Chapter 546

Ding Peng's eyes float to the distant sky. There are no stars here, just a dark void. People will live and develop here for a long time.

At this moment, the male voice in the TV also rises loudly: "... When the flame of the planetary engine shines in this starry sky, we will eventually embark on the road of four levels of civilization!"

Many people cheered loudly and clapped for it. Even other geniuses selected from the virtual world, whether they are used to the world or not, are raising their glasses to celebrate and want to make their own strength.

But few people know that the beginning of a thing is always beautiful. Especially for such a large project, if there is no bright future, how many people will summon up the courage to do it?

The government did not say the final time required for the project

However, when nearly 20 million people consumed huge points and spent a hundred years on their way, enjoying reaching the end and about to start a new journey, they didn't know that there were nearly 3000 years of hard time waiting for them in the future

The loud cheers now may be the last cheers in the next 3000 years.

Until they die, they have to repeat the same work.

The 15000 planetary engines in the charge of mankind is equivalent to 15000 mountains pressing on the whole civilization. Many people will have to give up their current careers and invest in the vast ocean of large-scale construction projects.

They have to fight with excavators and earth drills all their life. Through these tools, they raze craters to the ground.

From the beginning of cheering and laughing, then gradually numb, and finally bring a thick despair into the grave

The talent training of subsequent generations will also be inclined to this aspect.

A large proportion of engineers will appear, and many entertainment related occupations will be banned. Even many scientists have to give up their work, because the whole civilization is no longer productive and provides them with experimental resources.

No passion can last for 3000 years. The first generation died silently and fought for their beliefs and ideals all their life. The second generation had to accept the status quo that has become a reality because of social inertia and continue to struggle

The third generation is still doing the same thing. They can't feel the ambition when people first came here.

This social inertia is slowly consumed, and then the fourth generation, the fifth generation, the sixth generation

Even if a generation is born in 50 years, it also needs the relay of 40-60 generations to survive these thousands of years.

Without any enthusiasm, they can maintain 40 generations to repeat the same work. When they were born, they began to open their eyes to see the world. There are no stars and no light. The huge planetary engine is spraying plasma sparks. Until their death, they are still building the planetary engine.

After watching the beautiful rainbow for a lifetime, it has become an extremely boring thing.

But they just have to spend a lifetime to do it, and they must do it seriously. In the current robot system, there is no way to independently manufacture the giant planet engine. A large number of personnel must work to maintain the whole system.

In particular, without any survival pressure, no one will force them, and there are no external enemies in this place.

The only spiritual support is that there is a certain probability of becoming a fourth level civilization.

However, the benefits of becoming a fourth civilization belong to all mankind, to future generations, and not to themselves.

"People have to rely on spontaneity to maintain their work, and 'spontaneity' is like an unreachable dream for us."

"So, Mr. captain, don't think about the progress of the TOS civilization, and whether they can stick to it or not. The future expectations on our side are unreliable. Although everyone's current enthusiasm is very high, but a long time can always erase all their passion. "

"They'll get lazy."

"The whole construction period is too long to despair our short-lived species."

"Will you die if you don't work? Will not die! The work pressure is too small, and it is impossible for us to force workers to work by squeezing their labor force... "

On this day, the Planetary Fortress has reached its established position.

Just out of the curvature bubble, the two sides immediately sent a large number of scientific experts for field investigation, which is expected to last for one month.

Various large-scale nuclear fusion flares with tens of millions of tons of TNT equivalent shine in the starry sky. These flares are like bright little suns, temporarily illuminating this dark universe.

After that, 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 from the Planetary Fortress and start formal projects. Of course, if there is nothing special, everyone's general opinion is to stay here.

A small number of people, such as Zhang Yuan, are worried and focus on more distant times.

In their discussions over the past few days, they increasingly feel that people seem to overestimate their determination and the ambition of mankind itself.

The whole atmosphere is too optimistic, really optimistic. The plan formulated by the new human government has great defects, especially in personnel mobilization

"At that time, if you steal laziness and I steal laziness, the whole construction period will be delayed. If you steal laziness again and I steal laziness again, the whole civilization will immediately lose its original spirit. Although we all know that this project is very beneficial to mankind, mankind is still a selfish creature. "

Optimism is a good thing. But being too optimistic is easy to overestimate yourself.

