Not only that, in order to prevent anyone from discovering that the asteroid's luminosity increased not because it was close to the sun, but because of its own reasons, the human government also strictly prohibited many things during this period. Deep space telescope observation behavior.

As long as those big guys are not used. People will not be able to discover the flaws of this asteroid, and most people will be deceived. Because its flaws cannot be seen with a small telescope.

Half a month after the asteroid appeared, Zhao Huasheng finally saw relevant reports about the asteroid from the TV media. In TV reports, the asteroid received the name Apat and was called the Apat asteroid.

"The Il Deep Space Survey Telescope recently discovered a new asteroid. The asteroid is numbered 2026TV1, and its official name is Apate. Scientists found that the asteroid has a diameter of about 1.1 kilometers. The overall appearance is different. It has a regular shape, a total mass of about 1.7 billion tons, and an extremely smooth surface. It has extremely high albedo, and it is speculated that its surface may be composed of water ice..."

This message was only broadcast for more than ten seconds before disappearing from the TV screen. In addition to some basic data. The television station did not broadcast any other information about the asteroid. This news report is also very ordinary, without any abnormal behavior, just like an ordinary little news that will appear at any time and will not be taken seriously by people at all.

But Zhao Huasheng knew what this meant. If Zhao Huasheng is not mistaken, this news broadcast should be the first time that it has entered people's field of vision. After this broadcast, there will be a second, third, and even the hundredth time. A thousand reports. The frequency of broadcasts about this asteroid will slowly increase following the normal process, and will eventually attract the attention of all mankind. The reason for choosing to do this is also because of the need for realism. after all. It is very unreasonable for a newly discovered asteroid to immediately receive great attention from human civilization.

Zhao Huasheng also knew that the human government would probably not specifically convey relevant information about this asteroid to him. If you do that, the traces of artificial carving will be too heavy. The method of passing relevant information to Zhao Huasheng, and also to the plasma life forms, through continuously intensified news broadcasts is more logical and less likely to arouse suspicion. At the same time, the human government is not worried about the possibility that Zhao Huasheng will not receive relevant information. Because under the extremely high-intensity information bombardment, as long as Zhao Huasheng is still watching TV and connected to the Internet, then Zhao Huasheng will definitely receive the news.

The facts did not exceed Zhao Huasheng's expectations. On the next day, there were more reports about this asteroid. Zhao Huasheng saw on TV that scientists had determined the orbital parameters of this asteroid and concluded that it would pass at an extremely close distance - this The distance is 170,000 kilometers - passing by the earth. After being affected by the Earth's gravitational disturbance, it will change its orbit and pass by the sun at an extremely close distance. It is estimated that its perihelion will be less than one million kilometers by then...

This asteroid is slowly attracting people's attention. Especially after a scientist proposed that "we may use this asteroid as a weapon to deter solar civilization, so as to threaten the solar civilization from retaliating against us" and it was reported by the TV station, the asteroid was The attention among people instantly rose to the highest level.

TV stations have further increased their tracking and reporting on this planet. Major observatories and astronomical telescopes have launched observations of this asteroid. More data about this asteroid has been unearthed. People even A detailed three-dimensional map of this asteroid was drawn, and its material composition, star structure, formation age, place of origin and other information were analyzed in detail.

Of course, all this information is false. It is all a show jointly performed by several top scientists in the Ministry of Science and Technology and the head of state. This drama has deceived the vast majority of people in human society. Zhao Huasheng saw that discussions about this asteroid began to appear overwhelmingly on the Internet. On the Voice of Humanity website, discussions about this asteroid covered almost the entire discussion area.

Therefore, it is impossible for Zhao Huasheng not to have access to these things. And Zhao Huasheng came into contact with these things, which means that the plasma life form came into contact with these things. The plasma life form fell into silence during this period of time, and its communication with Zhao Huasheng began to decrease. So Zhao Huasheng knew that it had probably fallen into worry, and it was also anxiously waiting for the subsequent development of the matter.

This carefully directed drama continues to develop. The Ministry of Science and Technology held a meeting specifically for this purpose. During the meeting, the scientists rigorously discussed and demonstrated the possibility of changing the orbit of the asteroid, and demonstrated this in terms of logistics support, technical equipment, resource consumption, impact consequences, etc. As a possible deterrent to solar civilization, we finally came to the conclusion that "we are fully capable of changing the orbit of this asteroid and letting it hit the sun."

This meeting was broadcast live to every corner of the earth, including the TV set that Zhao Huasheng was facing. Zhao Huasheng sat on the sofa and watched the live broadcast quietly. Zhao Huasheng knew that the plasma life form must also have watched the live broadcast completely and heard the conclusions drawn by the scientists during the meeting.

"First of all, the closest distance between it and the Earth is only 170,000 kilometers, which is much less than the 4 million kilometers of Comet Arthur. This means that we can consume less resources to transport more supplies to Go up there."

"Secondly, its original orbit is too close to the sun, which means that we only need to make extremely small orbital changes for it to achieve our goals."

“Thirdly, the surface of the asteroid contains a large amount of water resources, and the surface is smooth and the geological structure is stable, which means that the engine we transport to it can obtain a large amount of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as energy through the process of ionizing water. , we don’t need to transport too much energy to it; and the electricity required for ionized water can be obtained through solar generators... And because its geological structure is stable, the engine can work efficiently for a long time, pushing it to change itself Its orbit...So, our conclusion is that it is entirely possible to change its orbit and eventually let it hit the sun, and we can definitely do this."

The scientist finished speaking with a solemn expression and then sat down. Endless applause broke out in the venue, and a voice gradually gathered, and passed through the screen, coming to Zhao Huasheng, and also came to the mind of the plasma life form: "Let those damn stellar people know, if If you dare to retaliate against the earth, we will smash this thing into the sun!" (To be continued~^~)