The Science Fiction World of Xueba

At the same time, a small storage compartment appeared on one side of the hibernation chamber.

Pang Xuelin took out a bag of gelatinous food from it, opened it, and slowly squeezed it into his mouth.

This is a jelly-like food for hibernation relief.

The so-called hibernation syndrome refers to a kind of disease that human beings tend to show after waking up from hibernation for a long time.

The clinical manifestations include poor appetite, listlessness, skin ulceration, mucus in the mouth and nose, and labored breathing.

The main reason is that although humans have emptied the food in the intestines as much as possible before entering hibernation, there will always be food residues that have not been fully digested and absorbed. These food residues are accumulated in the stomach, and these highly nutritious food residues It is a medium for pathogenic microorganisms and breeds a large number of pathogenic bacteria.

Although most germs will die after entering a low temperature state, a small number will enter a hibernation state like humans, and they will also wake up when humans wake up.

Humans who have just awakened have low immunity and disease resistance, and are easily infected with these bacteria, which leads to the emergence of hibernation syndrome.

And this bag of food has the effect of supplementing nutrition and cleaning up intestinal bacteria.

Although Pang Xuelin has undergone the modification of the gene optimizer, these problems will basically not occur, but just in case, this step cannot be omitted.

Afterwards, Pang Xuelin pushed open the hatch of the hibernation cabin with his hand, and slowly floated out of the hibernation cabin.

Considering the limited power provided by the solar sail, the design of the Ark 1 spacecraft followed the modular and minimalist model to simplify the structure of the spacecraft as much as possible, reduce the use of electronic and electrical equipment, and increase the number of common parts. quantity.

For example, the doors of each compartment of the spacecraft are purely mechanical and can be opened manually.

Another example is that the spaceship has no centrifugal gravity system, no complicated electronic circuit system, and the equipment in each cabin is relatively independent. Can survive in the universe for a period of time.

In addition, considering issues such as spacecraft material reserves and equipment reliability, two crew members (husband and wife) will wake up every ten years and spend one to two years maintaining the entire ship.

In the past thirty years, two groups of crew members have woken up one after another to maintain Ark One.

Of course,

In order to prevent accidents, Pang Xuelin also left behind MOSS.

Once the crew of this spaceship has any other thoughts, MOSS can take over the entire ship.

This point, even Mu Qingqing is not very clear.

Therefore, this time, although the Ark spacecraft is already close to Alpha Centauri, it will only wake up Pang Xuelin and Mu Qingqing, and the others are still in a deep sleep state.

In this way, the life of Ark One will be greatly extended.

Pang Xuelin estimated that the Ark spacecraft may detect eight to ten star systems in the future.

But this is just an estimate, and no one is sure what kind of accidents will occur during this adventure.

Pang Xuelin grabbed the armrest of his own hibernation cabin, pushed it lightly, and his whole body flew to another hibernation cabin like fluttering catkins.

In the hibernation cabin, Mu Qingqing still closed her eyes tightly like a sleeping beauty.

Without hesitation, Pang Xuelin lightly pressed the wake-up button on the side.

laugh……

A ball of white mist was injected into the hibernation cabin, and Mu Qingqing remained motionless, still in a deep sleep state.

Pang Xuelin was not surprised either. Considering his body's ability to bear, the process of waking up from hibernation would last for a while, and this cloud of white medicine mist would be inhaled by Mu Qingqing step by step in the next 24 hours to gradually revive her bodily functions.

Pang Xuelin let go of the handle of the hibernation cabin, and slowly floated towards the exit of the hibernation area.

Except for the huge solar sail, the main part of the Ark 1 spacecraft is composed of nine octagonal structure cabins and a cylindrical command and control cabin.

The octagonal cabin forms a lotus shape, forming eight different functional areas.

The eight functional areas are connected to the transition cabin in the middle, and the transition cabin is connected to the cylindrical command and control cabin.

The structure of the entire spaceship is simple, each cabin can be separated from the spaceship, and has the ability to survive independently in space.

Pang Xuelin opened the hatch of the hibernation area and entered the transition cabin.

The transition cabin is equipped with some fitness equipment, such as bicycles, tension machines, treadmills, weightlifting equipment, etc., to prevent astronauts' long-term space life from causing muscle relaxation.

These devices have been modified to a certain extent, and are very different from the devices on earth.

