From black technology to super engineering

With the sound of firecrackers, the year is gone, and the spring breeze brings warmth into Tusu.

Amidst bursts of firecrackers, the 2028 calendar turned over the last page.

In the Hongyan Hotel in Xichang, Linda woke up to the gentle call of the hotel robot. She glanced at the time, then quickly put on light makeup on herself, changed her clothes and opened the door, and joined the assistants who had just cleaned up.

On the way downstairs to eat, she and her assistant ordered a driverless taxi, and when they finished breakfast, the taxi just arrived at the door.

Under the arrangement of Aita, everything was in order throughout the whole process, without the slightest sloppiness, and there was no need to worry about being late or being stuck in traffic.

"Hello, Ms. Linda, I am your driving assistant WD13H2. I am very happy to serve you. Please fasten your seat belt and get ready to go."

After getting in the car, the on-board AI greeted the assistant, which surprised the assistant who arrived just yesterday: "Linda, have all the social applications of AI been realized here?"

"Most of the public transportation is used." Linda looked at the assistant girl and nodded with a smile, and finally joked: "Do you feel like a country bumpkin?"

Vivian nodded embarrassedly.

She only joined the editorial department of Lianhe Zaobao last year. Before that, she had been at the headquarters in Paocheng. This time she was temporarily sent here mainly because Linda's former local assistant had left. And it was said that he was engaged in some new media...

The so-called new media is not a new term. It was invented as early as ten years ago. It originally refers to those "new" information providers and opinion outputs that are different from the traditional ones and have a certain discourse power and history. By.

But now, new media mainly refers to those who provide users with highly customized and interesting content output under the framework of Aita, rather than the previous group of people who can do and say anything for the sake of traffic.

The reason why it has evolved into this is that with the popularization of the centralized network dominated by Aita, "untrue information" has been eliminated to a large extent.

In other words, you have to talk nonsense on the social network under Aita—especially for science popularization, you really can’t do it.

Aita allows anyone to say anything, but she also has the sweetness to logically point out that you're talking nonsense.

What? Are you dissatisfied? Then let’s be reasonable—do you believe that Aita gave you a hundred peer-reviewed papers for you to study?

Or directly find the most original source of your speculative materials and call your face.

So... In the past few years, those marketing accounts and self-media who relied on outputting content in the past have been eliminated one after another, and then the waves have washed away, leaving a group of relatively advantageous pure opinion exporters.

It's quite like everyone is a commentator.

"The domestic development is too fast." Vivian's name is Xi Wei. She graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and she only traveled to the mainland once a few years ago. I can't see much of a difference either.

Only when you really come here to live in a "life" attitude, you will know that the changes brought by quantum supercomputing + strong artificial intelligence to life are subversive.

"Yeah, the development is too fast." Linda hugged the notebook with emotion on her face: "Now we always say that human beings have entered a new interstellar era, but... everyone knows that this interstellar era is the result of our own efforts Pushed. No one else in this world matters at all."

"It's good that the others don't hold back." Vivian smiled sweetly: "Yesterday, there was a protest in Europe, demanding the withdrawal of the probe, saying that they should not clean up the peace of Andromeda."

"Hahahaha!" Linda laughed flamboyantly, trembling all over: "Listen to those fools in Europe, I'm afraid that human beings don't even know how to die."

"Hmm... By the way, Linda, tell me, what news will the aerospace department of cn reveal this time?" Vivian became serious: "Ten days have passed since the probe, and various gossips are flying all over the sky..."

Hearing Vivian talk about the business, Linda also slowly stopped laughing, and her expression became a little serious. After thinking for a while, she slowly shook her head: "Everything is based on what Academician Ye said."

"..."

"Really, don't look at a lot of news coming out now, but you can guess it with your toes. These news must have been released on purpose. First, give the general public a psychological preparation-for example, some alien civilization has distorted the technology. Trees lead to destruction, for example, the spaceships of alien civilizations are no more advanced than human beings, for example, the current intelligent creatures of Canglan Planet have disappeared..."

