Earth Era

After Zhao Huasheng expressed his conclusion, the venue fell into silence again. The head of state frowned, and after thinking for more than ten minutes, he said slowly: "Mainly focus on the positive response plan, supplemented by the negative response plan."

"These two programs will be carried out at the same time. We will conduct large-scale space launches to construct an intelligence collection network for solar civilization. At the same time, the solar reflection plan will also be carried out. A large number of solar reflectors will enter space and strive to improve The living environment of our human beings at the moment. As for the future... let’s see what kind of information we can get from the sun. If it is really confirmed that the sun civilization still has goodwill towards us, then the implementation of a medium response plan is not ruled out in the future possible."

The head of state did not give a clear answer, but this answer has clearly stated his position. At the same time, under the current circumstances, doing so is also the most appropriate.

The core of this countermeasure is that when it is impossible to determine whether the other party is benevolent or malicious, one's own side must first interpret the other party's behavior with the greatest malice. Because only in this way can we avoid additional losses for our own side. From a game-theoretic point of view, this behavior is the most reasonable.

After making a decision, the meeting discussed the implementation details of some follow-up plans. The meeting was not declared adjourned until dark.

Zhao Huasheng walked out of the venue a little tired, and a person next to him caught up from behind and patted Zhao Huasheng on the shoulder. Zhao Huasheng turned around and saw Wang Tang's face.

"Watson, I agree with you." Wang Tang said, "Only hell is the best destination for those alien scum."

"Thank you." Zhao Huasheng said, "Is the spaceship Crimson Heart okay?"

"Fortunately, the crew members are also fine. Vivica's radiation sickness has been brought under control and she is recovering. The rest of the crew have also recovered. Captain Raggle said when he returned to Earth, he wanted to be with you. Drink and thank you in person for saving your life." Wang Tang said with a smile.

"It's fine if there is nothing. Please tell Ragel that I am also looking forward to the day when I drink with him."

"Don't worry, I will definitely bring it for you." Wang Tang said, "Speaking of which, Watson, I have always been curious about the reason why Director Li Qi chose you to take this responsibility? What makes Director Li Qi think that you can take on this responsibility?"

"Oh," Zhao Huasheng said with a smile, "before I solved this mystery, I didn't know it myself, but after I confirmed that there is a civilization living above the sun, I finally understood, maybe... it is Director Li Qi and I talked about some of my speculations about the possible existence of alien civilizations in a small chat."

"Oh? What speculation is this?" Wang Tang said with great interest.

Zhao Huasheng said: "It's nothing more than some wild things. For example, there may be creatures on the stars. For example, the understanding of star creatures about eating may be completely different from ours, and it may even be completely opposite. It was just young and frivolous. What? Dare to think about anything, and don't care about the rationality and logic behind these things at all. But it hits the right button, and it happens to hit some of the characteristics of plasma life forms. I think that Director Li Qi should have introduced plasma life forms at that time. It was produced, and I already had a certain understanding of it, and it happened that I said these things in the chat... That's why Director Li Qi gradually paid attention to me who was only an intern at the time, and at the last moment he simply returned Put the heavy responsibility of solving the puzzle on me."

"Facts have proved that Director Li Qi is correct. To solve the problems he left behind, you just need a wild imagination, and you just have this quality."

"It's just luck..." Zhao Huasheng rubbed his forehead and said.

It's now at the end of the corridor. After waving goodbye to Wang Tang, Zhao Huasheng came to the car driven by Meng Zhuo.

"Help me arrange it. I'm going back to work in the Institute of Stellar Physics. I have a hunch that the way to destroy the solar civilization is hidden in the Institute." Zhao Huasheng said.

"Okay, I'll help you arrange it. Starting tomorrow, you will become the new director of the Institute of Stellar Physics, and you will be in charge of the overall work of the Institute." Mengzhuo replied.

"It couldn't be better." Zhao Huasheng said.

