Volume 15: Organisms and Organisms and Organisms Chapter 65: Traveling Through the World (Part 2)
"…The experiment is over."
Real space, Prometheus research site in Saturn's rings.
Looking at the huge space facility that had gradually returned to calm, all the scientific researchers, maintenance workers and even the servo AI had no expression of surprise. They began to drive the external space engineering facilities to dismantle the surrounding pipes, and then used ejectors to project the waste products towards the huge Saturn.
This set of processes was extremely skillful and steady, even humans who are prone to making mistakes did not make any abnormal movements, and the large-scale test machine, which cost as much as a small city on Earth, was smoothly abandoned. Other engineering machines quickly re-extracted the surrounding space impurities, measured data and related disorder traces in this already selected location. But just like the literal meaning, nothing was obtained, everything was zero.
The real world is so cold and cruel that all fantasies are so beautiful.
"Space drilling experiment number 101. The hypothesis that local energy expansion causes space distortion has been confirmed to be invalid. The degree of space warping is within the calculable range and has not caused any shuttle phenomenon. Now start clearing the test site and prepare for the space drilling experiment, plan number 102."
Under the steady prompting of AI, everything is running in a calm and fluid rhythm. Irrelevant energy valves and structures will be dismantled and thrown into Saturn for disposal. Other facilities will be simulated in the Martian foundry, and then constructed in the human settlement of Saturn's rings to determine the structural strength. Finally, they will be sent to this test site on the edge of Saturn's rings to contribute to the great blueprint of human exploration of the universe.
By the way, the test site is not limited to the Saturn ring. There are three space drill test sites near the Saturn ring alone, one near the Earth-Moon orbit, four in the orbit of Mars, one in the orbit of Venus, one in the orbit of Mercury, and one in the orbit of the Sun if the Dyson Ring experiment had not completely failed. The purpose of these space drill or space-time engine test sites in different regions is only one, to develop superluminal engines or related mechanisms as much as possible to free humans from the cage on Earth. But so far, the test has been going on for several years, and there has been no change that can be called progress.
There is nothing, not even a single thing. Even if you bring out quantum resonance, a pseudo-science that is disguised as ansible, it is fine, but even then there is nothing. There is nothing. The darkness of the universe is so cold and cruel that everything human seems so insignificant.
Without a superluminal drive and true instant communication throughout the universe, human observation methods have reached their limits, but we still know nothing about quantum and the universe.
This is the most prosperous era for mankind, but there are also pessimists who believe that this may be the last .
The speed of light is an absolute speed that cannot be surpassed.
"...I heard that the Nest Fleet Plan is going to be activated?"
"Ah, there's news from Mars. They say we need to make the first-hand preparations."
Earth's coffee, a luxury, would you like some?
The manager in the monitoring room shrugged and handed a cup of coffee to the scientist who was sitting in a chair with his brain connected to the server.
After receiving the scientist's instructions to decline, the manager, who looked no different from a natural person, opened his mouth and put the coffee into it. The metallic light flashing inside his mouth showed that he was not actually a complete human being, but also one of the common modified people of this era.
"We got some very interesting news from the Mars factory. A little girl's artificial biosphere simulation experiment seems to have produced some strange results. Although it did not directly make the biosphere experiment a success, it was enough to restart the Mother Fleet plan. Now they are looking for a host to perform a reverse DNA appendix, stuffing the organic matter and the messy data into the mother machine, wrapping it with a layer of biomass-based ecological steel, and then throwing it into outer space. This is one of their current Mother Fleet plans."
"One? How many plans did they come up with?"
"About seven or eight, including a fully biomass autonomous segmented collection fleet that uses the ant ball theory to find possible planets to reshape the biosphere, and then conduct predatory autonomous production. There are also industrial mother machines, AI distributed fleets, etc. Cloned biological ships have also begun construction. There are also people who have voluntarily boarded the black ships with conscious copies. About seventy-three black ships have already sailed to the Kuiper Belt."
"Have the people above gone crazy? They are sending out so many experimental fleets when the solar system is running out of material? Even with the most optimistic estimates, it will take tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years for these fleets to reach their intended locations, right?"
"After all, reality is really hard to laugh at... The space jump theory has failed again. There have been too many failures , my friend. It would be great if it were like science fiction."
“…Has it come to this?”
“After all, the situation is not optimistic.”
The person in charge sighed, extended his hand several meters to the coffee machine, and served another cup of coffee.
"The space drilling experiment is much more difficult than building a fleet with established theoretical technology. Although our fleet may take years, hundreds of years, thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years, it is mature technology after all. And now... let alone the moon in the water, there is not even a shadow of it, right?"
“So they’re accepting those weird organisms and AI as human? That’s something to celebrate.”
"Open your eyes, my friend. After all, the cyborgs in the past few years were not considered human beings. We are not human beings in front of natural people. These concepts will change sooner or later. Because the situation has come to this. There is no way to reach the universe. Everything around us is empty. We can only rely on mature technology. Even if there is a little hope , it must prove that we once existed. We have already completed our own evolution, but the universe is still too big. It is so big that only space jumps that appear in science fiction novels can allow us to touch other galaxies."
But we are not science fiction.
We are game fiction.
The person in charge smiled at the two scientists in tacit understanding, and together they entered the Internet world to check the hot game live broadcasts and other cutting-edge news. The news that ranked above all the news and live broadcasts made the two veteran gamers feel a little surprised.
"Oh, Les Miserables is down again? It hasn't been a few days since the last downtime, right?"
Looking at the latest news, the person in charge took a sip of coffee, raised his eyebrows, and said with some surprise.