Does the sun never set and the Empire want to weaken? The Empire doesn't want to be weak, the dignitaries and nobles of the Empire don't want to be weak, and the common people don't want to be weak.

Do Americans want to be weak? The Americans don't want to, and no one wants to be weak.

"However, the decline of a country and even a civilization is not only an external challenger, but also a strong competitor. It is more internal reasons..."

"... it is because their society, their systems, policies and people's mental state can't keep up with the times that their competitors can take advantage of."

"Our civilization is the same. A civilization changes dynamically and will not remain unchanged. Our policies should follow the changes of the times in order to make the whole civilization move forward. But now there is an invariance, that is, we must always adhere to this big project, which will cause great trouble for future policies... "

In the face of the suggestions jointly made by hundreds of senior officials, these senior leaders of civilization were all in a faint state of confusion, and special meetings were held for this purpose.

Finally, the captain sighed and said, "so, Mr. Zhang Yuan, what better suggestion do you have? It is impossible for us to forcibly recruit workers to work for thousands of years, otherwise this government will become an authoritarian government and will be overthrown sooner or later. "

Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "of course there are suggestions. The best way is to shorten the construction period. Shorten the quantities of the original two battle stars to one. You can refer to Option 17. "

Alternative 17 is a scheme designed by Professor John, a physicist and a good friend of Zhang Yuan.

The general scheme is to build two planetary fortresses, one of which is placed at 120-200 astronomical units away to observe the collision of neutron stars, and the other to interfere with the mutual rotation between the two neutron stars to shorten the collision time.

Otherwise, mankind will have to wait more than 100000 years to wait for the neutron star collision. This time is too long.

More than 100000 years is absolutely unrealistic for mankind. The TOS who live longer can't wait so long.

"Therefore, this Planetary Fortress used to shorten the neutron star collision is essential."

"But can another war star placed at 120 astronomical units be saved and not built?"

Professor John's No. 17 alternative plan, after careful calculation, believes that it is enough to build only one Planetary Fortress under certain circumstances.

According to current astronomical observations, there is no suitable planet at 120 astronomical units. The equipment for observing neutron star collisions is best built on planets, so that there is a greater chance to observe the required data.

Is it possible to push a planet to 120 astronomical units without building a planetary engine?

Of course!

The answer is... Use the huge gravity that must build a Planetary Fortress to drag another planet!

Since mankind wants to build at least one Planetary Fortress, let it play more roles. First, it uses its own gravity to hook the movement of another planet. After bringing another planet to the target orbit of 120 astronomical units, it is the second goal to make three body movement with neutron stars, or in other ways, To shorten the mutual rotation between two neutron stars.

The universal gravitation between planets, like two magnets that attract each other, can form a power source with each other.

Take the former Earth Moon binary system as an example. It is precisely because of the existence of gravity that both sides form a system.

The Earth Moon system is not a simple operation of the moon around the earth, but the earth and the moon rotate around the center of mass of the Earth Moon system. However, the earth of the Earth Moon system has a large mass and the moon is small. Its common center of mass is about 4800 kilometers away from the earth's center and is wrapped by the earth. It looks like a simple operation of the moon around the earth.

Once a large number of planetary engines are installed on the earth to make the earth deviate from its orbit, the moon will come with it, and it is impossible to get rid of it for a while and a half.

Similarly, installing an engine on the moon to make the moon move will also interfere with the movement of the earth.

If you really want to "wander the earth", it is a reliable plan to let the moon as a constant gravitational source hook the earth to run. After all, the earth's thin crust can't support those powerful planetary engines.

This is the No. 17 scheme proposed by Zhang Yuan and others. Only build one war star, start it to hook another planet, forcibly suck it over and change its orbit.

In this way, humans do not need to build a second planetary fortress, just install various observation devices on the big ice hockey.

"If the project period is shortened by half, it is undoubtedly good news for us."

These officials showed a thoughtful look. The plan sounds good, but the technical difficulty is undoubtedly an order of magnitude greater.

The movement of a planet is not driving. It doesn't mean that you can turn left if you want to turn left, and you can turn right if you want to turn right. Under its huge inertia, it may take a hundred years to change from left to right!

If you want to move other planets, you need to make use of its own inertia and accurate calculation. Maybe you accidentally hit it. This is not alarmist!

