Chapter 546
Ding Peng's gaze drifted to the distant sky. There are no stars here, just a bleak void. People will live and develop here for a long time.
At this moment, the male voice on the TV also became high-pitched: "...When the flame of the planetary engine shines on this starry sky, we will finally embark on the road of Level 4 civilization!"
Many people cheered loudly and applauded for it. Even other geniuses selected from the virtual world, regardless of whether they are used to this World or not, are raising their glasses to celebrate, wanting to contribute their own strength to it.
But few people know that the beginning of a thing is always good. Especially for such a large project, if there is no bright future, how many people will pluck up the courage to do it?
The government did not say how long this project will ultimately take...
However, when nearly 20 million people consumed a huge amount of points and spent a hundred years on the road, Enjoying to the end, when they are about to embark on a new journey, they don’t know that there are still nearly three thousand years of hard time waiting for them in the future...
The loud cheers now may be the last three thousand years in the future. Cheers.
They have to repeat the same work until they die.
The 15,000 planetary engines that humans are responsible for, equivalent to 15,000 mountains are pressing on the entire civilization. Many people will have to abandon their current careers and invest in the great construction project. In the middle of the sea.
They have to fight with excavators and earth boring machines all their lives. Through these tools, they raze the craters to the ground.
From the very beginning cheers and laughs, and then gradually becomes numb, and finally brings deep despair to the grave...
The talent training of subsequent generations will also A lot of tilt in this direction.
The engineers of the grand competition will appear, and many entertainment-related professions will be banned. Even the work of many scientists had to be given up, because the entire civilization was no longer productive and provided them with experimental resources.
There is no passion that can last three thousand years. The first generation of people died silently, fighting for their own beliefs and ideals for life, but the second generation had to accept this reality that has become a reality. Because the social inertia continues to struggle...
The third generation people are still doing the same thing. They are impossible to feel the ambition of people when they first came here.
This social inertia is slowly exhausted, and then the fourth, fifth, sixth...
Even if a generation is born in 50 years, it takes 40 Only the relay of -60 generations of population can survive these thousands of years.
Without any enthusiasm, able to maintain 40 generations of people repeating the same work, they were born and started to see this World with their eyes open. There is no star, no light, and huge planetary engines are ejecting plasma sparks until they reach themselves. Death, the planetary engine is still being built.
After the beautiful and alluring rainbow, after watching it for a lifetime, it has become a very boring and boring thing.
But they just have to spend a lifetime of energy to do this, and they must do it seriously. In the current robot system, there is no way to independently manufacture huge monsters such as planetary engines. A large number of people must be required to work and maintain the entire system.
Especially, in the absence of any survival pressure, no one will force them, and there are no foreign enemies in this place.
The only spiritual support is a certain probability of becoming a Level 4 civilization.
However, the benefits of becoming a Level 4 civilization belong to all mankind, to future generations, and not to oneself.
"People have to rely on spontaneity to maintain their jobs, and'spontaneity', for us, is nothing more than an unattainable dream."
"So, Mr. Captain , Let’s not consider the progress of the Tussian civilization first, and whether they can persist. Our future expectations are unreliable. Although everyone’s current enthusiasm is very high, but the long time will always be able to The passion is extinguished."
"They will gradually become lazy."
"The entire construction period is too long. It is so long that we, a short-lived species, feel desperate."
"Will you die if you don't work? It won't die! The pressure of work is too small, and we are also impossible to force workers to work by squeezing the labor force..."
On this day, the planet The fort has reached its intended location.
Just after getting out of the curvature bubble, the two sides immediately dispatched a large number of scientific expedition experts to conduct a field investigation, which is expected to last for a month.
Various large-scale nuclear fusion flares with the equivalent of 10 million tons of TNT shining in the starry sky, these flares are like bright little suns, temporarily illuminating this bleak universe.
After this, people will choose whether to stay or return.
If they want to stay here, the two civilizations will unload a large number of construction machinery in the planetary fortress and start the formal project. Of course, if there is nothing special, everyone's general opinion is to stay here.
Zhang Yuan and a small group of people are worried, and set their sights on a more distant time.
In the discussions in the past few days, they increasingly felt that people seemed to overestimate their own determination, and overestimated the ambitions of human beings.
The whole atmosphere is too optimistic, really too optimistic. The plan formulated by the new human government has a lot of flaws, especially in terms of personnel mobilization. There are certain flaws...
"When the time comes, you are lazy, and I am lazy, and the entire construction period will be delayed. You’re going to be lazy again, and I’ll be lazy again, and the entire civilization will immediately lose its original Essence, Qi, and Spirit. Although everyone knows that this project is great for mankind, but...human beings are still a kind of Self-interested creatures."