Linda exhaled slowly and closed her eyes.

She has dealt with the domestic aerospace department for so long, and she is very clear about the means of releasing news in the country.

Well, in fact, all the official methods are exactly the same - release some "insider" news first, let the common people guess wildly, it is best to guess in the most serious direction.

Then give a less serious official explanation, so that ordinary people can easily accept it.

Today's news release is a summary of the previous work of the entire black hole detection project.

This means that a lot of information that ordinary people want to know will be exposed.

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An hour later, the press conference was held on time.

"According to previous detections, we first determined that the blue star, Kepler 1688C, is indeed a terrestrial planet. It is located in the outer cantilever position of Andromeda, 2.68 million light-years away from us."

"Secondly, we determined that this planet once gave birth to a civilization with interstellar construction and flight capabilities. The ruins of the space city discovered by the probe were built by the civilization of this planet."

"At the same time, we have also determined that the form of the advanced civilization on this planet is an upright humanoid form..."

As Ye Ming, who was sitting in the center of the rostrum, continued to announce the previous detection results, or some confirmed "conclusions", the AR enhanced display module in front of the press conference hall also continuously played information from 2.68 million light-years away. .

And when Ye Ming mentioned the upright humanoid form, there was inevitably a burst of exclamation in the hall. At the same time, many reporters sitting in the back row stood up one after another, looking at the restored "alien" people".

Linda also stood up, and her eyes fell on the alien.

The height of the alien is about two meters, a head taller than ordinary humans. Its head is somewhat similar to that of a cat, but its ears have obviously degenerated, and there is a small sarcoma in front of its forehead.

During the rotation of the camera, the limbs and fingers of the alien are exposed-only four fingers are generally relatively long.

In addition, it is a whole body of tendons.

"I forgot to add that they are indeed carbon-based organisms." Ye Ming took a sip of tea while the reporters were shocked watching, and added with a smile.

After giving everyone a little psychological preparation, Ye Ming glanced at the manuscript and continued to announce it.

"At the same time, we are making contact with the planet. I regret to tell you that so far, we have not received any effective response, and according to the observations of the probe, the planet has no significant ground man-made structures and energy sources. traces of use."

"In other words, it is very possible that the planet is currently devoid of advanced civilized creatures."

"If it's good news that you don't have to deal with extraterrestrial civilizations...well, this might be one. And the good news is that the planet's ecosphere should be similar to Earth's, with average temperature, gravity, and even The composition of the atmosphere is also almost the same as that of the Earth, which belongs to the super-Earth."

Following Ye Ming's voice, the modeling of Canglanxing appeared on the screen.

"As you can see, the blue part is the ocean, which shows that the cause of the blue is similar to that of the earth, which is the spectral effect of cyanobacteria. The white part, in addition to the atmosphere, is more snow - if there is anything Unlike Earth, it has a large ice cover at the poles, covering half the size of its planet."

"Of course, in the long history of the earth, this kind of ice age has appeared many times... well, we earth people have a wealth of experience."

Ye Ming made a little joke as he spoke.

There was also a burst of laughter in the hall.

Ye Ming smiled and looked at everyone: "Do you still want to know how the Canglan Star people died?"

Several voices said in unison: "Yes!"

"I'm sorry, we don't know, but according to the current situation, it may be caused by natural disasters, man-made disasters, or foreign enemies... In short, they are gone."

"According to speculation, it has probably been thousands of years since they disappeared."

"In addition, in the early detection, we also found that their spaceship control circuit is indeed a biotechnology route." Ye Ming coughed lightly: "The rumors are correct, their Biotechnology is indeed very advanced, and even according to analysis, their lifespan is very long, generally reaching more than two hundred years old."

As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar in the hall!

Over two hundred years old? !

"Of course, because the various experiments and testing equipment are not available at present, it will take time to really figure out the specific situation of this civilization and this creature."

Ye Ming took another sip of water: "In addition, the main engine of their spaceship also uses controllable nuclear fusion technology - in this sense, we can think that their civilization level will not be higher than mine."