Pang Xuelin did not stay too much in the transition cabin, but went straight into the cylindrical command and control cabin.

In the command cabin, the screen of the command console emits a faint blue light, and in front of the console is a huge porthole made of high-strength special optical materials.

The starry sky outside the porthole is bright, and Proxima Centauri is hidden in the depths of the sea of ​​stars, which cannot be distinguished with the naked eye.

With a distance of more than 36 trillion kilometers, unless observed with a special shipboard optical telescope, this red dwarf star is no different from ordinary stars to Pang Xuelin.

At present, the speed of Ark 1 is close to one-tenth of the speed of light, and it will take at least one month to get close to Proxima Centauri.

As for the unmanned probe that was released ten years ago, due to the constant deceleration, it is estimated that it will take another ten years before it can be parked in the orbit of Proxima Centauri.

By then, Pang Xuelin and the others had already left Alpha Centauri and headed for Sirius.

Pang Xuelin sat down in front of the commanding platform, and said: "MOSS, help me retrieve the voyage log for the past 30 years and the communication records with the earth!"

"clear."

Soon, two folders appeared on the screen in front of Pang Xuelin, one was the flight log and the other was the communication record.

The logbook mainly records the flight conditions of the spacecraft in the past three decades.

The amount of data is extremely huge, so naturally Pang Xuelin would not read it one by one, but with the assistance of MOSS, he screened out some of the voyage logs for browsing.

In the flight log, not only the overall flight status of the spacecraft is recorded, but also the corresponding maintenance status.

The solar sail of Ark 1 has an area of ​​up to 100,000 square kilometers. During the long journey of four light years, it will always encounter interstellar dust and possible meteorite groups.

Although the nanomirror film itself is very strong, there will always be accidental breakage.

In the voyage log, there are several repairs performed by the first four Awakened.

Generally speaking, Ark One is in good condition. Even if there are some accidental collisions or damages, it is within the scope of system redundancy, basically not exceeding the expectations at the time of departure.

After reading the voyage log, Pang Xuelin next focused on the communication records.

The huge area of ​​the solar sail of Ark 1 exceeds 100,000 square kilometers, making it a natural super antenna, and it also makes it possible for Ark 1 to communicate with the earth over a long distance.

In the past thirty years, Ark 1 basically communicated with the earth every once in a while.

Initially, such communications have low latency, with round-trip transmissions taking hours.

Gradually, this communication began to extend to days, months.

Up to now, after the news on the earth is sent out, it will take at least eight years to receive a feedback from Ark 1.

Pang Xuelin first checked the official communication information.

Communications with the aerospace sector were lackluster.

Most of them are track information recorded when the spacecraft traveled through space.

Of course, there are also some new discoveries.

For example, the most significant discovery is that when Ark 1 passed through the Kuiper belt, it discovered an ice giant with a mass slightly smaller than Uranus.

This ice giant star has a revolution period of more than a thousand years and is more than 300 astronomical units away from the sun. It is considered by the scientific community to be the ninth planet in the solar system.

This surprised Pang Xuelin.

The so-called Kuiper belt was first proposed by the Dutch-American astronomer Gerald Kuiper. He believed that there was a belt-shaped area run by ice material at the edge of the solar system. In order to commemorate Kuiper's discovery, this area was named "Kuiper belt" .

The Kuiper Belt is a donut-shaped ring of ice around the Sun that extends from 30 to 55 AU (Astronomical Units) in the orbit of Neptune. The farthest can reach more than a thousand astronomical units.

The Kuiper Belt contains thousands of icy bodies larger than 100 kilometers (62 miles) and is home to an estimated trillion or more comets. Short-period comets (orbiting the sun for less than 200 years) mostly originate in the Kuiper Belt.

Scientists have previously discovered that the orbits of some celestial bodies in the Kuiper belt do not match the calculations. From this, they speculate that there is a large gravitational celestial body inside the Kuiper belt, which affects the orbits of some celestial bodies in the Kuiper belt. .

The discovery of Ark 1 is a real hammer.

In addition to this great discovery in the Kuiper Belt, Ark 1 also roughly calculated the diameter of the Oort Nebula in the solar system.

It also allows human astronomers to have a deeper understanding of the origin and evolution of the solar system.

Most of the official communication is the exchange of these scientific data, and the rest of the information is basically private communication information.

Among them, there are more than 100 articles belonging to Pang Xuelin, most of which are video materials.