Optimism is a good thing. But being too optimistic can easily overestimate yourself.
Does the empire want to weaken when the sun never sets? The sun never sets empire does not want to weaken, the nobles of the sun never sets empire do not want to weaken, and the common people do not want to weaken.
Do Americans want to become weak? The Americans don't want to, no one wants to be weak.
"However, the weakness of a country and even a civilization is not only an external challenger, but a strong competitor has put them in competition, but more internally..."
p>"...It is because their society, their systems, policies, and the mental state of the masses cannot keep up with the times, so that competitors have the opportunity to take advantage of it."
"Our civilization is the same. A civilization changes dynamically and will not remain unchanged. Our policies should change with the times to allow the entire civilization to move forward. But now there is an invariant, that is, we must always persist. This big project will cause a lot of trouble for future policies..."
Faced with proliferation, hundreds of high-level officials jointly suggested, these high-level civilized officials are all in a state of faint daze. , Also held a special meeting for this purpose.
Finally, Mr. Captain sighed and said, "Then, Mr. Zhang Yuan, what better advice do you have? We are impossible to force workers to do work for thousands of years, otherwise this The government becomes a dictatorship, and it will be overthrown sooner or later."
Zhang Yuan said with a faint smile: "Of course there are suggestions. The best way is to shorten the construction period. The original two War Star projects You can refer to Alternative 17."
Alternative 17 is a plan designed by Zhang Yuan’s good friend and physicist Professor John.
Under normal circumstances, the plan is to build two planetary fortresses, one of which is placed at a distance of 120-200 AU to observe the collision of neutron stars, and the other to interfere between the two neutron stars Revolving around each other to shorten the collision time.
Otherwise, humans will have to wait more than 100,000 years before they can wait for the neutron star to collide. This time is too long.
More than 100,000 years, it is absolutely unrealistic for humans. Lifespan is even longer for the Thos, and it is impossible to wait for such a long time.
"So, this planetary fortress used to shorten the collision of neutron stars is indispensable."
"But another War Star placed at 120 AU, isn’t it Can you save it and not build it?"
Professor John’s backup plan No.17, after careful calculation, believes that it is sufficient to build only one planetary fortress under certain circumstances.
According to current astronomical observations, there is no suitable planet at 120 AU. The equipment for observing neutron star collisions is best built on planets, so that there is a greater chance of observing the required data.
Is it possible for people to push a planet to 120 AU without building a planetary engine?
Of course there are!
The answer is...Using the huge gravitational force that must build a planetary fortress, drag another planet over!
Since mankind has to build at least one planetary fortress, let it play more roles. The first is to use its own gravity to spur the movement of another planet, and to move another planet After the target orbit of 120 astronomical units is reached, it is the second target, to make a three-body motion with the neutron star, or some other way to shorten the mutual rotation between the two neutron stars.
The gravitational force between planet and planet, like two magnets attracting each other, can form a power source between each other.
Take the previous Earth-moon binary system system as an example. It is precisely because of the existence of universal gravitation that the two sides will form a system.
The earth-moon system is not simply the moon orbiting Earth, but Earth and the moon rotating around the center of mass of the Earth-Moon system, but the Earth-Moon system has a large mass and a small moon, and its common center of mass Approximately 4,800 kilometers from the center of the earth, it was wrapped in by Earth, and it looked like a pure moon orbiting Earth.
Once a large number of planetary engines are installed on Earth and Earth deviates from its orbit, the moon will come along with it, and it will be impossible to throw it away in a while.
For the same reason, installing an engine on the moon to make the moon move will also interfere with the movement of Earth.
If you really want to "wander about Earth", letting the moon as a constant source of gravitation sway Earth is a more reliable solution, after all, Earth’s thin crust can’t hold up those strong Planetary engine.
And this is the No.17 plan that Zhang Yuan and the others recommend. Only build a War Star, start it to hook another planet, and force it to change its orbit. .
In this way, mankind does not need to build a second planetary fortress, just install various observation devices on this big ice ball.
"If the project period is shortened by half, it is undoubtedly good news for us."
These officials have shown contemplative expressions, and the plan sounds very good. But the technical difficulty is undoubtedly an order of magnitude greater.
The movement of a planet is not about driving. It does not mean that if you want to turn left, you can turn left. If you want to turn right, you can turn right. Under its huge inertia, you want to turn left. It may take a hundred years to turn to the right!
