Chapter 658 Solving the Problem
After inspecting the Ancient City on Titan, Li Qingye went directly to the Civilization Spark Research Base on Saturn via a synchronous robot.
This civilization's fire research base is not far from the previous Saturn's ninth moon.
Saturn's moon Saturn is also a testing ground for the spark of civilization.
When Li Qingye came here.
Several responsible persons who had received the news long ago immediately appeared in front of him.
"Mr. Chairman, welcome to our team," said Zhao Changfeng, the head of the base, while introducing him: "This is Dr. Lexington, the head of scientific research, and this is Los Ali, the head of the test site..."
Li Qingye smiled and shook hands with everyone. Then he asked, "I heard that the fire of civilization can be put into use ?"
Dr. Lexington nodded. "There aren't many problems with the technology itself, but there are some issues with the delivery vehicle."
"Tell me what specific problems you encountered?"
Dr. Lexington led a group of people to a small testing site.
Los Ali, who was in charge of the testing, explained quietly beside Li Qingye: "Chairman, this is an interstellar navigation simulation test site."
The entire test field was empty, with a length and radius of 500 meters, and it was a spherical vacuum field.
After a while, Dr. Lexington and Los Ali controlled the system and started the test field.
Suddenly, some micro-aircraft were released into the spherical vacuum field.
Li Qingye could tell at a glance that this was a simulation of the interstellar space of the solar system and surrounding planetary systems.
After some operations, the civilization spark and disguised comet bodies launched by the super-powerful electromagnetic orbital accelerator in this simulated test field slowly flew out of the solar system.
"The speed only reaches 22 kilometers per second?" Seeing this result, Li Qingye frowned immediately.
Dr. Lexington nodded helplessly: "Yes, Mr. Chairman, the maximum speed is only 22 kilometers per second. If the speed continues to increase, the disguised comet will not be able to withstand it and will gradually disintegrate in interstellar space."
“Are there any other options?”
"Yes." Dr. Lexington brought up other backup plans: "This is the backup plan. There are currently two more feasible backup plans..."
Li Qingye read it once.
The two backup plans are: shell plan and shell + auxiliary thruster plan.
The shell solution is very simple, which is to add another layer of super-strong alloy on the camouflaged comet body, which can increase the initial speed to 80 kilometers per second.
The shell + auxiliary thruster scheme is to add a nuclear fusion power system and ultra-high-speed plasma thrusters on the basis of the shell scheme. In addition, it is combined with a stardust collector in interstellar space to increase the speed to 6,000 kilometers per second.
Li Qingye immediately understood the drawbacks of these two alternative plans .
In the universe, it is difficult for normal asteroids and comets to reach speeds above 50 kilometers per second.
If alternative plan 1 is adopted, it is better, at least the speed is not too much higher.
But if alternative plan 2 is adopted, the speed will almost reach 2% of the speed of light, which is a speed that asteroids and comets cannot achieve at all.
Any civilization that detects asteroids and comets traveling at 2% the speed of light would instantly know that something is wrong.
Therefore, the possibility of Alternative Plan 2 being exposed is very high.
For example, at this time, the Sapiens company has already established a large number of monitoring stations and monitoring satellites disguised as asteroids within the range of 0.06 light years of the solar system radius.
As long as a celestial body flying at a speed exceeding 20 kilometers per second enters this range, it will be detected by these monitoring stations.
Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that the other party’s technology is far superior to that of the Sapiens Company and can avoid those monitoring stations and satellites.
However, the Homo Sapiens Corporation has absorbed a large amount of technology from the Six-clawed Civilization and the Intelligent Mechanical Civilization. Unless it is a quasi-second-level civilization, it is difficult to avoid the monitoring of the Homo Sapiens Corporation.
Since Sapiens can monitor celestial bodies with abnormal speeds, there is no reason why other first-level civilizations cannot do it.
Los Ali saw what Li Qingye was thinking and proposed a supplementary plan:
"Mr. Chairman, if we slow down to 15 kilometers per second and jettison the metal shell and thrusters when we approach the one-light-year boundary of a planetary system, we can reduce the possibility of being detected."
However, Li Qingye shook his head: "That's not necessary. A civilization that can detect abnormal celestial speeds is definitely not an ordinary zero-level civilization. It is basically impossible for the spark of civilization to develop under the other party's nose."
"A civilization that cannot detect abnormal stellar speeds is most likely a Level 0 civilization, or a desolate planetary system with no inhabitants."
Everyone reacted immediately.
As Li Qingye said, where abnormalities can be discovered, the spark of civilization has no way to take root; where abnormalities cannot be discovered, that is the habitat where the spark of civilization can develop.
After understanding this principle, everyone suddenly understood.
Seeing that the last problem had been solved, Dr. Lexington smiled and said, "The chairman is wise. It seems that the Civilization Spark Project can be implemented now."
“Have you made any plans for this?”
Zhao Changfeng nodded: "Yes." He then checked a detailed planning list, which included all the planetary systems within a radius of 100 light years around the solar system.
"We plan to divide the system into three stages, with the radius of 10 light years, the radius of 10 to 30 light years, and the radius of 30 to 100 light years as the boundaries. The first stage is the planetary system within a radius of 10 light years."
Zhao Changfeng then input the data and calculated it at 2% the speed of light.
Within a radius of 10 light years from the center of the solar system, the farthest travel time is about 500 Earth years.
However, it will only take about 150 Earth years for the spark of civilization to reach the nearest six-clawed giant star. It's a pity that the six-clawed giant star is a first-level civilization and certainly cannot emit the spark of civilization.
The other target is Proxima Centauri, which is 4.2 light-years away, which will take about 210 years.
Li Qingye didn't care too much about the sailing time.
After all, under normal circumstances, the life expectancy of today's new humans is about 170 to 180 years.
If an absolute zero temperature freezing chamber is used, the time can be extended by several thousand years.
In other words, if Li Qingye has no way to continue extending his normal life at this stage, he can still use the absolute zero degree cryotherapy chamber and wait until the technology is more advanced, and then use the new technology to extend his life.
Therefore, Li Qingye can still see the spark of civilization reaching a planetary system within 10 light years.
As the general problem was solved, the launch time of the civilization spark was also determined. It is expected that in 7 months, Sapiens will launch the first civilization spark to the Proxima Centauri system.
