Earth Era

In the large conference room, the host of the conference slammed the wooden hammer in his hand, and the more than 3,000 participating delegates turned their attention to the podium at the same time. The two beating red and green numbers on the big screen behind the podium also stopped at the same time. The green number finally settled on two thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and the red number was one hundred and thirty-eight.

The host of the meeting said: "The voting has ended. The "Isolated Island" plan was approved by the meeting."

There was a low buzz in the conference room, and the representatives were all whispering and discussing something. Everyone knows the importance of this meeting. To some extent, this meeting will determine the development direction of human civilization in the next hundreds or even thousands of years.

Although the average life span of human beings has developed to two hundred years today, it is obvious that a life span of two hundred years is still insignificant compared to the time required for the "Isolated Island" project. Now the participants have decided to implement the Island Project, but the final results of the Island Project will not be seen until at least the tenth generation from now on.

In the entire history of human civilization, mankind has never implemented such a far-reaching and time-consuming plan. Whether this plan is useful or not, and whether it can promote the development of human civilization, time will make the final judgment.

Wei Feng was sitting in the first row of the conference room. In the past, Wei Feng had always been a staunch supporter of this plan, but now when the isolated island plan was officially approved by the meeting, Wei Feng felt a little confused.

Wei Feng knew that the isolated island plan had been planned at least more than ten years ago. In fact, the reason why I was taken out of the orphanage by the government was to provide myself with all-round care both materially and spiritually. During my studies, I was constantly hiring the most well-known experts and scholars in civilization to be my teachers... This is all in preparation for the island plan.

He is the most suitable person to implement the island plan. Because I have no parents, no relatives, no lover, and no children. All the knowledge the government has taught me is related to the Island Project, and I... was born for the Island Project.

Of course, there are many other individuals on the government's short list of Island Project executors. Those people were just like me, specially customized by the government for the island plan. But time has developed to today. My performance has already left them far behind, so as long as the island plan is approved, I have a 99% certainty that I will be selected.

"So...are you really going to leave this hometown that gave birth to me and raised me?" Wei Feng sighed secretly in his heart.

Wei Feng's thoughts were so chaotic that he didn't even hear what the host of the meeting said next. Wei Feng remained in a daze until the end of the meeting. He woke up only after Chu Hai patted him on the shoulder.

"It's time to go." Chu Hai said. "It is estimated that the training notice will be sent to us soon."

Chu Hai has the same background and life experience as Wei Feng, but Chu Hai's grades are not as good as Wei Feng's. Therefore, after the implementation of the Gudao Project, Chu Hai will probably work on the ground side and will not leave the earth.

There are dozens of candidates for the Gudao Project, but only Chu Hai and Wei Feng come from the same orphanage. If Wei Feng had a friend in this world, that person could only be Chu Hai.

"Let's go." Wei Feng forced a smile, got up and left the venue with Chu Hai.

Sure enough, it was just as Chu Hai predicted. Three hours after Wei Feng returned to the staff dormitory, a training notice was sent to Wei Feng's laptop. Chu Hai also received the notice at the same time. So, Wei Feng and Chu Hai joined dozens of other candidates. It took a month to take the fast-carrying spacecraft in the solar system provided by the government and arrive at the deep space exploration training base above Pluto.

With the continuous development of technology. Today's humans have brought their footprints to every corner of the solar system. Not only Pluto, but also more distant Kuiper Belt objects, such as Eris and Sedna, have scientific research bases of varying sizes, and people have always been stationed there to conduct scientific research. As the largest overseas celestial body closest to the inner solar system, Pluto naturally has a scientific research base, and it is quite large, with at least 5,000 people stationed here.

In fact, in today's human civilization. Pluto has become a supply station for voyages from the inner solar system to overseas celestial bodies, and has a very important strategic position. Spacecraft exploring the Kuiper Belt and beyond usually make their final resupply trip here at Pluto. Only after replenishing enough food, water, and fuel will you embark on the journey.