If you want to hook other planet motions, you need to use its own inertia and accurate calculations. Maybe you accidentally hit it. This is not alarmist!
A scientist raised his brows and slowly opened the mouth and said: "Mr. Zhang, in the 17th plan, the big ice hockey puck selected is quite big, with a diameter of two thousand. Kilometers, although its density is very low, and its mass is not high... But if we want this big hockey puck to run with our planetary fortress, the distance between the two sides must be close enough to the gravitational force to be large enough, and the plan can be successful."
"After more than five hundred years, the distance between the two planets will reach the closest degree, and there will be a chance of gravitational pull. Therefore, our planetary fortress, it is best to move the orbit within five hundred years Move to the same height..."
"But if the two planets are too close...it's too dangerous! The two planets no longer revolve, but a mode of one after the other."
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"Our War Star must run fast enough and the planetary engine must have sufficient horsepower, otherwise the distance between the two sides will get closer and closer under the action of gravitational force, and it will hit you if the time is right. Comes but it's all over!"
Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Yes, because of this, it is the driving force for all human beings to work hard! If they don't work hard, two planets just hit Come on!"
"This is called work oppression. There is no oppression. For such a large project, I don’t know how long it will take to work. Who can guarantee that it will be completed on time and in quantity for thousands of years?"
Everyone was stunned.
Zhang Yuan continued: "But this kind of oppression is far from enough. We also need to expand a part of the population, especially during the Early-Stage project. The population must reach more than 100 million. "
"One hundred million?" Mr. Captain frowned and thought. The previous plan was to expand the population, but that many is not necessary.
Another professor who supported this program took the conversation and replied: "The construction period of the No.17 program is very tight, and it is far more tight than other programs. Without exploding the population, our industrial production capacity cannot reach the standard. "
"On the other hand, after a large population expansion, our current spaceship can’t hold so many people... Or, after that many people, it’s not so comfortable. Many people get it. Living underground, the oppression will be even worse if you can witness the big hockey puck behind you at this time."
"But..."
A member of a government think tank Question: "With such a large population, it is very difficult to escape when the time comes... Our amoeba points are insufficient, and the leased spaceship is not enough. In the end, we can only carry 40 million people."
Zhang Yuan explained: "Your problem is very good, but don't forget that people will get old and die. In 1,400 years, as long as we plan well, the final population can be reduced to less than 40 million."
The congressman immediately retorted: "But that will cause serious aging and all kinds of problems. In an aging society, when the time comes, the labor force will be very scarce. Maybe even the elderly are there. Participate in the job and delay the retirement age! This will cause many social problems!"
The air fell silent for a while, or it took more than three thousand years to slow down. It’s hard to predict the future of the work. Maybe it will take four thousand years or five thousand years. It may even be abandoned halfway. Even if the history of new civilizations is strong, it is impossible to predict the time span of three thousand years.
Either the amount of engineering is cut in half, but it may have to endure the aging crisis for a long time. The people are persecuted and complained.
Zhang Yuan shook the head, lightly sighed, "No way, everything is impossible and perfect. With a population of one hundred million, we spent 400 years working hard and increasing our working time a bit, and we had to complete 40%- About 50% of the engineering amount can only be handed over to future generations."
"How can Level 4 civilization be so simple, it always has to suffer."
" After the whole set of combined punches, the project period is about 1400. Therefore, we can agree with Huantai Civilization that after 1400, we will lease some transportation spaceship to transport our population to a place a light-year away. The past 100 years, a total of 1,500 years."
"If a human fleet comes to the trading market after this, you can also send them news about curvature technology, or simply let them In the trading market, sell these news. Hey, if our civilization does not complete the plan and stops progress, then let the rest of the human branch progress..."
This feeling is very bitter, everyone We all know what Zhang Yuan is talking about...
In fact, it makes sense.
But how should people choose?
Should you choose a plan that can be completed in 1,400 years, or a plan that is three or four thousand years long?
This is the problem of long and short pain.
One thousand and four hundred years, we must bear risks and suffer hardships. Even a population of 100 million people will have to suffer a lot in the face of a huge amount of engineering, such as working hours every day. It will be extended to 10 hours.
A variety of less important occupations will be banned, and people will no longer be able to play robot war games leisurely. The government is impossible to allocate resources to do this.
And the three to four thousand years plan...too long to plan. It is difficult to predict whether there will be conflicts with the Tussian civilization during this period, and whether there will be greater variables.
Whether planning can be done is also a question.
In fact, Zhang Yuan didn't believe it in his heart. Even if human beings have completed this project like a foreign worker, can they go further.
Level 4 sinker civilization is also available in the galaxy...