Voyage of the Stars

For example, Xu Yanxia, ​​who went to the cake shop and said she was going to lose her job, now she has formed a team with a group of her original colleagues and set up a mecha research institute. But it's not a private research institute. After all, Xu Yanxia's original job was of a military nature.

So she applied to open a mecha research institute, which was naturally under the military system.

Since it is a research project, the new government will allocate research funds, so after leaving the original tactical armor machinery maintenance team, Xu Yanxia has a new goal.

Because the new government adopted the advice of those experts, even though strong artificial intelligence has been put into use, some development projects have been retained. Although they sometimes seem useless, the new government still gave these projects some research funds.

Therefore, there are many people like Xu Yanxia. Some have devoted themselves to scientific research, while others continue to dig deeper in industries that have been replaced by strong artificial intelligence, hoping to come up with new inventions and new models.

The same is true for human intellectual ability assessment.

For example, Li Xuan, the little girl who bought cakes back then, chose the path of art after the cake industry was completely squeezed out by strong artificial intelligence.

Yes, it is the art of plating, food carving, and platter art that is very popular in the 21st century. Although this art has a somewhat extravagant meaning, now mankind seems to have entered a certain stage of renaissance. There are many people who buy it.

Especially in an era when strong artificial intelligence is gradually replacing various industries, many people can’t help but feel nostalgic.

This person even created his own small group in his own network, preaching that things made by robots have no souls, while only artificial ones have souls.

Although from the perspective of the new government, this behavior is somewhat outdated and not mainstream, it can also help individual people find spiritual sustenance.

Li Xuan, who lost her cake shop, is one of them.

Relying on the gimmicks of handicrafts and art, Li Xuan established a large handicraft industry alliance among the people, and promoted the soul of handicrafts among the people. This gimmick attracted a large number of nostalgic people, and it was quite impressive.

At least she doesn't have to worry about her contribution, but if she wants to live beyond the 1,500-year mark, people like her still lack an artistic achievement that can truly shock the entire human race.

Such types exist in all walks of life.

In short, the transformation of the entire society has been relatively smooth so far.

Well, back to business.

After Yue Yuan arrived at the No. 3 scientific research spacecraft, he floated out of the tactical armor, and soon headed towards Yu Nanfeng's location under the guidance of the intelligent system.

The layout of a scientific research spacecraft is different from that of a battleship or a residential spacecraft. Its structural layout is specially designed to better carry out various scientific research projects.

For example, for experimental projects that require a weightless environment, the scientific research spacecraft in which they are located will not be designed to rotate like a cylinder like a residential spacecraft. On the contrary, projects that require a supergravity environment will be placed on a scientific research spacecraft that can rotate at high speed. .

The No. 3 scientific research spacecraft that Yue Yuan arrived now is a scientific research ship that looks like a Lake-class battleship. It is also divided into a rest area and a work area. The rest area has the same rotation as the battleship to provide a simulated gravity environment.

Inside, various spacious laboratories can be seen everywhere. At a glance, most of them are sets of propulsion systems being tested.

As soon as Yue Yuan stepped into the test area, he saw Yu Nanfeng waving his arms in the control center of an engine system, his mouth opening and closing constantly, and he didn't know what he was talking about.

After getting a little closer, I gradually heard Yu Nanfeng's voice.

"Adjust another set of data. Try the parameters of the positron generator according to the following data, and also change the incident angle of the electrons. The reactor couldn't bear it, so they all changed to No. 2 alloy. I really don't believe it. "

"clear!"

"clear!"

"Okay, preparation for the 1070th ignition experiment"

As the conversation ended, a long tongue of flame appeared from the set of thrusters used for the experiment. Although there was a heat insulation barrier, Yue Yuan could still feel the destructive power from the blue flame.

When the experimental thruster is ignited, a set of parameters are also transmitted to the central system through various sensors arranged on site for analysis and research by scientists and researchers.

