Stepping out of the portal, you see the cold and deep space in front of you.
Underfoot, the blue earth glowed fluorescently.
Overhead, the dazzling sun shines brightly.
Standing at the intersection of three "worlds", listening to the sound echoing in his ears, Chen Yu felt loneliness and desolation in his heart.
When the sight shifts to the constellation Cygnus in the Milky Way, this loneliness and desolation inevitably turns into horror.
over there.
A mere 1,400 light years away from the earth, there is a group of intelligent civilizations with technology that far exceeds that of humans for more than 2,000 years...
Are they staring here too
Or... they've already been here
Taking a deep breath, Chen Yu stopped the random thoughts in his mind, faced the camera, pointed to the constellation Cygnus in front of him and explained: "The one extending in the shape of a cross is the constellation Cygnus. There are 191 stars in the constellation with visual magnitudes brighter than 6th magnitude. , there are 22 stars brighter than fourth magnitude! So in summer, even if the Milky Way is bright, you can still spot Cygnus at a glance."
"The star we are going to observe now, KIC 8462852, is Tabby's star, which is located around the swan's neck."
As he spoke, Chen Yu held up the white express box and made it float and spin in space. Then he grabbed the seal and pulled hard.
"Tear!" Chen Yu said in voice.
Without the restraint of gravity, the lid of the box unfolds under the pull of the tape, revealing the round product inside.
Reaching out and taking out the ball, Chen Yu observed it carefully for a while and then showed it in front of the camera: "This is the focusing Hubble telescope launched in 2105. It looks like an enlarged version of the glass ball. You can't tell the front and back. But inside It comes with an instruction manual, let me take a look first.”
Putting the tape and the empty box into the storage box of the back armor, he carefully read the electronic instruction manual and then drew a cross on the ball in a strange way.
The ball immediately lit up with a faint blue light.
With the help of the manual, Chen Yu completed all preparations and parameter settings before shooting, and positioned the lens near the constellation Cygnus. Then, the focusing Hubble Telescope automatically fine-tuned its angle and aimed at Tabby's Star, which is 1,400 light-years away.
"The positioning method of this telescope is very interesting. Simply put, its internal database has a lot of pulsar coordinates, and it can aim at the target based on the position of the pulsar around the observed star. This positioning method is similar to the spacecraft navigation in science fiction movies The system has different approaches but the same purpose.”
"It will take at least half an hour to further improve accuracy, capture, and simulate photos. So in order to avoid wasting time, we take advantage of this to do one thing."
Pushing the engine and retreating slowly, Chen Yu pointed directly at the earth below and said: "Wipe NASA's butt and stop the two travelers back..."
[Voyager 1 and 2?]
[Smashed!]
[It’s nice to hear and see. (eat melon)]
[I heard it flew out of the solar system! Can you stop it and come back?]
[fart! Want to fly out after a few decades? Is it too small to imagine the solar system?]
[NASA is simply retarded when it comes to launching dangerous things into outer space, holding all mankind back.]
[It’s not that serious. Flying to Proxima Centauri may be a hundred thousand years from now, and there’s no telling whether humans will exist or not.]
[The key is that the two discs above reveal too much information. If aliens get them, they can directly understand everything about human beings.]
[What is written above?]
[CD: Is anyone there? Come and play!]
[…]
[Cowhide...]
"I think today's live broadcast is very meaningful."
Operating the portal, Chen Yu kept talking: "It tells us two things. First, human beings are not alone, and the existence of intelligent creatures in the universe is normal. Second, the distribution of intelligent civilizations may be very dense. Perhaps it is not far away. Beyond 1,400 light-years, there will be a civilization with high technological capabilities. In the Milky Way, a thousand light-years is quite close."
"As for lower life, there may be more. For example, in our solar system, there are at least two planets with life. Oh, by the way, most viewers probably don't know about this yet."
After completing the space docking of the portal, Chen Yuyuan pointed in the direction of Jupiter: "Last time, I caused a large fountain on Europa. Through official Chinese water sample testing, it was confirmed that the water contains single-cell organisms with carbon-based structures. Also. There are bacteria and viruses.”
"This also proves that as long as under the right environment, organic macromolecules will form specific DNA sequences, and then give birth to life forms that we humans can understand."
"Originally, this news was not allowed to be spread outside. But now that intelligent life has discovered it, there is no need to keep it secret about lower life."
After saying this, Chen Yu activated the engine and passed through the portal, appearing in the deep sky outside the solar wind layer, flying forward at full speed. In the blink of an eye, the metal arch was far away and disappeared.
"There are two Voyager probes, both launched in 1977. I will intercept the closer No. 2 first."
"According to the information I collected in advance on NASA's official website, Voyager 2 is behind me at this time. But why should I fly forward? Because the speed of the Voyager 1 aircraft is extremely fast at this time, reaching 17 kilometers per second. . If you want to successfully intercept it, you can only maintain a close relative speed with it."
While interacting with nearly 50 million viewers in the live broadcast room, he kept the engine running at full speed and continued to accelerate.
for a long time.
When his speed reached 16 kilometers per second, the silver-white Voyager 2 slowly "chased" from behind.
"coming!"
Turning back and glancing at the horn-shaped detector, Chen Yu adjusted the speed and angle through the helmet's intelligent system and slowly leaned against the detector.
"This is the legendary Voyager 2. It officially reached the heliosphere in 2018 and entered the interstellar space area that humans have never set foot in. The so-called heliopause is the farthest distance that the solar wind can reach."
"But this does not mean that the travelers have rushed out of the solar system. Because the effective gravitational range of the solar system reaches the Oort cloud, only by reaching there can we truly enter deep space outside the system."
"And at its current speed of 17 kilometers per second, it will take at least 30,000 years to fly."
"It's the same sentence. The universe is so big that any civilization will feel despair."
As he spoke, the relative speed of Chen Yu and the detector successfully reached 0 meters per second, and then, under the gaze of all the audience, he decisively rode on the metal frame supporting the antenna.
"Some friends may want to ask, since it takes 30,000 years for a traveler to fly out of the solar system, why is it necessary to intercept it?"
Raising a finger, Chen Yu said seriously: "Of course it is necessary. Because of caution and attitude."
"We will be able to take clear photos of the scene 1,400 light-years away in the 22nd century. Who can guarantee that these two detectors will be obtained by alien civilization in ways beyond human imagination? Since there are The possibility of exposure, no matter how slim, is not as safe as a zero chance.”
"Although there are civilizations that have built such a large galactic Internet on Tabby's Planet, it proves that alien creatures have the willingness to communicate in a friendly way. However, the existence of highly aggressive and hostile civilizations must also be inevitable."
"It's not easy for human beings to survive and climb up to this point. From now on, to be cautious about the attitude of the universe is to be responsible for our ancestors and descendants."
(End of chapter)