"Even the majestic space city that everyone has seen will not be more advanced than our space city in terms of technical difficulty. What we are lacking now is only the accumulation of engineering, not the gap in technology."

Speaking of Ye Ming smiled slightly: "Don't underestimate yourself, human beings are not bad."

Following Ye Ming like pouring beans, one after another, the news that ordinary people are most concerned about is "officially revealed", which can be regarded as satisfying the gossip mentality of all the people in the world.

Next, Ye Ming also selectively answered some questions from the reporters.

For example, whether this planet can be used as a planet for human migration, whether this space city can be used by human beings, whether human beings can use the "genes" of the Canglan Star people to realize their dream of longevity, etc...

Regarding these questions, Ye Ming's answer was very cautious. He didn't promise anything, but he definitely didn't say anything.

Of course, the reporters can also understand that only one probe has passed by now, and its scientific research capabilities are extremely limited. If you want it to understand a galaxy in a short period of time, it is indeed a bit difficult.

At noon, the press conference ended.

...

In the afternoon, in the meeting room of Aerospace City, Ye Ming once again presided over a meeting on follow-up detection.

"Obviously, according to their technological level, it is impossible to create a large amount of anti-material."

Ye Ming stared at everyone while showing a picture that had never appeared before.

Those present, in addition to Director Zhang, Director Niu and others, were some experts from domestic weapons outlets—not a single foreigner was present.

None of the observers including Taiyo.

The reason, of course, is that what is being discussed today is weapons, and... the ultimate weapon.

The picture shown by Ye Ming was taken yesterday after the engineering robot entered the main weapon compartment of a battleship.

First, the appearance of the main weapon was photographed - to be precise, it was a giant, reactor-like device.

Director Niu looked at him seriously: "Are you sure this is an antimatter cannon?"

"Physics is the principle followed by the entire universe. Even if they put on the cloak of biology, they cannot override the rules." Ye Ming also responded seriously: "Although their binding force field is realized by biotechnology, but In essence, it is still a binding force field, not some magical creature power, let alone magic."

After being "chucked" by Ye Ming, Director Niu didn't feel embarrassed at all, but smiled and signaled Ye Ming to continue.

"I'm pretty sure that another reason why it's an antimatter device is... I know all about this stuff."

When he said this, everyone looked at him like a ghost.

Ye Ming exhaled softly and smiled reservedly.

The antimatter restraint device...he knew it years ago.

He even derived the confinement force field of the controllable nuclear fusion device that humans are now familiar with from the antimatter confinement device!

And the main gun of the alien warship in front of him is nothing more than replacing the electromagnetic circuit that humans are familiar with with a biological circuit.

"Fuck...you..." Director Niu pointed at Ye Ming, stuttered for a long time, and finally found that what he said was inappropriate: "Okay, you continue."

"Hehe, that's actually not the problem."

Ye Ming exhaled again, and looked at everyone with burning eyes: "The biggest question is, a civilization that has burped, where does their antimatter come from?"

This sentence immediately made everyone fall into thought.

Yeah, where did the antimatter come from?

——When ordinary people hear antimatter, they only know that this thing is tall. Under the special theory of relativity, it can release complete energy, and it is one of the "ultimate weapons".

But in fact, people have come up with anti-"matter" decades ago-if a single atom is also considered "matter".

However... so far, human beings know nothing about its manufacturing method, only knowing that it is knocked out with great force and miracles.

Didn't someone ever count it? If we want to create usable antimatter, we need to fill the entire solar system with colliders.

Now that alien civilizations have created antimatter cannons, where did their antimatter come from?

In silence, Director Zhang tentatively asked, "Biological preparation?"

Ye Ming shook his head slowly: "If you say that this creature is an antimatter world creature, I would believe it... But that, wouldn't it be a bit too sci-fi?"

Director Zhang stopped thinking about it, and immediately asked, "Then how did you get here?"

Ye Ming was silent for a few seconds, and pulled out the star map of the entire Canglan Star.

"Is there a possibility that the civilization of this planet can collect antimatter ore?"