Because this round of experiments was in progress, Yue Yuan was not in a hurry to walk over, but stopped in the passage and waited for the ignition experiment to end.

The waiting time is not long, only about ten minutes.

After hearing the order to shut down the experimental thrusters, Yue Yuan slowly drifted towards the control center where the expert team was located.

However, as soon as he stepped into the command center, he heard Yu Nanfeng, the project lead scientist, swear: "Say!!! This thrust is still not enough."

Yue Yuan heard the words "It still doesn't work" many times. Now he is no longer as disappointed as he was at the beginning. Instead, he seems to have become a habitual calm.

"Shuai Yue!"

"Chief!"

As soon as Yue Yuan came in, Yu Nanfeng and a group of scientific researchers and experimental physics scientists all looked at him and called him out as a greeting.

In fact, Yu Nanfeng and the group of experimental physicists, scientific researchers and others knew that he was coming. After all, Yue Yuan had notified him in advance through strong artificial intelligence as soon as he set off.

Of course, Yue Yuan knew that people like Yu Nanfeng didn't act like they were busy experimenting with the thrusters after they knew he was coming, but it was their normal work.

"Is there still no progress?" Yue Yuan couldn't help but ask even though he knew the result.

Since humans realized true nanotechnology, the research on more advanced thrusters has never stopped, and the research work has been carried out for more than ten years. It can be said that the research and development of thruster technology has been carried out earlier than other derivative technologies of true nanotechnology, but other derivative technologies have basically achieved results, only thruster technology has remained stagnant.

Over the years, the reason why humans have not built larger warships or more warships is actually because of the shortcomings of propeller technology.

It is correct to say that human eyes are now focused on thruster technology, so the team of scientists engaged in thruster technology is under great pressure.

"Yes, Commander, we have made countless improvements and fifty experiments, but the power of the thruster just cannot be increased. This situation makes me feel like we encountered a real nanotechnology barrier back then." Yu Nan Feng sighed and shook his head: "Strengthening works wonders, and increasing fuel injection has no effect. According to the experimental results, the propulsion device has nothing to do with the amount of fuel. If you want to improve the performance of the thruster, you can only increase the energy level. But according to our The current route and ideas don’t seem to be able to improve the level.”

For countless years, this was the first time Yue Yuan heard Yu Nanfeng say this, so he frowned and said, "Can't increase the energy level? Is it because of the fuel?"

Although Yue Yuan is not a scientist, he still knows some technology.

"Yes, it cannot be improved. According to the original statement of the 'Silver Mist Consciousness Body', true nanotechnology is a symbol of the third-level civilization, and the propulsion system of the third-level civilization uses charged positive and negative particle thrusters and the second-level civilization The combination of the propulsion system, but the thrust data produced by the thrusters we produced according to this route simply cannot meet the requirements." Yu Nanfeng's face was a little bitter.

Yue Yuan's focus seemed to be different. He turned to look at Yu Nanfeng and raised his eyebrows: "You mean, the positron and negative electron thrusters were successful?"

"Yes!"

To Yue Yuan's surprise, Yu Nanfeng pointed directly to the workbench of the command center and said: "The propulsion system we just experimented with is actually more than ten days ago, we achieved stable ignition, but it The energy level has never been up to standard, so I suppressed it and not reported it for the time being."

"What's going on?" Yue Yuan was a little confused.

Yu Nanfeng pondered for a moment: "It means that we have achieved the propulsion technology that a third-level civilization should have according to the 'Silver Mist Consciousness Body', but there is no way to push the battleship to 50% of the speed of light."

this.

Yue Yuan looked at the parameters displayed in the command center suspiciously. He could understand these professional parameter data. After calculating these parameters using the implanted chip, it was found that, as Yu Nanfeng said, no matter how large the thruster was, it would not be able to push the battleship to 50% of the speed of light.

Seeing this situation, Yue Yuan couldn't help but said: "Could it be the 'Silver Mist Consciousness Body' that fooled us about the so-called third-level civilization thruster technology?!"