According to the year and time, Pang Xuelin clicked on the top one, and the figure of Shuiwa appeared on the screen.

August 2015.

"Lin Wazi, time flies so fast. In the blink of an eye, you have all set off for three years. Since you entered hibernation a year ago, my heart feels empty. Everything is fine at home. I have already taken Uncle Mu over to live here. Yes, my mother had a cholecystectomy some time ago, and the doctor said that the diet should be light in the future..."

Memories from thirty years ago slowly emerged in Pang Xuelin's mind, and the Shuiwa in front of him was the same as in the memory.

After reading Shuiwa's message, Pang Xuelin found that there was another message in August 2015. After clicking on it, it turned out to be Liu Qi.

"Brother Pang, I guess it will be thirty years before you see this video again, haha, I don't know what I will become in these thirty years. Now the reform and split of the Star Ring Group is still going on. , the transition was very smooth, and everything went according to the process we designed back then. You once said that the short-sightedness and greed of capital may destroy the industry ecology. After you left, a lot of bullshit happened. Fortunately, , old man Ren, my dad, and Uncle Ni are all still there, some people can't afford to make waves..."

2018, July.

Shui Wa: "Lin Wazi, Professor Chen Wenyuan left. He was very peaceful when he left. I just kept thinking about you and Qingqing, and I hope you are all well. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you something. Wanying got pregnant again last year. I just gave birth to a pair of twins two days ago, and my mother is very happy, but I always miss you..."

April 2019.

Liu Qi: "Brother Pang, it's time to chat with you again. I have already donated all my shares in Xinghuan Group. This is a real donation. I donated it to the Hope Education Foundation you established. Of course, I I still keep the property that my father left me, haha, I am not a saint after all, I still want to leave something for my children. The country has developed well in recent years, and the investment in education has also increased a lot. Now I hope that the education fund The focus will be shifted from primary and secondary school students in poverty-stricken areas to education equity. We have proposed a plan to pass on hope to the next generation. Through financial support, we will support teachers from prestigious urban schools to teach in primary and secondary schools in poverty-stricken areas in the central and western regions, reducing urban and rural areas. Education, the education gap between poor areas and rich areas, so that more people can have the opportunity to go to top universities..."

June 2025.

Shuiwa: "Lin Wazi, I don't know what to say? My mother passed away last month, and Uncle Mu also passed away two days ago. When Uncle Mu left, he kept talking about you and Qingqing. Like an old urchin, but I know that he has always remembered you..."

January 2027.

Liu Qi: "Brother Pang, in a blink of an eye, it has been fifteen years since you set off, and I am also old. My dad passed away last month. Before leaving, he held my hand and said, the greatest luck in our life is Can meet you, I hope I can see you again in this life, I guess I will be seventy or eighty at that time, and I don’t know what you will look like. Scientists say that hibernation technology can make people delay aging and sleep for decades , Time seems to be stagnant. Now there are many rich people in society who are thinking of hibernating to the future. The government is also discussing the expansion of hibernation technology. It's normal, at this age, what's the point of thinking about it..."

...

After a long time, Pang Xuelin finally pulled the video to the last one.

This video was sent four years ago, and Ark One just received it last month.

2038, September.

Pang Xuelin clicked on the video, and the figures of Shuiwa and Liu Qi appeared on the screen at the same time.

Both of them had gray hair. Although they looked well-maintained, their spirits were not as good as before.

In the video, Shuiwa was the first to speak: "Lin Wazi, I think you will be able to see this video after you wake up. Brother Liu invited me to play in the south some time ago, and I brought Wanying with me. My son is already married , and now I am working on Mars with my daughter-in-law, and I took a spaceship to Mars last year, I kind of understand why you chose to embark on such a journey back then... To be honest, I really envy you..."

After Shuiwa finished speaking, Liu Qi answered: "Brother Pang, I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, I will be over seventy. If the communication experts can't say anything unexpected, I will receive your response in eight years. I am really looking forward to it." Ah. These years, the discussion on the Ark project on the earth has been much less, and last year it was a little hotter, because we received a message from the second batch of awakened crew members. The earth has changed too much in these years, and the star ring space has already changed. It has become the world's largest space construction contractor, which you probably didn't expect. Now humans are developing the moon and Mars, and nuclear fusion engineering has also made breakthroughs. Think about when we first met, and look at this era, I don't know I think Shuiwa and I are getting old..."

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