Zhao Huasheng once again returned to the Institute of Stellar Physics where he had worked for more than two years. The Institute of Stellar Physics is not in Equator City, but in the City of Life. So Zhao Huasheng, Li Wei's family, and Meng Zhuo also moved to live in the City of Life. Although the land in the City of Life is tight and resources are scarce, the research institute is still extremely large and complete. More than 10,000 researchers are working in it at any given moment. Because the Institute of Stellar Physics is the forefront of the fight against the solar crisis, it will inevitably receive the most abundant resource support.

The City of Life was not built into a fully enclosed urban agglomeration as previously planned, because that cost too much, and since the temperature of the sun will remain at around 4,500 degrees Kelvin and will not drop again, then the life There is really no need to build a completely closed city.

Although the City of Life is as cold as Equator City, it is the place where more than 80% of the scientists in the entire human civilization work, so the living environment of City of Life is still much better than that of Equator City. Zhao Huasheng and Li Wei were arranged to live in a residential building in the building complex of the Institute of Stellar Physics.

The study of stars is Zhao Huasheng's job. Here, Zhao Huasheng started the research on the sun with many scientific researchers. Zhao Huasheng seemed to have forgotten the responsibilities he had borne, and gave up trying to find a way to destroy the sun civilization. Zhao Huasheng was just doing his own job, just like other scientific researchers working here.

No one knew what Zhao Huasheng was thinking, even Li Wei didn't know why Zhao Huasheng chose such a way of life. But no one urged or reminded Zhao Huasheng anything. Because everyone knows what kind of person Zhao Huasheng is, if Zhao Huasheng chooses to do this, there must be a reason for him to do so.

In addition to his daily work, Zhao Huasheng will also pay attention to the latest progress of the scientific research department. So Zhao Huasheng knew that the latest recyclable rocket had been successfully developed, which reduced the cost of human space activities by more than a hundred times. Zhao Huasheng knew that in just a few months, there were at least 30 pieces of equipment The satellite of the high-precision optical solar telescope was launched into space, and rushed to the sun 150 million kilometers away. It was known that the 100 solar reflectors successfully developed in the initial stage were about to enter space. own work...

Among these messages, the recoverable rocket is a new type of rocket system. In the past, high launch costs have always been the biggest shortcoming restricting human beings from launching large-scale space activities. Among the high launch costs, rocket bodies that can only be used once occupy a large part. Think about it, how many expensive precision instruments will be contained in a Hercules rocket with a length of 70 meters and a diameter of more than ten meters. Compared with these precision instruments, the fuel to propel the rocket into space is simply insufficient Mention. However, such an expensive rocket body can only play a role once. After the payload is sent into space, the rocket body will be burned during the process of falling into the atmosphere, turning into a pile of worthless scraps iron.

The new recoverable rockets are a completely different story. After this kind of rocket sends the payload into space, there will still be residual fuel in the rocket body, which will support the rocket body to return to the atmosphere at a relatively gentle speed, and then land on the ground. The location specified by the people. Therefore, these rocket bodies only need to replace some necessary parts, carry out some maintenance, and then add new fuel, they can be reused twice, three times, or even more times. It is this new technology that greatly reduces launch costs.

Solar reflectors are intended to be launched into space using these new rockets. Each solar reflector has an area of ​​one square kilometer. It is made of new materials and is extremely light and thin. Only one rocket can be used to launch a reflector into space. After reaching space, the ion engines installed on them will propel them to unfold, and then move to a suitable orbit, presenting a suitable angle, reflecting the sun's rays that would not otherwise hit the earth to the earth.

The target of the first batch of one hundred solar reflectors was set at the City of Life. So in the past two months, after all one hundred reflectors were launched into space and started working, even in the daytime, Zhao Huasheng raised his head and could see the one hundred bright reflectors in the sky. of the stars.

At such close distances and with extremely high albedos, they are even brighter than Venus.

Venus is cold, and these solar reflectors are hot. They are constantly bringing light and warmth to the earth.

When Zhao Huasheng saw these one hundred bright stars, Zhao Huasheng felt that something in his heart was touched.

Zhao Huasheng looked at the sun, and said: "Under the crisis, you are not the only ones who will explode in science and technology, but we humans will also. In terms of aerospace technology, it took us less than a year and a half to pass the It would have taken at least twenty years to complete the journey.”