A scientist raised his eyebrows and said slowly, "Mr. Zhang, in scheme 17, the selected big ice hockey is very large, with a diameter of 2000 kilometers. Although its density is very low and its quality is not high... If you want this big ice hockey to run with our Planetary Fortress, the distance between the two sides must be close enough to gravity, The plan can succeed. "

"In more than 500 years, the distance between the two planets will reach the nearest level, and there will be a chance of gravitational hooking. So our Planetary Fortress had better move its orbit to the same height within 500 years... "

"But if the two planets are too close... It's too dangerous! The two planets no longer revolve around, but in the pattern of one before the other. "

"Our battle star has to run fast enough and the planetary engine has to have sufficient horsepower, otherwise the distance between the two sides will get closer and closer under the action of gravity, and they will hit each other. At that time, it will be all over!"

Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "yes, that's why all human beings work hard! If they don't work hard, the two planets will collide directly! "

"This is called work oppression. There is no oppression. For such a large project, I don't know how long it will take. Who can guarantee that it can be completed on time and in quantity for thousands of years?"

Everyone was stunned.

Zhang Yuan continued, "but this oppression is still far from enough. We also need to expand a part of the population, especially in the early stage of the project. The population must reach more than 100 million. "

"One hundred million." The captain frowned and mused. The previous plan also wanted to expand the population, but it didn't need so much.

Another professor who supported the scheme took over and replied: "the construction period of scheme 17 is very tight, which is far more tense than other schemes. Without exploding the population, our industrial production capacity can not meet the standard. "

"On the other hand, after the massive expansion of population, our current spacecraft can't hold so many people... Or, after loading so many people, it doesn't seem so comfortable. Many people have to live underground. At this time, they will feel even more oppressive if they can see the big ice hockey followed behind them. "

"But..."

A member of a government think tank asked, "it's very difficult to escape with such a large population at that time... Our amoeba points are not enough, and there are not enough ships to rent. In the end, we can only carry 40 million people."

Zhang Yuan explained: "your question is very good, but don't forget that people will grow old and die. In 1400 years, if we plan well, the final population can be reduced to less than 40 million. "

The congressman immediately retorted, "but that will lead to serious aging and all kinds of problems. In an aging society, the labor force will be very scarce. Maybe even the elderly have to participate in the work and delay the retirement age! This will cause many social problems! "

For a moment and a half there was silence in the air. Either it took more than 3000 years to work slowly, and the future is difficult to predict. Maybe it will take 4000 years, 5000 years, or even give up halfway. Even if the history of new civilization is strong, it is impossible to predict the time of 3000 years.

Or cut the project quantity by half, but it may have to endure the aging crisis for a long time, and the people are forced and full of complaints.

Zhang Yuan shook his head and sighed gently, "no way, everything can't be perfect. With a population of 100 million, we have to work hard for 400 years to improve our working hours. We have to complete about 40% - 50% of the quantities, and then we can only hand them over to future generations. "

"Level Four civilization is not so simple. It always has to bear hardships."

"The duration of the project is about 1400 years. Therefore, we can make an agreement with the Huantai civilization to rent some transport spacecraft after 1400 to transport our population to a place a light year away. Count the past 100 years, a total of 1500 years. "

"If a human fleet comes to the trading market after that, you can also send them information about curvature technology, or simply let them sell these information in the trading market. Alas, if our civilization fails to complete its plan and stops making progress, let the rest of human branches make progress... "

This feeling is very bitter. Everyone knows what Zhang Yuan is talking about

Actually, it makes sense.

However, how should people choose?

Is it a plan that can be completed in 1400 years, or a plan that can last for 3000 or 4000 years?

This is the problem of long pain and short pain.

In 1400 years, we must bear risks and suffer. Even a hundred million people have to suffer a lot in the face of huge quantities of work. For example, the working hours will be extended to 10 hours a day.

All kinds of less important occupations will be banned. People can no longer play robot war games. The government can't allocate resources to do these.

The three or four thousand year plan... Is too long to plan. It is difficult to predict whether there will be contradictions with the TOS civilization and whether there will be greater variables.

It is also a question whether we can do it after planning.

In fact, Zhang Yuan doesn't believe that human beings can go further even if they have completed this project like idling away.

There are also four levels of degenerate civilization in the galaxy