Because of the existence of the rapid transportation network in the solar system, transportation between major planets and major bases within Pluto is very convenient. Driven by technological explosions one after another, the fastest speed of spacecraft built by human civilization has reached an astonishing two thousand kilometers per second. At such high speed, it only takes one month to reach Pluto from the earth. It’s just time. For people today, a trip to Neptune or Pluto is probably similar to a trip abroad in the national era.

In this way, Wei Feng and Chu Hai arrived at the Pluto base. Wei Feng knew that it would take at least twenty years to build a large spacecraft to carry out the isolated island project - this did not include the design of the spacecraft and the feasibility verification process, because these processes were all completed in the previous twenty years. It was completed within a year. If these preliminary preparations are included, the construction period of this spacecraft will be at least thirty years.

This spacecraft takes twenty years to build, which means that this training camp on Pluto will last almost twenty years.

Taking twenty years to build a spacecraft seems incredible to people today. Thanks to the huge industrial base, the construction of spacecraft has long entered the era of assembly line mass manufacturing. People have become accustomed to submitting orders one month in advance, and the spacecraft will be delivered to them one month later. After twenty years of work, Time to build a spaceship... What kind of spaceship takes so long?

Wei Feng knew the answer to this question very clearly. Because this spaceship is not an ordinary spaceship, it is fundamentally different from all spaceships in human civilization today. Because those spaceships only conduct interplanetary navigation within the solar system, and this spacecraft... it is an interstellar spacecraft.

The fastest spacecraft built by human civilization today can reach a speed of two thousand kilometers per second, and the design maximum speed of this epoch-making spacecraft that has not yet been built is three thousand kilometers per second.

The components and spare parts equipped on it must have a reliable working time of more than a thousand years. The fuel stored on it can allow the spacecraft to operate continuously at 70% of the overall power for 1,200 years. The antenna on it must be extremely sensitive, sensitive enough to detect radio signals sent from a place four light years away, and its hull and modules must be reliable and tough enough, because only in this way can this spacecraft Only then can we survive in various extreme environments.

It must carry as many tools as possible, because the destination of its voyage has no way of receiving support from human civilization. Any accidents encountered there must be solved by itself. Its artificial intelligence system must be extremely reliable. Because during the voyage, the astronauts were asleep most of the time. Everything in the spacecraft had to be controlled by the artificial intelligence system, and it took hundreds of years to operate.

It is such a great spaceship that spans the ages. Even with the technological strength of today's human civilization, it will take twenty years to build it, and more than 10 million engineers of various types must be involved. In order to build it, the human government must successively invest a huge amount of wealth accounting for 1.5% of the annual economic aggregate in the next time.

Today, the total population of human civilization has exceeded 200 billion. In other words, the total wealth created by the hard work of more than 200 billion people in one year is only enough to build 66 such spaceships.

If nothing unexpected happens, after twenty years of intensive training, astronaut Wei Feng will take this spacecraft on a long voyage from the solar system to the Nanmen II system and back again to personally verify the feasibility of interstellar navigation. .

The Alpha Centauri galaxy is a triple galaxy, in which the larger stars A and B form a binary star system, and the smaller star C, commonly known as Proxima Centauri, orbits A in a farther orbit. Star and B star move. It has been determined that there is an earth-like planet among the two and three stars of Nanmen, which is about the same size as Mars. The goal of the first interstellar voyage in the history of human civilization was the planet named "Blue Night Star".

The debate within human civilization on whether to build this spacecraft has lasted for more than ten years. It has only now been approved by the meeting and received the official name of the "Isolated Island" project. Because in this vast galaxy universe, the solar system that has allowed human civilization to flourish and exist to this day is like an isolated island in the sea.

Many people doubt whether this task is necessary. Even if calculated at a high speed of 3,000 kilometers per second, the voyage from the solar system to the Nanmen II galaxy will take more than 430 years. Even if everything goes well, the spacecraft will depart from the solar system to the Nanmen II system, and then from Nanmen The total time it takes for the two galaxies to return to the solar system will reach almost nine hundred years, and the average life span of human beings today is only two hundred years. (To be continued ~^~)